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Pebble advisors must know the answer is still no
Alaska Program director, Nelli Williams, holds a microphone for a crowd of Pebble Mine opponents saying, "Wrong Mine, Wrong Place!" at a Monday rally in Anchorage. Photo by Brandon Hill From an op-ed published in the Alaska Dispatch News. Amid another EPA comment period regarding protections for Bristol Bay, Alaska from Pebble Mine (click here…
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Fly tying: Tying in a deer- or elk-hair wing
Tying deer- and elk-hair wings to my flies might be the weakest skill I have at the vise. I'm not a master tier, but I know my way around the fly shop when it comes to materials, hooks, threads, and the like. But this one skill has eluded me. Thankfully, Tim Flagler is out there…
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Video spotlight: Extreme fishing with Dad
Technology in fishing has grown by leaps and bounds over the last half-century or so. Anglers now can take to the water in bass boats equipped with mapping-grade sonar fish finders, trolling motors and gear that, to our grandfathers, would be likely be described as "newfangled." Even fly fishing has changed drastically—we now use graphite…
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Fly tying: Perdigon-style Zebra Midge
The first time I ever used a Zebra Midge, I was bundled up in Neoprene waders and walking my float tube down the S-curves of Idaho's Silver Creek. Full disclosure: I'm not an enthusiastic nympher, and floating a sunken midge nymph under an indicator is probably my least-favorite brand of fly angling. But when I…
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New gear: The Ripplebox
A pair of fly fishing entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom are hoping to modernize the average fly box by making inserting and removing flies easier and cleaner, giving anglers more time with flies in the water. The new Ripplebox is brilliantly simple in its design, and, from what I can tell, a significant improvment over…
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Short casts: Atlantic salmon escape in Puget Sound; pinks in Ireland, brewers join clean water fight
Photo Seattle Times Anglers and commercial salmon fishers off the coast of Washington and Vancouver have known for years that the occasional escapee Altantic salmon from off-shore aquaculture nets is swimming wild in Pacific waters. Atlantic salmon have turned up in nets, and juvenile Atlantic salmon were reported off of Vancouver Island as early as…
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Video spotlight: Patagonia’s first TV ad
Outdoor manufacturer and retailer Patagonia took a bold step recently and produced the company's first-ever TV ad. Was the commercial about the new Patagonia waders that pack down into a bag the size of a loaf of bread? Or the company's new offerings in raingear or light-weight climbing attire? No. To all of the above.…