Killing Non-native Fish with Toxins

The New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission approved a plan that allows for the poisoning of 150 miles worth of streams and rivers.  The plan, initiated to wipe-out non-native fish species and bring back the native cutthroat population, would call for the use of antiymicin.  Opponents of the proposition claim that this could cause long-term harmful effects.  What do you think?

• What is antiymicin?
• American Fisheries Society Rotenone Stewardship Program
• New Mexico Weekly Fishing Report

Source:  KOBTV, New Mexico

Brookies First in Colorado

Did you know that Eastern Brook Trout were the first salmonids to reach Colorado?  They beat the rainbow by 10 years!

In late 1872, Denver Alderman, James M. Broadwell, obtained 10,000 fertile brook trout eggs from a fish culturist in Boscobel, Wisconsin and hatched them at his facility located on the South Platte River ten miles north of Denver.

Source: Summit Daily News

Fly Fishing History by Google Print

Google posted a handy tip on how to find old magazines and books using Google Print.  Take a look back in time at this fly fishing publication from 1881, “Fly-fishing in Maine Lakes.”