Fall in the North West, Amen

I love this time of year in the North West. The rains return and with that come Mushrooms. Chanies, Pinies, and those pretty red ones with white dots that the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland was sitting on. Then there are the steelhead runs, which will soon peek, and once again, I will try to fill my tag. There is something about wading along the banks of a foggy river with the rain lightly falling and almost no sound that excites me. Top that off with the crashing battle of an acrobatic over zealous ten-pound fish that just found my hook and I am in Heaven..