Recently Steve and Curtis have been Jigging Steel with huge success. I wanted to share these amazing pictures taken by Curtis with all of you. I know all of you Steel Freaks would be blown away just as I was with these images. Thanks guy’s for letting everyone enjoy your experience…. These pics tell a great story. 
11/14/2010
Steve & Curtis Pound The Steel
11/01/2010
Deadline For Egg Cure Compliance? Tip Of The Hat To Shure Cure
Deadline? Was there a deadline?
In August of 2010, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission supported ODFW staff recommendations to follow a path of compliance through cooperation and collaboration with egg cure manufacturers regarding the removal of sodium sulfites from commercial egg cures sold in Oregon. The Commission chose not to support a formal Citizen’s Petition submitted by the Northwest Environmental Defense Center and signed by Trout Unlimited, the Wild Salmon Center, Native Fish Society and a few Oregon anglers. The petition recommended new language for the 2011/2012 angling regulations, adding the words “Except for eggs cured with Sodium Sulfite”.
While anglers debate the merits of the study and cure manufacturers move slowly towards compliance with a Commission and ODFW staff mandate that all sodium sulfite must be removed from commercial cures by the fall of 2011, the deadline is but 12 months away. If dramatic changes in egg cure products sold in Oregon retail centers are not realized—that being a sodium sulfite free product— the commission will be forced to implement the very regulations the industry and ODFW fought to avoid in the first place. It’s ironic that the slow response by the egg cure industry will bring about what they wanted to avoid. DEQ stands poised to drop the hammer on ODFW and Oregon anglers if the products are not cleansed of the toxin. Commissioner Edge clearly stated in the August meeting that if the department and the industry failed to meet the fall 2011 deadline for sodium sulfite removal, the commission will revisit the issue and adopt the Citizen’s Petition recommendation to add the language. The petitioners will most likely re-submit the petition, just to be sure.
Shure Cure is to be commended for moving forward with a smolt-friendly product. Other manufacturers are sure to follow and our waters will be safer for fish and cleaner for all.
One of many Springers taken with sulfite free eggs this spring
