SmithFly has developed a solution for anglers looking for a way to consolidate their gear while fishing in tight places such as drift boats and rafts. Designed with coolers like the YETI in mind, the Cooler Kilt eliminates the need for you to carry both a cooler and bag by directly snapping to the front of your ice chest. And, like all of SmithFly's MOLLE webbing-based modular gear, the kilt allows you to attach various pouches and other accessories to your cooler so you can easily carry and access your gear.

"There wasn't a good solution for carrying fly boxes and tackle on the water while fishing from smaller, more nimble boats," explains SmithFly owner Ethan Smith. "Now you can haul your gear and your beer in one trip from the truck to the boat."

The kilt is attached to your cooler using six stainless steel self tapping screws with snap heads. Drilling screws into your expensive cooler can be a little scary at first, but Smith says to "put on your big boy shorts and do it." The company also promises that attaching the kilt will not "compromise the integrity or performance of your high quality cooler." If you're a YETI owner and have added accessories like the lid-top seat cushion, you're already familiar with taking the plunge into poking holes in your cooler.

The Unuk River in southeast Alaska is home to one of the largest king salmon runs in the world, as well as the other four species of pacific salmon, steelhead, rainbow and cutthroat trout, char and whitefish. The waters where the Unuk flows into Behm Canal and eventually the Pacific Ocean are bountiful shrimp and crab fisheries. And, while so many eyes are justifiably trained on the saga surrounding the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay, the proposed KSM (Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell) mine -- which is part of what Trout Unlimited describes as a "mining frenzy" in northern British Columbia -- that poses serious threats to the Unuk and other nearby rivers edges closer to becoming a reality.

Trout Unlimited notes, "spurred by weakened environmental regulations and the construction of a massive new power line that is one of Canada’s biggest transmission projects ever, as many as 10 new large-scale mines are undergoing exploration in the mineral-rich region that borders Southeast Alaska. Five of these Canadian mineral projects are located in trans-boundary watersheds of key salmon rivers including the Stikine, the Taku, and the Unuk. These mines could produce water pollution that may harm Southeast Alaska fishing and tourism industries while offering few, if any, economic benefits to the communities of Southeast Alaska."