Fly fishing without flies. What are we doing?

Tom Butler

Tom Butler

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Baitfish, leeches nor crayfish fly, how 'bout those? OR
 

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swimmy

swimmy

An honest tune with a lingering lead
cody- said:
The bugs are gone, or will be gone soon.
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As the PNWFF Minister of Truth, I'm flagging this as disinformation.

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Evan B

Evan B

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The decline of insects worldwide has been well documented for quite a while now. It doesn't mean they're gone everywhere, but numbers are down and declining.
 
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cody-

Steelhead
Evan B said:
The decline of insects worldwide has been well documented for quite a while now. It doesn't mean they're gone everywhere, but numbers are down and declining.
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I didn't actually read the article I posted. Is it mostly just the effects of pesticides from agriculture or something else?
 
Evan B

Evan B

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cody- said:
I didn't actually read the article I posted. Is it mostly just the effects of pesticides from agriculture or something else?
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If I recall from looking in to previous studies, that was definitely one of the biggest drivers. It's been a while since I've looked in to it, but there's quite a lot of data out there that go far beyond this survey with car plates.
 
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cody-

Steelhead
Evan B said:
If I recall from looking in to previous studies, that was definitely one of the biggest drivers. It's been a while since I've looked in to it, but there's quite a lot of data out there that go far beyond this survey with car plates.
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Yeah, seems like a pretty quick and dirty methodology. Cheap though compared to sweep netting. I might try to find the journal article during a lunch break this week and see which of my many questions the article addresses, e.g., have the car wash habits of drivers changed since 2004?
 
Jake Watrous

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Tallguy said:
Might want to keep quiet that Montana still has bugs. All the trout fishermen in the world are soon going to move there..
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They’d better get on it. The Californians have almost bought the entire state.
 
adamcu280

adamcu280

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cody- said:
Yeah, seems like a pretty quick and dirty methodology. Cheap though compared to sweep netting. I might try to find the journal article during a lunch break this week and see which of my many questions the article addresses, e.g., have the car wash habits of drivers changed since 2004?
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You don't have to try too hard. The report is linked right in the article you didn't read. 😜
 
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cody-

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adamcu280 said:
No need to be angry. Your article also contains a link to a similar study from Denmark.
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That was a sarcastic angry because the thumbs up seemed like it would be taken as sarcastic and because the admins haven't implemented a reaction for the emoji I really wanted to use 🥴
 
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