Tippets: Dark Arts, Low Flows on the Deschutes, Lahontan Cutthroat Trout

November 14, 2014 By: Erin Block

  • In Hatch Magazine, Steve Zakur writes about pursuing “The Dark Art” of nymphing. “You don’t want to do it but you must fish and when the trout aren’t looking up you can either practice casting” he writes, or “get it done.”
  • Workers from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and local volunteers helped move an estimated 7,000 fish from the dwindling flows in the Deschutes River near Bend, OR. Via The Bend Bulletin.
  • The Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, native to Nevada’s Pyramid Lake area, is the largest growing fish native to North America. While over-harvesting almost wiped them out at the turn of the century, there is good reason to believe the “Lahontan giants” are on the rebound. Phil Monahan looks at the history and future of the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout in a recent article via Orvis.