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Wyoming Timelapse

What we know about Wyoming: Nuking winds, devoid of humans, and arctic-like winters. It’s a real shame no fish live there either. Despite the blatant false-advertising, this timelapse collection is cool. Watch it Via ghostkollective.com: “It was one hell of a journey during the fourteen months making Wyoming Wildscapes II, my second and final Wyoming…

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Can They Spot Illegal Salmon Farms Too?

In addition to spying on neighbors and looking at the outside of their houses—from inside their houses—researchers at the University of British Columbia have found yet another practical use for Google Earth technology. Using the satellite imagery scientists have discovered that large fish traps in the Persian Gulf could be netting nearly six times more fish…

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Can They Spot Illegal Salmon Farms Too?

In addition to spying on neighbors and looking at the outside of their houses—from inside their houses—researchers at the University of British Columbia have found yet another practical use for Google Earth technology. Using the satellite imagery scientists have discovered that large fish traps in the Persian Gulf could be netting nearly six times more fish…

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Kings are Cool

Long Live the King tells the story of Alaska’s king salmon fishery, where numbers have plummeted in recent years on several of the state’s most iconic rivers. It also delivers a full dose of beastly chinook of the catch-and-released variety. Watch it “In addition, what is starting to seem like an all out war on salmon–mining,…

CoolKings

Kings are Cool

Long Live the King tells the story of Alaska’s king salmon fishery, where numbers have plummeted in recent years on several of the state’s most iconic rivers. It also delivers a full dose of beastly chinook of the catch-and-released variety. Watch it “In addition, what is starting to seem like an all out war on salmon–mining,…

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Casting A Voice (For Steelhead)

Casting a Voice examines the implications of building crude oil pipelines through British Columbia’s world-class watersheds. The verdict? The Skeena River drainage deserves better than that. Watch it According to longtime angler Rob Brown the Skeena River drainage is “the last bastion of wild steelhead.” This film examines the value of the Skeena River and…

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Casting A Voice (For Steelhead)

Casting a Voice examines the implications of building crude oil pipelines through British Columbia’s world-class watersheds. The verdict? The Skeena River drainage deserves better than that. Watch it According to longtime angler Rob Brown the Skeena River drainage is “the last bastion of wild steelhead.” This film examines the value of the Skeena River and…

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Cutthroat Pop. Plummets to 750

Even more endangered than the elusive tree octopus, there are now less than 750 native greenback cutthroat living in the wild. The last pack of hanging-ons inhabits a remote, high-gradient stream that the conservation-focused Colorado Greenbacks organization is working to protect. Watch it Via the Greenbacks: “Through January of 2014 we’re running an Indiegogo Project…

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Cutthroat Pop. Plummets to 750

Even more endangered than the elusive tree octopus, there are now less than 750 native greenback cutthroat living in the wild. The last pack of hanging-ons inhabits a remote, high-gradient stream that the conservation-focused Colorado Greenbacks organization is working to protect. Watch it Via the Greenbacks: “Through January of 2014 we’re running an Indiegogo Project…

Shallow Season

The Shallow Season

David Mangum and the crew at Shallow Water Expeditions introduce a fifth season in this heavy-hitting skinny water edit. Check out “The Shallow Season”, starring the best redfishing footage you’ll see all week. Via Shallow Water Expeditions: “As the Fall set in and weather cools the Fly fishing for redfish here in our local water…

Shallow Season

The Shallow Season

David Mangum and the crew at Shallow Water Expeditions introduce a fifth season in this heavy-hitting skinny water edit. Check out “The Shallow Season”, starring the best redfishing footage you’ll see all week. Via Shallow Water Expeditions: “As the Fall set in and weather cools the Fly fishing for redfish here in our local water…

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Skins & Fins

Terrace, B.C., boasts stashes of awesomeness from bottom to top. On the ground it straddles the banks of the Skeena, with stone’s-throw access to some of the planet’s best wild steelhead tribs. And at altitude, you’ll find a backcountry experience marked by massive annual snowfall and untouched lines. Skins & Fins drops in with just…

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Skins & Fins

Terrace, B.C., boasts stashes of awesomeness from bottom to top. On the ground it straddles the banks of the Skeena, with stone’s-throw access to some of the planet’s best wild steelhead tribs. And at altitude, you’ll find a backcountry experience marked by massive annual snowfall and untouched lines. Skins & Fins drops in with just…

