This trick comes in from our friends at Big R Fly Shop in Great Falls, Montana, from Sam Wike specifically. I know the pain he’s dealt with while tying with dubbing, but I never put my mind to it like he did to find a solution. If I find some free time this Christmas season (or maybe on Thanksgiving Day since my girls will be away and my family is all in Seattle) I may secure one of these boxes and make the fix. Or maybe I’ll just watch football and drink beer, catch the Redskins smoking the Cowboys, the Jets upsetting the Pats, and Detroit pounding Continue reading
Beaver Time
This is a classic shot, classic, from the boys at Buster Wants to Fish. Get on over there and check out more—you’ll laugh for sure if you have any sense of humor and take life in stride. Apparently, this trophy Beav was taken somewhere in southwest Montana. SEE MORE
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Nowhere for Shale Oil To Go
At this point British Columbia doesn’t want it and Quebec doesn’t want it either, which shows that a few people in the world still have some sense and that the short term economic benefits that come with dirty oil can’t make up for the lasting environmental impact. If you are not up to speed on the potential impacts to our fisheries that shale oil offers, start with this piece and move on to the British Columbia debacle. This is pure disaster waiting to happen.
CALGARY — Premier Alison Redford said Thursday she’s hoping for an open conversation with Quebec after that province’s environment minister threatened roadblocks to Alberta oil.
Daniel Breton said this week there are environmental risks to projects proposed around Continue reading
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Topher Brown Collects More Awards for Atlantic Salmon Magic
Ok, so not everyone can own a book that comes with a price tag of a hundred bucks, but anyone who holds a fascination for Atlantic salmon ought to cough up the money for this one, if you haven’t already.
This is the book on Atlantic salmon and you can’t turn through the pages without saying, “I’ve got to do that at least once in my life.” That’s why this book is now the recipient of four big book awards for author and salmon enthusiast Topher Brown.
This also is the book that made me set sights on Continue reading
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Tagged Atlantic salmon, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec
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Bangor Publisher Gets Lee Wulff Award
St. Andrews… The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) has selected Richard (Rick) J. Warren of Bangor ME as the 2012 recipient of the Lee Wulff Atlantic Salmon Conservation Award. Senator Michael Meighen, Chairman of ASF (Canada), presented the award on November 13 at a dinner, held in conjunction with meetings of the Board of Directors in New York City.
“Rick is ASF’s first U.S. Chairman from Maine, which is READ MORE
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Chris Santella’s Permit Quest
Ran across this story by friend and superstar writer Chris Santella, who also writes for Fly Rod & Reel, his most recent piece being on a trip to Cuba that appeared in FRR’s Fall issue. If you missed that article check it out—it’s an honest appraisal of Cuba right now and the fishing possibilities it provides. This piece is Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Santella, New York Times, permit, Turneffe Flats Lodge
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Leaf Hell, Missoula, Montana-Style
I take a lot of grief from my friends, usually payback for something I’ve said to them.Some complain about my yard-care practices, which is pretty much to leave my house in Ennis to nature, and to procrastinate when it comes to my yard in Missoula.
Picking up and getting rid of fall leaves in Missoula is a task taken on by the masses. This is Tree City, afterall, and my yard does not escape the wrath, with two giant maples resting overhead. But this year I got me … game together and had most of the leaves out to the street—a five or six-hour task—on November 5. I thought that the leaf cleanup crew was coming by our street on the 7th, but they arrived on the 6th and I still had a mass of leaves in the yard.
They were scattered about, some here, some there. Until a storm blew in two nights ago. We had wind gusts in the 55 mile an hour range with blowing snow. And guess what happened? That storm arranged those delinquent leaves into nice little attentive piles. Now all I have to do is get out there and bag them before the next big wind arrives. Missoula life.
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Bad Deal: Senior Level Fisheries Job Points Toward Enbridge’s Northern Gateway’s Assured Future
If the Northern Gateway pipeline goes through, it could cause major damage to some of Alberta’s and British Columbia’s greatest trout, steelhead and salmon waters, and this new finding, leaked to the Vancouver Sun, suggests backdoor dealings make the pipeline pretty much a sure bet. Read and believe.
OTTAWA — Enbridge Inc.’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project is getting special attention from the federal Fisheries department, according to an internal email obtained by The Vancouver Sun.
In what critics call an unprecedented step, the department has Continue reading
Oregon Votes Down Gill-Net Ban
Oregon voters shot down a ban that would have eliminated non-tribal gill-nets on the lower Columbia River and likely increased fish passage to all the alluring Columbia tributaries, including the Deschutes, Klickitat, Methow, Okanogan, Grand Ronde, Clearwater and Salmon rivers, among others. Give this a read. You’ll need to come to your own conclusions.
One effort to end commercial gill-net fishing on the lower Columbia River came to an end during Tuesday’s general election with two-thirds of Oregon’s voters saying no on Ballot Initiative 81.
“Unofficial election results” displayed Wednesday on the Oregon Secretary of State’s Election’s Division web site show that more than 66 percent voted against a measure that would have made it illegal under state law for non-tribal commercial fishers to used gill-nets in Oregon “inland waters,” which would include portions of the Read More