Paddlefishing Is Back! -- May 2, 2021

This is so cool. For newbies, the season is very, very short, and the river "boundaries" are very, very short, also, in the big scheme of things. 

Although there is some oil activity in this part of North Dakota, it's really a bit west of where most of the Bakken is active.

The paddlefish boundaries are easy:

• all of the Yellowstone River in North Dakota;
• only that part of the Missouri River that lies west of the bridge south of Williston, extending to Montana;
  
• this includes the confluence where much of the paddlefishing activity occurs

When the season was canceled last year I was "devastated," although that is/was obviously too strong a word. But outdoor recreation in North Dakota is a huge, huge deal, and canceling the season was a mistake, from my point of view. The problem was the "congregation" of fishermen at the "paddlefish factories" where upwards of three or four people might congregate at one time. Mostly young people who were least likely to suffer a serious Covid-19 illness.

And so it goes.

Getting back to normal. 

Link here.