Posted in fish on Apr 25th, 2013
From the Los Angels Times Gone from California’s San Joaquin River for 60 years, spawning spring-run Chinook salmon have been spotted near Friant Dam this spring. The L.A. Times called the appearance of the salmon, “a small victory in a tortuous effort: to revive one of California’s most abused rivers by restoring a portion of [...]
Posted in environment, fish, restoration on Apr 23rd, 2013
The Seattle Times reported that a federal judge has ordered culvert repairs to ensure tribes have fish to catch, as guaranteed by their treaty rights. The ruling could have broader impact on other types of development. A long-awaited tribal fishing-rights decision by a federal judge means the state must immediately accelerate more than $1 billion [...]
Posted in fish on Mar 5th, 2013
Kirk Deeter posted recently on Field and Stream’s Fly Talk about angler Lilla Rowcliffe’s uncanny ability to match a fly hatch. An “intrepid” angler, the 87-year-old traveled the world to chase fish with flies, including taimen (http://troutheadwaters.com/clubecoblu/?s=taimen) in Mongolia, mahseer in India, and Atlantic salmon throughout Europe. But perhaps the best fly hatch match story [...]
Posted in fish on Feb 5th, 2013
A new research study featured in the latest issue of the American Fisheries Society’s Fisheries Magazine explores how a warming climate is affecting trout streams throughout the Rocky Mountains, and urges quick action if native trout populations are to persist in diminishing cold-water habitats. One important point of the article is that even with better [...]
Posted in environment, fish, freshwater, policy, pollution, rivers, water on Nov 14th, 2012
From the Huffington Post In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson called the Potomac River, polluted with sewage and riddled with algae blooms, a “national disgrace.” Forty years ago this year, the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA) was signed into law, and resulted in expansive, real improvements in the health of the Potomac River. The CWA [...]
Posted in fish on Aug 15th, 2012
A recent story in the L.A. Time chronicles the return of wild steelhead to tributaries of the Elwha River in Washington after removal of the 108-foot high Elwha dam. When checking on tagged wild fish they had planted a few months earlier, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Lower Elwha Klallam [...]
Posted in fish on Jul 10th, 2012
The Global Flyfisher’s Martin Joergensen writes: 1) Prefer single hooks and one hook only. Trebles are potential trouble if you ask me. Multiple hooks shouldn’t be used. 2) Fish barbless if you’re fishing catch and release (C&R). Pinch the barb on barbed hooks. Barbless hooks hook well and holds fine, but unhooks indefinitely much easier. 3) [...]
This series follows University of Montana graduate student Dan Bailey as he travels the wilds of Mongolia to survey and tag Taimen, the world’s largest trout. From the team’s remote field camp, Dan is posting to the Club EcoBlu blog as he assists with the Taimen Conservation Project . Taimen are highly endangered, have been known [...]
Posted in fish on Jan 30th, 2012
Restoring endangered steelhead trout to the Southern California rivers and streams where they once swam in abundance will cost as much as $2.1 billion over the next 100 years, according to a new federal report. The 600-page Southern California Steelhead Recovery Plan, recently released by the National Marine Fisheries, warns that along with a financial [...]
Posted in fish on Dec 5th, 2011
A recent article in the newspaper the Missoulian (MT) reported that an annual stream survey of native bull trout in the Swan River drainage reveals a continued decline in reproduction, while the number of spawning trout in the North Fork Flathead Basin also fell below average. Biologists believe the likely culprits are two introduced species. Tristan [...]
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