PASS IT ON!

In my absence, there was some great news from the EPA about taking a deeper look into the Pebble Mine project...

Just saw this on Buster's site, and figured I'd pass along...

Sink Or Swim...

An article from Ted William’s Conservation Blog telling about the proposed ban on using led for fishing tackle…


“Exactly what I’d expect from the More-Dead-Fish-For-Me crowd. Gawd forbid that they try non-toxics. I use them all the time for my non-fly-fishing, and there is no difference in price or performance.”

-Ted Williams

Spot on Ted…Check out the full article HERE

Super Salmon...FAIL!

"Hey, America: Time to get excited! Why? Because a year and a half from now you could be eating the very first genetically-modified animal approved for public consumption: The AquAdvantage® salmon! Assuming it passes the approval process, which began Wednesday."

via Gawker (Max Read) - LINK

Brace Yourself...

"It also might have broken up the oil into small enough particles that the microbes are eating it, explaining why they are suddenly unhealthy. If that is the case, they warned, the rest of the food chain in the Gulf could be tainted by the oil."


Oil may be poisoning area critical to commercial fishing in Gulf (NY Post)


The cap can't stop the damage that's already been done...

Louisiana...

We've all heard about the tragedy going on in the Gulf...

Be sure to check out the Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana's website to find ou how you can help out...

WEBSITE




Video from Flies & Fins...

Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself...

Check out Sleeping In The Dirt's latest post...

Talking about Douche instructors...

"By the way - you really should take a lesson or two. The break in your wrist was awful, and was causing the curve you thought was thew wind. Just saying if you're going to teach...."

Hit on the head perfectly...

Thanks guys...

FULL LINK

Goodbye Charlie?

Seriously...we know the Bluefin stocks have significantly dropped, yet we allow the trend to continue?

"Japan and Canada along with scores of developing nations succeeded yesterday in preventing any restrictions being imposed on the harvest of the fish, which is highly prized in sushi restaurants, on the grounds that a ban would devastate the world's fishing economies."

WTF?

Full Link to article via THE INDEPENDENT (Guy Adams)

Floating Colorado...

A bill that could make alot of Colorado's rivers and streams inaccessable to non-land owners...

"He said Lewis Shaw, the private property owner on the Taylor River who is trying to develop an exclusive residential fly-fishing enclave — free of rafts on the river — has hired two powerful lobbyists to try to kill the bill."


from Aspen Dail News...and Brent Gardner-Smith...

Donny Beaver anyone?

FULL LINK

Bristol Bay Update...

Straight from the Chum...stated perfectly...

"The companies seeking to develop the massive Pebble mine prospect in Southwest Alaska have agreed to pay a $45,000 fine to the state for unauthorized use of water at their drilling sites.

LINK (Via:The Anchorage Daily News)

During a recent public debate in Dillingham about the proposed mine, Pebble Partnership CEO John Shively announnced they would not be applying for permitting in 2010. Prior statements by mine management indicated that they would apply for permitting late in 2010. Shively also stated that he is, "not convinced that they have a project that environmentally works."

Alaska Public Radio has a report on the debate. LINK


Thanks to Moldy Chum For The Update...FULL LINK TO CHUM'S POST...

What To Do...

Asian Carp are coming...and I can say that this would blow REALLY BAD...

"A worst-case scenario envisions them spreading "like a cancer cell," he said, eventually dominating a fishery already damaged by zebra mussels, sea lamprey and other exotic pests."

LINK

Following The Seattle Battle...

Fat Ass Pro Pebble Bitch Weighs In...

Found on Buster Wants To Fish...who found on food blog Cornichon...

"... the bottom line here is that we are encouraging Seattle chefs to support the Alaskan economy by serving Bristol Bay salmon. I find it dubious at best that you would show such strong opposition to such an effort. You should know better than anyone that the Pebble Mine project decision lies with the people of Alaska, not the people of Seattle. Are you worried that the people of Alaska might recognize that it makes more economic sense, environment and salmon survival aside, to protect the Bristol Bay salmon fishery that supports thousands of jobs than to allow a mine that will enrich a few and endanger a proven natural resource? Are you worried that the truth might cost you your job in the legislature if the word got out to far and wide, or that if you identified yourself fully that it might expose your conflict of interest?"

No link to Post, but click on link to blog, and scroll to 11/18 post. Thanks for bringing awareness.

Update on the Seattle Foodies Post from 11/15...

The Pro Pebble Douchebags are pissed...laaadeeedaaahh...

"One of the Pebble Mine's most prominent supporters over the weekend called for a boycott of the restaurants taking part in Trout Unlimited's Savor Bristol Bay campaign."

LINK

Hang Tough Foodies!!!

Found on Midcurrent - Article by Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Mary Pemberton)

How NOT To Produce A Fly Fishing DVD - Rant...

So...Interesting story from the TMT group this week...


A friend of mine...coughcoughSchmidtcoughcough...gets this e-mail earlier this week about a fly fishing magazine (to stay nameless), looking for groups to take their cameras out on local rivers for good numbers and shots of fish. They were looking for people in Oregon, N. Cali, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. The idea was for them to find two anglers to fish "side by side" with while the footage is shot...


Or so we thought...


UPON further e-mail conversations, we've come to learn that the "company" in question is requesting that WE...the volunteers who are willing to show them around our locations...PAY them for the footage that THEY would profit from...


