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Thread: 'Swing North' .....new video on Nor Cal winter Steelheading

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    Default 'Swing North' .....new video on Nor Cal winter Steelheading

    http://vimeo.com/80918816

    Mikey Wier with guide Jason Hartwick (Steelhead on the Spey) on Eel River, plus Shane Anderson (Wild Reverence) with Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia) on a misterious river.

    I will be getting one of these California Trout sponsored video ASAP.
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    So, is the Reno showing going to be the closest to Sacto? Will it be shown somewhere closer during the Pleasanton FF Show?

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    The description:

    Hidden behind deep gray fog, California’s North Coast is one of the most pristine habitats in the state. But the thick redwood forests and slate green rivers were almost devastated by the impact of industry. Once hosting runs of more than a million salmon and steelhead, the annual fish counts on the Eel River now often number less than 1,000. Yet, the salmonids persist. In recent years, signs of a recovery ripple through the waters. In Swing North, fishermen Mikey Wier and Jason Hartwick hook into the growing population of wild winter run steelhead on the Eel. With appearances by Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia and Shane Anderson, director of Wild Reverence: The Wild Steelheads’ Last Stand, the two discover a river that holds hope for one of California’s great remaining wild fisheries.

    So if this is a barely recovering fishery with "less than 1,000" returning fish, and we accept that under the best conditions there is a mortality rate associated with catch and release, why on earth are these guys fishing the river?

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    Quote Originally Posted by left field View Post
    The description:

    Hidden behind deep gray fog, California’s North Coast is one of the most pristine habitats in the state. But the thick redwood forests and slate green rivers were almost devastated by the impact of industry. Once hosting runs of more than a million salmon and steelhead, the annual fish counts on the Eel River now often number less than 1,000. Yet, the salmonids persist. In recent years, signs of a recovery ripple through the waters. In Swing North, fishermen Mikey Wier and Jason Hartwick hook into the growing population of wild winter run steelhead on the Eel. With appearances by Yvon Chouinard of Patagonia and Shane Anderson, director of Wild Reverence: The Wild Steelheads’ Last Stand, the two discover a river that holds hope for one of California’s great remaining wild fisheries.

    So if this is a barely recovering fishery with "less than 1,000" returning fish, and we accept that under the best conditions there is a mortality rate associated with catch and release, why on earth are these guys fishing the river?
    Left ,

    I would be more concerned with folks fishing the Russian river than the Eel !!!

    I'm sure you have heard of the minimal runs on the Russian but people continue to fish it .

    The gentleman in the film have done more for our resources than I'm sure 99% of this board including me.

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    Personally I would love them to stop putting any hatchery salmon or steelhead in these rivers and close them to all fishing for 10 years plus keep working on fixing them and taking dams down.


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    Whether they are stand up guys or not is irrelevant. A more powerful statement would have been a refusal to fish that river until the numbers can absorb the impact.

    I agree with Kiene - close recovering fisheries until the population rebounds.

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    Awesome video, and thanks for the share.

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    Steel heading and dub step finally collide!

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    There's an old saying...."Silence is Golden." I think that applies here to all parties on this subject including the creators of this movie and it will benefit these threatened/endangered Steelhead in the end. Cal Trout still baffles the hell out of me after all these years. Seek out more grass roots organizations folks that focus more on the fish restoration and not the publicity or the angling.
    No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity

    But I know none, and therefore am no beast

    -William Shakespeare

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    Quote Originally Posted by left field View Post
    Whether they are stand up guys or not is irrelevant. A more powerful statement would have been a refusal to fish that river until the numbers can absorb the impact.

    I agree with Kiene - close recovering fisheries until the population rebounds.

    The sayings I so keenly remember from my childhood .

    do as I say not as I do. ( Or is it ) the pot calling the kettle black .

    Unbelievable .

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