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State weighs changes for new waterfowling season
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources recently held a series of meetings throughout the state to discuss proposed changes for the 2006-2007 waterfowling season. After weighing the input, the DNR is recommending "...waterfowl hunting dates and waterfowl hunting zone lines for the next five years that reflect an extensive review of scientific data, waterfowl hunter survey data and comments from sporting organizations, waterfowl hunters and other constituents during the last eight months," IDNR Acting Director Sam Flood said, adding that the state's proposals include: An elimination of Canada goose hunting harvest quotas in Illinois beginning this fall. 79-day Canada goose seasons in the North and Central Zones and a 56-day. Canada goose season in the South Zone with a daily limit of two geese in all zones.
Conditions right for fly fishing
The lower main-stem Skagit from about Sedro Woolley down, and its South Fork, are producing some nice fish, according to Bob Ferber at Holiday Market Sports in Burlington (360-757-4361), along with a few smaller Dolly Varden. Fly fishermen are scoring on yellow or black number 6 Knudson spiders, bucktail coachmen, and various minnow-imitating patterns, Ferber said. Popular spin-type lures include number 1 or 2 Mepps or Vibrax spinners in reds, chartareuse, brass/red and small Dick Nite spoons with a light split shot. Worms are always popular. "With the river as clear as it is right now, flies and hardware will probably outfish bait," Ferber said. "And you want to look for 'softer' water than you would fish for steelhead - the current edges, eddy edges, sloughs, and snaggy spots. Basically off to the edges of the main river." There's a rough launch for small boats near the Conway bridge, he said; one above Gardner Bar on the upstream edge of Burlington, off Gardner Road; and one below the bridge in downtown old Mount Vernon, above the forks and above Spud Bar.
My other life - Robert Croft
I'm basically a boy from the country, from Hendy in West Wales. It's something I started doing in those long school holidays in the summer. My grandfather fished, my father fished and it just gets handed down like playing rugby in Wales is handed down from generation to generation. What was your first fish?
Like a cricketer I started with a net. My parents took me down to the local river and I caught a trout. I didn't know at the time that they had taken out it of the freezer earlier. But I didn't care I was, er, hooked after that. What sort of fishing do you specialise in?
Although I do some sea fishing I mainly fly fish. A friend of mine owns a stretch on the River Tawe and that's where you will see me going after salmon and sea trout. What has been your biggest catch?
My biggest fish to date was a beautiful 15lb salmon I landed last September at a stretch of river in Capel Dewi in Carmarthen - one of the most prolific sea trout rivers in the UK.
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