Daily Fly Fishing News
Replace Tony Montana’s coke smeared machine gun with a big brown. Substitute a Big Lebowski pistol grip with fish slime and fins. And swap Eastwood’s smoking barrels with a ballistic redfish and you have a good sense of fishing artist Paul Puckett’s mindset. Puckett recently moved from Atlanta, where he was working at The Fish…
Clinching second place next to Beer Pong HD at the esteemed “2013 Drake App Awards” the FishHead Mobile App ($6.99) delivers real-time beta on tides, moon phases, and weather, as well as river flows, gauge heights, and water temps. Points off for not vibrating when you catch a fish. You’ll need to download Koi Pond for…
Via filmmaker Ryan Peterson: “The Clean Water Act grants the EPA authority to protect these salmon and the 14,000 jobs that depend on them, by disallowing the Pebble Mine to go forward. You can help give voice to Bristol Bay, Alaska by submitting a comment in SUPPORT of the US EPA’s Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment.…
Bruce C. Switzer is the former head of environmental affairs for Cominco Ltd.—the company that sold Pebble Mine to Northern Dynasty for “peanuts” in 2001, citing environmental worries and the low-quality ore available at the site. In his column “Compass: Pebble Can’t Work for Alaska” he details a bogus permitting process and the risks associated with this…
Living the dream has become a Big Apple nightmare for us snakeheads. Just yesterday I scooted my torpedo-shaped torso up the bank to maul a mallard with my morning espresso and was affronted by a gaggle of screaming children. No shit. It’s true we like to eat—a lot—and we breed with more gusto than a Kardashian…
Peep the upcoming film project from Lowcountry Journal for tails in the grass and the people and places that bind us. Watch it Via Lowcountry Journal: “Over a little Hometeam BBQ what slowly began to materialize was a story I could begin to see in my minds eye. It looked amazing, and even better it…
PENNSYLVANIA—In an exclusive first-person account in the April-May issue of Fly Fisherman magazine, former Spring Ridge Club employee Karl Weixlmann became the first flyfishing guide to come out as an openly apologetic pimp of privatized public water. “I slept in posh surroundings, had my face plastered on advertisements, and had access to a streamside cabin…
On Monday, anglers and access stakeholders packed MSU Bozeman’s Strand Union building for Montana’s High Court hearing on the James Cox Kennedy v. State Stream Access Law snafu that will play a precedent setting role for future recreational river use across the state and beyond. In a nutshell: Kennedy’s lawyer, Peter Coffman, argued that Montana…
The Ferine Strain, a potent short from filmmaker and photographer Bobby Foster, delivers untamed Idaho via feral flyfishing, archery, elk, and steelhead addicts. Life is better outside. Nuff said. Watch it theferinestrain.com
Drake contributor John Larison, see “American Muddler” in the Spring 2013 issue, travels to the Oregon coast for a swing down memory lane in this short clip from Shane Anderson’s documentary River of Hope. Logging interests have slashed the once lush forest that lined the banks of this unnamed river. In the aftermath: spiked water…
This smiley guy again? You bet. The obese-pocketed Montana stream access nemesis, James Cox Kennedy, is back with his Supreme Court case waddling into a Bozeman courtroom next week. Kennedy’s Ruby River swath is set up like a Fort Knox of good trout fishing and the Atlanta media mogul doesn’t like to share, despite laws…
The Colorado River isn’t our biggest, but it’s one of the hardest working in the country. It flows more than 1,400 miles. Through seven states. And its dammed, diverted, and heavily siphoned flows sustain tens of millions of people, as well as fish and wildlife. It’s also in a world of hurt. As of this…
I first met Frank Moore at his Oregon home, while steelheading on the North Umpqua River a couple of years back. As we went in for introductions, the harmless looking old-timer proceeded to grip and shake my puny hand with the crushing power of a gorilla. To say Moore is tough, is an understatement. As…
If you’re looking for a way to help save Alaska’s Bristol Bay, you likely aren’t googling “bear attack fatalities,” but if you’re the guy planning to float more than 100 river miles through the Bristol Bay region it’s probably worth a look.
This June the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is slated to reach a decision regarding stricter catch-and-release regulations for tarpon. And as hurricane season descends upon the State of Florida, a new storm’s a brewing.
In addition to coaxing Bo into his daily dump on the White House lawn, Obama has been busy declaring national monuments this week. Awesomely, and thanks the Antiquities Act, a President can protect public land through these designations—effectively bypassing Congressional holdups in the process. Theodore Roosevelt did it first when he protected Wyoming’s Devils tower back…
Media baron James Cox Kennedy, already owner of more than 3,000 acres in Montana, including both sides of an eight-mile stretch of the Ruby River, has filed a lawsuit this morning claiming that, in fact, he owns all of Montana.
Steelhead and ‘squatch have something in common. They range in areas dry of major development and soaked in mystique. And those pursuing both have appetites that go way, way beyond scientific benchmarks for sanity. Sasquatch occupies wide spaces in the imagination department. Steelhead, too… but at least we’ve got more than a couple grainy old…
The great fishing states of Utah and Montana both saw critical public access announcements earlier this week. On the good news front, a 4th District judge rejected much of the Utah’s legal “reasoning” defending a 2010 law that restricts public access to rivers crossing private land, ruling that the public trust doctrine protects recreational use of…
Chris Lewis over at Skinny Water Culture puts down the rod and rolls camera to the shuffle and glide of a happy, hungry bonefish.
TAOS, NEW MEXICO—After years of collaboration, the iconic Rio Grande del Norte area is finally slated to be protected as a national monument next week. According to TU the monument will be designated on Monday at the request of a diverse group of local interests including hunters, anglers, and traditional land users.
Conservation across Western public lands is not a cheap prospect, considering that what’s buried under the ground has been valued at treasure-like proportions by those intent on tapping it. But that hasn’t stopped groups from making headway in the fight to stymie drilling interests by outcompeting oil and gas companies in the race to purchase…
Silly kids, tubes are for trout. Daniel Goz and Jan Bach Kristensen, who bucked that sentiment with their award-winning release Tapam at the 2010 Drake Five-Minute Video Awards, recently launched the new e-zine FinChasers.
Barracuda prowling the warm-water reaches of the Lower Keys are currently being targeted and killed by the hundreds for commercial sale at a price of $1 to $1.40 per pound. Is it really worth it?
Approximately 13 million pints of Guinness will be annihilated during this weekend’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities—enough to float 1,000 drift boats in a tidal wave of water, hops, yeast, malted barley, and a fifth fishy ingredient called isinglass.
In just a few hours the Senate is scheduled to vote on an amendment that would strip funding for steelhead and salmon restoration projects all over the west—including those on California’s Sacramento, Klamath, Trinity, Smith, Eel, and Ventura Rivers (among others).
Washington D.C.—rife with politicians and paved with legislative hurdles—is a far cry from the AK backcountry. But that hasn’t stopped Juneau-based flyfishing guide Matt Boline from ditching waders, donning a suit, and entering the melee.