Sometimes teaching kids to fish takes much more patience than the actual fishing part. You’ve got to tie all the tackle, bait the hook—and if you were duped, you got an old-school push button reel that will fail the second time your child casts it. After reading the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife‘s sport […]
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Letters to the Editor
Haters To the ignoramus in the genitalia-compensating truck at the NE3rd/Greenwood light: Your yelling “Go back to Portland” at a bicyclist making a legal left turn among cars illustrates your poor social skills on so many levels! Having to loudly transfer thought to mouth? Having to interrupt someone who is trying to stay alive among […]
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Get Your Free Camp On
Oregon State Parks offers free sites June 2
Saturday June 2 is State Parks Day and parks across Oregon will be celebrating with free camping, free parking and a whole host of other events you can be a part of. Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department will offer free camping for all tent, RV and horse campsites at over a dozen parks June 2 […]
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Strange Job Title: Fish Watcher
Lee Spencer has one of the most unusual job titles in Oregon—Fish Watcher. For the past 18 years Spencer has kept watch over thousands of returning summer steelhead in Steamboat Creek, a tributary of the upper Umpqua River System. Every May Spencer returns to his trailer headquarters along the banks of the Steamboat. He has […]
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Central Oregon Hunting and Fishing
National Wild Turkey Federation
Nineteen years ago Jeff DeLeon’s life took a major turn. A car accident paralyzed the military veteran from the waist down. Eric Keefer’s life changed in a similar way when he was paralyzed from an ATV accident. Both men, one a vet and the other not, have something in common. They love the outdoors and […]
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Go Here 3/30-4/6
Fishing with kids Searching for an outdoor outing for youngsters? There are ample fishing opportunities in the area. Shevlin Park has one of the most popular kids-only ponds open to 17 and under, and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife says it’s beginning to stock the pond with bigger fish. Kids are almost guaranteed […]
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Introducing Sourcecast, the Source Weekly’s new podcast
Discover Central Oregon with Brian Jennings, host of Sourcecast, a new podcast from the Source Weekly. Listen in on interviews and get the backstory to epic outdoor news like the new Oregon Desert Trail, Central Oregon’s caves, Bend Whitewater Park and more.
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Cast Your Rod
A roundup of regional summer lake fishing
When fishermen from around the world are traveling hundreds of miles for just a weekend—just a few days!—to fish Central Oregon’s famous lakes, really, driving 30 minutes doesn’t seem like that big of a deal. With postcard perfect backgrounds and diverse challenges, the lakes here are a fisherman’s playground. Crane Prairie Reservoir The Deschutes River […]
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Three Days Until Nature of Words 2013!
Just three days until Bend becomes a literary hub with the kickoff of the Nature of Words annual festival on Thursday, November 7! The current issue of the Source features our full coverage of the event, including previews, interviews and book reviews. Everyday this week we’ll give you a sneak peak of our coverage of […]