"The more you know - the less gold glows"!!

Just got this in my mail box today - Help support Bristol Bay - Send them a "thank you mail"

"Eleven more jewelers have signed the Bristol Bay Protection Pledge -- and endorsed protection for the world's largest remaining wild sockeye salmon fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

These pledges come in addition to the recent promise, and your thank you letters, to Zales -- America's 2nd largest jewelery retailer.  Both that pledge, and your thanks, made waves in the jewelry and mining industries.

You can give your support on this link:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/676/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3988&tag=email

It looks like this 

A huge mayfly hatch along the Mississippi River

First Mayfly hatch of the year caught on a doppler radar of NWS La Crosse.  The radar view below shows an image from May 29, 2010.  The bugs are showing up as bright pink, purple, and white colors along the Mississippi River mainly south of La Crosse. After the bugs hatch off the water and river areas, they are caught in the south-southeast winds while airborne for about 10-20 minutes.

Link: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=arx&storyid=53064&source=0

Read more: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=arx&storyid=53064&source=0

A giant from Morrum - again.

Everybody who have fished in the "Magic Morrum River"- knows that the chance of a really big fish is always a possibility, as long as your fly is out there in the humus colored waters.

This years biggest fish has just been landed in Morrum from pool no. 4 - it weighed 17.22 kgs caught by Mikael Andersson - and we at Pool 32 Mag congratulate you Mikael with this fantastic catch.


As always the debate regarding C & R is going on with a fish like that. I know it is a very sensitive and difficult issue, personally I wouldn't have been able to kill such a magnificent creature. But on the other hand for some people it is one of those "once in a life time fish" that could end up over a fireplace stuffed and puffed.

What a beauty it is - somehow I never get's tired of looking at salmons, they truly are the Kings of any river.

PS. the fish counter measured an even bigger fish the other day, estimated to be over 119 cm long!!

Tight lines out there.
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Link: http://www.morrum.com/en/Morrumsnews/2010/So-far--/

The oil spill in the Mexican Gulf - here is a little update!

Extent of Oil Spill Remains Unclear

Nearly a month after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, one question remains unanswered: Exactly how much oil is spilling into the Gulf from the unchecked leak?


Have a look at this counter - it shows an estimated view of what is going on  !! 
- so very, very sad!!

First Video of One of the Three Deep Horizon Well Leaks

Here you see some of the latest and very scary pictures from the Nasa website

Link: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/oilspill/index.html

A new movement has taken shape

@BPGlobalPR

Meet 

Leroy Stick – the man behind @BPGlobalPR

I started @BPGlobalPR, because the oil spill had been going on for almost a month and all BP had to offer were bullshit PR statements.  No solutions, no urgency, no sincerity, no nothing.  That’s why I decided to relate to the public for them.  I started off just making jokes at their expense with a few friends, but now it has turned into something of a movement.  As I write this, we have 100,000 followers and counting.  People are sharing billboards, music, graphic art, videos and most importantly information.

Read more - Link : http://streetgiant.com/2010/06/02/leroy-stick-the-man-behind-bpglobalpr/

Here is some of the his work 

On the Skinny water culture website you can buy this t-shirt!!

Link: http://www.skinnywaterculture.com/product/fbp

- this T-shirt have been promoted on the Modlychum website

and one of the comments really struck me by being absolutely right

- here it is :

What are Norwegians thinking - when they are not thinking?

Norway attempts to kill off remaining wild salmon stocks 

- River Tana Salmon targeted first to go.

Reykjavik May 31, 2010

Today, Norwegian authorities issued the 2010 salmon sea netting regulations.  As expected the slaughter of vulnerable wild salmon stocks will continue, with Finnmark in the far north the hardest hit area of all especially in the mighty Tana river .  In the regulations, Norway tries to conceal the extirpation of the big female spawners in June in exchange for few small male salmon later in the season.  Not just Norwegian salmon stocks will suffer but also salmon stocks native to the rivers in Finland and Russia.  Last year Norway’s salmon catches were at an all time low despite endless warnings to the Norwegian authorities issued by scientists, angling, tourist and conservation organisations.

The situation has become a serious contradiction of Norway’s claims to be an environmental role model.   Excessive commercial fishing and the havoc caused, in the form of disease, sea lice plagues and mass escapees from crowded pens, by Norway’s largely unregulated salmon farming industry is greatly undermining Norway’s reputation.

