Tippets: Fly Fishing Only, Ecosystems 101, Grip & Kill

January 10, 2014 By: Erin Block

  • Ambiguous wording used to designate fly-fishing-only waters in some states is of concern for tenkara anglers. Daniel Galhardo explains the predicament as well as actions currently being taken in Washington State, via Tenkara USA.
  • The world’s longest ongoing salmon research reveals just how dependent we all are on each other. In a recent article on High Country News, Ray Ring writes about the hard lessons we must learn from the Bristol Bay ecosystem.
  • We all like taking photos of fish, but grip and grin can all too often turn into grip and kill. A recent article on Bish & Fish out of New Zealand, sheds light on the science and harsh facts of fish survival rates, as well as improved techniques to do no harm.