LA to FL Fisheries Under Oil Spill GunThe slick from the BP oil rig that exploded and sank last week could become the nation’s worst environmental disaster in decades, threatening hundreds of species of fish, birds and other wildlife along the Gulf Coast, one of the world’s richest seafood grounds, teeming with shrimp, oysters and…
The slick from the BP oil rig that exploded and sank last week could become the nation’s worst environmental disaster in decades, threatening hundreds of species of fish, birds and other wildlife along the Gulf Coast, one of the world’s richest seafood grounds, teeming with shrimp, oysters and other marine life.Source Link
Your basic Rockport, Texas, fishing guide normally comes in two distinct flavors – old and crusty or young and enthusiastic. After fishing with about a dozen different guides around Rockport during the past 13 years or so, I still can’t decide which kind of guide I like better.Source Link
Seattle—U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency and National Marine Fisheries Service ignored the government’s own recovery plans for endangered salmon and orcas when they found that a formal environmental review of the state’s standards was not necessary.Source Link
North Park: Beautiful, Wild—Energy Developed(?)Potential for new energy development in tributaries of the North Platte River in northern North Park, west of Cameron Pass, has the National Wildlife Federation and other sportsmen’s advocacy groups crying foul. The groups on Wednesday filed official protests with the federal government to try to stop energy development in the most…
Potential for new energy development in tributaries of the North Platte River in northern North Park, west of Cameron Pass, has the National Wildlife Federation and other sportsmen’s advocacy groups crying foul.
Wisconsin—last year when a group of state and federal fisheries employees began their second annual competition to catch and release as many species as possible, John Lyons was expected to do well.
Mike Agee: UM All-American Tackles Fly FishingAgee, a two-time All-American guard for the University of Montana Grizzlies, has owned and operated Agee Outfitting in Helena since 2003 after working with and for other outfitters here and abroad virtually from the time he left UM in the spring of 1997. Source Link Yakima River: 30 Years After QuackenbushThe ruling —…
Washington—The Supreme Court, perhaps for the final time, has rejected a multistate appeal over efforts to keep the invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes ecosystem. The justices turned aside another request for intervention Monday,
Agee, a two-time All-American guard for the University of Montana Grizzlies, has owned and operated Agee Outfitting in Helena since 2003 after working with and for other outfitters here and abroad virtually from the time he left UM in the spring of 1997. Source Link
The ruling — which marks its 30th anniversary this year — for the first time assured that water would keep flowing in the Yakima basin during winter months and is now credited with the steady comeback of the region’s once-decimated spring salmon and steelhead runs.
California striper and steelhead fisherman win (for now) the battle over Delta Water. A Santa Clara County judge has ruled that the state can enforce restrictions on the amount of water pumped from the Carmel River, one of many rivers that feed the Delta. Source Link Minnesota Fisherman Ruins Fishing Day with Son Thanks to…
Thanks to his nitpicking, impatience, and insistence on absolute silence in the boat, avid angler Don Gillespie, 41, forever ruined fishing for his 10-year-old son Douglas. Source Link
A Santa Clara County judge has ruled that the state can enforce restrictions on the amount of water pumped from the Carmel River, one of many rivers that feed the Delta. Source Link
Dean of the Green: Guide Emmett Heath Profiled Most people think he earned his title as “Dean of the Green” through years of hard work untangling knots, putting up with grumpy clients, and figuring out how to get fish in the boat when others failed. The truth is that the label came as a sideways compliment…
Flyfishing author Chris Santella’s visit to Turneffe Atoll was the latest chapter in what has become an Ahab-like obsession with hooking a permit,
According to APhotoEditor’s Rob Haggart, the iPad has the potential to save the magazine industry, may become an important marketing tool for photographers but is a complete waste of time (good for consumers, bad for work).Source Link
Most people think he earned his title as “Dean of the Green” through years of hard work untangling knots, putting up with grumpy clients, and figuring out how to get fish in the boat when others failed.
Robby Rose, family man, business owner and bass tournament competitor, admits he put a 1-pound lead weight down the gullet of a fish he caught in an event last October at Lake Ray Hubbard. Source Link
Dallas, Texas. There is one scene, early in the film adaptation of David James Duncan’s The River Why, where flyfishermen will undoubtedly connect with the movie. It comes the day Gus Orviston, played by Zach Gilford, ditches his parents and his life and moves into a run-down cabin along an Oregon coastal stream. After bringing…
With the announcement this week by the American Fly Fishing Trade Association (AFFTA) that it would “sponsor and/or endorse and/or ignore and/or relocate an Independent Fly Fishing show in 2010,” it came as welcome news to the industry this morning that the trade group has settled on the lobby of the Rock Springs, Wyoming, EconoLodge…
When John and Shirley Hagan first opened Portland’s Northwest Flyfishing in May of 1993, Czechoslovakia was dissolving, Rodney King was testifying, and the Second Coming of the Spey rod was still a decade away. But 17 years later, the Hagens still offer the quality products and service that East Side Portlanders have come to expect.
DALLAS—September 23, 2009. In some surprising post-tradeshow industry news, Temple Fork Outfitters president Rick Pope announced today that novelist Ernest Hemingway recently rose from the dead and asked to join the advisory staff of Temple Fork Outfitters.
Orlando Outfitters first opened its doors in January of 2005. Since then, Tim and TJ Bettis, along with shop manager Chris Barco, have shown that Orlando has much more than just the Magic Kingdom. With three full-time employees and a couple of part-timers, the shop always has someone ready to talk fishing. Redfish and seatrout…
“I think a writer owes the readers a new way of telling a story.” —Ken Kesey As the 15th Drake makes its way across the country this fall, I find myself intrigued by all the recent chatter on the downfall of magazines, most of it coming from new-media pundits shouting their favorite proclamation: “Print is…
Flip Pallot —he of Walker Cay Chronicles fame—along with IGFA Hall of Famer Stu Apte, will be featured on the ESPN Outdoors Saltwater Series this Sunday Sunday, May 3, at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern) on ESPN2.
WOODLAND, Wash. USA – 4/09 — Allowing it to focus its staff and manufacturing facilities on its globally expanding finished fishing rod business, G.Loomis has decided to exit custom rod blank production by the end of 2009, announces Bruce Holt, executive director at G.Loomis.