Animal Planet Casting Call For Anglers
Top Hooker is currently casting for the second season, and would love to find some adventurous and skilled fisherwomen to be featured on the show.
Send an email to TopHookerCasting@gmail.com with your name, age, phone number, location, a recent photo (without hat and sunglasses please!) and a brief explanation of why you are America’s next Top Hooker.
DEADLINE TO APPLY IS TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013!
Loon Outdoors Launches New Website
Loon Outdoors has just recently launched their new website.
There is still two weeks left to enter into their giveaway contest. Just like them on Facebook to enter.
Women On The Waters Photo
I received a wonderful email from Melissa Paxin and her daughter a while ago.
I came upon your website on the interest today, and I love it! There really needs to be more about women and the sport of fly fishing. My daughter and I just started fishing this summer in MT. We have both fallen in love with it. She is away at college, but I try to fish as often as I can. It is quickly becoming an obsession:-) I thought I would summit a couple of pics for you.
Thanks, Missy.
I love hearing stories and viewing photos of other mothers and daughters who share a bond over angling and the outdoors.
Thanks for sharing photos of yourself and your daughter with us Melissa!
Wild Salmon Forever
THERE ARE STRENGTH IN NUMBERS… Mother Nature is living proof that the process of natural selection can overcome any odds; even more so when there are many of a kind or species. Wild salmon are a classic example of what Mother Nature is capable of IF we honour and respect the living gifts that have been placed in our care.
Just as there is ‘strength in numbers’, these numbers are derived from a ‘singularity’. In the case of wild salmon, this singularity is comprised of two unique living creatures… one male and one female …by divine design to ensure the species will procreate and prosper.
With the pressures that we, as thinking creatures with a free will, impose upon Mother Nature, it should be foremost in our minds to leave Mother Nature to what she does best… species adapting to their environs as this changes over time. To right the wrongs of the present day ‘status quo’, we will only realize a solution IF we raise our collective consciousness to a state that respects, protects and nourishes wild salmon. To quote the wise words of one wild salmon warrior…
“The people are rekindling the bright fire of our ancestors and we are carrying it through the darkness of these times when people in power follow the lure of greed, materialism and ambitions to ever-expand businesses like big oil and open-net fish farms around the world at the expense of desecrating sacred Mother Earth with pollution. We are growing in putting our torches of enlightenment to raise the consciousness of the people in a new direction for the well-being of future generations. When we all do this, we will have plenty for everyone, and we will honour those ancestors who left us the vision of being in balance and harmony with Mother Earth. Let us follow these sacred laws in our own enlightened collective best interest.” Eddie Gardner
Eddie Gardner, of the Skwah First Nation and a Wild Salmon Warrior Elder, speaks plainly and clearly… putting our torches of enlightenment to raise the consciousness of the people in a new direction …is ‘the’ solution to changing the status quo, to transform the present by collaborating on a future that ensures wild salmon thrive and prosper as these iconic fish were destined to do so.
As with wild salmon, Wild Salmon Forever represents ‘the many’ by including individuals as the core building block to realize our ‘strength in numbers’. Wild Salmon Forever asks you to make a difference on behalf of wild salmon… raise your consciousness, then raise your voice …it will make a difference!
Wild Salmon Forever
Then. Now. Forever.
Earth Hour 2013
Earth Hour 2013, 8:30 PM Saturday 23 March. Earth Hour has grown from a one-city initiative in 2007 to the world’s largest campaign for the planet, uniting hundreds of millions of people across 7001 cities and towns in 152 countries and territories.
Dare the world to save the planet in the I WILL IF YOU WILL challenge…
I would love to hear from anyone who is accepting or creating a challenge…
Wild & Scenic Rough Cut
THE PRODUCERS:
This short video was shot in August of 2012 by Daniel Lombardi & Joel Harris; two MSUB Graduate students, who made the video as an argument for more protection on the most amazing 1% of Montana’s rivers.
We believe that the reasons to protect the water source of a continent are nearly infinite. Headwater streams are where the USA gets all of its drinking and irrigation water. It would be dangerous to our national security to allow these streams to become damaged. Furthermore, the value to our natural ecosystems provided by these steams is, in our opinion, incalculably high. There is no rational argument not to protect the best of our rivers.
Women On The Waters Photo
Lisa Schweitzer with a with a stunning W.A. Steelie.
Today I experienced an epic battle with this beautiful chromer on the O.P. I was using a Sage ONE series 7126 rod and my Ross CLA 6 reel. Caught it on a blue and black leech.
I fought him for over 20 minutes in the current and around a bend. Luckily I steered him around a log jam otherwise I’m sure he would have came off. He jumped 5 times and ran all the way into my backing with the drag set tight as I could without breaking him off. After side pressure and pumping/reeling to gain some line on him, he came back up. Covered in sea lice and full of vigor.
Best steelhead of my life to date.
Thank you steelhead gods!
Salmon Confidential
Follow biologist Alex Morton as she unravels the mysteries of BC’s declining salmon stocks using some of the world’s top fish labs. What she uncovers will surprise anyone who cares about our fish and all that depends on them. This 70-minute film documents Morton’s journey as she attempts to overcome roadblocks thrown up by government agencies and bring critical information to the public in time to save BC’s wild salmon. Learn about our changing coastal ecology, grassroots science-based activism, and the inner workings of government agencies tasked with overseeing our fish and the safety of our food supply. “Salmon Confidential” is a film for all Canadians.
visit Salmon Confidential for more info. Write adrian.dix.mla@leg.bc.ca to let him know in order to get your vote you want him to stand up for the wild salmon economy and remove the farms from the migration routes of wild salmon.
Women On The Waters Photo
Laura Schmidt with a nice Laurel Hill Creek, PA Rainbow, caught with a St. Croix Imperial fly rod.
Catch Magazine #27 Is Live
