Flashback to Panama
A long, cold, dark winter is upon us. Portland seemed to completely skip fall this year, going straight into twenty-degree weather with bone-chilling winds. Although snow would be great, Oregon is notorious for halting all precipitation once the air temperature slips below 32. As a result, I find myself living in a veritable desert at times, with the only moisture in the air serving to seal my car door shut. As I said, long, cold, dark winter. Hey, but at least there's steelhead! Also, it has come to my intention that many people who I actually know and would not like to have see my blog have done exactly that. Being an aspiring internet blogger who attaches his name to everything he creates, I figured it was only a matter of time before my peers would "discover" my mark on the internet. I had hoped that these discoveries would be a result of absentmindedly googling my name, searching for fishing information, or a freak accident. What I had not anticipated was a