by Ted Williams - Thursday, Mar 14th, 2019
Few pesticides are more dangerous than brodifacoum, an anticoagulant used on rodents. And few pesticides have been more grossly abused by homeowners and farmers.
Because brodifacoum accumulates in the liver it can kill any bird or mammal that eats the dead or dying rodents. When applied carelessly on the mainland, nontarget victims have included everything from raptors to fishers, cougars, bobcats, foxes, coyotes, wolves, pet cats and pet dogs.
by Chris Hunt - Wednesday, Mar 13th, 2019
I worked my way under a logjam and tried like hell to keep the rainforest stream’s water line below the lip of my chest waders. It was tough going—a younger man’s wading, to be sure.
by John Juracek - Tuesday, Mar 12th, 2019
Ever wished that your photographs of fish looked as pretty as the fish themselves? I'm guessing most of us have. Here are a few of the things I think about when photographing fish. Perhaps you'll find value in them too.
by Joseph Albanese - Friday, Mar 8th, 2019
They may not be a household name in fly fishing circles, but Van Staal spinning reels have achieved cult status amongst surf casters that spend all their free time in the rough interface where ocean meets land. The sealed drag system and reel body permits the reels to operate even under water without threat of intrusion—a big deal for those that don wetsuits and go “skishing,” swimming out to distant rocks to fish, or simply taking advantage of neoprene’s buoyant characteristics to float on the tide, tossing weighted bucktails as they go.
by Ted Williams - Wednesday, Mar 6th, 2019
The most important tool—in most cases the only tool—for saving native fish from being eaten, outcompeted or hybridized into extirpation or extinction by alien fish is the organic poison rotenone. It's derived from roots of such plants as cubé, barbasco and tuba.
But before fisheries managers recognized that fish are wildlife, too, they used rotenone to eliminate so-called "trash fish"—natives, some of which now face extinction.
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