The Sierra Club has launched a web portal aligning themselves with traditional outdoorsmen, hunters and fishermen. The environmental lobby needs all the votes it can get - and so do we.

It’s the best advice I’ve seen to date and based on our track record would work swimmingly, the downside is you’d have to develop a taste for Zebra Mussel Meatloaf, or Quagga Milkshake.
“How to handle an invasive species? Eat it” - an article from the NY Times suggesting there’s something we can do about […]

Fisheries research suggest the older mature fish should be released and angling regulations changed to allow only young fish be taken. Maturity is necessary to fish populations - and youth is less so. Makes us old guys feel good, but college cheerleaders won’t change their preference anytime soon.

I figured carp and bass would still be plentiful and assumed I could move to Canada before they close the borders. 
We’ve known the Cockroach is a survivor, and now it’ll have company - as the CO2 enriched atmosphere is building a Poison Ivy superstrain.
New research shows the rash-inducing plant appears to be growing faster […]

Salmon farming in Chile is coming under increased scrutingy by everyone. Antibiotic use to combat a salmon virus, overcrowding, and pen byproducts like salmon feces, are beginning to affect local fish.

I always thought there were only two kinds of fish, those worth throwing flies at  - and bait. “Bait” is a slim category as us hardened Californians pride ourselves on being culinary “shock troops” - we gleefully ingest gastronomic foibles, delicacies, and taboo, which doesn’t leave much in the way of undesirable chow.
I’ve tried […]

I go to the doctor with assorted ailments and he prescribes I eat a carp a day and call him in the morning?
It’s a familiar theme that we touched on before - but as more evidence appears in the press, we might want to cut the big drug companies out of the mix - […]

I’d just finished another hallway conversation wherein I defended myself, the rest of you louts, and our beloved pastime. I was fumbling for the file to notch my “gunbutt” with another eco-radical kill, when I was brought up short…
It was innocent piece, really - but it cited a statistic that fascinated me:
Each year, more […]

It sure looks like migratory fish are the new growth industry for the legal profession, another lawsuit filed here in California seeks the elimination of two aging dams on the Yuba River.
The Daguerre Point (1906) and Englebright (1941) dams just upstream of Marysville, they no longer produce power, water, or serve as a flood barrier […]

Think again.
This isn’t one of those silly hijackers requiring you to dance around with a bottle of 409 hoping the neighbors don’t notice, this sure ain’t something you can point a finger at and bemoan it’s presence - no, this is something much better, with big sharp teeth that abducts terriers and small children.
“Frankenfish”, aka, […]