Daily Dose of Holiday Chum

What better way to start the holiday season than with a daily dose of holiday Chum courtesy of Ray troll.

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Daily Dose of Chum

Daily Dose of Chum - And Fly Tying

Voted one of the All-Time top flies by Alaska's steelhead and salmon, the Lead-eyed egg-sucking leech is a great fly to have in your arsenal.

The MOAL (Mother Of All Leeches) 'Rhoid (think Prep H) - a great fly for fall rainbows and dollies.Tied in different color schemes, it is a great salmon and steelhead fly as well.

Via: Alaska Fly Fishing Goods

Chum, What Can't it Do?

Photo: Austin Baker/Flickr

Researchers from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany recently used salmon DNA to build a write-once-read-many (WORM) data storage device. Data is written to the device with a laser and read electronically, and you can enjoy the thought that your data’s sitting on a piece of sushi.

In this case, the DNA came from the testes of Oncorhynchus keta — aka chum salmon.

LINK (Via:Wired)

There's a green-and-purple oddball that tends to be more popular with biologists than fishermen

The Columbia River has 13 runs of threatened salmon. There's a long history of fishing in the basin for Chinook, coho, sockeye, bull trout, steelhead – 12 of the listed runs. Lucky number 13? Chum salmon.

Saving the unloved chum salmon (Via:KLCC Eugene)