Fishing

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"FIRE" HOLE FOR A REASONUp The Hot Staircaseclosure may be early this year-------.. We're watching the spikes on the Firehole River:==> JUNE 15 = 75° F,==> JUNE 16 = 76° F,==> JUNE 17 = 77° F,==> JUNE 18 = 76° F... Them's a bit warm for this part of June. The extended forecast is for continued warming. The near term outlook is for moderating temperatures in the mid- to high 60's... Fish now is the consensus.-------

Crawfish tails. Photo: Brian O’Keefe On a late May afternoon that got cut short by a thunderstorm, Andros South guides Sparkles and Freddie chatted us up about their other favorite pastime: Crawfishin’. Bahamian Spiny Lobster (crawfish on the island) are abundant on South Andros. In August, the season opens and many of the guides spend their days free-diving for the local delicacies. Grouper, snapper, conch and crawfish are captured and sold to local markets in Nassau. It’s great sport and provides a steady income while they wait for Andros South to reopen. All the guides have their own secret crawfish hot-spots. They free-dive areas of rocky formations and coral heads off the East Shore of Andros, oftentimes at depths upwards of 40 feet! They find the crawfish by looking for ‘the whips’ – the Spiny Lobsters’ long front antennae. Once the whip is spotted, they maneuver into position and use a traditional sling & spear mechanism to get them. A good crawfish spot can yield close to 200 pounds of deliciousness, for which the markets in Nassau pay handsomely. More on South Andros Island The Shell Man Blue Holes Land Crabbing

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From Water Watch: Please act now to help the Klamath Basin’s National Wildlife Refuges! Once again, water supply in the Klamath River Basin is falling short of the excessive demands agricultural development has placed on it. Unfortunately for the Klamath’s … Continue reading →

Chris gets after it. He’s one of the Skinny Water Culture guys and a passionate Heat fan (so he’s happy today) and he’s been getting after it in a big way. He’s recently been hitting the water on his stand up paddleboard and he’s been doing pretty damn well on it. I’ll bet that was nice.

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Compiling data from MPAtlas.org and MPA.gov; researchers from the Marine Conservation Institute in Seattle, Washington; and Mission Blue calculated the fraction of coastal waters that each state or territory has designated as a no-fishing zone. Here's the percentage of state waters currently set aside in no-take reserves: 22.9%: Hawaii 8.7%: California 5.7%: U.S. Virgin Islands 1% or less: Florida, Puerto Rico, Oregon, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Washington, American Samoa, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maine. 0%: Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire , New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Texas. While science says that marine reserves help fish stocks recover, recreational fishing interests mobilzed in fierce opposition when California's marine protection areas were first proposed. So how are those California's marine reserves working? Six years after California put in place the nation's most expansive network of marine reserves -- a controversial experiment aimed at bringing back crashing populations of fish and other ocean species by creating dozens of "no-fishing zones" along the coast -- the effort appears to be working. LINK (via: Pasadena Star News)

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