A Medley of Piscatorial Prose

Fallon’s Angler celebrates the telling of the angling story through original, long-form writing with a strong, narrative feel, and avoids the incessant barrage of tackle and tactics. Appearing four times a year with an average of fourteen articles per issue, it gives the reader some 28,000+ words to sink their teeth into.

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"Be Steelheaded" essay contest

On Nov. 20, Trout Unlimited will launch the Wild Steelhead Initiative and Wild Steelheaders United, an ambitious and hopeful effort to protect and restore the wild steelhead throughout the West.

As part of the launch celebration, they are inviting writers to submit essays about their connection to steelhead, the storied fish of coastal streams and major river systems up and down the West Coast. The specific subject is up to you and the winning entry will score $1,000 and a spot in TROUT Magazine.

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ENVIROS AND ANGLERS

I'll say it again, if you're not reading Charles Witek's blog you should be.

As I’ve noted before in this blog, most anglers like to think of themselves as the good guys.

If you catch them in a moment of honesty, maybe down at the dock in the evening, or standing around the bar before their fishing club meeting convenes, they’ll tell you sure, they want to take fish home, but they’ll be glad to take a few less if that means that their kids and their grandkids will be able to have good fishing, too.

They’ll tell you that they’re a little concerned that there’s not enough bait for the bass to feed on, and that the sewer plant over by Bay Park is doing bad things to the bay.

They understand what “conservation” means, and on the whole, think that it’s a pretty good idea.

So it gets a little puzzling that, when somebody mentions “environmentalists”—folks who, as a whole, want to make sure there are enough fish around for the next generation, protect stocks of the forage fish and try to clean up our waters and protect essential fish habitat—a lot of anglers suddenly start breathing hard, pointing fingers, and calling those folks “the enemy.”

LINK (via: One Angler's Voyage)

Elwha River Uplift

Friend and author Dylan Tomine with an uplifting piece on floating the now free flowing Elwha River with his kids Skyla and Weston.

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The Greatest Fishing Story Ever Told

A blast from the past from Scott Carrier in Esquire.

The remote Yunnan Province of southwest China. A land of twenty-thousand-foot peaks and endless rivers cut through bottomless gorges, of jagged glaciers and cold mountain lakes. A fly fisherman's paradise. Or so we thought.

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Summer Solstice and some beach flies

Summertime and the livin is easy, Bob Triggs with another one of his signature dispatches.

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