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.

Yukon strikes again.

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.

LINK (via: The Idaho Statesman)

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)

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)

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)

A pissed off Coach Duff posted this pic of a commercially harvested Hawaii bonefish on his Facebook page.

Josh Owens followed up with this disturbing image.

Time to mobilze the troops.

Mining consultant Jack Caldwell weighs in on the EPA report on Bristol Bay and the Pebble Mine.

Those who oppose Pebble Mine will laud the EPA report and back up their beliefs with the authority of the EPA.  Those who support the mine, will attack the EPA as a bunch of hopeless innocents beholden to Obama.  One potential peer reviewer of the EPA report has already told me he will attack the report for generalization:  they did not evaluate the Pebble Mine; they simply looked at averages and statistics.  That is not science, he will say.  That is opinion based on prejudice, he will say.

He who shouts loudest may win.  She who coins the best sound bite, will win.  Those who can write the most eloquent letter, may win.  And those with power behind the curtain will prevail.  Oh where is Hamlet to pierce the curtain to Polonius when we need him?

Read More (via:Think Mining)

via: TroutHunter

MILFORD – Officials are looking for a man who was photographed by a security camera while allegedly stealing trout from the state fish hatchery, and they hope the public can identify him.

LINK via Nashua Telegraph