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Article: Trout Bums [Derived headline]
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- July 7, 2009
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I have been fishing the Yakima River since 1978. So when I tell
you the 2008 winter and 2009 spring fishing were the worst seasons
on the river in 30 years, I'm not some Johnny-come-lately whining
about a bad month or two.
It all began last winter when the temperatures plunged, causing
the Yakima to ice over and produce massive ice dams that forced the
water over its banks, flooding the areas next to the river. I'm
pretty sure that some of my trout found themselves eye to eye with
hungry coyotes, trying to figure out how they got stuck out in the
sagebrush.
How could this happen in the Golden Age of Global Warming? (Or is
this the Silver Age of Global Cooling? I'm so confused.)
Then late ...