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Matthew Boyd

@mboydpdx.bsky.social
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Hanging around and mostly listening.

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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Couple of Winter Steelhead.
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Steelhead fishing back in the day on the Alsea River. Guessing these pictures date to the 1920-30's. Credit: Oregon Historical Society
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Winter steelhead fly fishing in Oregon. Always an adventure.
Slide boat launchSlide boat launchWood drift boat in winter.
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Fall highlight (a few years back). My fish handling in this photo back then is to be avoided with what we know today. An example of how to never handle a fish. Keep them wet (always).
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Pre-European salmon runs in the Columbia basin were est. ~16 million. This year we saw 1.6 million salmon... A 'good' year. Salmon are getting smaller w/ adverse ocean conditions. I don't think people know how much beauty in this place we have lost. Photo Credit: Oregon Historical Society
Commercial Columbia Chinook harvest 1925.Columbia mouth 35 pounder. 1935.
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Fall steelhead skating.
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Going fishing on the Chetco River in Oregon in 1937. Credit: Oregon Historical Society
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Another fall highlight.
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
My favorite function for the legacy Bird site was getting information during breaking news. During the Earthquake/Tsunami today I see we have a ways to go here. I'm sure it'll will be addressed in time.
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
In Oregon it's time to start winter steelheading! Will be the main event for the next 6 months. You can reduce wild stealhead mortality to 3-5% by fishing w/ barbless flies, limit handling and keeping them wet (always).
An Oregon wild winter stealhead.Releasing an Oregon wild winter stealhead.An Oregon wild winter stealhead.An Oregon wild winter stealhead.
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Steelhead Science | In the Bucket Podcast w/ some of my favorite people. youtu.be/AE4PRnBfYU4?... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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In the Bucket #11 | Steelhead Science: Insights from Fisheries Biologists with Bob Hooton, Brian Morrison, and John McMillan
Podcast Episode · Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast · 11/27/2024 · 2h 1m
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Salmon fishing on Oswego Creek in 1905... Now the Portland suburb Lake Oswego.
Salmon fishermen on Oswego Creek in 1905.Salmon fishermen on Oswego Creek in 1905.Salmon fishermen on Oswego Creek in 1905.
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My dad always took my brother and I fishing. It was awesome. I was so exited I could barely sleep the night before. That's him cleaning a fish behinds us. Me returning the favor 40 years later.
Steelhead fishing in Oregon with my dad and brother 40 years ago. That's him behind us.Sharing a fly caught coho moment w/ my dad.
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Launching a dory on the beach at the Oregon Coast. Headed out with friend Rob and family.
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Launching a wood skiff from the rim at Crater Lake in 1903. Seems hard. "To promote the new park he had worked for years to help create, Will G. Steel led this first large excursion of twenty-seven members on a camping and exploring trip to the lake." Credit: Oregon Historical Society
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I ❤️ wood boats.
Me in my happy place at the Oregon Coast.Beaching it at the coast.
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
A fall highlight... Watching my son land this 34" hatchery steelhead on a Scandi swung fly. Just a few weeks ago in Oregon.
34" Hatchery Steelhead
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Who says you can't grow citrus in Portland? Time to make lemon & lime recipes for the next 2 weeks.
3rd harvest for the year from 2 trees.
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Matthew Boyd @mboydpdx.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Admiring people that came before us. In 1929 the Klamath Library purchased a Ford delivery truck, modified to be a library book van with shelves for two hundred books. Margaret Nye was hired as a librarian to serve children on her route. klamathlibrary.org Credit: Oregon Historical Society
1932 Klamath County Free Mobile Library. Margaret Nye engaging a child on her route.1932 Klamath County Free Mobile Library. Margaret Nye digging her library out of snow.
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