It was only a matter of time, the Sacramento Bee reports that a nuisance bloom of Didymo has been identified in a 10 mile stretch of the Bear River, outside of Grass Valley, California. But scientists know very little about the algae, and they’ve grown alarmed by a mysterious change in its behavior in recent [...]

The War against Invasives takes a bloody turn this week compliments of weapons that assist the socially responsible angler maintain his squeaky clean. The Solar-Powered Toothbrush is a multi-purpose tool allowing the ecologically concious angler to eradicate germs and plaque-causing microbes in his mouth, then aggressively scrub his wading gear and boots of all threats to the watershed. The Soladey-J3X has a [...]

In our Bold New World department comes a Salmon angler’s dream, an Atlantic salmon that eats year round, reproduces like a New Zealand Mud Snail and grows twice as fast as real salmon. The only problem is the damn thing has to be taught how to swim. You grab a gene from a Pacific Salmon, [...]

The Gudebrod thread company appears to be another casualty of recent economic upheaval, with banks unwilling to lend and small businesses caught without capital. Gudebrod has been synonymous with silk and rod winding threads for decades, yet has been forced to lay off its entire workforce. W.E. “Nat” LeGrande Jr., company president, said he is [...]

… and while the tabloids make great fun over the adventure, the biologists grind their teeth in frustration. How to get the invasive message across to a public that flushes pet alligators down the toilet, tosses piranha into the Old Swimming Hole once they outgrow the Goldfish budget, or toss that Boa Constrictor into the [...]

Another in a long list of reports on Delta water use, the state’s best and brightest suggest that 75% of the rain and snowmelt of the Sacramento and San Joaquin watersheds must flow through the Delta and into San Francisco Bay to maintain ecological equilibrium. True to form the report was met with great skepticism [...]

Matching the Hatch, trout fishing, fly tying, caddis, fly fishing humor, exploitation of fish hooked on forbidden chemicals, featuring caddis, trout, fly tying, fishing gadgets, and really stupid yet creative flies provided by a tyer long past his prime.

Lands and sticks to any surface, carries seven times its weight and releases on command? Teensy little nano-soldiers that deploy needles to adhere – and they’re going to waste them on insurgents and forest fires? It’s my goddamn tax dollars at work, so how much to add a barb? I always knew dry fly fishermen [...]

The recently leaked footage of the next generation of Predator Drones has the fishing world in an uproar. Gone are the propeller driven noisy mosquitoes of yesteryear, in their place comes the sneaky-quiet atmosphere fish … the Rainbird Trout… … meanwhile the Defense Department is a mass of denials, claiming the video of the device [...]

Below is a longstanding mystery unique to the American River. The more you fish the more you collect, and while it’s not a known invasive, its a clear demonstration of what you’re carrying to the next watershed. The only insect hatching this morning was a #20 mayfly, considerable numbers and small enough to inhale. I’ve [...]