American Rivers Top 10
In a top-10 lineup you’d rather not headline, the American Rivers organization recently released its annual endangered rivers report. Included in the mix are:
Gulf Oil: In Photos
Two apprehensive months into one of the most menacing environmental travesties this country has experienced, Yahoo News has compiled a telling collection of images from the Gulf. “The oil keeps coming and coming, and cleanupworkers can only try to keep the oil from the shores, from the animals, from the
Headlines: June 21, 2010
Massive Marlin Winnings StrippedNORTH CAROLINA—An unlicensed crew member may have cost a boat a heaping $900,000 in the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in North Carolina.The Daily News of Jacksonville reported that Andy Thomossan, the fisherman who caught a record-setting 883-pound blue marlin on June 14, said tournament officials stripped the Hatteras-based boat Citation of the…
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Blue Whales Throw It In
NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN—”Claiming that their miserable lives had become too depressing to endure, the world’s remaining blue whales surfaced Monday and desperately pleaded with environmentalists to immediately cease all conservation efforts so the species could
Massive Marlin Winnings Stripped
NORTH CAROLINA—An unlicensed crew member may have cost a boat a heaping $900,000 in the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in North Carolina.The Daily News of Jacksonville reported that Andy Thomossan, the fisherman who caught a record-setting 883-pound blue marlin on June 14, said tournament officials stripped the Hatteras-based boat Citation of the title and the…
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The River’s Edge
Sunshine and Salmonflies on the radar Of the laundry list of flyfishing variables we cannot predict, weather—good or bad—ranks near the top. So far spring 2010 has been a strange, extended winter for many living in the West: Rain, snow… more snow. Nowhere is that more prevalent than in southwest Montana, where late-season snowpack continues…
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Headlines: June 18, 2010
Support Plaquemines FlyGuidesPlaquemines FlyGuides was created to generate relief income in the wake of the recent oil spill in the Gulf for flyfishing guides and their families, who work year-round, full-time out of Lower Plaquemines Parish. “We’re still out on the water as many days as possible but due to the recent oil spill in…
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Or Try This Instead…
A petition calling for a stretch of the Teton River to be designated flyfishing only is circulating in the Valley. The idea is that the designation would stimulate the local economy, at least according to Rob Merrill, who is behind the initiative. He says bait fishing and spin casting just aren’t
Teton Dam—Try it Again?
IDAHO—Thirty-four years ago, eastern Idaho changed forever. The eight-month-old Teton Dam, on the Teton River near Rexburg, failed—drowning 11 people and 18,000 head of livestock and causing $2 billion in damage. The state of Idaho and BuRec are now investigating ways to boost state water supply. That includes, perhaps, a new Teton Dam. “The environmental…
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Plaquemines FlyGuides was created to generate relief income in the wake of the recent oil spill in the Gulf for flyfishing guides and their families, who work year-round, full-time out of Lower Plaquemines Parish. “We’re still out on the water as many days as possible but due to the recent oil spill in the Gulf,…
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Happy Father’s Day
We all gotta start somewhere… Of all the letters we receive at The Drake, none is more common than those written by sons or daughters or grandchildren, telling us how either their dad or grandfather introduced them to the sport. You know the image: Friendly-faced, white-haired grandpa standing ankle-high in a river, helping his grandson cast. You know the…
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Headlines: June 16, 2010
Blatant Self PromotionThe Drake Spring/Summer 2010 issue hit newsstands this week. Check it out: The Main Events; Dispatches from the Gulf; Fishing the Heartland; Sulphurs; 7 Caddis; Tim Borski; John Jackson; and much, much more. Did we mention Page 6 Chix? Yep, it’s there, too.Source Link “Trenchmouth” Gets its DueWe’ve been extolling the virtues of…
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VA Explores Menhaden Fishery
A panel of Virginia legislators, environmentalists, and watermen will study fishing pressures on menhaden, a critical food source for other Chesapeake Bay fish. Menhaden are key in the bay’s food chain, supporting striped bass, bluefish and other species.
