Hardcore Anglers of the Week

Fishermen keep fishing as boat slowly sinks

After receiving reports that a 20-foot pontoon boat was possibly sinking at the Three Mile Bridge, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers took a boat out to investigate.

They found four adults fishing with water washing over the pontoons.

LINK (Via:NWF Daily News)

Combining pesticides makes them more deadly to salmon

Common agricultural pesticides that attack the nervous systems of salmon can turn more deadly when they combine with other pesticides, researchers have found.

Scientists from the NOAA Fisheries Service and Washington State University were expecting that the harmful effects would add up as they accumulated in the water. They were surprised to find a deadly synergy occurred with some combinations, which made the mix more harmful and at lower levels of exposure than the sum of the parts.

LINK (Via:The Mercury News)

El Paskador FLA Report

I forgot to mention the World Record Seatrout I caught while I was recently tarpon fishing. I figured it weighs somewhere just over 450 pounds, but you be the judge. The new Loop Opti Salt boated in just under 32 seconds.. Bad ass..

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60's Fishing Style

LINK (Via: A Time to Get)

Darren Christiansen Arts

Based in Lyons Colorado, Darren Christiansen beautifully captures some of the local residents.

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The California Water Wars: Not a Conflict Between Fish and People

Dan Bacher dispels the myth that corporate water interests and their political allies would have you believe about preserving the Califorina Delta and Central Vallley rivers.

This is not an issue of "fish versus people versus fish," nor "fish versus jobs." The battle to save the Delta, the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas, really comes down to a conflict between a future based on sustainable fishing, farming and recreation or a future based on corporate agribusiness irrigating toxic, drainage-impaired land that should never have been farmed at the expense of Delta and Sacramento Valley farms and healthy fisheries.

LINK (Via:Truthout)