saltwater ramblings
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Hooked up on the Hoh
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On the Skagit.
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Casting to rising searuns…
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Hatch a fish...
Salmon hatcheries are under attack by people with very short memories. They have forgotten why many hatcheries were built in the first place.
When are we going to focus on the problems instead of supplementing in a way that ultimately hurts wild fish? Hatcheries do have a place, but it is very limited and vastly different than they way they are being implemented now.
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Hungry little dolly.
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Time on the water
There’s a pretty awesome battle scene near the end.
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“Signs of a sea creature” - Chris Ringlee
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A great article on Puget Sound saltwater fly fishing from an old edition of This is Fly.
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If the trout are lost, smash the state.
Thomas McGuane -
I’ve just finished two books that should be required reading for any high school Pacific Northwest history class. King of Fish: The Thousand Year Run of Salmon by David R. Montgomery and My Story as Told by Water by David James Duncan. A lifelong Puget Sound resident, I always naively thought that the settlers on the West Coast were unaware of their disastrous effects on the salmon in the late 19th and 20th centuries. No one knew what they were doing, I thought. Not so. It was disappointing and deflating to learn that we knew exactly what we were doing and most of what we did flew in the face of what responsible scientists and fisheries managers had to say. We ignored the problems. We deliberately broke laws that were in place to protect the fish. What is truly scary is that the decline of Pacific Northwest salmon echoed exactly what had happened to the salmon of the European and North American Atlantic coasts, but at a much more alarming rate. We have successfully screwed one of the greatest renewable resources available to us in favor of political gain, cheap power and a quick buck.
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Fall on the Snoqualmie.
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On the salt
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Frosty winter day on the Hoh
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Gin clear
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Yvon Chouinard speaks at the Elwha River Science Symposium. I’ve been reading alot about salmon and dams lately. Also read Yvon Chouinard’s Let My People Go Surfing which is kind of a chest beater for Patagonia, but I have a huge respect for the company now and what they are trying to do. He alludes to it a bit in this clip, but the clothing industry does some pretty messed up stuff.
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