Another Challenging Year for Wild Summer Steelhead Hot summers, warm water, harvest and bycatch, poor ocean conditions, dams, water diversion, hatchery influences, habitat degradation, sea lions, and yes, anglers. I hate to sound “doom and gloom” but the summer steelhead returns on the Columbia do make me gloomy. The threats to wild steelhead recovery continue…
Category: Conservation Corner
Conservation Corner
Foundation Presents Check to WaterWatch Thanks to your generous donations at our annual auction’s Keith Hansen Memorial Paddle Raise, The Flyfisher Foundation presented a check to WaterWatch for $31,050 – A paddle raise record! Nehalem River Earns State Scenic Designation Governor Kate Brown signed the order on June 30th to designate 17.5 miles of the…
Conservation Corner – Little Yellow Stones
Editor’s Note: Such a treat to receive another in-depth, “Hafele’ look at invertebrates that we strive to imitate in our quest to entice wary trout to our lines. Our famous member and bug man, Rick Hafele, whisks us to a small coastal stream then drills down on the little yellow flies that trout love this…
Conservation Corner – Support WaterWatch!
As you know, WaterWatch is the recipient of this month’s Keith Hansen Memorial Paddle Raise at our annual auction. The paddle raise supports their work to improve streamflows in the Crooked River. If you take a look at their mission, accomplishments, and recent newsletters, you can see that they reach all corners of Oregon to…
Conservation Corner
Flyfisher Foundation Supports OSU Fisheries Science Every April we invite the annual recipient of the Tom McAllister Graduate Scholarship to share their research with the Club. Here is a look back at the past 5 Oregon State University graduate student recipients of the Tom McAllister Scholarship to see what they have published. I am impressed…
Conservation Corner – Foundation Grantee for 2019
Flyfisher Foundation Announces This Year’s Recipient of the Keith Hansen Memorial Paddle Raise After careful consideration of several excellent conservation grant applications this year, your Flyfisher Foundation has chosen to award WaterWatch’s proposal to improve streamflow on the Crooked River in Central Oregon. WaterWatch states in their proposal that “The Crooked offers one of the…
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Catch My Drift
By some benevolent act of nature, aquatic insects have evolved the perfect behavior for trout and fly fishers – insect drift. Editor’s Note: The logical connection between trout feeding and fly fishing comes to us from our favorite entomologist, author, and FCO member, Rick Hafele. He takes us under the surface to understand how aquatic…
Conservation Corner – Foundation Awards Grants
Three Organizations Will Receive Supplemental Grants Your Foundation Board receives many worthy grant applications early each year. They carefully review each application and score them in order to decide which organization will be the recipient of the Keith Hansen Memorial Paddle Raise at our annual auction. As 2018 waned, the Foundation Board members carefully considered…
Conservation Corner – December 2018
The Spirit of Giving (for Fish) This exceptionally warm, exceptionally dry year is coming to a close. Reflecting back, we saw dismal steelhead returns, low flows in our rivers, and stagnation in climate change policy. Last month’s Conservation Corner offered some bright spots where fish and river focused non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) have made real progress…
Conservation Corner – News from NW NGOs
Fish conservation news has been pretty dismal of late with very low returns of salmon and steelhead throughout the west. Our northwest-based NGOs are out there advocating for wild fish, working to improve and protect habitat, building on available science, and strengthening alliances to leverage more influence in support of fish. Here are a few…
