Tying Rig Pt.1

Streamer

Dust Off the Vise

Just dusted off the tying vise a few minutes ago. i use a Renzetti Traveler Saltwater 2200.

The fly I tied was a modification of a streamer I tied a while back for Stripers.

Pic of Fly coming Soon.


Here is the vise, I highly recommend it.
http://www.renzetti.com/product.php?productid=16329&cat=261&page=1

Patagonia FLy Fishing Catlog

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Leland TV

Awesomeness - LELAND RANCH

From Patagonia

"The dam that's featured is Matilija Dam, an outdated monstrosity that sits 18 miles upstream from Patagonia HQ on a tributary of the Ventura River. With its crumbling concrete and silt-filled reservoir, Matilija Dam no longer serves any beneficial purpose. Its removal would allow native Southern Steelhead trout to once again use the river to spawn, and give local beaches a much needed boost in sediments (more sand) from the steep canyons of Matilija Creek.

At almost 200-feet tall, it would be largest dam ever removed in the United States. Later this week we'll share more about Matilija Dam and current efforts underway to free the river.

All proceeds that Yvon receives from the commercial will be divided between five of environmental groups of his choice: Conservacion Patagonica, Atlantic Salmon Federation, Freedom to Roam Coalition, Native Fish Society and Save our Wild Salmon."

The Fly Fish Journal

Felt Soul Media

Red Gold | trailer from felt soul media on Vimeo.

The Bristol Bay region of Southwest Alaska is home to the Kvichak and Nushagak rivers, the two most prolific sockeye salmon runs left in the world. Mining companies Northern Dynasty Minerals and Anglo American have partnered to propose development of an open-pit and underground mine at the headwaters of the two river systems. The exploration site is the second largest combined deposit of copper, gold, and molybdenum ever discovered and has an estimated value of more than $300 billion.

Despite promises of a clean project by officials, the accident-plagued history of hard rock mining has wrought one of the biggest land use battles Alaska has ever faced. Documenting the growing unrest among native, commercial, and sport-fishermen, Red Gold is a portrait of a unique way of life that will not survive if the salmon don’t return with Bristol Bay’s tide.

Burl Productions

FISH EYE 4 "Through Anglers Eyes" from Mikey Wier on Vimeo.

FISH EYE Video Magazine Issue 4 "Through Anglers Eyes" is the latest release from BURL Productions. This issue features spectacular trout fishing in the California Back-country, Steelhead fishing on the Trinity River, The Bass N Fly Challenge for black bass in the Delta, Exploratory fly fishing in Panama and instructional advise on rigging and fishing hopper and dropper set ups.

Patagonia.com Fly Fishing resources - awesome

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The Dish on Fish - edibleboston.com

by Clare Leschin-Hoar

When chef Chris Parsons decided to add fresh sardines to the menu at his Winchester-based seafood restaurant Catch, he had to slip them into his tasting menu lineup, or send them out as treats from the kitchen to his regular customers. He was certain the restaurant wouldn’t sell enough of the sardines to list them as an entrée or appetizer on their own, a status frequently given to more familiar fish like yellowfin tuna or salmon.

Never mind that sardines are actually tasty, that they’re capable of reproducing rapidly, that they are jam-packed with healthy omega-3 fatty acids, or that they would very likely be the most sustainable choice on Parsons’ menu that evening. The fact is, the sardines were a hard sell, while the Norwegian farm-raised salmon was not.

As a business owner, it’s a dilemma that Parsons faces each time he chooses what fish will appear on his menu. It’s a balancing act between what’s best for his 48-seat restaurant and his ability to make customers’ mouths water, versus what environmentalists tell us could be harmful to fish stocks and the health of our oceans.

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DRIFT

Drift - the trailer

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Not fish, but about the sea.

