Fly Fisherman articles from September 1999

Fly Fisherman archives from September 1999

BATTENKILL WOES.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 1999... Fisheries decline; aluminum hatches multiply; fly fishers depart. VERMONT'S FAMOUS BATTENKILL RIVER has suffered severe declines over the past decade--in its density of wild brown trout per mile, in hours anglers spend there, and in fish...

TIGHT LINES.
September 1, 1999... Striper Mortality I was saddened to read Bob Miller's letter "Maryland Keepers" (Tight Lines, July 1999) and Tom Meade's news item "Catch-and-release Kills Stripers" (Newscasts, July 1999). Both couldn't have been more wrong! Although...

Correction.(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
September 1, 1999... Our July 1999 issue article, "Wyoming's North Platte," gave an incorrect phone number for the Wyoming Trout Company. The correct number is (800) 808-5177.

DOGMA AND DEATH.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 1999... Catching and killing striped bass A LOT OF US WON'T LIKE what some scientists are probably going to say during the National Symposium on Catch and Release in Marine Recreational Fisheries. Billed as "diverse and sometimes contentious,"...

LAFONTAINE'S LAKES AND GUIDEBOOKS.(Brief Article)(Review)
September 1, 1999... LaFontaine's Mountain Lakes Fly Fishing the Mountain Lakes, by Gary LaFontaine. Greycliff Publishing Company, P.O. Box 1273, Helena, MT 59624, 1998, 177 pages, $14.95 softcover. AT FIRST GLANCE, Fly Fishing the Mountain Lakes doesn't...

YELLOWSTONE RIVER RECOVERS.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 1999... Livingston-area trout population rebounds MONTANA'S YELLOWSTONE RIVER fisheries biologist Joel Tohtz says that the river's trout fisheries, devastated in the Livingston area by 1997 and 1998 spring floods, are recovering rapidly. Tohtz...

ORVIS SPORTING LIFE ON ESPN.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... ESPN OUTDOORS WILL AIR 13 episodes of Orvis Sporting Life, a fly-fishing television show with host Rick Ruoff, on Saturday mornings from July 3 through September. The weekly 1/2-hour program will begin at 9 A.M. (EST). Ruoff, a former...

2ND PHILOSOPHICAL FLYFISHER.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... ARTIST Russ CHATHAM, writer/angler Lani Waller, and Dave and Emily Whitlock will highlight the second annual Philosophical Flyfisher symposium, August 13-15 at Virginia City, Montana. The symposium will include individual interviews, literary...

WHITE RIVER HOGS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... BIG BROWN TROUT can still be taken each fall on Arkansas's White River, and sometimes the double-digit fish can be taken on 6X tippets. The 11 1/2-pound female shown was taken by John Levin at Bull Shoals State Park on a tan sowbug fished on...

SEVEN-UP PETE DEAD.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... ORO Y PLATA, "gold and silver" is on the state flag of Montana, "The Treasure State." But Montana voters last November turned thumbs down on cyanide-process open-pit mining in the state, and the 1999 state legislature declined to call another...

PA TROUT STAMP.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... THE PENNSYLVANIA FISH and Boat Commission's 1999 trout stamp reveals a little-know area of U.S. history--how fish were transported for stocking, both intrastate and interstate. The painting by State College artist George Lavanish shows the...

SAVE ROCK CREEK.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... FIFTY-FOUR MILES of Montana's Rock Creek are privately owned and the river frontage has become increasingly valuable for recreation-home development. For the last 12 years, the Rock Creek Trust has been acquiring conservation easements and...

THE Lower Sacramento TAILWATER.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 1999... Where football-shaped rainbows run you into your backing HOW MANY RIVERS DO YOU KNOW Where you can wade out on a riffle and hook a battling 5-pound rainbow trout? Not many, I'd guess. The lower Sacramento River--right where it flows...

2 Flies MAKE A SUMMER.
September 1, 1999... How to simplify the caddis game on rivers across the country FOR YEARS, CARL RICHARDS AND I agonized over the complexities of caddisfly hatches. In the 1980s, thanks to the work of Gary LaFontaine (Caddisfiles, Winchester Press, 1981), we...

UTAH'S PROVO RIVER.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 1999... A section by section look at Utah's second best trout fishery IT'S MIDNIGHT IN SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, and I have nowhere to go. The motels are booked, my host won't answer her phone, and I don't know another soul in the state. The bed...

BOSTON'S South Shore.
September 1, 1999... Massachusetts unsung hero for striped bass and bluefish WHEN SALTWATER FLY RODDERS consider angling opportunities on the Massachusetts coast, few think of the South Shore. Most anglers consider Cape Cod. Boston Harbor, Martha's Vineyard,...

2-HANDED CASTING.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... How to use both hands to improve your casting efficiency EXPERIENCED FLY FISHERS KNOW that fly casting is a two-handed sport. One hand (the rod hand) controls the rod, while the other (the line hand) performs the single or double haul....

UNMATCHING THE HATCH.
September 1, 1999... Forcing trout to play your game during thick batches IT WAS A TYPICAL SEPTEMBER DAY on Idaho's Henry's Fork. Things started about 8:30 A.M., and as I walked downstream through the grassy meadows, Trico spinners swarmed in a final mating...

GLASS-TAIL PATTERNS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Translucent, segmented bodies made from glass beads SEVERAL YEARS AGO JIM PETTIS, a talented California guide, came to me with excitement written all over his face. "Wait until you see this," he gushed. "You won't believe my new...

FISHING HATS.
September 1, 1999... TEN HOURS POST-BARROOM SCUFFLE, I wiped the sleep from my bloodshot eyes, shook some cobwebs from my brain and admitted an ugly defeat; my Avid Angler ball cap was gone forever and a chapter in my life had permanently closed in a way that...

WHIRLING DISEASE 1999.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 1999... Scientists want to manage whirling disease and slow its spread. WHEN MORE THAN 200 research scientists gathered for the fifth annual Whirling Disease Symposium in Missoula, Montana last February, they talked less about the impact of...