11/16/2003 | N4SL The Sunday solar flare was a first for me in a contest. I yammered with some locals for a while, it was a nice break but the conditions never really recovered up here in 'suffering sevens' land (near Seattle in WWA).

My picture shows the first steelhead I've ever caught, one week before the contest. Somehow I think it's relevant, don't you? -- N4SL