Henrik Larson Fly Fishng Images

An impressive array of 26 galleries from around the world. LINK

An Exciting Opportunity To Be Larry Craig's Summer Intern!

Our favorite Senator from Idaho is looking for some summer help.

It’s that time of year again, and the Hill is looking for 2008’s crop
of ambitious, savvy whippersnappers to make up its corps of summer
interns! They’ll get to organize back room deals and schmooze with the
fat cats, but mostly, they’ll learn that running America isn’t all it’s
cracked up to be. And if you’re a summer intern for Idaho Sen. Larry
Craig, who knows what else you’ll be forced to do?

Our good senior senator from Idaho is an important man in Washington
and wields power that reverberates nationwide. Just ask the salmon of
Idaho River — they know what’s up

Via: Wonkette LINK

The Next Frontier In Fly Casting Competitions

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California Trout Call to Action - Protect Hurdygurdy Creek

Photo: Thomas B. Dunklin

The Smith River, home to the state’s healthiest wild runs of coho and
Chinook salmon, steelhead and coastal cutthroat trout, is California’s
only major undammed river system.  More than 300 miles of the Smith
River are designated National Wild and Scenic Rivers.  Now, we have an
opportunity to protect one of the river’s major tributaries, Hurdygurdy
Creek.  Please urge Senator Dianne Feinstein to approve
$4.5 million to buy critical land and stream habitat nested within the
Smith River National Recreation Area.

Take action at California Trout.  LINK

The Smith River Alliance Hurdygurdy Creek project. LINK

Thomas B. Dunklin's photo gallery of the Hurdygurdy watershed.  LINK

Point No Point

The Most Important Fish in the Sea

Regionally, they're known
as bunkers, pogies or fat-backs... but they're officially called
menhaden.

Today, one company-Omega Protein-has a monopoly on the menhaden
"reduction industry." Every year it sweeps billions of fish from the
sea, grinds them up, and turns them into animal feed, fertilizer, and
oil used in everything from linoleum to health-food supplements.

The
massive harvest wouldn't be such a problem if menhaden were only good
for making lipstick and soap. But they are crucial to the diet of
bigger fish and they filter the waters of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts,
playing an essential dual role in marine ecology perhaps unmatched
anywhere on the planet. As their numbers have plummeted, fish and birds
dependent on them have been decimated and toxic algae have begun to
choke our bays and seas. 

Via: AlterNet LINK