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Trout Tyme: January 2011
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A swirling eddy of commentary on All Things Trout. Friday, January 28, 2011. Catch, but, Release? Posted on Renaissance Post in early January, this essay has been modified to ask if the catch and release philosophy is yet another form of denial of being human. We Are All Killers. How is it preferable to depend upon others to take the lives that sustain you? Does this slaughtering place those who conduct it on a moral platform above or beneath our own? How dare we seek to assign such a judgment! We have w...
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Trout Tyme: Pink Squirrels and Golden Retrievers
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A swirling eddy of commentary on All Things Trout. Monday, March 7, 2011. Pink Squirrels and Golden Retrievers. Both have demonstrated their character in yesterday's foray to CamelCreek in quest of the wily winter trout. We're not talking about cocktail recipes here, rather, a history of results for a well-known and variously tied trout fly. Long known to Driftless Area fishermen, the Pink Squirrel, first tied by Wisconsin fly fisher John Bethke. The original tying recipe has been modified innumerable ti...
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Trout Tyme: Lampreys Suck; and, so does the Budget
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A swirling eddy of commentary on All Things Trout. Tuesday, May 3, 2011. Lampreys Suck; and, so does the Budget. The unparalleled effectiveness of the lamprey control program hinges upon control strategies that exploit the unique life history of sea lampreys. These exotic invaders gained access to the upper Great Lakes following the 1935 expansion of the Welland Canal, enlarged to allow maritime shipping to bypass Niagara Falls in eastern Lake Erie. Ammocoete larva, bottom; transformer, middle;. The uppe...
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Trout Tyme: National Trout Center
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A swirling eddy of commentary on All Things Trout. Wednesday, April 17, 2013. Life-long learning opportunities of the kind promoted by the National Trout Center will continue to improve the lives and experiences of our citizens, leading to an ethic and appreciation for cold-water environments embraced by Aldo Leopold in his promulgation of a “Land Ethic”. And follow the instructions there. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. A Year On The Fly. American Museum of Fly Fishing.
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Trout Tyme: May 2011
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A swirling eddy of commentary on All Things Trout. Saturday, May 28, 2011. The hunter is the "alert man" according to Jose Ortega y Gasset, author-philosopher whose " Meditations on Hunting. Has become the de facto. Standard to explain the intrinsic human instinct to hunt. This applies, of course, to the aquatic hunter, or fisher, who is constantly seeking cues to the activity and whereabouts of her/his quarry. The question arises, alert to what? Links to this post. Tuesday, May 3, 2011. We seldom have b...
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Trout Tyme: New Year with Gusto
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A swirling eddy of commentary on All Things Trout. Sunday, January 1, 2012. New Year with Gusto. Welcome back to Trout Tyme in 2012! Dawn breaks over the driftless area of the upper midwest with high winds and gusts above 40 mph this New Year's Day. To insure that you know the rules! You may want to start the year with a proven favorite pattern, such as a pink squirrel. Bead-heads, double beads or weighted-body nymphs are good producers as this snow-angel brown trout attests.The double-bead patterns ...
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Trout Tyme: January 2012
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A swirling eddy of commentary on All Things Trout. Sunday, January 1, 2012. New Year with Gusto. Welcome back to Trout Tyme in 2012! Dawn breaks over the driftless area of the upper midwest with high winds and gusts above 40 mph this New Year's Day. To insure that you know the rules! You may want to start the year with a proven favorite pattern, such as a pink squirrel. Bead-heads, double beads or weighted-body nymphs are good producers as this snow-angel brown trout attests.The double-bead patterns ...
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Trout Tyme: The Savagery of Ignorance
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A swirling eddy of commentary on All Things Trout. Saturday, October 8, 2011. The Savagery of Ignorance. The full depth of this story has yet to be revealed. When it is, we will all be astonished at the extent to which our ecological futures still depend upon the individual and collective actions of people who are unable or completely unwilling to see human beings as an integral part of the biotic community of the earth, rather than something alien and independent of all other biota. Here is a man, profe...
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Trout Tyme: March 2011
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A swirling eddy of commentary on All Things Trout. Thursday, March 31, 2011. On an early fall trip to northern California, we had the pleasure of visiting the streamcourse of the mighty Sacramento River. Draining the high altitude lava fields of northeastern California at the southern edge of the Cascade range. Our analysis boils down to only three critical environmental features: flow rate, bedrock characteristics, and soil overburden. In this remarkable photo of McArthur-Burney Falls. On the Fall River...