Archive for January, 2009

Bonefish: Lost In Acklins

But enough of this dirty talk, this pornographic reverie. Chasing bonefish is an activity that in its way is as addictive as golf, or mainlining narcotics. Suffice it to say: There are plenty of fish in the Bahamas and it...

Montana Ranchettes On Sale

Thinking about buying a little piece of paradise? A seventy-five percent drop in sales activity has buyers and sellers engaged in a Mexican standoff in the real estate market around Bozeman, Montana, according to an article by Jessica Mayrer in...

Homeless Man Gets Jail for Eating California Steelhead

Various government agencies and conservation groups have spent millions of dollars rehabilitating Central Coast creeks in an attempt to improve steelhead habitat. Each fish really counts, [DFG Lt. Dean] Hileman said. We are talking about a species that is so...

I Cant Really Remember: Kayaking the Middle Florida Keys

In the New York Times, Christopher Percy Collier describes kayaking the shallows around the lower and middle Florida Keys. He lists a number of kayak rental places along U.S. 1 where, as he says, finding a kayak outfitter has come...

Stonefly Expert Defends Another New York Creek

Member of the International Society of Plecopterists. Thats one title that author, journalist and conservationist Robert H. Boyle seems to take most seriously. Its a perfect fit, given that stoneflies require highly oxygenated water (midges are much more tolerant), the...

Eagle Shooting Costs Wyoming Outfitter $5000

Luckily for Wyoming fishing and hunting outfitter Sammy L. Coutts, the Bald Eagle was taken off of the Endangered Species list four months before he decided to plink one on his trout pond. So it only cost Coutts a $5000...

New Podcast: Tom Rosenbauer on Fly Fishing With Midges

Intimidated by the idea of fishing tiny flies but still want to fish year-round in waters where the only bugs to come off between November and February are size 22s? Tom Rosenbauer offers some excellent advice for beginning midge fishers...

Fly Tying: Share Everything You Can Put Your Hands On

Its no secret that fly tying is emerging as the craft that may keep the fly fishing business afloat in 2009. If youve attended any of the recent shows in California, Colorado or New Jersey, you saw tying demonstrations that...

Let Them Eat Trout!

In Idahos own version of Marie Antoinettes faux pas, the state failed to warn its Food Bank director that feeding 4,700 pounds of fish to the regions low-income people was not a very good idea. The problem? The fish came...

New on MidCurrent : How to Choose a Fly Line

You might have thought that choosing a fly line is about as simple as changing a light bulb -- you check the rating, look on the package, and screw it in. But imagine if light bulbs came in 2,000 different...

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