The Coolest Photo of a Redfish You're Going to See All Day...Maybe Ever

Photo: Sue Cocking

Captain John Kumiski holds a redfish he caught in the northern Mosquito Lagoon just after the Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off from Kennedy Space Center.

LINK (Via: The Miami Herald)

Check out these images from Discovery's final voyage.

Asian carp load nets $50K fine

A Markham, Ont., trucker who tried to bring a truckload of live Asian carp into Canada was fined $50,000 in court this week.

The fish Yang was transporting were likely headed for Asian markets in the Toronto area.

LINK (Via: The Windsor Star)



Sea-run cutthroat — also known as coastal cutthroat or bluebacks

Chris Santella chronicles a Sea Run Cutthroat excursion he took here in Puget Sound with Dave McCoy of Emerald Water Anglers.

LINK (Via: The NY Times)

We're going to need a bigger boat

A BIG mako shark grabs a large striped marlin just as it was about to be released.

LINK (Via:The Courier Mail)

Update on Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 9:30AM by Eric Rathbun

Missouri River trout count: Big fish, plenty of them

Fisheries biologists found healthy populations of rainbow trout in the Missouri River last fall when they conducted their annual rainbow trout census.

"In that Craig section, 78 percent of the population is greater than 16 inches; 65 percent is greater than 17 inches and 49 percent are greater than 18 inches."

LINK (Via: The Great Falls Tribune)

Dam release spawns unwanted trout and loss of chub

Your tax dollars at work.

Prior to the building of the Glen Canyon Dam, the humpback chub lived throughout the Colorado River system in Arizona and Utah. However the dam, among other things, destroyed the habitat of the chub and it was added to the endangered species list in 1967.  So the Bureau of Reclamation has been creating artificial floods to restore the habitat and the endangered minnow. Only one problem, the increased flows resulted in an 800% increase in rainbow trout populations who like to feed on...wait for it..... humpback chub. So now the Bureau of Reclamation is again proposing to kill thousands of trout using electroshock, perhaps annually for up to a decade, and at a cost of millions of dollars to taxpayers, to protect the chub.

To top it all off researchers aren't even sure that removing the trout, as they did between 2003 and 2006, will do much good.

FYI....the Feds don't electroshock the 15 miles of tailwater below the dam that encompasses Lees Ferry.

LINK (Via:The AZ Daily Sun)