Oscar Hoffman Jr. of Madras holds up the 25-pound brown trout he landed May 19 in the Deschutes Arm of the Wickiup Reservoir.

Tom Remington

Canadian and U.S. officials are saying that any hatchery fish that were fed melamine-spiked feed are not harmful if eaten by humans. Well, it sounds like they are relatively certain that statement is true.

“We do not believe this poses any significant human-health threat,” said David Acheson, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner. But he said the agency would be sampling fish that received the Skretting feed to determine how much melamine they contain.

“We don’t believe……..” and even more troubling is “the agency would be sampling fish”. Am I to assume they haven’t sampled any yet and they are already telling us there’s not concern? Yikes!

Tom Remington

In Oregon, fish and game officials noticed a woman fishing from a rubber raft. They decided to call her to shore and do a routine check of her license and boat equipment. What they found was a bit odd and not something they would recommend to anyone.

Not only did this woman not have a fishing license but she was without a personal flotation device and, and this is a big AND, she was using an anchor to keep her rubber raft from floating away. Why is that unusual you may ask? Because she had the rope that was attached to the anchor, tied around her ankle as she dangled her leg over the side of the boat.

Tom Remington