Moment 12-story dam that helped power 7,000 houses was blown up so salmon could have a home | Mail Online

Moment 12-story dam that helped power 7,000 houses was blown up so salmon could have a home | Mail Online: "After a huge explosion, a dam which helped power thousands of homes for almost 100 years was partially destroyed - so that endangered fish can swim freely down a river.

Demolition crews detonated explosives in a drain tunnel at the base of the 12-story hydro-power Condit Dam, on the White Salmon River in the Pacific Northwest."

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Reading the water...

Reading the water...: "Why is this important? If what lies below the surf waters was thoroughly understood and embraced, the more success the surf fisherman would have at catching fish! Sounds simple, but truth is reading the water is difficult."

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Short rocks The Rock | Bassmaster

Short rocks The Rock | Bassmaster: "BRANSON, Mo. — Kevin Short kept plugging away each day and saved his best performance for last to win the season finale Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Central Open at Table Rock Lake."

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Bobby Lane stays on top of fall lunkers | Bassmaster

Bobby Lane stays on top of fall lunkers | Bassmaster: "Bobby Lane will be fishing his fifth consecutive Bassmaster Classic in 2012 and already has two top-10 finishes in the championship."

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Alabama Rig: Hottest technique in years! | Bassmaster

Alabama Rig: Hottest technique in years! | Bassmaster: "That's what Bassmaster Elite Series pro and 1982 Bassmaster Classic champion Paul Elias said to himself when he first rigged a few soft plastic swimbaits to an "Alabama rig" and pulled them through the pond behind his Mississippi home."

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Doug Hannon the Bass Professor

Doug Hannon the Bass Professor: "Doug Hannon, a world renowned angler known as “The Bass Professor™ ,” is the inventor of the weedless trolling motor propellor, which revolutionalized the trolling motor industry. Hannon is an award-winning author and photographer, has had hundreds of articles published in outdoor magazines, and has appeared on an internationally syndicated TV show for more than 15 years."

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The Best Fishing Towns in America | Field & Stream

The Best Fishing Towns in America | Field & Stream: "At the eastern end of Long Island, the Atlantic Ocean currents create a virtual highway for some of the most prolific fish migrations (tuna, striped bass, bluefish, and others) found anywhere in North America."

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Fishing the Long Line (Trolling the Fly) | flyguys.net / blog

Fishing the Long Line (Trolling the Fly) | flyguys.net / blog: "Well we’ve heard it before and we’ll hear it again: Trolling isn’t fly fishing. While it’s not truly in the clinical sense fly fishing, i.e.: casting and retrieving from an anchored boat, it IS an effective way to target trout in a lake. Not only is it a good technique but it at times out produces any other method both in size and in numbers of fish!"

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Salmon Run Up Dead Glacier : Discovery News

Salmon Run Up Dead Glacier : Discovery News: "“Shrinking glaciers are changing large expanses of northerly coastlines. The speed and pattern of colonization across Stonefly Creek's watershed will aid our understanding of watershed restoration and conservation of biodiversity in a changing climate,” said Alexander Milner, lead researcher from the University of Birmingham in a press release."

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Reel Time Fishing Northwest | Two winter steelhead arrive to Cowlitz River, plus fishing reports from the southwest region | Seattle Times Newspaper

Reel Time Fishing Northwest | Two winter steelhead arrive to Cowlitz River, plus fishing reports from the southwest region | Seattle Times Newspaper: "Lower portions of Abernathy, Cedar (North Fork Lewis tributary), Coal, Germany, Mill (Cowlitz Co.) creeks and Coweeman River - Re-open to fishing for hatchery steelhead and other game fish November 1"

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