Nothing like clever lawyers and a wealthy client to add convoluted logic to an untenable position.
The large farm interests in southern California lost the last round of law suits and were forced to make do with less - less water pumped south to irrigate desert, and less to make the lush lawns of Los [...]

I can’t imagine any two words with worse repercussions, but “unprecedented collapse” would have to rank right up there. Statistics on the 2007 winter Chinook estimates this year’s run has dwindled to only 90,000 fish.
These are the fish returning to California and Oregon waterways, likely to curtail fishing in more ways than just slim [...]

Nothing like a rainy weekend to catch up on all those tasks held in abeyance. The lack of fish available since the creek was blown out in early January, reminded me of my need to learn more of the lifecycle of the common carp.
It’s a big mystery, one day the creek has them available, [...]

We keep hearing how the most dangerous occupation is Alaskan crab fisherman, I browse a lot of fishing news  and I’m starting to wonder about that statistic.
English trawlers have pulled in two WWII torpedoes recently, a third recovered in Australia, and yesterday the fourth was trawled up off of the Spanish coast. The “pucker [...]

New information released today suggest efforts to revive the delta fisheries have largely failed. The Sacramento Bee reports that this years trawl by the Department of Fish and Game, shows record low numbers of smelt, American Shad, and Sacramento Splittail, with two others, delta smelt and striped bass at near record lows.

The article suggests that [...]

The “Little Stinking” in it’s August benevolence, quiet, peaceful, scenic, and odiferous.

The “Big Muddy” from the same vantage point, 6″ of rain later. The color is damn near the same, so I’ll be fishing it by lunch today - via jetboat..
As both photos were taken from the same spot, it looks like [...]

I’m still surveying the landscape changes from yesterday’s storm. I had the day off and a ringside seat to the festivities. I’m minus two fences, lost power for 14 hours, and received 3 new garbage cans from the Wind God, so I may have broken even.
Most of yesterday we received about 0.25 to 0.3 [...]

Just a gentle reminder to review your angling regulations, as assumption can get you sidewise with the authorities. It’s customary for January 1st to be the introduction of new angling regulations, and many states have made changes that are small, but noteworthy.
In California, new “punchcard” rules are in affect that require anglers to report [...]

We’ve come full circle now, and anglers around Melbourne are incensed that trout are about to be purged from Australian waters.
The popular game fish has been declared an alien species and put on a hit-list for eradication in a move that has outraged anglers.
Trout would be culled from major Victorian rivers such as [...]

The grocery clerk was ill prepared for Singlebarbed repartee, he’d asked whether I wanted “paper or plastic,” and I’d responded, “ choose between a Pterodactyl or a pine tree? You pick, let the guilt be on your conscience.. ”
From now on I’ll be much gentler, he still percolates his coffee, mine has the bark on..
I’ll decimate Pine trees until [...]