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| What's the Catch? Wondering Why Fewer Trout are B... | About Fly Fishing | |||
| <p>Maybe it's just me, getting older, bringing on additional responsibilities (kids + mortgage payments = less time on the water), but it seems the number of trout I catch continues to decrease with each passing summer.</p> <p>But a big part of me has a hunch plummeting trout catches -- at least here in California -- can be attributed to the state budget crisis along with a lawsuit barring trout plants on many of the waters we're used to having stocked because of the possible presence of steelhead trout.</p> <p>We have at least three local lakes and a pair of rivers that are affected by one or the other.</p> <p>All of which adds additional stresses to our trout waters that are receiving regular plants.</p> <p>So what's the resolution? Keep your fingers crossed, fight for and support your local fisheries, and protect the trout-stocked waters you do have.</p> <p>Has anyone noticed their trout numbers decreasing this summer? Where are you fishing and why the decrease in catches in your eyes? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.</p><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border:1px solid #d5d0bf;clear:both;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/b/2010/07/30/whats-the-catch-wondering-why-fewer-trout-are-being-caught.htm">What's the Catch? Wondering Why Fewer Trout are Being Caught</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/">About.com Fly Fishing</a> on Friday, July 30th, 2010 at 21:27:45.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/b/2010/07/30/whats-the-catch-wondering-why-fewer-trout-are-being-caught.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/b/2010/07/30/whats-the-catch-wondering-why-fewer-trout-are-being-caught.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://flyfishing.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://flyfishing.about.com/b/2010/07/30/whats-the-catch-wondering-why-fewer-trout-are-being-caught.htm&zItl=What's the Catch? Wondering Why Fewer Trout are Being Caught">Email this</a></p> |
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| First Encounter with a Mountain Whitefish | About Fly Fishing | |||
| <p><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 10pt; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 160px;" src="http://0.tqn.com/d/flyfishing/1/G/f/2/-/-/montana-mountain-whitefish.jpg" border="1" alt="Fly fishing for mountain whitefish" />The first time I landed a <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/od/fishspecies/a/Fly-Fishing-For-Mountain-Whitefish.htm">mountain whitefish</a>, I wasn't sure what it was. <br /> <br /> I had heard of the scaley, small-mouthed bottomfeeder before and had a general idea about what they looked like. But living on the coast of California, I wasn't all that familiar with the odd, high-mountain species that prefers near-freezing creeks and rivers.</p> <p>But on a memorable trip to <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/od/wheretofish/a/Missoula.htm">Missoula, Mont.</a>, many moons ago, fishing one of my favorite trout waters of all time, <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/od/wheretofish/a/rockcreek.htm">Rock Creek</a>, I landed my first mountain whitefish to cap an amazing day of fishing on the creek's upper stretches.</p> <p>Monster browns, rainbows, and then my first mountain whitefish. It was a day to remember.</p> <p>While I lost track of the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/od/fishspecies/a/BrownTrout.htm">brown trout</a> and <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/od/fishspecies/a/rainbowtrout.htm">rainbow trout</a> I caught on this fall fly fishing trip (I seem to remember purple streamers doing well - thanks to a tip from then-Montana Grizzlies head football coach Bobby Hauck), I remember the exact fly, presentation and conditions of the mountain whitefish take.</p> <p>I had driven as far as my little rental car and a quarter of a tank of gas could take me on the dirt road that parallels Rock Creek, to a finger of the creek that was no more than a trickle.</p> <p>It was the end of a long, but productive day on the water, so I didn't even have my waders on any longer, but wanted to get a few more casts in before I winded my way back to Missoula and celebrated my catches with an ice-cold Big Sky Trout Slayer Ale.</p> <p>Before turning around, I pulled over, ran down to the creek's edge, a plopped a tiny beadhead nymph at the start of a little run on down to the main portion of the creek.</p> <p>As the beadhead bounced its way down the run, I thought for sure I had hung up in the gravely bottom, but got a thrill when I saw a silver bullet shoot upstream.</p> <p>Because this stretch of the stream was so narrow, I had no trouble flipping the mountain whitefish up into my net.</p> <p>When I pulled the fish from the net, I did a double take, expecting it to be another rainbow if anything. My first thought was that it was a squawfish or pike minnow of some sort, but then realized it had to be a mountain whitefish with that dinky mouth that doesn't extend past the eye and the scaley sides.