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Since 2004, the Liam Wood Flyfishing and River Guardian School in Bellingham has used the art of fly fishing to connect students to the ecology of fish, rivers and watersheds in the hope that getting them outdoors will spawn a connection to nature and a desire to protect it. It’s a legacy that grew from an idea by Montana writer David James Duncan, whose book “The River Why” - about fly fishing, the wildness of rivers and the mysticism of both - was a favorite of Liam’s, whose love of fly fishing began when he was 9. Duncan, whose other books include “The Brothers K” and “River Teeth,” proposed the idea to Liam’s parents - his mother Marlene Robinson and stepfather Bruce Brabec - when he came to Bellingham in 2001 on a tour for his collection of essays, “My Story As Told by Water. The Liam Wood Flyfishing and River Guardian School works to pass on Liam’s love of fishing to youths, students and other members of the community through sessions taught by Leo Bodensteiner, an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at WWU. In addition to sessions through WWU, the school has taught younger students about fly fishing and river ecosystems in compressed versions of the college courses at alternative schools, Home Port Learning Center in Bellingham and Timber Ridge Center just north of Bellingham. read more

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Halibut fishing seminar - The California Striped Bass Association presents noted angler Jay Lopes of Right Hook Sport Fishing, who will speak about fishing for halibut in San Francisco and San Pablo bays. Fishing Derby for Kids - The 25th annual Fishing Derby for Kids will be held at Oak Grove Regional Park. Youth fishing fair - The CAST Kids Fishing Fun Fair takes place from 8 a. Berkley’s big bass - The 2nd annual Berkley Big Bass Challenge will be held on the Delta - headquartered at Russo’s Marina - with $1,300 given each hour for the 12 biggest largemouth bass weighed hourly. Free fishing day - This is one of two Free Fishing Days in California (the other is Sept. Free fishing day - The second of two Free Fishing Days in California (the other is July 4), when anglers do not have to possess a resident sportfishing license. read more

Wet fishing lines glisten in the sun at Oroville¹s Hooked on Fishing day at Bedrock Park on Saturday. OROVILLE — There was cheerful bedlam Saturday at Bedrock Park as thousands of people turned out for “Hooked on Fishing, Not on Drugs. The Kiwanis Club has been putting on the free kids’ fishing day for 12 years, and in Oroville, it has more than just fishing. The terrace above the fishing pond hosted a fair that included a pancake breakfast, bounce house and a variety of booths. It had the look of the combat fishing at the afterbay outlet before the salmon fishing ban, but was far better natured. read more

It was a beautiful weekend to be on the water and harvest rates improved for king salmon - taking 91-rod hours to harvest a king last week. Juneau Sport Fishing Report 052709 SPORTS 4 ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME It was a beautiful weekend to be on the water and harvest rates improved for king salmon - taking 91-rod hours to harvest a king last week. The prior week it took the average Juneau area marine boat angler 132-rod hours to harvest a king. King salmon fishing should improve in the coming weeks, and should peak around the end of June when the king salmon are returning to the Terminal Harvest Area. The Department of Fish and Game reminds anglers that beginning April 27, 2009 marine boat anglers possessing sport caught king and coho salmon, lingcod or non-pelagic rockfish may not fillet, mutilate, or de-head these fish until the fish have been offloaded, unless they are preserved or have been consumed onboard. read more

Tribes modified their fishing schedules to provide more saltwater mark-selective sport salmon fishing opportunities for adipose fin-clipped hatchery chinook throughout Puget Sound. Many anglers are calling this a watershed year in the expansion of mark-selective sport fisheries for adipose fin-clipped hatchery salmon. We believe mark-selective sport fishing is a management tool that can, under the right circumstances, be used to provide additional sport fishing opportunity. More than half of all sport fisheries in Puget Sound are mark-selective, in which anglers must release non-clipped wild salmon, some of which die after being hooked, played and released. Mark-selective sport fishing is still a new harvest method in this region and as such, needs to be closely monitored to gauge impacts on weak wild salmon stocks. read more

