Fish survived in some places and required constant restocking by state agencies in others. If I knew the answer to that question, a question that no one, not NOAA, NASA or the National Weather Service can answer with any reliability more than a couple of days in advance, would I be a humble fishing guide? No, I would be jet-setting my way to where they actually had some fishing, South America.
Bring a thermometer if you don’t know how to gauge water temperatures. Fish early in the morning, when water temperatures are lowest, and stop in the early afternoon. Use a stronger tippet to get fish in faster and release them quicker. In addition to being reliable and effective at finding fish, the FL-8SE is the best ice fishing fish finder for beginners to learn the ropes. If you’re new to ice fishing or want a time-tested design, you can’t go wrong with the FL-8SE. Close to forty years ago, a legendary angler named Dave Genz—aka Mr. Ice Fishing— engineered an ingenious way to garage-rig his flasher-sonar unit for ice duty.
Before long, the final fish is on the stringer and our group is looking sockeye savvy. Summer in Soldotna, Alaska, is full of long days; July 1 is a 19-hour day and the 31st of August runs nearly 14 and a half hours. For fishing guide Andrew Chadwick, long days are just part of the job. Chadwick is a Twin Cities native and University of Minnesota-Duluth graduate with a decade of guiding experience in Alaska. He’ll guide a client a day in June before taking two trips per day in July and August. The long days make such a busy schedule possible, as does the remarkable appeal of the Kenai River fishery.
He quickly releases the fish as it is unlawful for him to catch fish on his clients’ behalf. In 2020, Texas was already running a deficit of about 3.1 million acre-feet of water in order to be fully prepared for a drought of record, according to the plan, about 18% of current supplies. By 2070, that gap is expected to double, but thestate’s plan projectsthat it will have created enough new water supplies to make up the gap. Trout, salmon, and whitefish evolved to prefer temperatures between the low 50s and the low 60s.
I can think of no finer example of this timeless observation than our own Dungeness River — where 30 years and millions of dollars of salmon restoration projects have only produced more threatened and/or endangered fish. That is how they repopulate rivers after natural disasters such as volcanoes. It happened in the Toutle River after the eruption of Mount St. Helens and to the rest of the Pacific Northwest after the last ice age. Maybe we should try to fish the kingfish and wahoo tournaments?
Yellowstone biologists did this with westslope cutthroat trout and Arctic grayling in the Gibbon River, a stretch of historically fishless water where those two cold-water native species now thrive. On the west side of the Wind River Range, range expansion and refuge waters are becoming a viable option for Colorado River cutthroat, Rhea says. With the demonstration proof positive that fish are holding nearby, our group grabs rods and spreads out along the current seam flanking the gravel bar. In short order we are hooking fish, a number of sockeye salmon but also some pink salmon.
He’s also had to contend with closures on portions of the Eagle River due to higher water temperatures. Even if we buckle down and do everything possible to address climate change now, most scientists agree it won’t be enough. Hanging up our rods each summer in a fit of despair does anglers—and fish—no good. We won’t all be relegated to casting for carp, at least not within many of our lifetimes. Hooking fish is a ceremonial manner of sorts; the technique employed by sockeye anglers is called flossing.
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