</p> <p>I took a couple photos to identify the fish when I got back to the hotel and was glad when I confirmed online that it was in fact my first mountain whitefish.</p> <p>Not exactly a sought after fish for fly fishermen, but a treat for an angler who spends much of his time close to sea level.</p> <p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/od/fishspecies/a/Fly-Fishing-For-Mountain-Whitefish.htm">Read more about the mountain whitefish</a> in our species section.</p> <div id="_mcePaste" style="overflow: hidden; position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px;"><p><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 10pt; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 160px;" src="http://z.about.com/d/flyfishing/1/G/1/2/-/-/baja21.jpg" border="1" alt="Fishing in Baja California, Mexico" />J</div><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border:1px solid #d5d0bf;clear:both;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/b/2010/07/25/first-encounter-with-a-mountain-whitefish.htm">First Encounter with a Mountain Whitefish</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/">About.com Fly Fishing</a> on Sunday, July 25th, 2010 at 01:19:39.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/b/2010/07/25/first-encounter-with-a-mountain-whitefish.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/b/2010/07/25/first-encounter-with-a-mountain-whitefish.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://flyfishing.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://flyfishing.about.com/b/2010/07/25/first-encounter-with-a-mountain-whitefish.htm&zItl=First Encounter with a Mountain Whitefish">Email this</a></p> |
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| Fish Wrap: Monster Catfish, Boat-Bashing Whales a... | About Fly Fishing | |||
| <p><em>A look at the top stories making headlines around the fishing world this week: </em></p> <ul> <li>While it wasn't caught on a fly, <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/fisherman-makes-world-record-catch-20984569">this possible world record catfish</a> weighed in at 130 pounds and took a pair of anglers 30 minutes to lift the whiskerfish into the boat. But will it qualify for a world record? Only time will tell.</li> <li>Also a non-fly fishing story, but one that boat-bound anglers should be aware of: a 40-ton whale collided with a sailboat off the coast of South Africa. You've got to <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100721/od_yblog_upshot/beware-of-jumping-whales-when-sailing-off-the-coast-of-south-africa">see the photos</a> to believe it.</li> <li>More stories about fly fishing for carp. Here's some insight on the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.wfn.tv/news/index.php?blog=406768">Carp Slam on the bank of the South Platte</a>. And another about carp being a "<a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_15562186">freshwater bonefish</a>."</li> <li>Finally a promising story about fish surviving a man-made event. In Bloomington, Maryland, the trout on the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://times-news.com/local/x1884756803/Trout-in-great-shape-after-reservoir-draining">lower Savage River appear to have survived</a> this pas winter's draining of an upstream reservoir.</li> <li>On the other side of the country, the <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100721/A_SPORTS03/7210330">eradication of northern pike</a> is helping "return Lake Davis to its historic status as the best mountain trout impoundment in California."</li> <li>And last, but not least, <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://www.upstreammagazineonline.com/">UpStream Magazine</a> announced the digital publication of their first issue on Tuesday.</li> </ul><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border:1px solid #d5d0bf;clear:both;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/b/2010/07/22/fish-wrap-monster-catfish-boat-bashing-whales-and-freshwater-bonefish.htm">Fish Wrap: Monster Catfish, Boat-Bashing Whales and Freshwater Bonefish</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/">About.com Fly Fishing</a> on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 at 07:53:18.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/b/2010/07/22/fish-wrap-monster-catfish-boat-bashing-whales-and-freshwater-bonefish.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&zu=http://flyfishing.about.com/b/2010/07/22/fish-wrap-monster-catfish-boat-bashing-whales-and-freshwater-bonefish.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://flyfishing.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://flyfishing.about.com/b/2010/07/22/fish-wrap-monster-catfish-boat-bashing-whales-and-freshwater-bonefish.htm&zItl=Fish Wrap: Monster Catfish, Boat-Bashing Whales and Freshwater Bonefish">Email this</a></p> |
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