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I know some of you fishing fiends are out there catching fish, but it sure has been a rough one weather wise for being out there. The Puget Sound area has had ice, snow, rain, wind and cold almost back to back for the last few weeks. Except of course on the days I couldn’t break away to go fishing so it was sunny and beautiful.
Oh well, February is coming and things will get better. Watch for part two of our video from ICAST, and hopefully we will get out and get some more fishing video shot!
We finally got around to editing up the video from ICAST 2007 and got it on line. For those of you that don’t know, ICAST is the biggest sport fishing trade show
in the world, and buyers from all across the country come to see the latest
and greatests fishing related toys, reels, rods, lures, accessories, clothing
and just about everything else you can think of.
Thomas and I spent a good couple of days roaming the trade show floor and
I am sure we missed a few things, it was just that big! In any event,
here is part one of our trip. Stay tuned for part two in the coming weeks!
It looks to me from this article that a lot of our Salmon that don’t come back are being sold to us through back street brokers, after being netted in the open Ocean by illegal drift net fishing vessels. Feel like being pissed off, take a read of this full article!
Once ranked at the third most productive river on the West coast of the United States, the Salmon runs in the Klamath river have all but rolled over and gone belly up. Now a group wants to pull the dams and restore habitat an idea lauded by some and rejected by others.
The plan, announced Tuesday, came after two years of closed-door negotiations and resolved long-standing differences over how to divide Klamath Basin water between a federal irrigation project and fish protected by the Endangered Species Act.
The agreement, which would be the largest dam removal project in the nation’s history, must be reviewed by federal agencies, including the U.S. Justice Department. The deal would open 300 miles of rivers that have not seen salmon in the past century and restore 60 miles of reservoir to free-flowing river, according to American Rivers, a conservation group.
Removal of the Klamath River dams, perhaps as soon as 2015, depends on agreement from their owner, Portland-based utility PacifiCorp, as well as some $400 million in new spending on salmon restoration, primarily from Congress, for a total of $1 billion over 10 years. Read the Full Article…
While I am a big proponent of green power, we must take into consideration the effects that dams have on our rivers. Fish ladders are only a partial solution to the issue as we see with the Columbia river. Ladders restrict the movement of fish, and primarily only benefit Salmon. Of course the fish ladders also make for a great place for Sea Lions to put on an all you can eat buffet.
More emphasis needs to be put on the preservation and restoration of our Pacific rivers and watersheds. Pollution, logging, poor water management, dams and lacking hatchery practices and rampant Indian fishing violations all have taken their toll on our Salmon runs. I think it is time we seriously reviewed the commercial harvesting rules, Indian fishing rights and their abuse of those rights, and just how much effort we are putting into saving our wild Salmon runs.
Time for something funny. I am not sure where these pics came from, other than my email bin, but they are damn funny. I am however pretty sure the last one is photochopped, but it is still an amazing series of events.
Now how do you manage to explain driving your car off the side of this? Of course in America we would just sue the municipality for not having it marked and a safety barrier around it.
The crane truck is listing a bit under the weight of it all though isn’t it?
Again, has the rescue truck driver ever considered center of gravity on this project?
I bet that he is out a job after this. I can just hear his boss saying “You did what?”
Hmmmm… Now how are you going to get out of this one? Of course now you have even more diesel in the water, is it time to call in the environmental task force?
OK, better plan, bigger truck with outriggers and more mass. Hopefully a smarter operator as well.
Looks like Michael Long has it going on and has the first car out of the water without any problems. Now about the other truck…
Like I said, I am pretty sure the last frame is photo-chopped but still someone had some serious explaining to do and one hell of a bill to pay at the end of all this. You know it probably happened in a small enough town that everyone involved won’t ever hear the end of it again.
Here is a list of some of the Salmon fishing derbies that are coming up in 2008. As usual if you have any information that you would like to get added here, be sure to drop me a note or leave a comment!
It isn’t on their web site, but the Joes (formerly GI Joes) in Lynnwood is putting on a seminar at 7pm on Thursday the 17th of January. Looks like they will cover all the basics of fishing for Steelhead so if you are thinking of going after those damn fish, you might want to check it out!
I was wandering through the store yesterday pondering what all I needed to pick up to go fishing next weekend, and realized that our old trusty deck knife had cleanly broken off at the handle the last time we were out. Apparently there was too much salt in the herring for it to handle.
It was a good old knife, you know the kind with the varnished wooden handle that always gets crackled and nasty. But now we need a replacement knife for out on the boat. So I put out a call to any knife manufacturers for sponsors. Want a cheap way to get your knives on the web, in our shows and (not quite literally) in our hearts and mouths? Let us know you are interested in sponsoring our show with a couple of your products. Pretty simple, you give us a couple knives to use, and we will make sure that the world knows about it.
Be sure to send us a note, or comment on this post if you are interested because it is pretty much first come, first served!
For a lot of us it isn’t prime fishing time, aside from the crazy Steelhead fishing fiends. So where do you hang out when you are on line? For me there are a couple of fishing boards that I visit on a pretty regular basis.
Busted Rod - Newer fishing forum that is looking promising
I know Thomas probably spends most of his time on Rotten.com, but let me know if you have any other great fishing forums that the world should know about!
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