It is about disparate surveillance ordered by the AG’s office, a secret and illegal file maintained with public resources since May 1994 to present, about having a specialist on affairs dealing with one person in the AG’s office and about a covert power structure that not only fixes public jobs, contracts and awards with public resources, but also goes after dissidents and whistleblowers. Constitution, and reason for some of the vitriol against The Columbian and other "mainstream" media, lies not so much in what they cover and how they often superficially cover it, but in what they refuse to cover and how they refuse to cover it and dance all around with sophistry when called on stories they are not covering but are clearly aware of going on right under their noses; stories that they will not cover because of institutional and other interests or conflicts of interest, that they often do not disclose, and their need for ongoing access to the movers and shakers (who do not like a lot of questions and deny access to those who pose them) of "pieces" that serve as fillers between ads. Look I do not care what network The Columbian is part of, I do not care a wit about The Columbian’s ideological biases, I just ask that they disclose possible conflicts of interest when doing stories or better yet, do not assign someone to do a story on someone they are close and personal friends with and are using as a reference for a job, or do not do a story on say economic interests or projects in which one has a material stake without full disclosure. I suppose the risk is that they could say ‘we can’t cover every story’, which of course is true, but in that this is a local story and includes malfeasance of office in the highest echelons of Clark College administration, maybe they’ll make a good faith effort. But right now, with my having taught Economics and other subjects over 30 years, at all levels from community college to graduate university, also Adjunct in the Graduate Faculty of Business at PSU, with a resume in Economics and education in general that the resumes of Dean and the new Division Chair and the other full-time but probationary non-tenured Economist together could not make half of, we have adjuncts teaching Economics I haved never met or vetted, and what supposed vetting was done was forced on the non-tenured teacher, himself not fully vetted, who has seen me teach a whole course (both he and his son were my students) but I have not yet seen him teach one class. read more

The Central Valley will again experience a curtailed recreational salmon fishing season this year, the result of a historically low population of fall-run Chinook. The California Fish and Game Commission today ruled that fishing will be allowed only on the Sacramento River between Knights Landing and the Lower Red Bluff Boat Ramp, and only between Nov. All other areas of the Sacramento River and its tributaries, including the American and Feather rivers, are closed to salmon fishing. The commission also affirmed a closure of commercial salmon fishing in all ocean waters off the California coast, in accord with a previous decision by the Pacific Fisheries Management Council. The Central Valley fall-run Chinook was once the largest salmon run on the West Coast, but its numbers plunged amid poor ocean conditions and environmental problems in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. read more

But he said he would not try to impose solutions on the state and its many water districts, even though much of California’s available surface water is controlled by the Bureau of Reclamation, an Interior Department agency. The $260 million, to be overseen by the state’s Department of Water Resources, will be spread among various projects throughout the state’s complex water delivery system, which is often forced to balance environmental interests and agricultural and industrial demands. The largest chunk of federal money, nearly $110 million, will be used to build a screened pumping plant to protect fish at a dam in the northern city of Red Bluff, on the Sacramento River, while also feeding more water to some 150,000 acres of farmland. About $26 million is designated to help restore fisheries in Northern California, where low numbers of fall Chinook salmon — usually the Sacramento River’s richest harvest — have led to the canceling of the salmon fishing season for a second straight year. read more

Redoubt volcano has been relatively quiet — it remains at an "orange" watch level instead of a "red" eruption level — but it's still emitting steam and producing interesting imagery for the region. Redoubt is located about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage and 50 miles west of the Kenai Peninsula. With Alaska's lucrative salmon-fishing season set to begin next month, there are a lot of concerned concessionaires, especially on the Kenai. I am a salmon fishing guide, 20 miles from the peak of the volcano. I am a salmon fishing guide, 20 miles fr. California/Local | National | World | Sports Opinion | Entertainment | Travel | Health L. read more