Chevron Joins the Club
SALT LAKE CITY—As if BP’s Gulf oil spill debacle wasn’t enough, today city officials closed public access to Utah’s Jordan River as a result of cleanup efforts due to Saturday’s oil spill. “Chevron and multiple federal, state, and local agencies are continuing to deal with the aftermath of Saturday’s pipeline fracture that sent an estimated 33,000…
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“Trenchmouth” Gets its Due
We’ve been extolling the virtues of carp on the fly for a while now. The love affair with America’s gold-finned trashfish continues to spread: “Carp are big, bullish strong and can out pull most anything that swims in our inland waters. Surprisingly, carp are also extremely intelligent, at
Blatant Self Promotion
The Drake Spring/Summer 2010 issue hit newsstands this week. Check it out: The Main Events; Dispatches from the Gulf; Fishing the Heartland; Sulphurs; 7 Caddis; Tim Borski; John Jackson; and much, much more. Did we mention Page 6 Chix?
Headlines: June 15, 2010
Missing Sockeye InvestigationVANCOUVER—The recent collapse of sockeye salmon stocks in B.C.’s Fraser River has sparked an official investigation, which is expected to get underway in Vancouver today. “The Cohen Commission of Inquiry launches the first three days of what is expected to be a lengthy and technical probe into the disappearance of almost 10 million…
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Deschutes Weekend Bender
“Our guide, Steelhead Joe—his moniker, not mine—was in the midst of a severe bender. He had slept a combined six hours in three days, during which he’d rowed 60 miles in pursuit of steelhead. He was a father of two and a former golf pro in California who’d moved to Oregon four years earlier, caught…
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VANCOUVER—The recent collapse of sockeye salmon stocks in B.C.’s Fraser River has sparked an official investigation, which is expected to get underway in Vancouver today. “The Cohen Commission of Inquiry launches the first three days of what is expected to be a lengthy and technical probe into the disappearance of almost 10 million fish from…
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Getting After It—Outside in Aspen
This past weekend was big, at least as far as Colorado waters are concerned. Rivers like the Frying Pan gushed at near flood levels, while the Colorado and Roaring Fork also gauged in at monstrous cfs proportions. Crashing Aspen for the first annual Outside in Aspen festivities, this weather scenario of rain, runoff, and muddy…
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Headlines: June 14, 2010
Na-Cho Average Fishing AdAlthough we loathe almost everything about the word “extreme” as it applies to flyfishing, we like this video short—a Doritos Super Bowl ad contest submission. Flyfishing from planes, quality snacks, and bikinis. Extremely delicious.Source Link Bluefin BluesEarlier this year the feds moved to stop international trade on all bluefins, but, in an…
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Bluefin Blues
Earlier this year the feds moved to stop international trade on all bluefins, but, in an abrupt turnaround, are now allowing National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries to leave the daily limit for commercial anglers at three giants or large mediums per day.
Na-Cho Average Fishing Ad
Although we loathe almost everything about the word “extreme” as it applies to flyfishing, we like this video short—a Doritos Super Bowl ad contest submission. Flyfishing from planes, quality snacks, and bikinis.
Headlines: June 11, 2010
Outside in AspenASPEN—This weekend marks the inaugural Outside in Aspen kick off—a weekend-long outdoors binge of hiking, biking, and flyfishing put on by Outside Magazine and the Aspen Chamber Resort Association. We were supposed to go fishing, but with Ruedi reservoir on the brink of run-off madness, we’re holed up in the quaint digs of…
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Phaser Guns and Fish Farms
VANCOUVER—Canadian actor William Shatner has lent his iconic prowess to help urge Canadians in the fight for preserving British Columbia’s remaining wild salmon resources. The former Star Trek captain recently teamed up with Fin Donnelly, the federal New Democrat Fisheries and Oceans critic, who introduced a private member’s bill last month that would force fish…
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ASPEN—This weekend marks the inaugural Outside in Aspen kick off—a weekend-long outdoors binge of hiking, biking, and flyfishing put on by Outside Magazine and the Aspen Chamber Resort Association. We were supposed to go fishing, but with Ruedi reservoir on the brink of run-off madness, we’re holed up in the quaint digs of the super-swanky…
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Headlines: June 9, 2010
Celebrate Charlie MeyersFairplay Colorado—This Saturday, June 12, the Town of Fairplay, CO welcomes all fisherman, hunters, skiers, and outdoorsman to celebrate the life of Charlie Meyers, during a full day of fishing and various daylong activities. Meyers was the longtime outdoor writer for the Denver Post, and the former editor-at-large for Angling Trade. He passed…
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