Chasing Rainbows

Anders Halverson of, An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World fame, writes in Conservation Magazine about the efforts to undo the damage caused by generations of rainbow trout stocking.

LINK (Via: Conservation Magazine)

Nov SOTM Entry: Idaho Bow

29".  This is a special fish.

Sept SOTM Entry: Snake River Bow

Cole Sawver with a streamer induced hen taken yesterday from the Snake.

May SOTM Entry: Taylor Hen

We underwrite Taylor submissions fairly tight cheeked lately, but this one got the nod because:

a) it's a girthier than normal taylor hen

and

b) Jackson Knoll wore this jacket to not only "become invisible to the trout and agitated the locals"

Atta boy.

Oct. Slab of the month Winner: Rainbow de GSmolt

 GSmolt proves that there is no substitute for greatness.  So straight, so clean, and so sexy.

In case you missed it, here's another shot of this wild beast:

October Slab of the Month Entry: G. Smolt Edition

Brutha H. displays some of the straightest, flesh lovinest rainbow you'll see all day.  Fitting entry to break the Oct. ice.

BTW - that fleece will no doubt be found in the fly fishing history museum some day.