15th CERP Anniversary Sees Another Everglades Estuary Dying Twenty-plus years ago, while guiding on Florida Bay in Everglades National Park, I volunteered to take water samples for The Nature Conservancy. Guides like me were desperate to help any way we could. The Bay was in the midst of a fish-killing algae bloom that was fueled […]
I know it’s a bit clichéd… actually, it’s really clichéd, but of course that’s what we’re supposed to write about during this season of thankfulness. It can’t all be all bad news all the time, right? Only after reading about the decay of pteropods in the Pacific and the mass strandings of whales off of […]
Take your life savings and put all of it into a boat and permits and gear and faith. If you’re like some you’ll put the gear in the right spot, have three bonzer seasons in a row have the boat paid for, a new truck, and big down payment on a bigger house. That’s the […]
Well, it’s official, what I had suspected might happen in the future, is actually already underway: the strong possibility of a collapse of the very base of the food chain. Reading this article in the Seattle Times made me realize I’m already behind the curve. Now being a former full-time (now part-time) fishing guide and […]
A short while back, I had occasion to join my friend Pietro Parravano on a mission to have his lifeboat repacked. Pietro is a commercial salmon troller out of Half Moon Bay, California, with over thirty years’ experience on the water. He picked me up in his dented, cobwebbed pickup truck from my office in […]
My parents passed on so many priceless outdoor skills and nuggets of wisdom about the woods and waters. Now that I’m an expecting father for the first time, I find myself thinking a lot about what I want to instill in our son. I hope we continue the family appreciation of fast rods, well-designed boats, […]
Volunteers from the Association of Northwest Steelheaders are just days away from delivering hundreds of thousands of Chinook salmon and trout eggs to Oregon schools under the Eggs to Fry program. This has been an incredible success story for our area schools, getting schoolchildren interested and involved in the detailed and incredible life histories of […]
ASFMC should move forward with Ecological Reference Points Menhaden have helped make me great memories throughout my guiding career, though those memories are becoming more distant and farther apart. I remember an early morning, guiding Randy and Rusty Walker. Standing firm and patient at the bow, my eyes searched the Indian River Lagoon’s calm coastal […]
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