Ed Emory - Electroshocking South Fork Of The Snake River?
Ed Emory is a veteran guide on the South Fork Of The Snake River in Swan Valley, ID. Ed has solidified his great reputation by winning the Jackson Hole One Fly Tournament as a guide an astonishing 5 times. He is the only person to have done this.
Many may know that I started my guide career on the South Fork about the same time that Ed also began his career. We both love this river and want what is best for it.
The Idaho Fish And Game has a program intended to protect Yellowstone Cutthroats in the South Fork. To do so, they will electroshock many thousands of rainbow trout out of the river. This will most definitely change the fishing quality on the river.
Ed discusses his position, which you can read on our website and we have an interesting conversation on what this all means. Is it our place to protect one specie over another? Is the Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout even native to this body of water? Why is the Rainbow Trout heralded as a wonderful resource on the Henry’s Fork while just 65 miles away in the same river system there are plans to eradicate it?
Much of this did not make sense to me so I had a lot of questions for Ed.
Read his statement and participate in the petition if his position matches yours.
Petition: https://www.change.org/p/idaho-department-of-fish-and-game-we-demand-that-idaho-department-of-fish-game-idf-g-immediately-halt-the-electrofishing
GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/a95a3de0
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