Fly Fishing Life Magazine – One of the flip-book online fly fishing magazines. This one has some great articles (New Zealand, guide interviews, etc.) and photography (Louis Cahill).
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
New Trout Unlimited Program to Serve U.S. Veterans | Angling Trade
New Trout Unlimited Program to Serve U.S. Veterans
Arlington, Va.—Trout Unlimited (TU) announces its new Veterans Service Program that will serve U.S. veterans throughout the country, through conservation projects and fly fishing instruction.
With 140,000 members and 400 chapters throughout the country, TU will engage its extensive network of volunteers to introduce wounded and returning veterans to TU’s conservation work through fly fishing. Teaching fly casting basics and providing an introduction to conservation issues throughout the country, TU chapters and partner organizations will provide instruction, camaraderie and local networks of anglers to veterans around the country.
“TU members will have a greater opportunity to thank the people who have served our country in so many ways by offering the healing experience of fly fishing while at the same time, working on rivers and streams throughout the country,” said Bryan Moore, Trout Unlimited’s Director of Volunteer Operations. “This program will allow TU’s 400 chapters to coordinate with veterans groups in a new, comprehensive manner,” Moore said.
The program will receive primary funding through the generous support of the Telos Corporation.
The project will work with veteran rehabilitation groups across the country, assisting veterans in rehabilitation after physical and emotional injuries. In addition to the unique therapeutic value of fly fishing, veterans will be introduced to TU’s conservation work, youth education programs and various community outreach initiatives.
Alan Folger of Hendersonville, N.C. is the project’s program coordinator. Folger is a lifelong conservationist, a fly fisherman and disabled veteran. He served throughout Southeast Asia during the Vietnam conflict as a member of the U.S. Air Force.
Trout Unlimited is the nation’s largest coldwater conservation organization, with 140,000 members dedicated to conserving, protecting, and restoring North America’s trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
knot tyer.
If you hit the “knot tyer” below it will take you to a page where at the bottom of the page is a Video that will show you how to use The Knot Tyer. This Knot Tyer really makes life easier I have used it for about 8 years now and would be lost without it
Friday, January 14, 2011
Field Notes - Noteworthy News from NY Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources
Count Wild Turkeys This Winter.
Consider recording the number of wild turkeys you see this winter to help DEC monitor trends in New York's wild turkey populations. Snow and cold temperatures negatively affect wild turkeys, particularly young birds ("jakes" - young males and "jennies" - young females). Your observations will help DEC calculate wild turkey numbers prior to the spring breeding season. The survey runs from January 1 through March 31 and participating is easy. Visit the Winter Wild Turkey Flock Survey (http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/48756.html) webpage where you will find an electronic form with further instructions. Also, take a look at the 2010 winter flock survey results (http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/66526.html) to learn what your observations told us about turkey populations last year.
Field Notes - Noteworthy News from NY Division of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Didymo may be more of an eyesore than despoiler of watersheds
The latest issue of the US Fish & Wildlife magazine, “Eddies” is devoted completely to aquatic invasives. Not just the standard fare we’re used to seeing, but many of the plants that are causing issues for the deep South and Texas.
Now that the fissures in rubber shoe soles are being blamed for seed travel, and once you’ve glimpsed the effect of Giant Salvinia or Water Chestnut on a waterway, you wonder how much longer they’re going to let us get in the water, period.
There was a hint of good news, however. Our old pal Didymo may not be as bad as first thought, given that the biosecurity professionals in New Zealand have not detected any benthic “dead zone” caused by the diatom smothering the river bottom;
In spite of widely held presumptions that didymo “smothers” invertebrate populations and therefore harms fisheries, research has proven the opposite. “That’s what the prediction was,” says Vieglais, “but our results proved otherwise and the fact that there has been no collapse of the New Zealand trout fishery since didymo arrived bears that out.”
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