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Voices from the River: The plastic hatch
By Mark Taylor Trout anglers love a good hatch, when popping bugs create a feeding frenzy. I was on Virginia’s J ackson River recently when a different kind of hatch came off with a fury. I heard it before I saw it: Happy shouts and the echoing booms of plastic kayaks hitting river rocks. Soon,…
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Voices from the River: This one’s for Sam
By Eric Booten Excuse the grip and grin, but this fish and smile come with a story. I enjoyed talking fish with Sam, my fishing buddy and coworker. Several hours of the work week were routinely lost to these discussions, but when you work to protect fish and their habitat, sometimes you just take some…
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Fly of the week: Bird’s Nest Sulphur Emerger
Sulphurs. Lots and lots of sulphurs. A lot of people tend focus on the insanity of the evening’s spinner fall without thinking about the just as productive — if a bit more unpredictable hatch. With the millions of nymphs necessary to create that epic spinner fall, just think about how many bugs trout manage to…
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Red light — Green light
By Chris Wood The other morning, my friend, Brent Fewell, an attorney who worked at the EPA under President George W. Bush, wrote: “Had dinner and a very encouraging conversation last evening with seven prominent GOP Senators who want to make the environment and conservation a greater priority for the GOP, a return to Teddy…
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Voices from the river: Being relevant
Some of the "new generation of conservationists," Bay Area Youth Fly Fishing event, May 19, 2018. By Sam Davidson I recently spent a day fishing for trout—a rewarding mix of small wild fish and 10- to 12-inch stockers—on an obscure tributary to the upper Salinas River that flows out of the Santa Lucia range on…
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Parkside Elementary, TU team up to protect Rum Creek in Mich.
By Jamie Vaughan Rockford – Parkside Elementary students are changing the way their school is impacting their neighboring trout stream. The past two years, Parkside fifth graders have been analyzing the health of Rum Creek, an important coldwater tributary to the Rogue River, and decided they wanted to improve the footprint of the school on…
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Voices from the River: Rain, cold … and the clicker
By Chris Hunt You can only be expected to handle this for so long. Four straight days of slate-gray skies and icy rain (and even the occasional snow squall) will wear on the tattered soul of anybody who’s ventured north to chase big pike in a remote Manitoba lake. Sure, you expect a day or…