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I sent Teeg Stouffer of Recycled Fish a list of email questions for an article I was writing. I wound up culling certain parts of his answers to use in conjunction with a few other sources. He had a lot to share that I couldn’t fit into an assigned 750 word article, so I’m posting the RAW file here. 1. What is Recycled Fish and why should we care? Recycled Fish is the non-profit organization of “anglers living a lifestyle of stewardship both on and off the water, because our lifestyle runs downstream.” That’s pretty wordy, so to break it down a little, we’re people who love to fish. We want nothing more than to see more and bigger fish in our waters now,…

Here’s what Amanda Switzer’s new rod company is all about. 20 percent back to the planet. You can win one of the new Rise rods by signing a petition to fight Pebble Mine. CLICK HERE.

In the beginning, there was Alistair. Then there was Dean Burris and I think Moldy Chum and a bunch of bass guys, and I started a blog that year (2003) and said and linked to a bunch of stupid things. Murdock was around somewhere early on. It felt like being on the cutting edge of the early SoCal punk scene only not really. More like gambling at those crappy casinos off the strip where you don’t want to sit down on the naugahyde because you might catch something but it’s a two-dollar table and you’re out of options. Then Tom Chandler started TU and all the sudden you realized your blog was going to go way underground because you weren’t actually saying anything. And…