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  • February 8, 2012

    Report: Radioactive Fish Found in VT Linked to Weapons Testing, Not Nuclear Plant

    --Chad Love

    Two years ago the discovery of radioactive fish near the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant caused an uproar (and some "Simpsons" jokes. Sorry, Vermont...)

    At the time there was speculation that proximity to the power plant was the cause, but in a nod to the old saw that "correlation does not necessarily mean causation" a new batch of radioactive Vermont fish have been discovered - 150 miles away from the power plant.

    From this story on wptz.com:

    A new report finds fish in the northern part of Vermont are radioactive like the fish living in the waters near the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. The significance of this finding is not just that these fish have radioactive elements in their bones, it's that the ones found up north have no physical connection to those in the Connecticut River by Vermont Yankee.

  • January 6, 2012

    KS May Nix Hunting and Fishing License Exemption for Seniors

    --Chad Love

    In an age of reduced funding sources, declining hunter participation, and increases in the average age of hunters, can cash-strapped state wildlife agencies afford to continue offering exemptions to hunting and fishing licenses? That's the issue facing Kansas as its wildlife department prepares to ask the state legislature to eliminate the state's senior citizen exemption for hunting and fishing licenses.

    From this story in the Wichita Eagle:
    Kansas senior citizens could be required to buy hunting and fishing licenses after this year. For decades, residents 65 and over have been exempt from the annual permits that currently sell for about $18 each. Chris Tymeson of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission said Thursday that the agency will ask the Legislature to remove the exemption.

  • January 3, 2012

    Tis The Season for Sporting Expo's

    by Kirk Deeter

    When I can't actually be out on the river fishing, the next best thing is to be with thousands of like-minded outdoorsy people talking about fishing. And that's exactly what I'll be up to in the next few days, when the International Sportsmen's Exposition rolls into Denver January 5-8 at the Colorado Convention Center.

    I'll actually be hosting the Fly Fishing Theater, introducing the likes of Pat Dorsey, Kelly Galloup, Landon Mayer, and April Vokey. I'm going to be giving a couple talks myself, focused on "Stillwater Fishing for Trophy Trout" at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, and 1:30 p.m. on Friday.

  • December 21, 2011

    Virginia to Begin Charging Non-Hunters, Anglers for Access to Public Land

    --Chad Love

  • December 6, 2011

    Disabled Missouri Angler Loses Livelihood When Burglar Steals Fishing Tackle

    --Chad Love

    No-good heartless bastards recently stole a disabled, wheelchair-bound St. Louis, Missouri angler's entire inventory of fishing tackle from his van.

    From this story on kplr11.com:

    "...Someone apparently targeted Willie Vickers because he was an amputee who didn`t always have the stamina to bring his gear in from his van in the 4500 block of Ashland in North St. Louis, after hours of fishing. The water at Fairgrounds Park in North St. Louis and all that swims beneath the surface have been calling to Vickers since boyhood. 'I remember my first fish,' he said, recalling how a kind neighbor couple took him fishing for the first time more than 40 years ago. He was the only one of them to catch a fish that day.

  • November 30, 2011

    British Angler Misses World Record By One Pound

    --Chad Love

    Here's one from the "Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades" files. A British angler on a fishing trip to the same area in Spain where Alexa Turness caught her world-record wels catfish came within one pound of landing his own world-record wels.

    From this story in the (UK) Sun:

    Angler Kevin Midmore struggled for 45 minutes to reel in what he hoped was a world record catfish ˜ only to find it was 1lb too light. The fisherman, from Kent, needed the help of three pals to land the 16.5st whopper in Mequinenza, Spain. But when they stuck it on the scales it came in at 234lb ˜ just shy of the top weight.

  • November 4, 2011

    Louisiana's Pearl River Being Restocked After Fish Kill

    --Chad Love

    The state of Lousiana is beginning the long process of rebuilding fish stocks in the Pearl River, which suffered a massive fish kill earlier this year after a paper mill's illegal discharge.  

    From this story in the St. Tammany News

    Wednesday afternoon, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries started one step in the long process of rehabilitating the ecosystem of the Pearl River. The LDWF released 30,000 channel catfish and 24,000 bluegill fingerlings into the river at the Highway 59 Boat Launch in Pearl River, in an effort to boost the fish population back to its pre-August levels.

    Over 500,000 fish in the river died from oxygen depletion in both St. Tammany and Washington parishes in August, after the Temple-Inland paper plant in Bogalusa released “black ink,” a combination of burnt wood pulp and chemicals in quantities that far exceeded levels set by the Department of Environmental Quality. Some of the fish that died were the rare Gulf sturgeon, which is on the federal endangered species list. Also killed were trout, eels, and mussels.  

  • October 27, 2011

    Condit Dam Demolished, White Salmon River Flows Free For 1st Time in Nearly a Century

    --Chad Love

    An almost century-old dam that blocked crucial spawning waters for Pacific northwest salmon and steelhead came crashing down yesterday.

    From this story in the Seattle Times:

    With a massive charge of TNT detonated at the base of Condit Dam, the White Salmon River roared back to life Wednesday. Penned up and drowned under a reservoir since the 125-foot-tall dam was completed in 1913, the White Salmon quickly found its natural channel.

  • October 25, 2011

    Deadly Virus Found In Pacific Northwest Salmon

    --Chad Love

    A deadly virus that has decimated commercial salmon farms has now shown up in wild salmon in the Pacific northwest.

    From this story in the New York Times:

    A lethal and highly contagious marine virus has been detected for the first time in wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest, researchers in British Columbia said on Monday, stirring concern that it could spread there, as it has in Chile, Scotland and elsewhere. Farms hit by the virus, infectious salmon anemia, have lost 70 percent or more of their fish in recent decades. But until now, the virus, which does not affect humans, had never been confirmed on the West Coast of North America.

  • October 7, 2011

    New UK Female World Record Catfish

    --Chad Love

    Attention men: If your wife and/or girlfriend wants to come along on one of your fishing trips just so she can spend more time with you, don't let her. Why? Because it is a virtual lead-pipe cinch of probability that they will always, always outfish you and make you look foolish, like this UK angler...

    From this story in the UK Daily Mail:

    A woman who took up fishing to see more of her angling-mad boyfriend has become a record holder after catching a 215lb catfish. Alexa Turness, from Holland Park, West London, landed the giant while on holiday in Spain after battling to reel it in for half an hour. It was more than 1.5 times the 28-year-old's weight and 8ft 4in long. It is the biggest freshwater fish caught by a British woman anywhere in the world and beats the previous record by a pound.

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