Photo: Tim Romano

Throughout the state, in spite of evidence showing hatcheries to be detrimental to wild steelhead recovery, we continue to pour millions of tax-payer dollars into these programs with laughably low returns on investment—at a time when we’re closing schools and struggling to provide basic services to citizens...

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It was suddenly very early in the morning and I realized I’d been living the author's life for about 16 straight hours.

The pursuit of what some micro-midge tossing, 7X tippet tying, trout purist acquaintances refer to as “ditch pickles,” turned out to be about as much fun as you can have with a fly rod. Just to give a little taste, picture dragging a Gurgler across a solid putting green of vegetation and watching the grass explode...