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Sadistic insanity on the Snake

Are the authors of H.R. 3144 too stupid or too evil to be in charge of managing an already teetering wild steelhead and salmon population?

by Josh Mills - Saturday, Sep 9th, 2017

Photo: Uncredited

I’m so pissed that I have to resort to cliché. And not that idiotic one, “that’s why they call it fishing and not catching,” intended to justify a fruitless day on the water. Hell, these days I’d kill for the chance to step into my homewater and futilely swing flies through a river full of wild steelhead. But unfortunately, that’s not a possibility because when it comes to steelhead management, we’ve gone insane.

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The new Titan is poised to save friendships, marriages and time

by Kris Millgate - Thursday, Sep 7th, 2017

Photo: Kris Millgate

This is going to save my marriage. That's my first thought as I stare at the truck dash glowing with the view of a boat ready for hitch. I just finished fishing for tarpon in Florida's Treasure Coast. Truth be told, I tanked. I couldn't help myself. I stopped stripping line to stare at tarpon, which look like dolphins compared to trout. They were on to me as soon as my fly stopped twitching. I didn't hook a single fish, but I looked at a lot of them.

Headwater

The Ozarks thrust up while creeks slowly carved hollows and ridges

by Johnny Carrol Sain - Wednesday, Sep 6th, 2017

Photo: Johnny Carrol Sain

The pool is barely wider than my 9-foot rod. Riffles are mere trickles. The creek disappears just beyond the next pool, filtering through porous karst into the soil and stone itself for several yards  and then back to the surface. You don't come here for a lot of smallmouths or for big smallmouths, which is probably why barely anyone comes here at all.

Review: Winston Nimbus fly rod

The new Nimbus offers bold new looks but classic Winston action

by Spencer Durrant - Tuesday, Sep 5th, 2017

Photo: Spencer Durrant

This year, Winston broke from tradition to introduce two completely new rod families—the Nimbus and the Kairos. The Nimbus doesn’t stray as far from Winston’s pedigree as the Kairos, though its “Big Sky Blue” color does stand out in amidst a sea of classic Winston green.

Fish speak up on climate change

Major transformations in Atlantic fisheries latest evidence of mounting implications of warming planet

by Ted Williams - Wednesday, Aug 30th, 2017

A leaping Atlantic Salmon on the Big East River in Newfoundland (photo: Atlantic Salmon Federation).

The Trump administration has forbidden federal employees to write or utter the words “climate change” and is deep-sixing federal research about how humans are increasing the planet’s average temperature. “The concept of global warming,” Mr. Trump has proclaimed, “was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”

Fish are defending the Chinese.

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