First Fishing Trip 11 May 2008
Neither Derek nor I have been fishing since we were around twelve(I've never caught a fish before) but we decided to take the kids today and we had a lot of fun. We caught a total of four fish- we put two back and brought two home for dinner. Some aspects of fishing were a little hard for me to watc...
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Tags: Food, family fun
Roaring Fork: State of the River meeting 10 May 2008
Roaring Fork: State of the River meeting
From The Aspen Times: "Colorado's state climatologist will be one of the featured speakers at an annual meeting next week that focuses on issues in the Roaring Fork River watershed. The State of the River meeting will be held Tuesday, May 13, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Eagle County Building in El...
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Roaring Fork: State of the River meeting 10 May 2008
Roaring Fork: State of the River meeting
From The Aspen Times: "Colorado's state climatologist will be one of the featured speakers at an annual meeting next week that focuses on issues in the Roaring Fork River watershed. The State of the River meeting will be held Tuesday, May 13, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Eagle County Building in El...
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Tags: Colorado Water
Friday was a hot windy struggle for most. 10 May 2008
Friday was a hot windy struggle for most.
We spent a long hot day on the water Friday. It did not help that the wind blew twice as hard as predicted, but outside of altering the game plan, that was nothing new. We had to leave a little early and the trout reportedly bit better in the evening, just as they had the day before. The...
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Stillborns: "The Saddest Story of All" 10 May 2008
Stillborns: "The Saddest Story of All"
"Mayfly nymphs live a life in the cold, rocky dungeon of the floor of a trout stream only to emerge for a few brief moments of glory before breaking down into their elemental parts. But the stillborns never make it......
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Tags: Fishing Flies
California Trout Honors Lois Wolk For Conservation Leadership 9 May 2008
California Trout Honors Lois Wolk For Conservation Leadership
Assemblywoman Lois Wolk (D-Davis) on May 6 received the annual "Golden Trout" award from California Trout for her leadership as the chairwoman of the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee. Representatives of fishing and conservation groups greatly appreciate Wolk's willingness to tackle tough...
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Open water perch season comes alive 9 May 2008
Open water perch season comes alive
When Lake Simcoe rids itself of what Old Man Winter left behind, it only means one thing to those who like to wet a line on the provinceâs sixth-largest inland lake â the start to some of the best yellow perch fishing this province has to offer.Itâs during this time of the year you stand the b...
Oliver's fishy poem 9 May 2008
The life cycle of the trout Hello I am an alevin. I only have a small fin. My Dad is bigger than me. I am smaller than a flea. Hello I am a little fry. I can hear a boy cry. Now a car whistles by. And I jump up for a fly. Hello I am a parr. Look at that man with the jar. Look at...
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Center Pin / Float Fishing :: RE: CenterPin Species 9 May 2008
Center Pin / Float Fishing :: RE: CenterPin Species
Author: Ironhead Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:12 am (GMT -5) Topic Replies: 13 Steelhead, Salmon (all 5 species), trout, Carp . Big Chinook to 50 pounds are very fun on the pin using a float and bait, really lets the clicker sing . _________________DEADLY JIGS AT www.bentrods.ca...
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Center Pin / Float Fishing :: RE: CenterPin Species 9 May 2008
Center Pin / Float Fishing :: RE: CenterPin Species
Author: DRIFTER_016 Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 10:50 pm (GMT -5) Topic Replies: 13 Whitefish, pike, inconnu, trout, salmon, char, grayling, walleye, goldeye, carp, mooneye, catfish, garpike, smallmouth, largemouth. I think that's all so far. _________________ www.arcticangler.ca...
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Water prettier... a little gull activity. 8 May 2008
Water prettier... a little gull activity.
Johnny and I worked a big group today and it looked better at the cleaning table than it really was. We flat out struggled much of the day with the wind and off-colored water on the south end of the lake. We were able to fish the east side of the jetties, but everything else was blown ou...
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Switzerland Bans Catch-And-Release 8 May 2008
Switzerland Bans Catch-And-Release
Love the gold, hate the trout From the Chattanoogan: Catch and Release fishing will be banned in Switzerland from next year, it was revealed this week. And anglers in the country will have to demonstrate their expertise by taking a course on humane methods of catching fish, under new legislation out...
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Tags: Office, switzerland, Fly fishing, trout, catch and release
Your Place to Buy and Sell All Things Handmade 8 May 2008
Your Place to Buy and Sell All Things Handmade
Etsy is an online marketplace and community that allows people to sell their artwork and other handmade items. A search for fly fishing turns up some nice work in a wide variety of mediums. Highlighted below is just a fraction of what is available and snippets from the sellers' item descriptions. So...
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Tags: Fly Fishing Art
Delaware Delicacies Smoke House - Hancock, NY 7 May 2008
Delaware Delicacies Smoke House - Hancock, NY
Way, way off the beaten path, a long, twisting ride off Highway 17 at the east branch of the Delaware River, you will find Ray Turnerâs smoke house. Here, deep in the woods he sells eels. They are trapped each autumn in a river weir that Ray spends most of the summer building. Once theyâre caugh...
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Big Mac: April Winner! 7 May 2008
Submitted by chum bum, Josh Graffam, this Mac has serious potential for the April prize. Caught by Tom Knight, guides for trout bum 2, out of Park City, UT. Tom caught this fish on the Flaming Gorge Reservoir on a 10 weight, using a sailfish fly in about 5 to 10 feet of water. It measured almo...
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Tags: Slab Of The Month