With our Opening Day 72 days away, things are looking pretty good. The Sierra snowpack appears to be in fair shape, particularly on the Eastside. New flies have been tied. Gear’s ready. But wait. It gets better. One beverage of choice for the post-fly fishing adventure has been deemed to be a great source of [...]
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trout for dinner: $16.20 each
Yes, each. I’m a big fan of the thin green line that protects our natural resources so it’s to be expected that an appreciative smile crossed my face when a Google alert linked me to the following from KearneyHub.com: VALENTINE (Nebraska) — A Nebraskan’s taste for trout has left him up a dry creek for [...]
pasta, garlic bread, salad, beer, Cancer magister, dessert, and something unexpected
The DVFF Crab Feed (& Officer Installation) ’10 is in the history books. We enjoyed pasta, garlic bread, salad, various beverages (adult and otherwise), the honored entrée and three different cakes for dessert. The crab seemed sweeter this year and, as usual, our dining companions and conversation enjoyable. We told fishing stories, ate too much [...]
let my hatchery trout go
The hard times faces by many rural California communities might just get harder if the Pacific Rivers Council and Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) deem Homo sapiens, like trout, to be an introduced species in high Sierra watersheds. Four years after filing a lawsuit centered on the idea that stocked hatchery trout and salmon have [...]
a die hard fly fisherman
If you missed it last week, a chuckle from the Tundra comic strip, by Chad Carpenter:
