Hardcore Fisherman of Sea Fishing
Trout fishing is a pleasure. Fly fishing for salmon is one of the most enjoyable ways to spend a day. When it’s raining, freezing or doing anything that makes you feel fishing is unpleasant spare a thought for the true hardcore fisherman of sea fishing who risk life and limb in pursuit of the catch to cater for their families…
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Utah Shuts Down Stream Fishing on Most Private Land
Despite a groundswell of opposition from anglers' groups and stream access rights advocates, the Utah legislature passed House Bill 141 on Wednesday, deciding in favor of private property owners who felt that public easements diminished their property values. You can...
Transgenic Trout: Coming to a Restaurant Near You
University of Rhode Island aquaculture expert Terry Bradley has figured out how to block myostatin production in rainbow trout, producing what Popular Science writer Jerry Hsu describes as "six-pack abs and burly shoulders." "If the transgenic trout meet FDA approval,...
Late Charlie Meyers Given "Dream Stream" Honor
Image by Paraflyer via Flickr"The 'Dream Stream' portion of the South Platte River connecting Elevenmile and Spinney Mountain reservoirs will become the Charlie Meyers State Wildlife Area on May 1. The change was unanimously approved by the Colorado Wildlife Commission...
Fly Tying Video: The Partridge Orange
In this week's new MidCurrent fly tying video, Michael Yelton ties a Partridge Orange (aka Orange Partridge), a fly pattern that has not only stood the test of time but has gained new popularity with the resurgence in wet fly...
Let Go of the Fly Rod? Never!!
The force of the water knocked down a 230-pound firefighter coming to his rescue, but fly fisher David Kelley refused to part ways with his new custom trout rod -- after all, he just bought it. "When Cipollo, a member...
Tippets: L.L. Bean Hosts "Legends," Environmental Terrorism in the Bahamas, Borger on Shadow-Casting
L.L. Bean's Spring Fishing Weekend, March 19-21, will feature Lefty Kreh, Flip Pallot, Stu Apte, Mark Sosin, Tim Rajeff, Bob Popovics, Dave Klausmeyer and others. Nassau guides claim "environmental terrorism" by resort developer. Government responds. Jason Borger recounts role...
New Products: Gateway Hooks
I sat down with the folks from the Gateway Hook Company this week to see first-hand whether their patented "easy on/easy off" hook-eye made sense. Gateway, which has been field-testing their design for several years now, has come up with...
Video Hatch: Yvon Chouinard on Dams
"I'm a dam-buster," Yvon Chouinard says in the American Express commercial that first appeared during this week's Grammy Awards. "When you take out a dam, that's a real victory -- I mean a concrete victory, so to speak.... To do...
ESPN: "Obama Will Ban Fishing"
It strikes a thinking person as a bit like forecasting a ban on baseball, apple pie, and daytime naps, but a couple of days ago ESPN.com published a story that claimed the Obama administration would soon ban all fishing, commercial...
New Zealand: Cicada Songs
Image via Wikipedia"While the sound may get on the nerves of city dwellers, for trout anglers it is a sweet melody because they know that if they stalk the banks of the Tongariro River where it slows and spreads before...
Tippets: Merwin on Books, Kayak Rides, Bull Trout, British Propose More Dams
Merwin: Are fishing books less valuable than they used to be? Popular Mechanics calls kayaks the newest Nantucket sleigh. Last chance for bull trout? London Telegraph: British rivers could power 850,000 homes... but at what cost?...
"The River Why" to Premiere in April
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeAccording to actress Amber Heard's Web site (believe it or not, it's called "Adoring Amber Heard"), "The River Why," the new Matthew Leuwyler movie based on the David James Duncan novel, will premiere at the...
Big Snakes: Adventures with Reptiles in South Florida
MidCurrent reader Collin Ross sent in several pictures last week as proof, perhaps, that no matter where you go in south Florida, your chances of seeing a snake over ten feet are improving daily. Besides this beast in Big...
Cool Tools: Tie-Fast Knot Tyer
Field and Stream's Kirk Deeter says the Tie-Fast Knot Tyer is one tool that he can't live without: "I have three of them. One I keep stuffed at the bottom of a vest pocket, in case my leader breaks and...
Video Hatch: 2010 Florida Fish Kill
Brett Fitzgerald of the Snook Foundation narrates this informative short video about the effects of Florida's "nuclear winter" on snook populations. "The Christmas Eve freeze of 1989 killed 500,000 snook statewide. In 1977, the year that it snowed in the...
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