Category: Environment
Rollin’ Mud Blues
Seems like at times we get more than our fair share of rain. Every time water levels get near normal for a couple days, along comes another storm and in comes the water. More times than not, that water is rolling in mud, especially in our river systems, which many eventually end up feeding into our reservoirs [...]
Science: Goby Love Potions
Cool stuff going on in a research lab in Windsor, Ont. Check this statement out: “University of Windsor professors are narrowing down an elusive goby love potion that could lure the females of the invasive species to their deaths.” The article says the 4 magic compounds (11-oxo-etiocholanolone, for you science geeks) would be added to [...]
Crazy College Carp Caper
What does an NFL pass rush look like if you’re Eli Manning? (Go Giants!) Looks like what these crazy Illinois “yoots” found out in their quest to rid a river of some Asian carps. Don’t try this at home!
Science: Bass and Butts
That title got your attention? I forget what the latest smoking statistics are for this country. I know it’s been on the decline lately. I also know they’re coming out with those real life gruesome pictures to put on packs to help discourage smoking. Steering this now a little toward bass fishing – I know [...]
Locals Want Great Lakes Cut Off
Asian carp, the aqua-locusts. At this point, no one has a clue how to stop these things. Meaning really stop ‘em. They’ve been charging up the Mississippi River, and the massive bureaucracy that is the Army Corps of Engineers is studying whether to close the Chicago Sanitary and Ship canal, which connects the Mississippi to [...]
Boat Sterilization Not So Far-Fetched?
A while back we had a post titled Immunizing Your Boat: It’s Coming? Sounded a bit far-fetched at the time, but maybe not in light of a couple recent items in Washington and Minnesota. Washington Anglers in the state of Washington are subject to random boat checks
MS’s Barnett Another Spraying Victim?
We all know that the non-native, invasive water veggies clog up waterways so folks feel like they need to get rid of ‘em. We also all know that Water Veggies = Bass, and that No Water Veggies = No Bass (or a lot less, anyway). Tripped over a short article about Mississippi’s Ross Barnett Reservoir [...]
WTH Are Those DC Jokers Doing?
I don’t know, man. At this point I’m pretty much convinced that DC politicians – maybe politicians everywhere, except a few in Wisconsin – are what happens when you give a hooker the IQ of a donut (the hole part, not the dough part). In other words, they can be bought for any amount, no [...]
Is Guntersville Fixin’ to…Suck?
Guntersville is so good that you can throw a Vienna sausage on a J-hook, make one cast and catch an 8-pounder. Okay, maybe not that great, but that’s kind of it’s national rep. And it looks like some locals are now bent on trying to make that rep a thing of the past. Below is [...]
Lame Prizes in Snakehead Kill Effort
The Maryland DNR wants to give you a popsicle stick and an orange if you catch and kill a Potomac River snakehead and post its ugly mug online. Alright, not that lame, but it sure as heck isn’t the serious bucks doled out in the West to get rid of squawfish (aka pikeminnows). To entice [...]
Congress Goes Head2Head With Antis
Well lookee here. A little late to this party, but maybe you’re in the same boat: Somewhat on the heels of the recent attempt by antis to ban lead ammunition and fishing tackle (again), a few of the rocket scientists who allegedly represent us in DC (yep, not a fan of those folks) have decided [...]
Science: Alien Invader Update
Remember hearing the news about the coming end of the bassin’ world back in 2004? You know, all the green fish were going to be eaten, tourneys were going to be out of business, along with the guides. All that lost revenue, and jazz. It was the new alien invader, and it had landed smack dab in [...]
Now Bassers Are Being Blamed For…
This is a first for me. Over the years we’ve all heard about tourney anglers being blamed for “catching all the fish,” “killing fish,” hogging boat ramps and even entire lakes, running too fast and really it’s a pretty long list. All of it hogwash…except maybe for the running too fast part. (I’m thinking of [...]
Great Lakes Fishing May Eventually Die
Seriously. A study came out recently about non-native zebra and quagga mussels literally killing the food chain in lakes Michigan and Huron. And I quote: Two closely related species of mussels — the zebra and quagga — [are] stripping the lakes of their life-supporting algae, resulting in a remarkable ecological transformation and threatening the multibillion-dollar [...]
Don’t Eat Smallie Privates…
…if you’re catching ‘em in the Susquehanna River, as well as CO, DE, IA and OH. Disturbing stuff. As far as PA goes, we’ve covered the problems Susquehanna smallies are facing, and the questionable things the PA Fish and Boat Commission is doing in response, but here’s a new wrinkle. It’s in the “we can’t [...]
Science: Robins = Good; Turtles = Bad?
Banana’s aside, which we all know are bad luck in the boat, bass anglers tend to use a variety of nature’s cues to predict whether fishing will be good or bad, or just what seasonal pattern the fish may be using. It turns out that a lot of these have at least some basis in good science, [...]
Science: Save a Bass, Eat a Flounder
Keeping with the Delta theme this week due to the Bassmaster Classic, some more science news, this time giving you another good reason to practice catch and release. Lets face it, you don’t want to show up at the ramp looking like the basser on the left. Chances are you’d be left standing on the [...]
