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The worst part of the drive home is the stretch from Albany to Buffalo. Its an area of the earth where time slows down, and you either sleep or deal with the boredom. The sun was in my face, so I dealt by daydreaming about the days ahead. Most people think that they go back to places not because of the new memories they’ll make, but because some stupid part of them thinks that the same thing will happen again. As we drove westward on I-90, I knew that lightning …

I think my passion for throwing streamers can be linked back to my days of fishing with spinning gear. So since the streamer bite is on fire right now on rivers all across the country, I thought I’d share a few of my favorites.

The Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Natural Resources, and Michigan Department of Attorney General announced today that a civil lawsuit has been filed today in 46th Judicial Circuit Court, Otsego County, naming Golden Lotus, Incorporated (GLI) as a defendant and alleging violations of various state environmental laws resulting in a significant fish kill in the Pigeon River.
GLI has owned and operated the Song of the Morning Ranch dam and the impoundment located in the Pigeon River Country State Forest since May 26, 1969. The function of the dam is …

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So who did the extra credit, and read FERC’s “Denial for Rehearing”(click her to see original document(PDF)) at the end of Part IV? Before we step forward to what is happening today regarding the Pigeon, let’s talk about FERC’s denial.
I’ve read this thing several times. I can’t help but pick up a tone that FERC is grabbing at straws, trying to find any excuse it can to not regulate this dam. Seriously, who do these people work for? Do any of you feel …

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THE VERDICT

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ORDER FINDING LICENSING OF HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT NOT REQUIRED
 
(Issued January 31, 2006)
1. On April 21, 2005, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) received an environmental complaint from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources concerning the operation of the Lansing Club Hydroelectric Project (project), located on the Pigeon River near the town of Vanderbilt in Otsego County, Michigan. …

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On August 26th, 2005, Golden Lotus responded to the MIDNR’s environmental complaint

(click here to see the original document(PDF)
Now I told myself I’d try and be objective here, but come on! This response by Golden Lotus is crap, knowing now how the situation turned out, I can’t believe that FERC came to the resolution they did(coming up tomorrow in Part IV). But before we look at FERC’s resolution, let’s look at Golden Lotus’ response.
The first thing about this letter that jumps out at me …

It’s a thin red line that outdoor writers, and fishing report posters, walk when deciding how much info to give away. There’s all sorts of issues involved with anyone sharing a spot with the rest of the world. The main one that usually prevents any excess, is that they either don’t want to share the spot, or they don’t think it could handle the possible traffic that could result from their words.

Everyone bitches when they see that the latest issue of the big name fly fishing magazine has …