Tag: salmon

I originally came across this story when the Wild Steelhead Coalition shared it on Instagram, but it comes to us courtesy of Lynda Mapes at The Seattle Times. This story is an absolute must-read for anyone who considers themselves a conservationist. The story details the huge resurgence in king salmon in the Elwha River, following the removal of the...

Columnist Ken Perrotte, with The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Virginia, recently authored this column about fly fishing for salmon in Michigan. Much more affordable than heading to Alaska for salmon, Michigan offers the opportunity for anyone, according to Perrotte, to get hooked on fly fishing. Read his well-done story here.

The Salmon River in New York is one of America's more famous fisheries, with great runs of salmon and big resident brown trout. Per this article from David Figura at NYup.com, however, fishing on the fly-fishing only section of the Salmon River is closed until further notice, due to low water conditions. You can read more about the closure here.

This is one of those stories that gives me hope for the future of conservation. As you can read in Chris Hunt's latest piece in Hatch Magazine, there's a strong possibility that Arctic grizzly bears are showing us new, heretofore undocumented salmon streams in Alaska's Brooks Range. I'll share this quote from the article, then I strongly suggest you go...

While it's not exactly a surprise, it's still disheartening to hear the news that the four dams on the Lower Snake River won't be removed anytime soon. According to news shared by the Wild Steelhead Coalition and ABC, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and Bonneville Power Administration released a joint Environmental Impact Statement...

According to Hatch Magazine, one of fly fishing's largest conservation voices, the proposed Pebble mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska, is likely to receive permission to move forward. While the actual permit has yet to be awarded to the Pebble partnership, a release of the Environmental Impact Study by the Environmental Protection Agency says that developing the...

Editor's Note: This is the second article in our series on fly fishing conservation.  This series appears with the support of Swift Fly Fishing, makers of Epic Fly Rods. Will wild native Atlantic salmon go the way of the passenger pigeon, or will we be able to bring them back from the brink of extinction as we did the bald eagle, our National Bird, or...

Rain forests are generally thought of as tropical, but there are also temperate-climate rain forests. The largest temperate rain forest on the planet is on the West Coast of North America. It originally extended from Northern California to Alaska, between the Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Coast Ranges. It is still 1,200 miles long from Oregon to Alaska. The...

"Ever thought of Denmark as a salmon fly fishermans paradise? Not? Well think again.... In this episode of FLY TV, Steffan Jensen from Fly-Dressing meets up with Kim Sørensen from Outdoor Xperten Holstebro. Kim is undoubtedly one of the most experienced salmon fly fisherman in Denmark, so with his knowledge about the river, and Steffans knowledge of...

At every stage of their lives from eggs to adults, sockeye salmon of Bristol Bay, Alaska have endured being hunted by a long list of predators including birds, fish, marine mammals, and people. Nearing the end of their long migration at a precise location where they emerged several years ago, the salmon gather to spawn but first they must escape the last...