Chad G.

A bummer but still a nice piece, I like it and will be looking for one now. I had that same wooden tic tac toe game you have in your pic when I was a kid, sweeet !!

Look out !! That cats really not sleeping, I recognize that shifty eye Part of the deceptive marble collecting crew, probably has a whole new batch of mibs stashed about the house, the director "king underfoot "will try and disable you by putting some in plain sight where they are ignored and stepped on while trying to disable you

Yes I remember .... "Big, Green" ...."Hulk Smash" .... .... ....

Mmm Mm !!

knock em dead Sunday William. A video for you to watch before your fishing trip Brother !!

My condolences to his wife Diane & the rest of his friends & family.

Yes, Alley swirl with the same colors as a carnival, one of my favorites for sure !!

Gotta make the best of space ?? I like having everything out where I can see it. I've incorporated most all my Akro ware into my collection, guess I kinda Frankensteined it for lack of a better word !! Ok !! ya got me !!!

Looks like an awful lot of cats eyes with a few (maybe) Jabo thrown in !!

Some Squatch coinage from up on the mountain !!

More marbles from my Brother overseas Another shot of the 15/16ths Veiligglas, the Akro Dart Bowl is mine, Yeah Buddy

He kinda owed me one for looking through & I.D. his mibs more than once. I've been buying from him for about 6 or 7 years he's my neighbor down the street about 5 blocks. He had a good idea of the correct value, I gave him the money and he looked at me and said "All's Square" ?? So next time I'll still get a deal but not nearly the one I did this time.

I have about 20 mibs that I didn't take pix of, I know the seller & he let me cherry pick, so 126 in total, I paid $35.oo for all of them.

Best one in a while, a bit of everything. Vitro, looking again an MK looks to have slipped in there !! Akro, a couple big double ingots, one lemonade, some corks & a few patches Peltier Rainbos A few MK Some slags, all Akro I believe ?? More Peltiers including a dragon, 4 PPP's, a really nice blue, yellow & white Rainbo and a Tootsie roll Some nice Alley, a few over 3/4ths" Master, maybe all but the green one I think is foreign ??

I think my stomach just started growling, yep I can hear it ..... "Neighbor" .....

Ya don't have one of them food dehydrators do ya ?? .... "Neighbor" !!

A 10 footer belly up beside the boat right after I removed the 10 /0 hook from it's throat. 6 feet of 120 pound squid line tied to the end of 200 lb. test barrel swivel with a 10 once sinker on a slider to make sure we gave them enough line to swallow it without feeling the hook and weight. 40 pound mono on the main, using a tuna rod. We caught and released alot of oversize that day with none in the (45"-52" keeper size slot) Fishing in the mainstem Columbia River estuary in August when the sardines enter into the mouth of the river during the incoming tide, enough to draw the sturgeon into the mouth of the river from the ocean. Only 7 miles from the bar going out into the ocean. Once you get the sturgeon up and to the boat they roll over on their back and go catatonic like a gator allowing for easy hook removal and release, otherwise they would thrash around and the rows of sharp spines running up and down their body would cut you up pretty good. Closed to fishing during August now because sea lions have almost wiped out the sturgeon using them as their food source since the oceans are getting so depleted cutting our season to almost nothing, only about 6 days opportunity yearly and only 4 on our card until we punch out. When I was a kid the limit was 36" to 6 feet, 3 per day with no annual limit, considered trash fish then. In other words I'm fishing while I still can. One of the chartered commercial guide boats fishing beside us, I think they pay about $175.oo a head whether they catch one or not. They had one on off the bow when I took this picture, you can see the guys pole bending. My uncle Phil with a couple keeper that barely made the grade, these are white sturgeon but the further you go up the river the darker they get, the taste and meat quality also goes way down on a local fish. The ones behind the dams are trapped there, that's what I mean by local fish. Tagged ones have been caught and re released again and again traveling all over, from here to Alaska over to Japan and back here again. They are continually on the move for food. A sea lion near Bonneville dam chowing down on a 8 footer I'm only about 70 miles from The Dalles dam and 2 miles from the river right now. The fish we catch in the estuary have long extremely sharp hook like rows of spines on them while the resident river fish's spines are worn smooth from scouring the sandy river bottom for food, you'd never attempt to hold one from the estuary like this land locked one or it would cut you up pretty bad. A couple vids to watch on the local white sturgeon, these are all catch and release monsters but still loads of fun.

"Akro French Drain" I should have put this in my original post on page one. I wanted to thank "Alan" for pointing me in the right direction and finally helping to I.D. this marble and it's origin, thus another link in Akro marble history was revealed.

Killer Mibs Ron !!

"Happy Akro Friday" The big "A" little "A" is the earliest known mark of the "Akro Agate Company" and is very rarely seen. I had some with this mark in the past but haven't seen it in quite a while, something I've been looking for as of late.

A beautiful upriver Steelhead I took drift fishing on the Deschutes River in September 06, fish use the cool glacier fed Deschutes a resting area and to oxygenate their deoxygenated blood before continuing their run up the mainstem Columbia. This one only about 6 or 8 lbs. but a good pic. the average was 12 lbs. to 25. Some of the best Steelhead fishing in the world is to be had in this river. Closed now from June until Sept. 15, (now designated a thermal refuge glacier fed river) to let the main bulk of the big Steelhead going to the Clearwater River in Idaho pass by, the Idaho fish run from 15lbs. to 25lbs. or bigger. 8 pound line and a #6 hook make for a challenging fight. Desert all around we were done every day by 11:00 because of the hot sun, the fish quit biting for the most part then too. Looking at the angle of the shadows I figure this was about quitting time. A view from the motel room window of the Columbia running through the desert at biggs junction A shot I ran up & took of the Deschutes running trough the desert from the highway 84 bridge crossing, you can see my friend Craig in the lower left corner fishing off the island at the mouth. In the background you the mountains have been scorched black from a recent fire, a fast mover, nothing to burn but sage and wild grass, all of which are extremely dry at this time of year.

Some more Heaton