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The Environmental Protection Agency will announce Friday it will examine whether to block a massive gold and copper mine proposed in Alaska, according to people familiar with the issue — a major win for environmentalists, native tribes and commercial fishing companies that have been seeking to kill the project for more than three years. [LINK] from Washington Post

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is initiating a process under the Clean Water Act to identify appropriate options to protect the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska from the potentially destructive impacts of the proposed Pebble Mine. The Pebble Mine has the potential to be one of the largest open pit copper mines ever developed and could threaten a salmon resource rare in its quality and productivity. During this process, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cannot approve a permit for the mine. [LINK] From the EPA.

Starting on March 3rd and through the 7th, there is going to be an online auction to benefit the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition.

Bid on items and know your investment will spawn into keeping the SWCC initiatives working at preserving the recreational resource and the wild rivers, you so love to be a part of.  You can help save fish by getting yourself into some new waders, outfit your wallet with news flies or make that cast across the glassy water vintage style with a bamboo fly-rod or Henshaw Reel.  So get bidding, and get your buddies bidding so you can outbid them!

For more info and to see items that will be available for bidding, see link below:

http://www.biddingowl.com/Auction/home.cfm?auctionID=991

March is primetime for wild winter steelhead. Keep an eye out for redds (oval shaped bare gravel) and avoid walking through them. Avoid fishing to spawning fish as well. They’ve made it that far, let them do their business and be on their way.

               We’re writing this from our recently purchased house on the rain-hammered winter coast of Oregon. Sheets of water are lashing against our windows, and the wind threatens to rip off the storm door. It’s a far cry from the GTs we were catching on Christmas Island a few weeks back in the warm sun. Now we’re here for the steelhead. Each season we guide winter-run steelhead in the heart of Oregon’s north coast. As a part of our dream, we created Frigate Travel, an outfitting company servicing and expanding a host of fishing destinations around the world. When steelhead season ends, the Sea of Cortez will lure us back for another season chasing and guiding roosterfish.

Mr. Gray Stuzinek of Oly Pen Fly Fishing – with a swung Naknek King – Photo JC

               After Mexico, we’ll head back up to Alaska, specifically the Naknek River in Bristol…

Trout Dying To Get a Good Photo

We all should know the rules for releasing a trout with the best chance of survival, but there is one rule that is almost never included in articles about successful releasing.

So, you have landed the fish as quickly as possible to limit capture stress and you are about to pick up the fish and a get a few ‘grip and grin’ shots before release.

But, grip and grin, can all too often turn into grip and kill, and it is all down to where and how you grip the trout that can determine its survival.

Bish and Fish go over basics to hold trout and ensure proper catch and release techniques.

Have look at the anatomical drawing above showing the main internal structure and components of a trout. Take particular notice where the heart is (red outline) – between and under the…