I ate everything I ever kept in saltwater, even when I found out that Rainbow Perch was most plentiful around the sewage outlets in San Francisco Bay. They were plentiful and I was determined to exploit them, never thinking about the estrogen and grey water, and had I known it wouldn’t have mattered – Big [...]

The true game-fish, of which the trout and salmon are frequently the types, inhabit the fairest regions of nature’s beautiful domain. They drink only from the purest fountains, and subsist upon the choicest food their pellucid streams supply … [It] is self-evident that no fish which inhabit foul or sluggish waters can be ‘game-fish’.’ It [...]

The myth has it patrolled ruthlessly by a grizzled fellow in overalls whose well oiled Blunderbuss is flanked by aimlessly scratching hounds – who are wary of his large plug of chaw – which is spat indiscriminately at dogs, feet, and anything else that ain’t nailed down. Last week while surveying the fishless Little Stinking, Travelwriter let [...]

Just finished a deep scan of the 293 page California Draft Recovery Plan for Chinook salmon and Central Valley steelhead (9MB’s PDF), and I’ll admit to being a bit disappointed. Not so much the scope and cost as their reliance on dam modifications for the existing pristine – versus recovery of any ancestral haunts. The Central Valley [...]

It could be a California angling phenomenon, but I see more guys wearing pink than girls. … and while fly line color continues to be debated with great ferocity in the forums, the  SIMM’s G3 Guide vest in rust orange debuted with hardly a murmur… Now that embedded jungle cock and spray of gaily colored feathers [...]

You’ve tied your own flies, you make your own leaders and wrapped your own fly rod, and with each minor triumph the crescendo of endorphins ebbs to leave you feeling hollow and incomplete … It’s primeval biology that’s your nemesis, the inner Hunter-Gatherer is limited to stalking asparagus, armed with a coupon, and under the [...]

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Michigan is all over the news of late, largely because of the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear their case against Asian carp, Illinois and the Port of Chicago. Denied a second time yesterday (without explanation) the Court has one last hearing of the “Chicago Diversion” case in April – which many will say is too [...]

You can’t fault them as it’s worked well for the environmentally conscious types. Stop the creek with a well placed cork, extinct everything but ATV hellions and gravity donations from the housing dispossessed – and when no one’s looking – slap up new signs to keep out the dog walkers and environmentalists. Are they worried [...]

Eight or nine states, Congress, and now two governments are pissed off over our handling of the Asian carp explosion. Nine containers of frozen Asian carp threaten to undermine Israel’s domestic carp industry, and idle dockside while the two governments wrestle over tariffs. The dispute centers on a 120 percent import duty imposed by Israel [...]