It’s only a three minute trailer from Felt Soul Media, but it nicely sums up the looming battle over the huge Bristol Bay salmon fisheries — what could become one of the pivotal environmental battles of our times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH_TzBju8rU

Felt Soul produced last year’s “Running Down the Man” video, which made obsession seem somehow reasonable. Will we […]

Maybe it’s the drought, but we think the Fly Fishing In Yellowstone blog has gone over the edge. Witness this picture posted on his site:

We don’t have much to say, though we would like to point out he goes on to make sport of the Trout Underground:
.. The fly was initially developed by a famous […]

It’s hard getting traction for salmon recovery; they’re slimy fish after all — not baby harp seals. Still, we may have stumbled on the secret: Hip Hop Salmon.
Once we’ve Disneyfied Salmon, recovery is assured.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJEacTZmd7I

(via Blogfish)
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I’ll skip the whining about work trapping me in the office and get right to the good stuff: I got the hell out of dodge and went fly fishing.
Of course, you never know what’s waiting for you on the river, though the more open you are to the things you see every day — but […]

Fly fishing in Maine is pretty damned different from fly fishing here in the mountains of Northern California, but a “Top 5 Flies for Fall” article from Maine fascinates me anyway.
Sure, in this list from the Kennebec Journal, two of the top five flies are streamers (not very common out here, but maybe they should […]

Could the slaw dog become fly fishing’s perfect shore lunch? Eating while fly fishing is a pretty low-key affair, but until you’ve experienced a guide’s shore lunch, you don’t know what you’re missing…

In this open letter to British Columbia’s leading politicos, a long, long list of biologists and other fisheries professionals confirm what most already seem to know — that sea lice from commercial fish farms threaten wild salmon runs: 
We, the undersigned, are convinced by the published scientific evidence that the debate is over; sea lice breeding on farmed salmon […]

I knew it wasn’t going to relaxing or easy, but cramming the Fly Fishing Retailer Show into my life has done some seriously unpretty things to my schedule.
I’ve got loads of reporting yet to do from the show, including a piece about the industry as a whole.
Plus, I spent most of yesterday running […]

Fly fishing the Upper Sacramento River in Fall means two things: October Caddis and unpredictable weather. Here are some strategies and tips for success.

 From Denis Peirce of The Union:
The most reliable count for salmon in our valley rivers is the fish ladder at Red Bluff. During the irrigation season the gates of the Red Bluff Diversion dam are lowered to divert water into farm irrigation system. In most years, this lasts from May 15 to Sept. 15.
This […]

Only a fool believes everything he reads on the Internet (by the way, I’m 6′2″ and handsome), but if you buy into even a little of it, you’d think a lot of online-savvy fly fishers stopped reading fly fishing magazines years ago.
I want to know if it’s true. So I spent hours (a lie) creating […]

 From New West comes this unhappy (though hardly shocking) news:
Oregon fishery officials have decided to close fishing for fall chinook salmon on the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam through at least the end of the year. The reason for the shutdown is that the run of upriver chinook is about 40 percent below preseason predictions, […]