Break Out The T-14

The world's hardest job for the last week has been the person on the clicker at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia.  Just imagine having to decipher the accurate count of over 63,000 chinook over the dam, let alone try and pick out the 3 thousand steelhead going over in the same time.

Good lord this is an epic run of Fall Nooks on the Columbia.  Hopefully I can meet one with a deeply swung chartreuse intruder.  That, as they say, shall be endeavored to happen.

For continual fish porn....check out the Bonneville Fish Cam by clicking here.  It's a sight to be seen

Estate Sale Treasure...Grand Coulee 1933

Amongst the junk in an estate sale I randomly visited today, I struck gold.  Staring back at me was a beautiful picture framed up of the Grand Coulee of the Columbia River, dated 1933. 

Before the concrete, before the turbines, before the electricity.  This is what it looked like at the exact location where the dam went in.  You can see the construction beginning and at the same time you can see the last remaining farms and buildings of the era, including a raft that appears that was used to fjord the river.

I am pretty excited to find this gem, let alone for $7 bucks. 

Tell me again why the forgot to build a fish ladder?