Utah judge says streams are public assets

A Utah judge agreed Monday with anglers arguing that all rivers and streams are public waters, but he has yet to decide whether a law restricting access to them went too far.

Both sides saw hope in the ruling.

LINK (via: The Salt Lake Tribune)

Kudos again to the Utah Stream Access Coalition for fighting the good fight.

holding on to what's GOLDEN

Yukon strikes again.

The Legacy of Lonesome Larry

Sockeye entered the Columbia River this week, beginning a 900-mile migration that very nearly ended 20 years ago.

Only four Snake River sockeye made their way through eight dams and past nets and predators in 1992, a year after the fish that makes its home in Idaho’s Sawtooth Valley was listed as endangered. Only one male completed the final climb up the Snake and Salmon rivers to a weir on Redfish Lake Creek.....Lonesome Larry.

Lonesome Larry became the symbol of the entire Snake and Columbia salmon restoration program.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/05/19/2123092/the-legacy-oflonesome-larry.html#storylink=cpy

LINK (via: The Idaho Statesman)

One was seen riding a shipping barge through the locks at the dam

At least three, and maybe four, sea lions have managed to find their way above Bonneville Dam, the lowermost hydro project on the Columbia River (146 river miles from the Pacific).

LINK (via: Columbia Basin Bulletin)

Riddle me this...who takes more salmon on the Columbia, sea lions or fisherman?

LINK (via: Oregon Live)

Western legislatures grab for control of public lands

Brought to you by ALEC and major corporations such as Koch Industries, ExxonMobil and Shell Oil Co.

LINK (via:High Country News)

The extractive resource industry and their paid members of congress like to push the notion that we need to open more of our public lands and waters for oil and mineral exploration.

Maybe they should develop the land and water they already have under lease?

More than two-thirds of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico and more than half of onshore leases on federal lands “sit idle.”

LINK (via:The Washington Post)

Fish Cops, Photographers, Wet Flies and Lonesome Pikers

More from the links archive.

Playing Pattycakes and Pinching Poachers: My life as a mother and a state game warden.

Photographer Luke Kavajecz's blog.

FishMadMan

Reno Trout NV goes Portlandia.

Dan Bastion Wet Flies

My name is Stefaan Demiddele, I am just a lonesome piker and I’m fishing all alone (most of the time anyway)