I decided to swing by the takeout on the Wenatchee River to see if anyone was catching fish on the Icicle River. Just pulling the boat out of the river was Diane, Shane Magnuson’s wife, with him in the boa! This was a wonderful surprise. As many of you know, Shane and I go way back. We have fished together on the Columbia River from Drano Lake all the way up to the Brewster Pool and even made a couple of trips on the Okanogan River for steelhead. We laughed about our first trip down the Icicle in a 12-foot rowboat and landing a springer and the day he put me on two 30-pounders in the same hole a few years later. Shane has been good enough to help me shoot videos on fishing for salmon and steelhead on many popular destinations on the Columbia River, and they have been viewed by tens of thousands of anglers. To this day, people tell him that they just watched one of the videos and enjoyed it, even though it’s many years old. It was great to see him and his wife and seeing they are doing well.