Eighteen years ago Dylan Tomine made the difficult decision to stop fishing on the Skykomish River. It was heartbreaking to walk away from the river he cut his teeth on, a river he loved, his home water. In the eighteen years that have gone by since he last fished the Sky, wild steelhead populations have all collapsed. In this second episode of the EWA Undercurrent Podcast Dave McCoy convinced Dylan to take a trip down memory lane, to float the Sky, do a bit of fishing, talk about what has changed, and the future of wild steelhead.
Hear what you guys are saying. What explains the success of the brood-stock on the Oregon coast?