I recall maybe 25 years ago encountering a F&W officer on the banks of the Skykomish with binoculars watching fishermen in drift boats. I asked what he was up to and he said he was looking for equipment violations or other infractions, to the extent he could tell with the available technology...
Excellent! Love the photos and historical context. Sounds like a great trip.
One possible correction on the wildlife ID. I don’t think capybara make it into Panama, but tapirs do, and your photo looks more like a tapir, too.
I doubt that there was a single image that was accurately associated with the body of water being mentioned in the video at the time the image was shown!
Lolly, my doggie companion of 14 years, from riverbanks to mountain tops, departed for the big dog park in the sky last week. The loss is far too fresh to contemplate when or if there will be another.
i have tried a variety of patterns for damsel fly nymphs. Here’s my current fave. Marabou tail, abdomen and thorax, swiss straw carapace, and olive glass bead eyes.
For whatever reason, I've come to favor orange or burnt orange for our native coastal cutts in lakes. I'd like to think it is because that choice has been reinforced by positive feedback from the fishes, but I'm enough of a scientist to realize I have no statistically valid evidence for this...
I use a couple hopper-specific patterns, including a parachute hopper (I've come to hate tying hopper legs out of pheasant tail) and an extended body hopper, but I find myself using a parachute madame X with a yellow body for a variety of large, high floating attractor applications.
I'm a fisherman and I guess you'd say 'retired' hunter, since I haven't hunted in years, but still support hunting. I just don't think this is the stuff of constitutions. I agree with Salmo_G that scientists should make the rules, or at least provide the data for recommendations to the...
My friend Angus Thuermer has been doing a lot of great reporting on this in WyoFile. The link in the OP is an old one, @billie linked to a recent one. There are more articles for anyone who wants a deeper dive. Apparently a public access group is promoting providing funds to install passages...
Ok, here's part II of our AlCan adventures-in-border-crossing in 1978.
If you read my post above, you may have figured out that we were now in Alaska and would have to return to the continental US via Canada. We really didn't have any option; we were dirtbag climbers who had pooled our last...
Too many to count.
Was it coming in from Cuba via Cancun in 1996 with a full plant press (I’m a botanist), which the agents insisted on pulling completely apart and asking me to tell them what each specimen was and why I had brought it with me from Cuba, or maybe the time I was leaving Bogota...