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You might be saying goodbye to fishing in the U.S.A. and you can thank the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Obama administration. No Great Lakes? No coastal areas, oceans or inland waters? This will only hurt our small family business’ and our hard working middle class. You already tax the shit out of us and now you want to take our recreational fishing? That’s Un-American!
Photo AP/Luis M. Alvarez

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Water Powered Jet Pack from toxel.com on Vimeo.

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.

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Please show your support – Join the Snook Foundation

Rich Schaaff lives along the banks of the East Fork of the Lewis River outside Portland, Oregon. with his wife Julie and their dog Cooper.

I moved out west around 10 years ago from the Upper West side of Manhattan. My first summer here I decided rather than settle down too quickly that I would head up to Homer, Alaska and fish my way back to Anchorage. It was the first time I realized the need for something bigger than a 6 wt rod.
After catching my breath I returned to Portland only to jump at the chance to meet my brother in Idaho and fish the Lochsa River & Kelly Creek for some surrealistic dry fly cutthroat fishing..

When I returned to Portland I don’t recall the actual moment when my fly fishing & photography hit head on but I knew when it did I was a goner.

Once I got into the rhythms of living in the NW I soon realized this was the place for me. I thought “Where else can you can get up in the morning and slam a fine cup of Stumptown coffee ,go steelhead fishing for a few hours, run home and put a couple of local micro-brewed beers in the drift boat and spend the rest of the evening casting big dries on a fly fishing only lake at dusk during a prolific hex hatch in the summer?”
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Protect the Upper Delaware River Watershed from Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling

Stone Energy Corporation is requesting permits for two Marcellus Shale gas drilling projects in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. One is to legalize a natural gas exploration and development project at an existing well site and the other permit seeks to withdraw 700,000 gallons of water per day from the West Branch of the Lackawaxen River, a high-quality coldwater fishery.

Please tell the DRBC before March 12 not to issue any permits for Marcellus Shale gas drilling activities in the Delaware River watershed until it is has adopted 1) new regulations that include an analysis of, and take into account, the anticipated cumulative impacts of all gas drilling activities in the Delaware River watershed, and 2) an ecologically protective flow management plan for the Upper Delaware River.

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“Rise Above Plastics” a commercial by BPN to bring awareness of the problems that plastic brings to our oceans.

ScienceDaily (Mar. 1, 2010) — Dead and deformed fish indicate selenium pollution from mountaintop coal mining is causing permanent damage to the environment and poses serious health risks, says a Wake Forest University biologist who will brief U.S. Senators on his research Feb. 23.

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