SMITHERS—Good news for Skeena swingers: According to the Ministry of Natural Resource Operations, B.C. has opted to maintain the current regulations in the Skeena River Steelhead Fishery for 2011-13, pending the outcome of a tourism and economic impacts study.
BUTTE—When it comes to stripping stream access rights, flyfishers—generally a peaceful group—come ready to collectively throwdown. Earlier this week more than 350 Montanans swarmed the Senate Agriculture Livestock and Irrigation Committee hearing in opposition to HB 309. The bill, carried by Rep. Jeff Welborn, R-Dillon, would allow landowners to block public access to waterways diverted for…