The just published Flathead Valley TU newsletter (Winter 2015) has an update on efforts to restore bull trout in the Flathead system. The news, specifically the declining bull trout redd counts released by MFWP (Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks) recently, ain’t the best, but the battle is far, far from over. For fishers interested in […]
Native Fish
Yellowstone National Park’s ‘Trout Talk’ roadshow is in Jackson tonight. In a display of ironic media inaccuracy, the local paper has apparently today reported the wrong place for the meeting – it’s at the Wort Hotel, in the Jackson Room, at 6:30 MDT. (While reader Rick K emailed a note in this morning and painted […]
From Yellowstone’s news feed yesterday – Yellowstone is known as a prime destination for anglers. However, protecting and preserving the park’s world class trout fisheries is an ever increasing challenge. Park staff members will travel to nearby communities in the coming weeks to talk with anglers about the ongoing efforts to restore native fish species, […]
Up Close and Personal with Wild Rainbow Trout in the Smoky Mountains from Ian Rutter on Vimeo. Nifty edit from Ian Rutter.
A few weeks ago Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks released a draft EA for their proposal to restore Arctic grayling into several Southwestern Montana waters, including several tribs of the Madison, Wise River, Trail Creek, Twin Lakes and Van Houten Lake. The primal beauty and elegance of Arctic grayling aside, the plan to complete the […]
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein If you’re a reader of many fly fishing blogs or visit many fly fishing forums these days no doubt you’ve heard the call to chime in on ODFW’s Coastal Management Plan. Digging into this one a bit further we […]
Moldy ran a post yesterday pulling information from this post (Osprey Steelhead News’ Don’t Let Hatchery Advocates Hijack WDFS’s Gene Bank Process), suggesting in part that CCA was behind a movement to derail plans to discontinue hatchery releases and designate the Wind, East Fork Lewis, Green and North Fork Toutle Rivers as wild steelhead gene […]
Saturday the Missoulian highlighted the ongoing (and in fact escalating) discussions about management of non-native lake trout in Quartz and Logging Lakes in GNP, failing to provide even a tiny glimpse of the history of what is in reality a very complex regional issue. The National Park Service has posted proposals for comment here on […]
From the Native Fish Society today – a reminder that this is the final day for commentary on a couple of key West Coast issues. Salmon: Keep Nickel Mining Out of Hunter Creek and Pistol River Headwaters Steelhead: Eliminate Hatchery Plantings on the EF Lewis, NF Toutle and Wind Rivers Click the links to transport […]
Roughly a month ago I posted a short comment about friends in the Greater Yellowstone neighborhood being vexed by what many have come to see as an overreach by Yellowstone’s Native Fish Management Plan. For (fly) fishers, the wild vs. native fish discussion may well be our Schrodinger’s Cat paradox equivalent, though we’ve been continually […]
[This is the final installment of a nice piece that Quinn fired over a few weeks ago as we started rounding up thoughts on the Wild vs. Native fish debate; read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. – Mark] My first memorable experience catching pelletheads came when I was a struggling nymph fisherman on […]
Big Trout, Little Stream from Dry Fly Media on Vimeo. A little home cooking video from Jake shot back in June. From Jake’s Vimeo posting – An afternoon of fishing at a lake in the Gallatin Mountains this past June gave us an opportunity to watch some very large cutthroat trout moving up a small […]
The good folks at the Native Fish Society are throwing a little shindig in a couple of weeks in Portland to raise general operating funds and have some fun with their supporters. There’s a pretty damned impressive live auction (list of goods here) and large silent and super-silent auctions as well; the eats and drinks […]
I started my formal writing career with conservation pieces for fly fishing magazines, and somehow now that I’m in a newspaper job I keep coming back to the same thing. Forget the town meetings… I want to cover fisheries. Luckily I’ve landed myself in a prime spot for it. I had the chance several days […]
From the Seattle Times Saturday before last comes this readable review of recent efforts to preserve and rebuild the Snake River Sockeye – The Extraordinary Effort to Save Sockeye Salmon penned by Lynda V. Mapes. REDFISH LAKE CREEK, Idaho — A vermilion slash in clear, cold water, the Snake River sockeye in this mountain stream […]
