NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) this week pledged $3.73 million to habitat restoration projects in Oregon and Washington, helping restore more than 1,800 acres benefitting threatened anadromous species. Funny enough, the ol’ habitat underdog is seeing a resurgence in popularity as a key ingredient to rebuilding prolific populations of big steelhead, chinook, and…
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This impressive Instagrammed king salmon has been floating around the Interwebs today. Hashtagged details suggest: #chinook, #speyrod, #flyfishing, #bc, #skeena, #omg, #bigfish. This closer-up confirms the last two, and obvious omissions such as: #holyshit, #makesuskindahorny, and #bc-bound…
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Commercial netters on British Columbia’s north coast have dumped more than 167,000 prohibited salmon and steelhead this season in order to catch millions of pinks. The mostly illegal and often unregulated “release” process includes keeping imperiled species out of the water for extended periods, toe-punting and flinging them off boat decks, and killing steelhead, chinook, chum,…
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Cielo Grande—a new edit from Yukon Goes Fishing—detours through Montana and surfaces on Vimeo for three minutes of bank heists and well played smash-and-grabs. Watch it Via Yukon: “Cielo Grande. Large Air. Big Sky. After almost a year away from Montana’s waters, I took a whirlwind tour of some new waters and old favorites. It…
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Felt Soul filmmaker and photog Ben Knight pushes his camera phone beyond selfies and the blurry night before with this inspired “Square Shooter” collection recently featured at the Adventure Journal. Here, Knight proves that A) his Telluride backyard is a pretty decent backdrop. And B)… that 2k we burned on our DSLR might have been…
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The old adage says that 10 percent of anglers catch 90 percent of the fish, which is often attributed to the reality that 90 percent of anglers are too lit to stand on two feet. Research tells us that the 10-percenters, on the other hand, all share some sobering traits such as an affinity for…
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The hoarding phenomenon was evident as John Custer peered into his refrigerator. The right side of the door was jammed with a varietal of hot sauces. These sauces – many way, way past the date of expiration, hailed from distant and exotic locations – the islands of the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
Late-summer in the northern gulf marks a murderous phenomenon involving lightning-fast false albacore in a head-on collision with a glut of blood minnows (aka, bay anchovies). “Blood in the Water” showcases the Tarantino-esque blowup. Watch it. Via Shallow Water Expeditions
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It’s time to bless your drift boats, heathens. If you’re anywhere near Baldwin, Michigan, on August 2-3 Stealthcraft’s 2nd Annual Blessing of the Boats promises brews, good eats, live entertainment, and a karmic river clean-up on the Muskegon. Of course, all makes of boats are welcome. “To launch our new production facility and to get some…
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Looking out into the standing room only crowd packed into Kitsumkalum Hall in Terrace, British Columbia, Shannon McPhail, Executive Director of the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition (SWCC), needs a reality check. She asks the crowd, just shy of 1,000 people: “Is this actually happening?”
