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Solving a math problem for Snake River Chinook
Two recent studies demonstrate how dam breach paired with increased spill in the mid-Columbia would allow many Snake River spring/summer Chinook populations to reach various management goals I am sitting on my parent’s porch on a Sunday afternoon in July when the neighbors stop by to say hi. “Oh! You are a fish biologist,” they…
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Numbers look good, but are they really?
If you’ve seen the recent news regarding Snake River steelhead returns, you’ve likely asked yourself, what’s the issue with the four lower Snake River dams? With returns totaling nearly 100,000 steelhead over Lower Granite dam one would believe brighter days are ahead. But if history repeats itself, this is just a blip on the radar…
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Watch: “Strengthening the Snake”
The Snake River is a vital lifeline coursing through the heart of Teton County, Wyoming. Facing dynamic challenges, the river’s mainstem can fluctuate from 30,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) to just 280 cfs in a single season––a flow reduction of 90 percent. Combined with human-driven changes resulting in riverbank erosion, land loss and degraded…
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The True Cast – Just knowing they’re in there
My friend David’s house was right on the river. He was kind enough to let me park there and fish the big bend out back. And often times, he’d come out on his porch to chat with me as I made some casts. I remember one evening in particular, when a burst of hatching mayflies…
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By the numbers on the Snake
Understanding the metrics used to evaluate and represent recovery of wild salmon and steelhead in the Snake River basin is an exercise worthy of a Ph.D. From annual abundance numbers, to understanding Endangered Species Act delisting criteria, to smolt-to-adult return ratios (SARs) to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) survival statistics, the numbers can…
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Legendary Red Shed Fly Shop says the Lower Four should go
Legendary Red Shed Fly Shop says the Lower Four should go
Anglers talk a great deal about the incalculable importance of fly shops. While they’re great places to drop a few bucks on a new spool of tippet, a tube of floatant and a couple hot patterns, we’re talking about more than their value as retailers. A good fly shop is far more than that. The…
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Hooked
Snake River ambassador, Josh Warnick’s, journey to falling in love with the art of steelheading From first learning to fish in Mexico with makeshift reels made from plastic bottles and spare line to now guiding on some of the Olympic Peninsula and British Columbia’s most famed steelhead waters, Josh Warnick has spent his life fishing…
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