I'll repeat that for those readers who are a tad slow...


THEY WANT US, THE PEOPLE WILLING TO SHOW THEM OUR HONEY HOLES, TO PAY TO GET FUCKING TAPED....SO OUR SPOTS CAN GET SHOWN TO THE PUBLIC...


One word for you...SCAM.


Honestly...I'm going to allow some punk film group try to rip off another popular film tour by demanding that WE...THE VOLUNTEERS WILLING TO HELP THEM OUT...FINANCE THEIR FILM...AT $990 FOR TWO DAYS MINIMUM...


BLOW ME...



MORAL OF THE STORY...If you're going to start a fly fishing film...don't fuck the people that are willing to help support your film with their own free time...


And now The MAD Trouter is going to cool off with a PBR...

Mining Strikes Again...

First noted by the local TU Chapter...

"It's disgusting to see that much life wiped out," said Ed Presley, who owns property along the creek at the Lower Brave Dam."To see the quality and beauty of that stream and then to see what happened to it, well, it really tears at you. I'm not really a tree-hugger but to see natural things destroyed and wasted like this, it's just dead wrong."

FULL ARTICLE

Political Views Aside...RANT

No matter how you may have voted, this type of press really lights me up...

"It should surprise no one that President Obama is a wretched fly fisherman, as he cannot bowl and shows only a minimum of competence at golfing. Were it not for his basketball skills, he might be considered the least athletic American president since LBJ, whose idea of physical exertion was hurling empty beer cans out of his convertible as he drove around the Texas Hill Country."


This WENCH has the audacity to blast our Commander & Chief for attempting to learn a great sport, and for getting out of the office & spotlight to do it...(yes, not matter how we voted, he won and is still our country's leader, who deserves respect for holding the position that he does).

What kind of trophy shot was she looking for?! And how long would the poor trout been kept out of the water so that every lens could get their portrait?!

Another Piece...

"Still, one has to wonder: if a president will not allow TV cameras to record an unsuccessful fly-fishing venture, might there be more crucial information he's keeping from the public? How terribly ironic that the president who promised to bring transparency and accountability to the White House has cloaked the most innocent of sporting activities in a Nixonian veil of secrecy."

HONESTLY?! The guy takes a break from the cameras to learn a good roll cast and gets crucified for it?! Not to mention the fact that any good self respecting guide would've requested no press or camera's in his honey hole...and FYI - HE WASN'T IN THE WHITE HOUSE!

To top it all off, she's taking pot shots at the sport itself...

"This past weekend, the president tried his hand at fishing in Montana -- a lovely place to learn this incredibly simple sport in which a string with a hook at the end is dragged though water in order to attract fish."

Really?! Is it that fucking simple?! WOW...and here I've been for the past few years trying to figure out why in the world fly fishing is so dam hard and frustrating sometimes...maybe I’m making this way too difficult. perhaps I don't need my hatch charts, log books, or thermometers...maybe if I just keep my "string" in the water, and "drag" the "hook" to "attract fish", I'll catch more fish...

What an unintelligent, uninformed, moron...

So I ask you readers...with trashy writing like this taking a stab at a potential fly fishing convert...What would EVER make him want to pick up a fly rod again?! And the reason I ask this is that we may have just lost a great ambassador for the sport. Someone who would stand up to dams out west...Someone who doesn't care what promises mining companies make...Someone who's willing to spend for cleaner water...The list of problems that haunt our waters goes on…

I hope for my sake, my future children’s sake, as well as us as a fly flinging community, that Obama picks up a fly rod again. I hope that he's able to look past this type of criticism, dismissing it for the petty lack of journalism and lousy writers that plague of our media outlets.

I hope I’m the first to say it...Fuck you Sara K. Smith!

You can bet that this Trashy, no good, dirty, horseshit reporter has now gotten moved to the "dumb bitch" list for just awful reporting, and even worse, trying to minimalize a sport in which we all consider to be not just a hobby, but a way of life...

HER ENTIRE, SHIT FILLED, DUMB, LAZY, NO GOOD ARTICLE HERE

I'm putting myself on timeout now...

More from Paris Palin...(Good Riddance)

"This is classic Sarah Palin, the mixture of the personal and political," says Michael Carey, an Anchorage talk show host. "It's all done ad hoc. There's no strategic plan. It's, 'This is what I'm going to do, baby. Here we go,' "

Alas...Alaska can start to rebuild...

READ ON

Mining Has Bad Consequences?!

"The dumping of the mine waste is expected to kill most of the fish and aquatic life in Lower Slate Lake, but the mine company is expected to rehabilitate the fish stocks when the mine closes."

Talk about a bunch of douche bags...READ ON

And you know that the Wicked Witch of Alaska supports this...

Connecticut River...

Connecticut River Salmon Issues...

via midcurrent...

"In New England, particularly on the Connecticut River, Atlantic salmon are the fish of millions of dollars. And like the fisherman who keeps casting to them hoping his luck will change, we continue to pour tens of millions dollars into an Atlantic salmon recovery program hoping our luck will change."

Ship Em Here...

South Africa doesn't want their trout...

via midcurrent

HERE

full article here

via Daily Dispatch

Pebble Piss Ants...

For those of us who didn't see on MOLDYCHUM:

Northern Dynasty has recently published a new website...

Oringinally found HERE @ StreetInsider

Those Douche Holes...