Since carp become the raison d’être for fly anglers across the country, nobody really gives a shit about trout anymore. Case in point, earlier this week a pair of anglers targeting a pod of scum-blitzing cyprinids on Montana’s Bighorn Lake were really down-in-the-dumps after accidentally hooking and landing a 28-inch brown trout on a cicada dry…
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Sierra Nevada’s Volcano Creek is home to what experts believe is the world’s first golden trout—”protogolden” as it’s been dubbed by CalTrout’s Craig Balenger. Today less than two dozen protogoldens remain. The short film Liquid Gold is being created to raise awareness “of this magnificent fish, its habitat, and its plight.” The adventure starts in the…
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The beloved Gold #12 Chubby Chernobyl departed this world on July 18, 2013, following a botched hookset along a slow-moving scumline on Wyoming’s North Platte River. Overheard mumbling about “bargain basement” tippets and a “shit knot” YouTubed the night before, the angler at the center of the controversy has yet to be named. The 15-inch…
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Las Vegas—the city of we can’t quite remember all the details—ushered in the 8th Annual Drake Video Awards last week with an emceeing Elvis, a showgirl named Andrea, and the best flyfishing films of all time at its namesake hotel, the LVH. Leading the Best New Film charge was South African filmmaker Jako Lucas’ The…
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In this “some sort of 20 min recap from our trip to slovenia this spring…” snus-sponsored filmmakers Rolf Nylinder and crew search for dry-fly munching marble trout. Along the way we learn about the evils of indigenous maple trees and that strong coffee is vital to good trouting, as well as fighting STDs. Watch it “Over the…
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The browns had started to rise just as Sam Bush was taking center stage. Twenty yards of dimpled St. Vrain trout water was all that separated me from Planet Bluegrass amphitheater and a full night of music in Lyons, Colorado. The urge to tube my rod prematurely and forgo my well-designed plan was tempting, but…
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IN MICHIGAN’S AU SABLE RIVER VALLEY — cultural hub of the Water Wonderland — summer’s Hexagenia hatch is the source of much anticipation among river families. This is not just a father-and-son ordeal; entire lineages come out of the woodwork to share one of the richest traditions in the Mitten. Generations of anglers are lured…
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In 2010 the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Forest Service, pledged to put a rapid end to large scale old-growth timber harvest in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The idea was to emphasize second-growth management, with a new focus on regional economic bright spots such as fishing, tourism, and salmon. On Wednesday, however, any notion…
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A couple years ago, new to Washington, I made my first trip to the Yakima River—a Columbia tributary in the southcentral part of the state. I arrived after dark, with moonlight revealing glimpses of the river as I neared the campground. By the time I got there it was pushing midnight, yet most of the…
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Dear Humpy, Just wanted to drop you a line, see how things were going. I realize that I’ve taken your very existence for granted for a long time, and I am truly sorry. Hope to see you again soon… Where did it all go wrong? From such a joyous beginning, my personal relationship with the…
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CLYDE WAS RIGHT where Viking had left him the night before, backed into a salmonberry thicket, booze and beer resting on his hood, a lone fly box open to the morning dew. I remembered then, vaguely, showing off some new patterns by headlamp after our arrival the night before. If the fly box was mine,…
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This guy is not suing his hairdresser. He is, however, seeking $300,000 from Curtis Fleming and the “Fly Rod Chronicles” TV show for misappropriation of his name and likeness. According to The Courthouse News Service, former Redskins running back John Riggins is accusing Fleming and Fly Fishing Expeditions in Fairfax County Court of misusing footage of Riggins…
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That’s right, America. Land of the free. Home of people who hate environmentally exploitive mines. According to the EPA’s Bristol Bay public comment periods, which officially closed over the weekend, 70 percent of you told the agency that Pebble Mine can suck it. PR Newswire is calling the result a “decisive victory for Bristol Bay”…
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June was so last month. We’re ushering in July today with some metal and Missouri River fishing via those crazy kids at scumliner media in Craig, MT. Watch it “A quick day of flyfishing on the Missouri River, Montana with Mark Raisler (Squeeky Oar Lock – or – SOL) from Headhunters Fly Shop. A fishing…
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This Sunday marks your last chance to help the Environmental Protection Agency decide who’s boss in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region: Salmon or the schmucks who want to dig a MASSIVE open pit mine and leave pristine habitats for dead. After receiving more than 200,000 responses in the lead-up to its early June deadline, the EPA extended…
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It’s been one of those weeks when you forget to pace yourself. You hop around, fishing a different stretch of a different river every night, chasing bugs that were supposed to be here a week earlier. You can’t take a night off, because if you do, you might miss it. The hatch lasts a couple…
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***Click here for the most recent event details and updates.*** Flyfishing’s best movie—as voted by YOU—will hit Ballroom A of the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino on Wednesday, July 10, 2013, at 8:30 P.M. As an integral part of the 8th Annual Drake Flyfishing Video Awards, presented by Simms, the Reader’s Choice Award allows you…
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