Friday, January 27, 2012 at 12:05AM Imagine yourself surrounded by friends, both old and new, in one of the coolest places in the world. What would you do? We didn’t quite know where to start either. So we wandered around to see what we could get ourselves into, and what we found was amazing! The Bahamas is Right On It!
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 12:01AM 
Photo by: Joel Hays
This and other scaly poetic waxings courtesy of the poets over at The Anglers Culvert.
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 12:01AM 
When you think of a mahseer, images of baking heat, shimmering sunlight glistening off silvery rivers and harsh, rocky river banks flow mesmerically through the mind.
LINK (Via: Caught by the River)
Caught by the River, fish beer, mmmmm beer in Food and Drink Friday, January 27, 2012 at 12:00AM 
Federal attorneys withdrew a challenge to a judge’s ruling against plans to restore one of America’s rarest trout by poisoning a remote Sierra stream, a move conservationists are calling a victory but which federal officials characterize as but another development in a lengthy dispute over a project they still intend to pursue.
The government was considering appeal of a September ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Frank Damrell Jr. granting an injunction blocking plans to poison an 11-mile stretch of Silver King Creek to remove unwanted fish and replace them with threatened Paiute cutthroat trout.
LINK (Via: RJG )
The Paiute cutthroat trout is native only to Silver King Creek, which is a tributary of the Carson River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. It is believed that the Paiute evolved from a sub-population of Lahontan cutthroat trout that became isolated in the creek. Pauites have a purple coloration, and they are distinguished from other cutthroat species because they lack most body spots.
It is a federally listed threatened species.
LINK (Via: Western Native Trout Initiative)
fish in then news, paiute cutthroat in Conservation, Environment, News, Species Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:03AM 
The latest issue of Pool 32 Mag is live.
In addition to the great destination photography and artist profiles of AD Maddox and Mike Savlen, this issue leads off with a piece by Wild Steelhead Coalition trustee Bob Margolis titled, "Yes We Can." Backed by the inspiring photography of Jeff Bright, Bob's spells out what's at stake in the fight for wild steelhead.