"These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world's most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent"

Not about Fish, but AWESOME

AN EPIC BIKE RACE

World Trout Initiative - from Patagonia

World Trout® Initiative

Trout around the world are at the mercy of human impact. Overfishing and destruction of habitat due to logging, war and global warming are all contributing to threaten trout populations. Humans, though, may also be trout’s saviors.

In 1999, on a trip to Yellowstone, James Prosek and Patagonia owner Yvon Chouinard met. Hearing the stories of James’ efforts to catch various trout around the world and the dramatic challenges these fish are facing Yvon was motivated to help.

The World Trout Initiative’s mission is simple: To identify the individuals and groups that protect native fish, to tell their story and to support their conservation efforts by placing money into the hands of the actual groups protecting the fish. By telling a compelling story and providing the angler and interested parties with a call to action, we felt we could make something happen.

The stunning artwork that James Prosek used to document trout around the globe for his books Trout of North America and Trout of the World offered an ideal opportunity to both raise awareness and funds. Patagonia set to work using this artwork to create t-shirts to raise funds for grassroots groups working to protect trout and their habitat. Five dollars from the sale of each shirt goes to support grassroots activists working to protect trout species.

Since its inception in January, 2005 (through December 31, 2008), anglers have purchased 41,612 World Trout t-shirts and raised $208,060. World Trout has supported groups like: Penobscot River Restoration Project, Greenback Conservation & Restoration Programs of Colorado Trout Unlimited, Obirame Restoration Group, Yellowstone Park Foundation, Friends of Wild Salmon, Balkan Trout Restoration Group, Trout Unlimited Driftless Area, The Golden Project, Wild Steelhead Coalition and Montana River Action. World Trout supporters have also sought out these grassroots groups to donate funds and volunteer their time directly to the group. For more info or to apply view our Grant Guidelines."

Your Voice Your Choice - from Patagonia

Super Cool.
"We created Voice Your Choice to enable customers of Patagonia-owned stores to become more involved in local environmental issues. Now in its second year, the campaign introduces our customers to environmental groups working in their areas and brings to light the important issues these groups are working on. Through Voice Your Choice, we invite our retail customers to determine in part how each of our U.S.-based stores spend their individual environmental grants budgets.

This year, each store has selected three local groups they’ve determined are doing something extraordinary to help restore and protect the environment. Representatives from each group will visit the store during the Voice Your Choice campaign to share their work and offer customers opportunities to get involved.

Last year, our Voice Your Choice campaign proved a great success for environmental groups and our stores alike. Customers cast 13,706 votes in our 23 stores nationwide. This degree of participation reinforces our conviction that Patagonia customers care deeply about environmental issues and appreciate the opportunity to get involved.

In 2008, Patagonia stores gave $378,000 to local environmental groups, with the Voice Your Choice campaign contributing an additional $100,000. This year we’ve increased the Voice Your Choice contribution to $125,000. We know grant recipients will put the money to good use and their work will benefit all of us who love the outdoors."

From The Cleanest Line - WaterMan

A Plague of Plastic - from Patagonia.com

by Nicole Chatterson
Surf 2009

What we do on land affects even the most remote parts of our planet including our oceans. In the North Pacific Gyre, a rotating body of ocean currents roughly 1,000 nautical miles northeast of the Hawaiian Islands, the magnitude of human impact is powerfully clear. Trash, notably plastic waste, is accumulating here and turning our oceans into a synthetic soup. Everything from tiny plastic fragments to fully intact car tires litter the water column.

The Algalita Marine Research Foundation first visited the gyre 10 years ago, only to discover plastics outweighed zooplankton (the base of the food chain) by a ratio of 6 to 1. In a 2008 survey of the same area, that ratio had increased to 8 to 1.

Many of us have witnessed the sad state of our gutters and storm drains. It is this land-based debris that ultimately enters the ocean via rivers and drainage outlets. Of the trash found in the North Pacific Gyre, 80 percent originates on land. Some of this debris eventually breaks down. But the plastic debris is different.

