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Low Flows Compound a High Drama
This summer has certainly been one of great joy for holiday- makers and sun worshippers. The sun has been working overtime while the rains have been on strike - until this last weekend. River fishing has been virtually at a standstill except for some trout fishing around dusk and sewin fishing at night. Rivers like the Towy and Rheidol have produced a few quality sewin intermittently despite the low water levels. Sewin, often referred to as the children of the tide, have been scarce on most rivers and even on rivers where stocks appeared more numerous, the fishing conditions have been atrocious. Anglers sometimes equate catches with stocks when in fact the catches often reflect the fishing conditions. Anglers are very concerned about the future of sewin and salmon stocks especially as several of those important nursery streams are drying up.
Killing Fish to Make Room for Others
(KCPW News) Apparently Utah's state fish doesn't do well with competition. State wildlife officials have wiped out the existing population of Brown Trout and Mottle Sculpin in a portion of the Diamond Fork River to make room for 10,000 Bonneville Cutthroat Trout. DWR Conservation Manager Scott Root says the state used a naturally occurring toxin to kill the fish. "We used backpack sprayers to apply the rotenone and we had 20 different trip stations with the chemical. As far as we can tell it was a complete success." Root says the poisoned fish will decompose and fortify the food base for the new Bonneville Cutthroat in the river. The toxin has not been shown to hurt other organisms in the river system. Wildlife officials installed a barrier to keep Brown Trout from moving back upstream into the portion reserved for Bonneville Cutthroat.
Fly Fishing Industry News and Hot New Products
The recently released flim, Jindabyne, is an adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story So Much Water, So Close to Home, about a group of fishermen who discover the dead body of a woman floating in the river. Instead of doing something with the body, the men mysteriously decide to leave the body while they continue to fish. When the men finally return home to Jindabyne, and report finding the body, all hell breaks loose. The fishermen, their wives and their children are suddenly haunted by their own bad spirits. As public opinion builds against the actions of the men, their certainty about themselves and the decision they made at the river is challenged. Jindabyne casts Laura Linney, Gabriel Byrne, Deborra-Lee Furness, John Howard and Leah Purcell. It was directed by Australian, Ray Lawrence and produced by April Films.
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