Tippets: Reeling Hand, Cuba’s Environmental Concerns, Hatchery Kill

July 13, 2015 By: Erin Block

  • Which hand to reel with gets folks riled up about the “right way” to do things. Phil Monahan shares his fishing style and technique (casting and reeling with the right hand) and why you should do what feels comfortable to you, in a recent piece on the Orvis blog.  Also see the piece Phil wrote for MidCurrent on “Right- vs. Left-Hand-Retrieve Reels.”
  • The lifting of the decades-old economic embargo against Cuba is raising concerns about the projected increase in tourism and what effects it will have on the country’s ecosystems. Via The New York Times.
  • A single fish stuck in an intake pipe cut off freshwater from coming into the raceway at the Rock Creek Hatchery in Oregon. The lack of water resulted in the death of an estimated more than 400,000 Chinook pre-smolts. Via Outdoor Hub.