Plastic is essentially a permanent material. Plastics do not biodegrade and return to basic natural materials. Most microbes can’t decompose their chemical structure. Instead, plastic just becomes more and more brittle, and breaks into progressively smaller pieces. Water samples taken from the North Pacific Gyre consistently produce plastic particles less than one half a millimeter in size (much smaller than the diameter of a pinhead).

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What’s the Catch? - Barry Eastabrook 8/09

Finally, some good news about seafood.

After more than a decade of reporting on the collapse of various fisheries around the world, I must confess that it feels a little strange to be writing a good-news story.
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But in a study published in the July 31 issue of Science magazine, Mike Fogarty of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center at Woods Hole, MA, and 20 co-authors found convincing evidence that efforts to rebuild depleted fisheries are starting to pay off. In five of the ten large ocean ecosystems they studied around the globe, efforts to reduce overfishing are succeeding, the researchers reported.

Fogarty points out that while it is difficult to strike a balance between fishing and conservation, a number of fisheries have been able to make it work. “Many of the world’s fisheries have a long history of overexploitation,” he said in a press release. “Different management tools are needed, depending on the situation, to restore marine ecosystems and rebuild fisheries. It takes time. Sometimes the steps to get to recovery are painful, but the dividends at the end make it worthwhile.”

More here

Hustle and Fish

Hustle and Fish "Fishporn Teaser" from Rollcast Productions on Vimeo.

Pirates of the Flats Trailer

Trout in Trouble

Great fish in Menemsha

Alison Shaw photography - MVIsle

Martha's Vineyard Fishing - COOPS

USEFUL LINK

Salmon on Drugs - Barry Eastabrook, Gourmet // 07.30.09

A new report indicates rampant antibiotic use at Chilean fish farms, which supply most of the U.S.’s farmed salmon.

Here’s a little tidbit to contemplate the next time you find yourself at the seafood counter in front of an appetizing display of pretty, orange farmed-salmon fillets: In 2007, Chile, then the largest supplier of farmed salmon to the U.S. by a long shot, used more than 385,000 kilograms of antibiotics in its salmon farms. Norway, which produced more than twice as much farmed salmon as Chile, used a fraction of that amount, only 649 kilograms. Looked at another way, Chile used nearly 600 times more antibiotics than Norway.

Those startling numbers were released last week by the environmental group Oceana Chile, which obtained them from the Chilean government.

Even more disquieting, Dave Bard of the Washington, D.C.–based Pure Salmon Campaign, which partners with Oceana, said in an email that the Chilean government’s own records show that “there have been documented uses of at least four antibiotics not included on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Approved Drugs list (for aquaculture) during the past two years.”

Those drugs included oxolinic acid, amoxicillin, erythromycin, and flumequine, all potent antibiotics.

Following critical press coverage last year, SalmonChile, a trade organization, struck back with full-page advertisements in American newspapers claiming, “In the Chilean aquaculture industry, all products used by veterinarians must be registered by the Chilean regulatory institutions. The approval process for those medicines has been accepted worldwide. In addition, antibiotics are prescribed by a veterinarian only when disease is diagnosed and when the health of the fish is compromised.” Given the new information, I’m willing to bet that it’s going to take a lot more than a slick ad campaign to quell the controversy this time around.

Fortunately, there is an easy way to avoid being exposed to this arsenal of medicines: Buy the wild Alaskan salmon currently in season. It’s sustainably fished and way better tasting than the farmed stuff.

I spent some time with Alaskan salmon fishermen earlier this decade. A popular bumper sticker around town read, “Say No to Drugs. Don’t Eat Farmed Fish.” I thought it was sound advice then, and I still do.

The Cove Movie

Allagash fishing report

Fish count: 70 or 80
Fish Type: Whitefish and Chub
Largest Fish: 15 inches
Fishing rod: Stick and line with doughballs as bait
Campsite: Cunliffe Island