Invasive predator alarmingly close to critical salmon habitat on Columbia River
An invasive predator is threatening to sink millions of dollars in salmon and steelhead recovery, and it’s inching closer to creating a crisis on the …
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The EPA Can’t Wait to Reopen the Mine That Poisoned North Idaho
For a century, the mines of the Coeur d’Alene Mountains in North Idaho produced much of the heavy metals that made the U.S. a global …
How To Tie a Dropper
In this episode of RIO’s “How To” series, RIO brand manager Simon Gawesworth runs through a number of reasons of why you would fish a …
Loon Live: Swing For Glory
Tonight on Loon Live a couple patterns designed for chasing a particular anadromous fish that we like to call “steelhead”. Anderson’s Euphoria has a classic, …
S.C.O.F Issue #29
There’s a fungus amongus.
TBT: A brown dog runs through it
Fishing for dogs circa 2006.
The Bottom Of The Ninth
Our friend Mike Thompson wrote this dispatch about his recent trip to the ESB Lodge in the Mexican Yucatan. The alarm went off as usual …
Swing Season – Ghost Of Steelhead Future
This is a story about Jon Hazlett but really, it’s a story about fish and people. Check out what Jon is up to on the …
IDFG will consider closing steelhead fishing season
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission could decide at its meeting tomorrow in Coeur d’Alene to shut down the steelhead fishing season on Dec. 7 …
NMFS issues report on N.C. bass poaching ring
Fortunately, these criminals are off the water. In early November, NMFS released its final report on a striped bass poaching ring in North Carolina that’s taken the better …