Catching Trout Gives Cancer Patients Hope
Tucked aside Mount Hood, Oregon, a stocked trout pond provides an escape for young cancer patients. Camp Angelos Conference and Retreat Center is a place where
kids and their families snuggle into the outdoor fabric of a scenic canyon so quiet even fate’s ashes don’t smolder.
The camp offers a variety of services including: soccer, crafts, and hayrides. However, the owner, Kriara’s, pride and joy is the stocked trout pond with trophy trout brought from the Sauvie Island hatchery. What an awesome retreat! Heck, it’s even catch-and-release!
Source: Oregon Live
What Kids can Learn from Fly Fishing
Fly fishing isn’t just a sport from which we exude energy and skill to catch a wading fish. Fly fishing can teach us about the essentials in life. Here is a great story about a father and daughter, and how learning to fly fish isn’t that much different than lessons in life.
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