Whiskey Creek Fly Fishing

When you have a good thing, any event that changes the status quo makes us nervous. A change appears to be coming to the management of Idaho’s Harriman State Park.  Of course, I don’t need to inform you kind readers that the Henry’s Fork flows through Harriman State Park, and this is the storied section [...]

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DSC05785, Kendall-Jackson Wine Center, Santa Rosa, California, USA, originally uploaded by jimg944.
The Kendall Jackson winery has figured out how to keep their wine production clean with less water. They will be saving 6 million gallons of water.
This means there are 6 million gallons of water more for the Salmon & Steelhead of the Russian River.
Three [...]

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I’m a fan of Alton Brown, and he is a fan of wild salmon.  Sit back and enjoy the Good Eats episode “Gills Gone Wild” and learn a thing or two about cooking salmon.
He also argues the case of Wild v. Farmed from a foodie perspective. No mention of sea lice.

Now that’s Good Eats

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Last year, the dam that forms Caples lake was in need of repair. So, the lake level was drawn down. I was lucky enough to participate in a multi-organization coalition that helped rescue some of the fish and relocate them to other nearby lakes. We moved about 5000 fish out of this lake, including a [...]

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Chile uses 350 times the antibiotics on their farmed salmon as does Norway.  I don’t think this means that Chilean salmon is 350 times healthier than Norway salmon.
I don’t know about you, but I’ll be asking about the origin of those salmon filets next time I fire up the smoker. (yes, I’ll have to buy [...]

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Had a great day fishing the McCloud River Preserve the other day, part of the Nature Conservancy. Afterwards, while taking a rehydration break at the cabin, we ran into Christopher Babcock, one of the Field Scientist who keep the Preserve running. An actual River Keeper.

After chit-chat about fishing success (or lack thereof), weather, smoking regulations [...]

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Thanks to a comment from Jim McCarthy, where he pointed to the WaterWatch web site, we have a cool video to watch where dams actually get blown up!  The Water Watch organization is working to eliminate four dams on the Rouge river, with the goal to have the Rouge flow un-impeded for 157 miles.
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This is the kind of competition we like. A bald eagle was released yesterday on the Henry’s Fork, near Rexburg. The eagle was nursed back to health at the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program, after a gunshot wound.

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A couple of news stories related to Columbia River Salmon.
The Obama administration is studying up on the Columbia River dam situation.  They participated in closed door meetings with local government and tribal leaders. Fishermen were not included.
Here is a story of scientists using 3-d sonar mapping technology to study how juvenile salmon navigate (or fail [...]

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Last night, Hannity featured the running battle between the California Delta Smelt and the central valley farmers.  See the story here. This was an opinion piece, so temper your expectations of a fair and balanced presentation.

The story features a hot reporter (hot with a capital H), standing in a dry irrigation canal, and showed lines [...]

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