Fishing

Italian Wilderness Fly Fishing from FLY FISHING ADVENTURES on Vimeo. Tags: Fish Stories

A 92-year-old World War II veteran recently had the opportunity to live out a dream. When a staff member at the senior living center where he's lived for years asked what he'd do with one wish, Bobby Williams was ready with an answer. "I wanted to fish again," he said. So, they took him to a creek and didn't let the fact that he's confined to a wheelchair slow them down at all.

A year and a half after congressional legislation was introduce to give the green light to Klamath dam removal, the issue will have its first congressional hearing by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in June. LINK (via: The Siskiyou Daily)

I SHOT IT is a website that allows photographers to submit their photos in various competitions for a small fee. Entries are judged by a panel of well-known photographers and the winner recieves a cash prize and an $800 Leica V-Lux 40, the greater the number of entries, the greater the prize money. The most recent Dog Photo competition that ended yesterday closed with almost 1,000 entries and $1,200 in prize money. One of the current running competitions is Sports so all you fly fish photogs could get in on the action. Wait, is fly fishing a sport? There are also a number of other categories that would be applicable to the world of fly fishing photography. LINK (via: Peta Pixel)

Sam Snyder of, if you don't engage in conservation you have no right to be out on the stream fame, is calling bullshit on the anemic comment count on the 2nd EPA Bristol Bay Watershed Assesment. LINK So here's the deal. Stop reading this post. Go comment to EPA through this LINK

OAKLEY, Calif. - The sprawling California Delta is certainly an eyeful, but there's also more than meets the eye. That truth proved essential for Jim Moulton, of Merced, Calif., who won the FLW EverStart Series Western Division event in this tidal wonderland.

It’s Saturday night, and I am sitting in front of my iMac, realizing I’m due back in the shop in less than nine hours. I just got in about thirty minutes ago. The days, they fly by. Today was one of Craig’s biggest days of the year, the annual Craig Caddis Fest, a fundraiser for the local fire department. They talk of Craig being a fly fishing town. I guess when the big event of the year is named after a bug highly sought after by trout (and therefore fishermen), the rumors are true. Festivities kicked off around 2:00 this afternoon, and the band was still rolling when I pulled out of town. There was a parade, complete with several drift boats, and a beaten up old tractor with two gentlemen who looked like they had emerged from the deep South. Or maybe just Wolf Creek. The bar-be-que cook-off proved to be one oft he more popular features of Caddis Fest, and both the Simms crew and our own Headhunters team parked in front of the shop. Mark’s tri-tip sliders were a hit, as was evidenced by the large line outside building for the evening. In all fairness, the Simms guys made a pretty mean fajita as well. And, miracle of miracles, and espresso truck rolled into town just for the event. Complete with a folk singer on the top of the trailer. What the hell, it’s Craig. I met Uncle Joe of Joe’s bar today, and he joined the parade, riding in a classy old, yellow rig and tossing out candy to eager kids (and some adults). The urchins of the Missouri were out in full swing, moving amidst the rapidly-becoming-soused adults with ease. On the business end of things, parking shuttle rigs was rather like a twisted game in Craig today. The parking at the ramp fills rapidly these days, leaving us to stick shuttle rigs wherever we can – along the railroad tracks to scattered throughout town. Between dodging toddlers in the streets, other boats on the road and the herd of dogs that seems to inhabit the town, it was an entertaining shuttle day. Waders and full fishing kit will not earn you a second glance in this crowd, but a tie or a suit coat will draw stares. When a rain shower moved through, savvy locals donned their waders and rain jackets and kept on cooking. And drinking. And fishing. You know the routine. Tags: Dispatches from Craig

Randy Haynes improved his limit every day to take the lead on day 3 at Lake Eufaula.