Arctic grayling are making a comeback in Yellowstone National Park
Photo via USFWS Mountain-Prairie on Flickr
[Editor’s Note: “First Casts” is an occasional feature that highlights great fly-fishing content from around the Web—from how-to articles, to photo essays, to interesting reads.]
- The effects of hot water and hot weather on trout have been popular topics in the news. On the Field & Stream Fly Talk blog, Tim Romano discusses when it’s time to stop fishing to give trout a break, and an article on Mashable discusses how record temperatures across the West are the result of a “heat dome,” which saw 465 temperature records broken or tied in the last week. This is obviously a problem for trout rivers, and the fires spawned by the heat could negatively impact fish habitat.
- Writing on Outside Online, Kelly Bastone offers “6 Anglers’ Escapes,” including such destinations as the Driftless Area of Wisconsin and Colorado’s Taylor River.
The Americans placed second in Bosnia, beating out several traditional world powers.
Photo via Fly Fishing Team USA
- Fly Fishing Team USA rocked the recent World Fly Fishing Championships in Jajce, Bosnia. The Team took the silver medal, and Devin Olsen won the individual bronze..
- The Green Mountain State’s top news station, WCAX, did a great report on the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, Vermont.
- Bass-bug master Pat Cohen is the subject of a great article by Gerry Bethge on the Outdoor Life site. If you love chucking deer hair for largemouths, you gotta read this.
- Yellowstone National Park’s Grayling Creek is home to a resurgence of native fish species, including arctic grayling and westslope cutthroats according to a report from KTVQ in Billings.
- Meanwhile, in the mountains of Virginia, wild trout are threatened, but there’s still hope for recovery, according to Bill Cochran, writing in The Roanoke Times.