Copyright 1995-2004 Reel-Time.com Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:22:44 GMT Reel-Time, the Internet Journal of Saltwater Fly Fishing is the authoritative source for all that is important to briny long wanders. Serving saltwater fly fishermen since 1995 http://reel-time.com/ http://www.reel-time.com/ http://www.reel-time.com/forum/images1/rt-5.gif 144 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0110_050110_salmon.html Last year a silver tide of salmon flooded many rivers in Europe and North America. Scotland, Iceland, Canada, and other countries reported big gains in the number of Atlantic salmon returning to their native rivers. http://keysnews.com/310542500305070.bsp.htm For as long as anyone can remember, Carlile has dominated the most-bonefish category of the two-day kickoff event of the Key West Fishing Tournament. Carlile usually competes with his significant other, Gloria Rampfel. http://www.wetdawg.com/RSS/B2/htdocs/artman/show_article.php/touring/2005/01/touring.Brooks.html We left the San Juan islands on the Red Eye ferry one morning in August in a middle-aged Toyota Four Runner headed again for the northern tip of Vancouver Island. Colin Doherty and myself pulled into the palatial grounds of Painter’s Lodge in Campbell River that evening in a downpour. http://www2.townonline.com/brewster/opinion/view.bg?articleid=160594 In this cold bleak season, one card in his mailbox can bring back a summer day to Paul DiDomenico. Sent from the American Littoral Society, the card would tell of the recapture of one of his tagged striped bass. It's always a thrill, Paul says, to compare this information with records from the day of the tagging. How far had that bass traveled? http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21714,857871,00.html First, striped bass may not be caught in bay and river waters until March 1. Ocean waters from the beach out to three miles are still open to fishing. http://www.dnr.state.md.us/dnrnews/notices/2005/010704.html The hearing will provide the opportunity to receive public comment on proposed permanent regulatory changes that will require use of circle hooks during the Susquehanna Flats catch and release season and defines recreational and commercial finfishing gear. Proposed regulations will also clarify the use of eel as bait during summer and fall striped bass season, repeals a requirement for identification of a certain type of prohibited gill net, clarifies commercial reporting requirements, removes the recreational size limit for white perch caught from cast nets, prohibits catching and possession of yellow perch eggs, provides criteria to exempt an individual from a license in order to sell eels, requires a person fishing with a Chesapeake Bay sportfishing license to possess a separate form of identification, aligns recreational shark size limit with the federal regulations by making the size limit 54 inches and removes the commercial shark size limit. http://www2.townonline.com/newton/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=157051 When clean water activist Christopher Swain swam the length of the Charles River recently, he not only came across shopping carts, refrigerators, cars and trash, but he also shared the river with almost 30 different fish species including carp, trout and sunfish. http://www.delmarvanow.com/easternshore/stories/20050105/1829699.html A 63-lb., 8-oz. striped bass caught on Jan. 2 by Paul W. Kleckner of Greenbackville has been certified as a new Virginia state record by the Virginia Saltwater Fishing Tournament. http://www.southbaynews.com/news/2005/0105/Boating_Fishing/ What do you suppose it is that drives guys, especially the ones who know better, to take small craft out into really dangerous waters - places where they donít belong? http://www.katu.com/stories/73768.html With winter settling in on the High Desert, fly fishing might be the last thing on the minds of many Central Oregonians. http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050102/REPOSITORY/501020330/1017 Welcome to fishing in the mid-Empties.Remember those gentler times when it was the symbol Y2K that struck terror into the hearts of people overly dependent on computers and networks? http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/fishing/2002139456_troutbums04.html Soon after my mom received her new computer system, she called me and asked, "Where are the instructions? I didn't get a manual." http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2004/12_16-32/OUT The chase for big rockfish closed yesterday, and farther down the bay some fishermen took fish of 30 pounds or more, which bodes well for those with trailerable boats who are willing to take the long drive to troll at Smith Point and below in Virginia waters where the season continues through the remainder of the month. http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041219/REPOSITORY/412190345/1007/SPORTS When a fly tier gets his hackles up, he isn't looking for an exchange of harsh words or punches. http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2004/12/20/news/regional/2aba87adb1c7290c87256f70005e9ae7.txt Montana's famed big rainbow trout are disappearing from a section of the Missouri River. http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/sports/stories/1159002.shtml Imagine that you and a thousand of your closest relatives were going on a trip -- 2,000 miles by water -- to Greenland. This trip wouldn't be a vacation, but rather, a pilgrimage. http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/viewpoints/mvoice/041128sebasticookd.shtml In his Forum Page column, "State broke rules on Sebasticook Dam decision" (Sept. 24.), Rep. Ken Fletcher, R-Winslow, painted an extremely bleak and inaccurate picture of what the Sebasticook River watershed will be like following the removal of the Fort Halifax