{"id":1139,"date":"2015-09-24T17:04:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T00:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2015-09-24T17:04:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T00:04:35","slug":"september-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/september-in-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"September in Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taking a sabbatical from Mongolia this season has been a mixed blessing.\u00a0 Hearing the reports trickling out of camp over there (Ganzorig got a 54-incher…, etc) it is hard not to miss it.\u00a0 But at the same time, it has also been simply wonderful to be home.<\/p>\n

The McKenzie continues to fish very well, with daily hatches bringing plenty of wild trout to the surface.<\/p>\n

This past week, I got to reconnect with some old friends on a 4-day drift through the Deschutes Canyon in search of spey-rod steelhead.\u00a0 My dad joined the trip to round out the party, and the swing was on.<\/p>\n

Although the catch rates were, shall we say, “less than spectacular,” the trip was a complete success.\u00a0 We were reminded daily how special these times on the river are for everyone involved.\u00a0 \"Chuckboat2015\"<\/a>\"Cougar2015\"<\/a>\"Lynn2015\"<\/a>\"Fred\"<\/a>\"MiltFish2015\"<\/a>\"Jim2015\"<\/a>\"MiltPano2015\"<\/a>When you have the river to yourself, it’s almost easy to forget that you’re actually trying to catch a fish!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taking a sabbatical from Mongolia this season has been a mixed blessing.\u00a0 Hearing the reports trickling out of camp over there (Ganzorig got a 54-incher…, etc) it is hard not to miss it.\u00a0 But at the same time, it has … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1140,"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isabella.lqhome.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}