Long Shot

Long Shot

Proving that people who flyfish for carp are freakish—in an awesome way—”Long Shot” follows an angling couple’s love of ol’ rubberlips across Colorado’s Front Strange. Watch It Via The Fly Collective: Jay Zimmerman and Erin Block share glimpses in to their lives as authors, creators of proven fly patterns, and anglers. Fly fishing for carp…

Long Shot

Long Shot

Proving that people who flyfish for carp are freakish—in an awesome way—”Long Shot” follows an angling couple’s love of ol’ rubberlips across Colorado’s Front Strange. Watch It Via The Fly Collective: Jay Zimmerman and Erin Block share glimpses in to their lives as authors, creators of proven fly patterns, and anglers. Fly fishing for carp…

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Dear Steelhead: Be Safe Out There

Thanks to a new report from ecologists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the ocean’s impact on species survival—such as juvenile steelhead and salmon leaving the Columbia and entering the Pacific—is one step closer to being solved. “The study provides a snapshot of salmon behavior at a crucial time, after a migration from…

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Dear Steelhead: Be Safe Out There

Thanks to a new report from ecologists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the ocean’s impact on species survival—such as juvenile steelhead and salmon leaving the Columbia and entering the Pacific—is one step closer to being solved. “The study provides a snapshot of salmon behavior at a crucial time, after a migration from…

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Alaska Mega-Dam Proposal Gets “Very Real”

Overshadowed by Pebble Mine but equally troubling when it comes to potential for a large-scale environmental beatdown, a dam proposal targeting the Susitna River continues to make headway. Alaska recently authorized expenditures of $165 million to push the project through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s expedited permitting process. Matt Stoecker and Travis Rummel, who’ve teamed…

Susitna Stoecker

Alaska Mega-Dam Proposal Gets “Very Real”

Overshadowed by Pebble Mine but equally troubling when it comes to potential for a large-scale environmental beatdown, a dam proposal targeting the Susitna River continues to make headway. Alaska recently authorized expenditures of $165 million to push the project through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s expedited permitting process. Matt Stoecker and Travis Rummel, who’ve teamed…

Susitna Stoecker

Alaska Mega-Dam Proposal Gets “Very Real”

Overshadowed by Pebble Mine but equally troubling when it comes to potential for a large-scale environmental beatdown, a dam proposal targeting the Susitna River continues to make headway. Alaska recently authorized expenditures of $165 million to push the project through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s expedited permitting process. Matt Stoecker and Travis Rummel, who’ve teamed…

Waypoints AK

Waypoints AK

Waypoints, a new flyfishing film by Confluence, premiers this week in select cities across the country. Join The Drake at Denver’s Oriental Theater on Friday night and prepare to get loose. Dan “Rooster” Leavens scoops up a handful of steel in this underwater-porn enriched AK edit, below. Watch it Waypoints is a multi-segmented flyfishing film…

Waypoints AK

Waypoints AK

Waypoints, a new flyfishing film by Confluence, premiers this week in select cities across the country. Join The Drake at Denver’s Oriental Theater on Friday night and prepare to get loose. Dan “Rooster” Leavens scoops up a handful of steel in this underwater-porn enriched AK edit, below. Watch it Waypoints is a multi-segmented flyfishing film…

Waypoints AK

Waypoints AK

Waypoints, a new flyfishing film by Confluence, premiers this week in select cities across the country. Join The Drake at Denver’s Oriental Theater on Friday night and prepare to get loose. Dan “Rooster” Leavens scoops up a handful of steel in this underwater-porn enriched AK edit, below. Watch it Waypoints is a multi-segmented flyfishing film…

FlipBoat

Whatever Folds Your Boat

Turning a boat into origami ain’t easy, but it’s exactly what Dragonfly Boatworks plans to deliver with its oddball “foldable” fiberglass skiff debuting later this month. “We had a particular customer with a particular challenge,” said Mark Castlow of Dragonfly Boatworks, “and, as in most challenges, the solution took on a life of its own.”…

FlipBoat

Whatever Folds Your Boat

Turning a boat into origami ain’t easy, but it’s exactly what Dragonfly Boatworks plans to deliver with its oddball “foldable” fiberglass skiff debuting later this month. “We had a particular customer with a particular challenge,” said Mark Castlow of Dragonfly Boatworks, “and, as in most challenges, the solution took on a life of its own.”…

FlipBoat

Whatever Folds Your Boat

Turning a boat into origami ain’t easy, but it’s exactly what Dragonfly Boatworks plans to deliver with its oddball “foldable” fiberglass skiff debuting later this month. “We had a particular customer with a particular challenge,” said Mark Castlow of Dragonfly Boatworks, “and, as in most challenges, the solution took on a life of its own.”…