Category: Environment
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 [...]
Beginning of End for Invasive Mussels?
Looks like scientists from the New York State Museum, of all places, have come up with a way to kill zebra and quagga mussels without harming anything else. From the Tahoe Daily Tribune: > Researchers Daniel Molloy and Denise Mayer discovered a bacteria strain — Pseudomonas fluorescens — that can kill zebra and quagga mussels [...]
PA Bass Tourney Guys Speak Up
A while back we posted about how the PA Fish and Boat Commission said that Susquehanna River smallies were suffering from pollution – so they decided to ban spring bass tourneys, and mandate measure-and-release the rest of the year. This is like…well, I can’t think of an analogy off the top of my head, but [...]
Immunizing Your Boat: It’s Coming?
If you didn’t catch the buzz from a post by Lindner’s Angling Edge recently, Ron Lindner was fishing with fish biologist Dick Sternberg and…well, I’ll let Ron pick it up from here: In between hooking fish, Dick was on and off the cell phone all afternoon. I heard one side of the ongoing discussions…and they [...]
Stand Up and Fight: Activist Angler
Robert Montgomery is mad and he ain’t gonna take in no mo’. (Actually, don’t think I’ve ever seen him mad – but he ain’t gonna take it no mo’ anyhow.) For that reason, he’s got a new website called Activist Angler. This is a perfect fit for Robert.
Science: Global Warming Good for Largemouth Bass
As I sit at my computer typing this, trying to warm up after freezing my “you-know-what” off after shoveling piles of snow from my driveway for the fourth time this year, I’m strangely heartened by the results of the following piece of research. We can debate all you want over the whole global warming issue, but [...]
The Upside of Zebra Mussels?
With all the hue and cry about Asian carp and a few stories in the news recently about zebra mussels contributing to bird dieoffs in the Great Lakes, it’s probably not PC to talk about how “invasive species” can actually improve things here and there. Like: How about the improved water clarity and smallie fishing [...]
Lead Ban Status Update
You may recall that some birdy groups tried a few months back to get the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban all lead fishing tackle and lead shot. Sportsmen and women went nuts about it, which helped shoot down the attempt, but the EPA didn’t really have the authority to do it anyway. The bird-heads [...]
Uh, Tranny Bass Found in DE, MD, PA
How would you feel if you caught a bass that had a deep voice but wore a dress and carried a purse? Well, that’s basically what’s going on thanks to what are called “endocrine-mimicking” chemicals – stuff dumped into water that causes things living in the water to be “gender-challenged,” shall we say. Been going [...]
The EPA’s Letter to the Greenies Translated
In case you missed it last Friday, the EPA laid the smackdown on the enviro-nuts who think banning lead in fishing tackle and ammunition is the ultimate solution to waterfowl mortality. While it gets the point across, we feel that the EPA’s letter rejecting the bird-brained petition (pun definitely intended) doesn’t quite possess the true oomph [...]
