Tippets: Save Your Smart Phone, 2013 Dam Removals, Hatching Mayflies

February 27, 2014 By: Erin Block

  • Greg Thomas has some prudent advice for how to handle a soaked smart phone, an inevitability at some point when out on the water. Read more via Angler’s Tonic.
  • A total of 51 dams were removed through river restoration projects in 2013. The full list of names and locations as well as an interactive map that includes all known dam removals in the United States as far back as 1936 can be found on the American Rivers website, and a recent article on National Geographic highlights what some of the major projects accomplished.
  • Copi Vojta highlights some incredible footage from the Stroud Water Research Center of the reproductive cycle of mayflies. Via Flyfish Journal.