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IT’S AUGUST ON THE OREGON COAST. Three friends and I pile into Captain Rob Perkin’s twenty-three-foot dory, , a style of boat similar to what Portuguese fishermen first used to launch into the surf, and that later inspired every driftboat from the McKenzie River to Martin Litton’s Grand Canyon Dories. We were seeking coho on fly rods. No downriggers or cannon balls. No flatfish or flashers. No shrimp,