Recently, the Russian Government issued its third diplomatic warning that Norway was violating the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty by intercepting Russian and Finnish salmon along the Finnmark coast.  The Russians called on Norway to stop the commercial netting in the Varanger fjord and remove all the bend nets (Krogarn) along the Finnmark coast.

In continuing to allow its commercial fishermen to exploit mixed stocks of wild salmon of Norwegian, Russian and Finnish origin, Norway is in danger of provoking further international actions.  Already, Greenland and the Faroe Islands have reduced their salmon netting and long-lining down to zero levels in desperate attempts to revitalize stocks in their neighbor countries.  The Norwegian decision announced today now makes a mockery of these international initiatives.

“Among Norwegian parliamentarians, there is a complete absence of a strategic debate about wild salmon”, said Orri Vigfússon, chairman of the North Atlantic Salmon Fund.  “If Norway wants to become a global salmon power to rival Russia and Iceland then it needs to stop acting like an environmental vandal and start treating its dwindling salmon resource with the care and protection it deserves. Now!”

Link: http://www.nasfworldwide.com/home/norwegian-salmon.html

Fly fishing from a surfboard.

This is a new one for me - but never the less a great one, I've never seen this in Denmark, must bee living the wrong place!!! :O)

Looking for a fishing stickers for your car?

Looking for a different stickers for your car? - have a look at this link:http://www.jbfisherco.com/fishing-decals.html

Send a message to Obama.

Help Patagonia help the salmon

Patagonia is a company that really do some great work.
Have a look at this effort they made helping the just send to my mailbox.
Only problem are that they only made it possible for people living in the US to send this mail to the Obama administration. So therefore I have right now send them a mail, asking them to change the pre-made mail formula so people outside the US also can join this movement, hope they will respond positively. If they do, then this will change from being a local US matter - to an international matter.

The pre-made formula looks like this.

- and the link to the site is this one : http://ga0.org/campaign/freedomtoroam?sssdmh=dm23.121878&src=060110w_ci1http://ga0.org/campaign/freedomtoroam?sssdmh=dm23.121878&src=060110w_ci1

Fly fishing in Austria 2010

I've just returned from Austria and Slovenia, where I had a great week fly fishing with god friends.

Weather forecast had been bad for several weeks - cold, rainy, high water level, no hatches - and not at all fishable. In other words - Shitty conditions in most of the rivers!!!
You know - "Life is hard and then you die" - so I had no expectations what so ever for this trip.
BUT- as my good friend Robert always says - "We are lucky people" - and indeed we were, because it slowly cleared up a week before we were arriving, and when we came it was getting warm, sunny and with some hatchings slowly developing.
But it wasn't all the problems we were facing - the ash cloud from Iceland was another issue of importance, that cold spoil this trip, BUT again we were "lucky people". A few days before the wind changed direction, and the flights were flying on a normal schedule again - so our trip toAustria became a reality.

The week we had were absolutely outstanding. My best fishing experience were from a new and quit difficult beat, where you had to work for every catch. Difficult surroundings, difficult casts, difficult landings - isn't that what it is all about??!!!

The only river we couldn't go to was Soca, to much water, from the melting snow. Roomers said that some areas in Slovenia have had up to 10 meters of snow, and when that melts it is creating problems with the water level and the water temperatures = shitty conditions!!!.

The week went by way too fast, but I guess it always does when you are enjoying yourself in good company and with excellent fishing.

Anyway here are some photos from the trip to Austria.

Life is great, with a rod in your hand.

Watch this YouTube video from my trip

- and some pix from the trip as well.....

"A fly kid in action"

Mr. Althaus fishing of the deep part of a beat.

"Mr. Roberto" fighting a huge rainbow.

Quick photo and then C & R.

C & R - trying NOT to touch the fish at all, just the barbless hook.

Bernie caught several very nice ones - as usual I might add!! :O)

Mr. Stroh - again.

Tight lines out there.

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The Native way of living in the Bristol Bay area - By Photographer Nick Hall

Photographer Nick Hall has made a fantastic photo story about the native lifestyle in the Bristol Bay area, that shows how dependent they are of the salmon runs year after year - generations after generations.
Check out this little move Nick Hall made about their fascinating way of life, where knowledge is passed on from the elders of one generation to the next - a valuable way of living we in the "civilized" world seem to have forgotten, instead our elders are "stored" in elderly homes, together with their lifelong knowledge.

Move link: http://www.seasonsofsubsistence.com/#/MULTIMEDIA%20STORIES/LEWIS%20POINT/1

Also check out his at his web site - http://www.seasonsofsubsistence.com/