Bill Blake

"Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no more sea."  Rev. 21:1

As a fly fisherman, this is one of the most difficult passages in the Bible for me. It's not so much the first part that's tough to swallow, its that second one about no more sea.

Not so.  Fracking has shown to cause small, localized earthquakes and tremors in certain areas.

Actually, while you're right about that can localized tremors and Earthquakes, I think you missed Gunner's point entirely. Because of plate techtonics the Earth is basically one, very large rock recycling facility. All the land we inhabit is basically floating on top of a giant molten conveyer belt. At one end new rock emerges from the bowel's of the Earth, and on the other old rock is pulled (subducted) back into the furnace. We can cause a lot of harm to ourselves and other life on this planet, but the Earth itself will one day erase everything we have done to its surface.

3 stones and 3 wooly buggers

Six patterns, Kevin, not six flies.

Triploid is only different from something like splake in the sense that splake, or tiger trout (or tiger musky...etc) can occur naturally through species interbreeding.  Triploids are pure strains but with some kind of genetic alteration.  They tend to get huge bodies with undersized fins and tails.
I forgot to say, that I think they are trying to use it for fish farming as well.  Be careful the next time your eat farmed salmon.

Triploid do indeed have a third chromasome which prevents them from being able to reproduce. However, this change isn't caused by anything near as dramatic as most of you probably imagine. The fertilized eggs are heated to artificially high temperature for a set period of time that allows the fish to survive and develop albeit with defective genes making them sterile.

I like love these sorts of hypothetical scenarios, but I have to throw a monkey wrench into the works! In my case I am allergic to fish, as well as birds. Which is particularly unfortunate for someone who is very talented at both fishing and bird hunting (I developed my allergies in my 20s). That said, I have given a lot of thought to how I would obtain food given an extended stay in the wilderness over the years and I think I could use my talents at catching fish to procure other sources of protein. I can eat a small amount of fish without getting sick (about as much meat as you can get off a six inch brookie) so I would eat a tiny portion of fish, smoke some more to eat later, but most interestingly, I would use fish guts or extra meat as bait in deadfall traps to try to obtain other critters that I could actually eat. I also have been studying a lot recently about wild edible plants, but there's nothing quite as satisfying as protein cooked over an open fire.

My choice of flies would vary a lot depending on the time of year and region I was fishing, but it probably wouldn't include anything particularly unexpected. 4 or 5 seasonally appropriate nymphs. I guess the pheasant tail would make the cut in almost every circumstance. A dry fly bouyant enough to act as an indicator for the nymphs, I particularly like Humpy's and H&L variant for Maine, and perhaps my signature streamer, the Bottle Rocket.