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Hope for Idaho’s Salmon
“I have concluded that I am going to stay alive long enough to see salmon return to healthy populations in Idaho.” Those words by U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) at a conference at the Andrus Center last week may do more to project the recovery of the imperiled Snake River salmon and steelhead than multiple…
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Pebble is trying to buy its friends
An early-morning scroll through my twitter feed woke me up much faster than the first couple sips I’d had of my coffee. “Pebble project hires the man Politico calls, ‘the most powerful lobbyist in Trump’s Washington.’” (from @DylanBrown26, an industry reporter for Energy and Environment news). Sure enough, within hours, the E&E story broke after…
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Wrapping soft hackle
Soft-hackle patterns have earned a spot in my fly box. Over the last half-decade or so, they have gone from seldom-use curiosities from some hidden corner of a rarely opened fly box to my first choice on many waters here in the West. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsP43A2fr84 The sparser the better when it comes to soft hackles. Why?…
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Four-quarter fly fishing
For years and years, fly fishing for trout, for me, was a three-period game, not a four-quarter contest. It was hockey, not football (even though I’m not much of a hockey guy). Depending on the season, the time of day or the weather, I’d go to my fly boxes and choose a fly from one…
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Panfish … for the pan
Across the country, the panfish bite is on. Or it's about to be on, depending on where you live. And don't be shy. Take your limit. Especially of the small ones. Panfish, like bluegill, bream, pumpkinseed and almost all varieties of sunfish are prone to overpopulating and stunting in a lot of lakes and ponds.…
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Hank Patterson’s List of Shots
Ah, Hank Patterson. The guy who says what the rest of us are thinking. Not to belittle the fly-fishing film world—I just went to this year's version of the Fly Fishing Film Tour and enjoyed every minute of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2Pr6z_c-OQ The all important list of shots But, as Hank has adeptly noted in the trailer…
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Why is your lateral line different than mine?
Most of us working on behalf of wild steelhead love our jobs. Still, after a long week we are ready to hit the water — and share some more steelhead knowledge. This week we touch on a study conducted by Andrew Brown at the University of Washington, along with several co-authors. The paper can be…
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