Fly Fisherman articles from September 2000

Fly Fisherman archives from September 2000

SAVING THE SODA BUTTE.(New World Mine and McLaren tailings impoundment)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... A FEW YEARS AGO, a small group of residents in Cooke City, Montana, at the outskirts of Yellowstone National park, decided they would oppose the re-opening of a defunct gold mine on a nearby peak in the Beartooth Mountains above their town....

TROUBLE ON THE UPPER MISSOURI.(rainbow trout numbers)
September 1, 2000... LAST OCTOBER, when biologists counted fish in the Missouri River above Cascade, Montana, they found record numbers of big, heavy rainbow trout. "Off the chart" was the notation for one section of the river that outdoor writers were calling...

RIVER ON THE EDGE.(Yellowstone's Soda Butte Creek)
September 1, 2000... Old mine wastes threaten Yellowstone's Soda Butte Creek. ONE OF YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK'S most popular fly-fishing rivers is threatened by mine tailings that, if set free by a heavy spring runoff, could poison and kill the ecosystem...

TWO ON TROPHY TROUT.(Brief Article)(Review)
September 1, 2000... Trophy Trout Lakes Fly Fishing The West's Best Trophy Lakes, by Denny Rickards. Stillwater Productions, (541) 381-2218, 2000, 198 pages, $34.95 hardcover. "OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS, I have fished, explored, and challenged trout in...

STEELHEAD RECORD?(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... 41-inch fish taken on Skeena River tributary RUMORS OF RECORD or near-record steelhead taken on a fly continue to filter out of the Skeena River system in British Columbia, and the latest is a good example. Fishing last spring on his...

TU/NYDEC BEAMOC PLAN.(Trout Unlimited and New York's Department of Environmental Conservation agree to protect wild-trout under Beaver Kill-Willowemoc Watershed Initiative)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... NEW YORK'S DEPARTMENT of Environmental Conservation (DEC) says it will work with Trout Unlimited (TU) to develop a long-range wild-trout management plan for the Beaver Kill watershed. Implementation of the plan could include land purchases,...

MADISON RAINBOWS REBOUND.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... RESEARCHERS SAY the rainbow-trout population in Montana's upper Madison River has increased after the 1990s whirling-disease decline thanks to high water in the spring of 1998. When rainbow fry in the upper Madison (from Hebgen Lake to Ennis)...

BONEFISH RECORD?(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... FRONTIERS INTERNATIONAL Bahamas Department Manager Hank Ingram, Jr. (right) has put in for an IGFA world record on a 36.5-inch (15 to 18 pounds estimated) bonefish he took February 10 on the west side of Andros Island in the Bahamas. Ingram...

FALLING SPRING GRANT.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... THE FALLING SPRING GREENWAY, INC. (FSG) in March accepted a $75,000 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Challenge Grant to help restore the Falling Spring Branch in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The money will be matched by a $150,000 FSG...

SEVEN-UP PETE REVISITED.(McDonald Gold Mine, Blackfoot Valley, Montana)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2000... THE OWNERS OF the proposed McDonald (Seven-Up Pete) Gold Mine in the upper Blackfoot Valley of Montana sued in federal and state court last April to have a state voter-approved ban on cyanide heap-leach mining overturned as unconstitutional...

STEELHEADING THE LOWER DESCHUTES.
September 1, 2000... Where to meet wild fish runs on one of the lower 48's best rivers THE DESCHUTES RIVER DRAINAGE is immense. It begins as water seeping from volcanic rock that forms the backbone of the Cascade Range in central Oregon. Heading northward to...

SUMMERTIME TERRESTRIAL TACTICS.(land-born insects in the water)
September 1, 2000... How to tempt hungry trout when hatches are slow and the sun is high THE TERM "TERRESTRIALS" was first heard in fishing over 50 years ago when the late Charlie Fox used it to describe land-born insects that end up on the water. Fox and the...

CUMBERLAND VALLEY ALTERNATIVES.
September 1, 2000... Spring creeks and freestoners you can enjoy when the Letort and other famous spring creeks become crowded PENNSYLVANIA'S FERTILE Cumberland Valley is known for its cold, crystalline spring creeks and their wary and selective trout. The...

A FOOT IN THE PACIFIC SURF.
September 1, 2000... Fly rodding the West Coast's best beaches for fly-hungry gamefish ASK MOST FLY FISHERS what comes to mind when they think of fishing the West, and many will say trout, steelhead, and salmon. Sure, there are great fisheries for those...

Fishing THE Foam.
September 1, 2000... Foam lines are the trout Lazy Susans of rivers and lakes. MOST EXPERIENCED FLY FISHERS know that a line of foam floating down a stream tells them something about the location of trout. Unfortunately, that's usually about as far as their...

FOAMY TERRESTRIALS.
September 1, 2000... Use foam and synthetic materials to make durable, easy-to-tie terrestrials. WHOEER INVENTED or first described using foam for tying files is owed a tremendous debt by the fly-tying community, particularly those of us who like to the...

THE LAST MOUSEKETEER.
September 1, 2000... MY FRIENDS ALL LAUGHED when I tied one on. Maybe it was the adorable whiskers, the small, beseeching eyes, or the ears, the little leather flaps of them--those, or the slanting brown hair of the body, widening out into its sassy little...

Corrections.(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2000... The "Blackstone Lake" article in our July 2000 issue did not include Salmon Bay Tackle as a booking agent. Contact Keith Willits, Salmon Bay Tackle, 5701 15th Avenue NW, Seattle, WA 98107, (206) 789-9335, e-mail: salmonbaytackle@home.com. ...