The current issue (Number 4) of Pool 32 has just rolled off the cyber press and there’s a thought provoking piece written by Bob Margulis, one of the trustees of the Wild Steelhead Coalition; the article is entitled Yes We Can – What You Can Do to Save Wild Steelhead.
Margulis reviews some of the damned sobering news about dwindling steelhead stocks around the world and offers a few more encouraging insights from steelhead giants, like this one from Harry Lemire…
He got the idea from reading about Harry Lemire, one of the only two people in the world who has mastered the art of tying a full dressed Atlantic Salmon fly in his hand, who started cutting the points off his hooks in about 1975 whenever he would get into a bunch of fish and didn’t want to waste time playing them.
“Everybody thought I was crazy,” Lemire said. “To me the whole peak of everything is the strike or the boil. Everything after that is downhill. Especially if you have to wait a long time to land the fish. When you get a fish on, you get a run and a jump and at the jump it will throw the hook. That was satisfying enough for me.”
So here’s my formula for becoming a steelhead god…
We like people (and organizations) who pitch real-world, get-off-your-ass-and-do-something ideas out there instead of (maybe that should be along with…) pleading with you to lobby your local/regional/national politicians who very likely don’t give a damn about what you say anyway.
Some powerful images from Jeff Bright add impact. Well worth your time. (And for the typology freaks out there, yep, we agree the font choice was a poor one and the article needed tighter editing. Get over it.)
