July SOTM Entry: WA Summer Run

Justin Teegarden swings up some backyard metal.

Group wants to make it harder, not easier, to catch fish on Cowichan

Between them, the group of veteran anglers have more than 200 years of experience fishing the Cowichan River – and they think that gives them the right to tell the government how the river on southern Vancouver Island should be managed.

LINK (via: The Globe and Mail)

It's like Field of Dreams," he added. As in, build it, and they will come. Or in this case, un-build it.

Photo: John McMillan

More on that 35 inch male steelhead spotted by biologist John McMillan and collegue Ray Moses on the Elwha.

The gray ghosts of the Elwha are back: wild steelhead, already spotted beyond the free flowing stretch of river that used to be Elwha Dam, for the first time in a century.

"We saw this really large fish, we hadn't tagged anything like it, it was also in better condition than all the other fish," McMillan said. "We could only conclude it had made it up there on its own.

LINK (via: The Seattle Times)

Sonoma and Medocino County Whine

Scores of Sonoma and Mendocino county grape growers and other farmers packed a Mendocino County Superior Court room Thursday for a lawsuit challenging state frost protection rules for stretches of the Russian River watershed.

Regulators say the rules are necessary to protect salmon and steelhead, the latter a threatened species. Farmers and their attorneys say the regulations are unneeded, trample farmers' water rights and exceed the state Water Resources Control Board's authority.

LINK (via: the press democrat)

Eel River will see extra water release

The Eel River will see increased water flows between today and May 24 to aid the downstream migration of juvenile salmon and steelhead to the ocean, during which time people recreating in or near the water should take precautions.

LINK (via: The Times Standard)

Columbia River, Dworshak Reservoir Included In List Of Nation’s Top Bass Fishing Spots

Osprey Steelhead News explains how seriously fucked up that is.