TU unveils 'State of the Trout' report

Everything you wanted to know about trout courtesy of their namesake organization.

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Off the Map, Off the Grid to Explore B.C.’s Threatened Unuk River

Travis Rummel chronicles a first descent of the threatened Unuk River in BC.

Last summer, Ryan Peterson talked me and Gordon Klco into a first descent of the Unuk River from its source to sea. He made it sound like no big deal: Just hop in our Alpacka packrafts and casually float 100 miles downstream from the mountainous B.C. headwaters to the river mouth in Misty Fjords National Monument in southeast Alaska. We would shoot film along the way to help bring awareness to B.C.’s rampant development of large-scale mines on Transboundary Rivers in the region, in particular a proposed $5.3-billion mine on one of the Unuk’s tributaries, the Kerr-Suplhurets-Mitchell mine (KSM).

The expedition ended up being one of the hardest of my life.

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Stripers Forever 2014 Survey Results

Stripers Forever has released the results of their 2014 Annual Angler Survey.

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The complete 20 page PDF of the survey.

Going to War with GTs

Peter McLeod leads an assault on Farquhar Atoll.

Heading for the outer islands in the Seychelles is the nearest thing in fishing terms of going to war. After months of preparation including some physical training the time was finally upon us as my band of GT hunters boarded aircraft and heading once again for the Indian Ocean.

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What do unrecognized North American Primates eat?

And, how do they do it?  Here's some "food for thought"...

Deer:

"I readied my bow and four does came running within fifteen yards. they appeared to be spooked by something."

"He makes a (my left- his right) turn and jumps on this deer killing it. The deer cries out three times and stops. All is now quiet again."

"Then today my mom told me she was walking the dog in the woods and found a huge piece of poop with fur in it."

"There on the gravel bar was a freshly killed deer, steam rising from it and blood coming off it, and the brush was splattered with blood maybe as high as 8 to 10 feet. But the worst part was, the upper torso (stomach to head) was gone."

"So I’m sitting there, watching the deer, and all of a sudden it sticks its head strait up in the air and looks behind it and freezes."

How they skin a deer video

Hogs:

"As the squealing hog bounced off the tree, it pounced on it, beating it with its fist like a person pounding on a desk."

Elk:

"I turned with my flash light and looked behind me and almost 100 feet behind me was an up right walking creature dragging the dead elk that the car I was towing had hit down the side of a hill."

Sheep:

"We watched as these big animals chased the sheep for what seemed like hours. In reality, the whole chase scene was about 20 or 30 minutes."

Shellfish:

"As the morning sun was rising I could clearly see approx. 150 yds a large dark hairy figure with facial (skin) like features bent over and what appeared to be turning over rocks."

Frogs:

"While going around a curve in the highway we came within 50' of a Sascquatch that was stooping in the middle of the road eating frogs."

Fruits/Veggies:

"It was squatting down eating the vegetables from the plants there. I could even hear it eating from where I stood."

"He eats grapefruit off of the tree, sometimes leaving a large bite mark on a half of grapefruit (usually hanging three feet above my reach)."

"It had a piece of corn in its hand and I mean a hand like a humans hand."

"Kulls publicly unveiled a trailcam photo that showed a Sasquatch stealing apples. The photo was taken last year in September around 12:02AM."

Dumpster Diving:

"Hearing a shuffling bang noise near the dumpster, she slowed her bike and began looking. Behind the shed was more than a noise. A shadowy sasquatch shape."

"I saw it as it was rooting through a garbage dumpster. In a matter of seconds my brain went through a kind of checklist to try to rationalize what I was seeing."

"The next day after seeing the tracks near the garbage dumpster area I was convinced it was a Bigfoot."

The Kitchen Sink:

"Its diet includes "roots, slugs, frogs, deer, elk, fish, onions and berries. It literally licks its fingers after eating a meal of skunk cabbage."

Fish Related BF Story of the Week: Kalama Edition

Here's an oldie but a goodie.

"As I stood there in my drift boat watching the line slowly peel off of the reel, I couldn’t help but feel confused about what could possibly be attached to the other end when it stood up in the middle of the river 30 feet below my boat and seemed, by the glowing corkies and sand shrimp, to be hooked in the left shoulder and not at all comfortable with the whole situation, nor where either of the two gentlemen in the front of my boat." Read on 

And, a number of years earlier, up river from the beginners hole, this kid ran into a N.A.P. (North American Primate)