Archive for November, 2008
November 30th, 2008
This is the Bi-visible that worked so well in Washingtons Irrigation run-off streams. You cast it upstream into the moving water and let it come down
November 30th, 2008
In Ohio the vast majority of steelhead begin life in the Castalia State Fish Hatchery in Erie County, where eggs and milt are stripped from breeder stock, then incubated, hatched, and reared to yearling size of five to seven inches....
November 30th, 2008
Researchers seeking to slow the spread of invasive zebra and quagga mussels in American lakes and rivers have found a bacterium that appears to be fatal to the problematic species without affecting native mussels or freshwater fish. The bacteria appear...
November 30th, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle outdoors columnist Tom Stienstra decries the logic of enviros who succeeded in putting a stop to most stocking in California lakes, streams and rivers. The Center for Biological Diversity sued the DFG mainly to protect frogs and...
November 29th, 2008
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-mussel-bacteria_29nov29,0,648760.story...
November 29th, 2008
As Nick Mills observes, the question of whether one has too many flies never surfaces in the fly fishers mind. Instead, he wonders only whether he will have enough boxes to hold them. And he offers this sage advice regarding...
November 29th, 2008
In the Los Angeles Times, Art Winslow, a former literary and executive editor of The Nation, takes a closer look at the lesser-known works of author Norman Maclean, as revealed in The Norman Maclean Reader (University of Chicago Press, November...
November 28th, 2008
Ryan Krogh of Outside magazine offers his opinions on three vests, all designed for somewhat different purposes: the Simms G3 Guide Vest, the Patagonia Riverwalker, and the Fishpond Double Haul Chest/Backpack System. Of the $170 Riverwalker, Krogh says: The Spartan...
November 27th, 2008
With the approach of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and on a day celebrated in the U.S. by giving thanks, its also a good time to be grateful for all that fly fishing gives us. Consider, as well, that not...
November 27th, 2008
Angler of the first order is how a 1917 French newspaper described the then-current king of England, King George V. With the passage of time, the behavior described makes us cringe, but then in the early 20th century serving as...
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