The Milltown Dam breaching was followed live on the Internet via a Web cam.

Here’s a prank you’ll want to try on your best fishing buddy, only don’t expect him to still be your buddy when it’s over.
This poor bastard took a vacation, and while he was gone, someone posted a pair of Craigslist ads inviting the public to come and take what they wanted from his house.
Naturally, they [...]

From New West:

Oregon wildlife officials are asking zoos, aquariums and theme parks across the country to take in sea lions that will be captured in the Columbia River early next month.
Federal authorities gave Oregon approval this week to remove sea lions that gather at Bonneville Dam’s fish ladder to feed on salmon, the Oregonian [...]

With partial closure of the West Coast’s commercial and sport chinook salmon seasons already a fact and a full closure of the season not far behind, the media are sitting up and taking notice.
The economic impacts will surely be huge — big enough to garner attention from around the globe. I thought a quick roundup [...]

Commercial and sport fishing seasons for salmon on the West Coast are being closed completely due to the dismal Sacramento chinook runs experienced during the fall of 2007.

Via the astute Aquafornia blog, we learn there may be some hope in the battle against Zebra/Quagga mussels (recently found in Western and California lakes):
In 2007, MOI was selected by the New York State Museum (NYSM) as the commercial partner for a microbial biopesticide that combats the invasive creatures [ed: Zebra and Quagga mussels].
The technology [...]

Underground Network Writer Singlebarbed snuck up to a nearby lake for some winter-based cabin fever therapy, but ended up hugging the ground while bullets whizzed by overhead.

Probably not the kind of prone relaxation he had in mind, and it’s the kind of thing that happened to me a couple times while fishing the California [...]

From the Bangor Daily News:
A roughly 4-mile stretch of the Penobscot near Bangor will be open to catch-and-release Atlantic salmon fishing annually from May 1 to May 31 under new rules approved Thursday. This spring’s opening day will mark the first time springtime fishing for sea-run salmon has been allowed on any Maine rivers since [...]

The news for the Sacramento River Chinook salmon fishery is grim. “How grim?” you ask?
This grim:
The grim reality of a collapsing salmon fishery will hit home over the next week as fishing interests, tribal representatives and conservation groups from three Western states hash out plans to protect the fish and, if possible, save their livelihoods.
“Could [...]

The ongoing furball in Redding about the Cypress Avenue Bridge repair project — which wasn’t designed with boat passage in mind and threatened to close the Lower Sacramento River to boat traffic — has taken on a new dimension as a city-council appointed panel has recommended partial closure of the river at higher flows:
Redding would [...]

The closing of another fly shop isn’t exactly news these days, and yet because I’ve been to this particular fly shop a few times, you might say I noticed.
The Knoxville-based The Creel fly shop was a friendly little place, and what’s more, it served as a hub for a lot of the fly fishing [...]

We’ve heading into the deeper reaches of winter when life can start to feel a little like an Ingmar Bergman movie, and it doesn’t help when the phone rings and you find out friend and bamboo rod builder George Maurer just passed away due to a heart attack.
George was a top rod builder, and [...]