The Easter Elk
As I continue to espouse the virtues of the Somes Bar Liars Club to friends, family, fishermen, and telemarketers, I reflect back on the club's humble origins in the "Somes Bar Redundancy club located in Somes Bar on the Klamath…
Winter on the Klamath
Sorry for the slow blog entries, and with no further delay, here is a quick update: Dry winter conditions are giving us an on-going good winter fishery here. The Klamath remains clear, and fishable from boat or bank access. I…
The good ride
It's been far to long since I have posted an entry, and I blame LIFE!. It certainly is not any reflection on ....me.. ahem. So, here is a brief summary of some of our recent "ranch" life. My second son,…
Living Large At Marble Mountain Ranch
Life is in-your-face-large at the Marble Mountain Ranch. During the dry Summer months we stage slash from tree trimmings, and ranch landscaping into a burn pile that grows to unbelievably large size during the course of the season. It becomes…
Nobody gets there on their own
A frequently asked question from our guests is how we got into the "Dude Ranch" business. I don't want to go into all the historical details at this point, except as it relates to my recently passed "Uncle Bud". Uncle…
Klamath Wildlife as explained by the Somes Bar Liars Club
Many of our guests come from a life centered in a highly populated metropolitan or urban setting. Some of the probing questions about conditions here are often quite entertaining and illustrate the dramaticly different lifestyle paradigms. For example: "Which off-ramp…
Steelhead Season End at Marble Mountain Ranch
Well, the Winter and Spring storms seem to have brought us a "NORMAL" amount of rain-faill. The Klamath River is consistently high now. I spent several days fishing over the last few weeks, and found conditions to be extremely difficult…
Salmon River Fishing Report
Higher flows on the mid-Klamath and a fishing report hinting of adult steelhead up on the Salmon River was the impetus to do a check of fishing conditions on the Salmon River this week. I called in two of my …
Winter Steelhead
The last storm did a nice job of blowing-out the Mid-Klamath. (Currently the Klamath is flowing about 6000cfs in Orleans) From here on through the Winter we will need to keep an eye on the storm patterns to catch fishing…
The “un-holy-alliance”
After I lost the second day fishing last week with Chris and Sean due to rising water, it brought my thoughts back to a recurring desire for smaller drainages that are fish-able and within reach of our lodge. The…