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New rules unveiled for Endangered Species
Opportunity for improvement lost; higher risk of extinction gained. On August 12, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) -referred to here as “the Agencies” - jointly announced three final rules which modify regulations that implement portions of the Endangered Species Act…
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TU partner boosts flow for Russian River coho and steelhead
For the fourth time in the past five years, the Camp Meeker Recreation and Park District has dedicated water to streamflow for coho and steelhead in a key Russian River tributary. Fish need water. And in many smaller streams along the California coast, they don’t get much of it during the dry season. This time…
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Natural dubbing materials
Fly tying is so sophisticated these days, that sometimes it pays to take a step back and really examine the materials we use as we conjure up the next great pattern at the vise. Take dubbing, for instance. This is the material used in both dry flies and nymphs, generally to craft fly bodies for…
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Topwater Atlantic salmon fishing
Atlantic salmon—at least those that swim wild in the ocean and migrate into the rivers and streams of Newfoundland and Labrador—are a bucket-list fish for a lot of fly fishers. And they should be. They rival any other salmon species when it comes to taking flies and, of course, when it comes to the fight…
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Dry fly floatation
It's dry-fly season. Well, it's what I like to call "hopper season," especially here in the West, where big trout will look up for terrestrial bugs that will occasionally end up in the water, thanks to a timely wind gust or just dumb luck. But fishing hoppers and other terrestrial flies isn't about dumb luck.…
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Sage Trout LL fly rod
When you find a fly rod that's essentially made for the kind of fly fishing you like to do—and makes that fishing markedly better—you hang onto it. That's why I'll likely never part with the new Sage Trout LL rod. I'm a walk-and-wade stream-fishing junkie. I like the intimate feel of water running around my…
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The Mickey Finn
With fall coming on and a few high-country leaves starting to turn here in the Rockies, some anglers are jumping ahead to "streamer season." I'm not ready to make the leap just yet, but I do generally have a few flies in my box that work well during the shoulder season that is late summer…