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Voices from the River: On Bigfoot and catch-and-release fishing
Flipping through the television channels the other night, I noticed a promo for “Killing Bigfoot.” It apparently isn’t enough to just find that son of a gun anymore. I wonder… if someone actually does kill Bigfoot, would that be treated as a homicide or simply poaching? Some states might want to start selling Squatch tags,…
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Voices from the River: The case for (sometimes) using spinning gear
By Mark Taylor The reaction was subtle but obvious. A sideways look. A head shake. A grimace. Then came the single word. “Really?” my buddy said looking at the fishing rod in my hand? We were loading up for a short float-fishing trip on a mi d-sized Virginia trout stream. My friend had a couple…
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Voices from the River: Blame Sam
By Eric Booton I don’t consider myself a big drinker. There are few nights that I will have more than a beer o r two. But there is one thing I truly enjoy about my days on the water. And that is indulging myself in a nice, refreshing gulp after that rush of the first…
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Voices from the River: Rethinking my fishing vocabulary
A brook trout falls for a Royal Coachman, a fly many believe is a "killer pattern" for backcountry trout. Should we redefine our angling lexicon? By Kirk Deeter I received an interesting message the other day from a good friend of mine, who basically asked me to reconsider words like “killer” or “deadly” in my…
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Voices from the River: It’s up to us to get the lead out
Cameron Hunt cradles a big mirror carp from the Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge in Idaho. By Chris Hunt My conservation mentor is a hunter who occasionally fishes. I, on the other hand, am a fisher who will tote a gun around looking for birds on occasion. Both of us have had the same conservation epiphany…
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Voices from the River: Conversations on ice
The end of great day of ice fishing on the St. Louis River in Duluth, Minnesota. Brett Prettyman photo. By Brett Prettyman DULUTH, Minnesota — You learn a lot about someone while sharing a space the size of a row of three airplane seats for eight hours. A dd fishing chatter to the mix, particularly…
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Voices from the River: Gages
Fishing for steelhead at the mouth of the Carmel River in the 1960s. By Sam Davidson For most of the past year we have been living next to a river. This has changed the way I think about streams, and fishing. Every angler knows that rivers are dynamic (where they are not dammed, anyway). That…
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