Dam. http://pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1101723617136200.xml The mysterious American eel, a fish that has long been in decline in the Susquehanna River and throughout North America, could be on its way to federal recognition as a species in peril. http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2004/11/30anglersirateasf.html John Pearce didn't need the news in the papers or on the TV telling him it had happened to his river again. http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2004/11_30-18/TOP With nutrients and toxic chemicals choking the life out of the Chesapeake Bay, government clean up efforts are "fast becoming a national disgrace," the head of a bay advocacy group charged yesterday. http://www.vagazette.com/sports/va-sports4_120104dec01,0,7067412.story?coll=va-sports Hey, it's time for Santa Claus to saddle up his reindeer and get going! So before we get into what's happening with hunting, fishing, boating, canoeing and everything else, let's take a few minutes to look over some goodies for under the Christmas tree. http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1889296p-8221955c.html A simple concrete wall spanning the Little River off Interstate 95 near Kenly, Lowell Mill Dam created controversy when it was built nearly 200 years ago. http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,1129374,00.html Striped bass fishermen are looking ahead to next year as the fishery fades rapidly in Shore area waters. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=8500894 Foreign anglers are running covert guiding operations on New Zealand rivers, says a South Island fishing guide. http://www.codyenterprise.com/articles/2004/11/29/sports/sports3.txt Winter fishing often tests the limits of anglers and gear alike. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/outdoors/sfl-fishrep30nov30,0,5935363.story?coll=sfla-sports-outdoors The anglers competing in Saturday's World Diamond Source YCF Billfish Challenge will be targeting sailfish, but they can't afford to ignore kingfish, dolphin and wahoo. http://www.projo.com/southcounty/content/projo_20041124_char24.1501bb.html After eight years of planning, work is about to begin on a project that will restore the eelgrass in Ninigret Pond and put the sand that killed it back where it belongs -- on the beach. http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,1122325,00.html Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-NJ, has been promising that there are ways to fund fisheries research without squeezing the recreational angler. He has made good on that pledge. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/books/article/0,1299,DRMN_63_3350081,00.html Jimmy Buffett, the singer-songwriter probably most famous for his 1970s hit song Margaritaville, delights and amuses with his new novel A Salty Piece of Land http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2004-11-24-steelhead-pa_x.htm Steve Young loves all things fish, but he loves steelhead in particular. So much so that he quit his job as a motorcycle salesman several years ago to guide anglers visiting Lake Erie's tributary waters during the fall and winter steelhead runs. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/sports/othersports/21outdoors.html Autumn on the Copper River Delta comes in a series of time-lapse images. Fields of purple fireweed turn to gold seemingly overnight. Daylight erodes in chunks like a calving glacier. Skeins of waterfowl zoom south in fast motion. http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,1119295,00.html The Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey has proven to be an unreliable method of gathering fisheries data, and everyone knows it. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13411056 The migratory fish hatched as far north as upstate New York and traveled downriver to the Chesapeake Bay, where they lived through maturity until returning to their home waters to spawn. http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/index.ssf?/base/columns-0/1101197443150420.xml It was a long time coming this fall, but surface fishing for migratory striped bass is hot right now and will, hopefully, last another few weeks. http://www.mvgazette.com/features/?story=20031219_dick_hathaway Dick Hathaway is an Edgartown bay scalloper. On one frosty morning this month, Mr. Hathaway was out in his wooden skiff on Cape Pogue Pond with over a dozen other fishermen in boats, doing what Edgartown shellfishermen have done for generations. http://www.mvgazette.com/features/?story=20030926_derby_spouses In a way, they're lucky. They get to step back with heightened awareness and appreciate their partnerships, offer concrete and kind demonstrations of their support. http://www.wftv.com/news/3938046/detail.html It took five people to reel in a 500-pound shark and the size could be record breaking. STRANGE PHOTOS WEIRD! View 99 unusual photos capturing a variety of strange news. New photos are added frequently! The longest hammerhead shark on record was 12 feet long. The one caught Sunday on South Beach was just a half-inch longer, weighing over 500 pounds. http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=2593193 It looks like you won't need a license to fish off the North Carolina coast for at least three more years. http://galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=37c861fba264d8f9 Once again, the Bolivar Peninsula is a hot spot for fishing action, and this time it’s the all-everything bull redfish at the head of the list. http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/10229488.htm The 2004 Southern Kingfish Mercury Trail National Championship opened under gloomy skies Friday at Grand Casino Biloxi, but ended with the premier king mackerel fishermen in the southern portion of the United States putting on a show.