Russell James

Jawbreaker was amazing last Saturday. I’m home, now, recovering from the long trip.

Eeee. #Colorado looks beautiful but acts like shit.

Big system moving in tryna ruin my fall fishing here in the Rockies… hoping for the best, trying to be adaptable. #flyfishing

What’s fishing in northern NM right now? #flyfishing

My autism is interesting: planning for a 23-day road trip has been feeling great, then a small change in plans that is totally manageable threw me into a brief episode this mornings. Pens and notebook soared toward the tv and I had to go lay down.

Doing better now, let’s pack the van.

YouTube video by Russell’s Universe Golden Summer: Fly Fishing the Chetco and Smith Rivers

Here’s a little video I made of a trip a month or so ago… Southern Oregon and Northern California on the fly. #flyfishing #oregon #california

youtu.be/cxS5ABpiPQw

Big trip coming up! Can’t wait to fish some of the northern NM waters that I missed when I lived there. Stay tuned for reports and pics!

They are rock solid. I can’t tell the difference between my Korkers soles and the ones on my fancy Simms.

Great read. Simms is dead on the water, indeed. Lotsa folks around me buying Korkers and Grundens gear (OR). Got a pair of Korkers this summer to replace my old simms boots. I love em. No steal your face, tho. 🤣

Yo…. That’s nice as hell

Caught a bunch of these massive westslope cutthroat up on a beautiful creek in BC this summer… best day I’ve ever had fishing, honestly.

Get ‘em. Big Quilcene River, Olympic Peninsula. #flyfishing #flyfishingaddict #washington #olympicnationalpark

Feeling like fall today…🍂🍁

Doing this when I get home…

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Little streams, tiny tails, picking pockets. Some call me a purist and they’re not completely wrong… #flyfishing

When you fly fish to help your mental health but then your mental health becomes dependent on fly fishing…

Nice work.

Can’t beat that. Gotta get to Montana next year, myself!

Beautiful. Thanks so much for showing us.

I’m gonna do better, Blsky. I promise. The thing is, I went crazy this summer and drove all around the #PNW catching fish and forgot about everything else. #flyfishing has consumed my life. It’s made me even more socially dysfunctional than before. God, I love my life so much.

Good time on the Donner and Blitzen… deep and murky, but I got an 18 incher to eat a Dali Lama. What a fight, too. This thing was an acrobat! Wild redsides! Woohoo!

Heading out to the Donner and Blitzen River tomorrow. 6 hr drive into the desert and I am STOKED. Should be some good material for an article.

Change is hard. There’s a lot of sliding backward during the process. The solution? Begin again. Always, begin again.

I’m awful at that river. I keep going back, though. I peeled a streamer at a bull trout for about 15 minutes and it just kept giving me the middle finger hahaha. I was camped at Lower Bridge– amazing campground! There’s some great wild sites around there, too.

Season is starting… lessssgooooo.

Metolius River flow is too intense for me. So hard to wade, so hard to track a fly/indicator. Also, I can’t catch a fish to save my life on that river. I don’t even know if I care anymore…

#flyfishing

I’ll be doing six treatments in six weeks. Since I quit using cannabis we actually have the funds to afford this out of pocket. Also, treatments are way less than they used to be.

First ketamine treatment this afternoon… nervous but I have some hope. Depression has held me in a strong grip since last October or so.

Then I’m headed to the Metolius for a few days of fishing.

There were some good times down in Puerto Vallarta... mostly revolving around dinner and sunsets. But overall, the all-inclusive resort scene is antithetical to my entire way of being. I felt trapped most of the week and I'm so happy I'm home.

Just finished up the edits on my article on fishing with Chuck Ragan for Trout Magazine... I'm grateful for the experience and can't wait to do it again. Thanks Chuck!