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The clean, fresh air of Scandinavia

Wordshore — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 06:49:40 -0800

The BBC explore the olfactory delights of rakfisk, "trout sprinkled with salt and fermented in water for up to a year." But is it as smelly as Surströmming, fermented Baltic Herring from neighboring Sweden, or as extreme as the Icelandic Hákarl, basking shark buried in a hole and fermented for several months and tasting "similar to very strong cheese slathered in ammonia"? Other foods with an odor turned up to eleven are listed by College Humor, Just Eat, Knoji and Open Journey.

Salmon at the Food Bank

kliuless — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:52:41 -0800

Salmon, Trout Populations Surge in Oregon Rivers
Steelhead, along with Coho and Chinook salmon, have made a spectacular return to local streams in the past year, leaving sportsmen exultant and putting food on the tables of struggling Oregonians.

Joan Wulff - 1st Lady of Fly Fishing

roofus — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:06:29 -0800

Joan Wulff, one half of the most famous couple in fly fishing, has devoted 60 years to perfection in casting. Now aged 82 she's still teaching and demonstrating. Segments from her recent DVD are available online, so you too can learn to cast like a virtuoso: The Hand and the Arm The Roll Cast The Reach Cast The Double Haul Distance Casting Advanced Techniques

New Fly Fishing Podcast

james_cpi — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:58:54 -0800

With spring here, fishing seasons are opening across the country. Want to learn how to fly fish or get better at it? Tom Rosenbauer, author of many a book on the subject, now offers a weekly podcast.

TroutUnderground Battles for Your River Access

james_cpi — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:57:29 -0800

The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the bed and banks under all rivers, lakes, and streams that are navigable, for title purposes, are owned by the states, held in trust for the public. Mineral extraction interests and other parties often challenge this 'public use' designation by using/abusing the navigabilty designation to keep out fisherman and other recreational users in order to exploit the rivers for private gain. The Upper Sacramento River and McCloud Rivers of Northern California are the latest battleground in recreational river access. In what has become all too common, an ugly fight pitting sportsmen and nature enthusiasts against private interests is unfolding. One blogger has led the good fight to keep the rivers public. He could use your help... but it doesn't look good, and there is not much time!

Fishy miscegenation

orthogonality — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:57:27 -0800

More cuckoo than cuckoos: mate two salmon, get a... trout! Just give the parents a sperm transplant. And the sperm stem cells work in females too:

...Injecting the male cells into female salmon sometimes worked, too, prompting five female salmon to ovulate trout eggs.... The stem cells were still primitive enough to switch gears from sperm-producers to egg-producers when they wound up inside female organs....

Gently pump it's little stomach

troutfishing — Mon, 24 May 2004 10:16:37 -0800

Trout Stomach Pump : Summer's almost here, so you'd best start looking for clues. " Finally I observe what the fish are actually feeding on. To do this I have to catch a fish. This is frequently the hardest part, but I can usually scam one up somehow. I then pump it's stomach.....while securely holding the fish I gently insert the tube down the fishís throat as far as I can. I take particular care not to injure the fish during this process.....The suction created by the pump extracts the stomach contents. I carefully release the fish unharmed into the water (I have never lost a fish in this process). Then I squeeze the bulb and deposit the fish's stomach contents into my hand. It is then a simple process to match the stomach contents to the contents of my fly box"