Saved By Axe...

So amazing to see Chad and Soul River soar with the help of this amazing dog Axe

It's allowing Chad and his staff of volunteers impact countless lives, including those currently on their Arctic deployment.

Evening Hatch's Annual Klickitat 2 Hander Day

Photo Credit-Brian Chou

The Evening Hatch's annual 2 Hander Day is coming up quick, August 12th.

Superior instruction begins at 930am at the Klickitat Community Center and Town Pool with a jam packed schedule of speakers like Jack Mitchell, Brian Chou, Brian Syskal, Zack Williams and more

Expert or beginner, it's a day that everyone will learn something and have a chance to look, touch and feel offerings from many different brands in the industry and also see what's going on with non profits like Soul River

After a day of on river instruction and fishing, join the crew at the Steelhead Ranch just 15 minutes away for an evening of bbq and fishing movies under the stars

Register today via their online link HERE.

The 24 Inch Native...

The skated mouse pattern fluttered across the frog water, and right before it hit the fast seam a violent slash took it down

Fish On!!

OMR's 6 wt taco'd over and we thought we had the fish of the trip.  Target species that is.

Through a set of bolder gardens he kept up the fight until I was able to find a bank to pull over and allow him to put the screws to the fish.

As it came closer, we knew something was up.  It was target un-aquired.

Still it was the biggest northern pikeminnow we had ever seen on this river.  Native, it should be there unlike the interlopers we were after

So we put away the initial disappointment,  hooted, hollered and celebrated the 24 inch native brought to the net.

Heber Valley Fly Fishing Festival August 11th and 12th

August 11th and 12th, if your in the vicinity of Midway, Utah I highly suggest you find your way to the Heber Valley Fly Fishing Festival.

Run and hosted by Jason and Julie Zicha of Fall River Fly Rods, it's an annual event that does an amazing job of getting new folks into the sport, helping kids along their fly fishing journey and giving a ton of people a chance to hob nob with a great number of businesses and non profits in the sport.

It's a project built on the passion of Julie and Jason, and it's 100% free to the public to attend.  There are classes, demos, giveaways and lots of prizes.

Visit the Heber Valley Fly Fishing's site and check them out on FB as well

Enjoy!

Horrible Bill For Salmon and Steelhead

The big question is why?

Why would state representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Don Newhouse and others stare into the face of the worst predicted run of fall chinook, sockeye and summer steelhead on the Columbia and say..... "meh, screw em"

While that's hyperbole, they are in effect doing that by introducing a new bill that flies against science and judicial review on how we are managing the lower 4 Snake River Dams.

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/07/post_268.html

It's the definition of insanity.  They want to return to the invalidated 2014 federal Columbia River Bi-Op and hold it in place through 2022.  They want to hold water back that facilitates smolt outmigration in the spring.  They want to take the notion of breaching the lower 4 Snake River dams completely off the table

They want to circumvent the entire NEPA process that hundreds of thousands of comments were registered by the public this past fall in meetings around the Northwest as state, federal and Bonneville power were ordered to consider all options in the process of a new Biological Opinion

So in other words.  Screw the public process. Screw the science.

And oh, lets keep pouring billions of dollars at salmon and steelhead mitigation that isnt working.

They want to keep a bandaid on a hemorrhaging wound.

The special interests that keep these representatives have done a fantastic job of keeping the wool over their eyes.

It's up to us to let them know we oppose this legislation.

Contact McMorris Rodgers at 202-225-2006 and Newhouse at 202-225-5816

Also, find more ways to contact them via their websites

https://newhouse.house.gov/contact

https://mcmorris.house.gov/contact

Speak up ladies and gentlemen.  Now.