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Tying Tuesday: Mastering Seasonal Shifts and Subsurface Stealth

Tying Tuesday: Mastering Seasonal Shifts and Subsurface Stealth

March 3, 2026 Comments Off on Tying Tuesday: Mastering Seasonal Shifts and Subsurface Stealth

This week’s Tying Tuesday bridges the gap between late-winter tying sessions and opening-day confidence. We’ve assembled four patterns that cover a wide arc of the season: the Welsh March Brown, a soft-hackle wet fly whose partridge and hare’s ear profile has been fooling trout on both sides of the Atlantic for generations; a PMD Cripple Read more
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Utah Cutthroat Slam Funds Five Conservation Projects for 2026

March 2, 2026 Comments Off on Utah Cutthroat Slam Funds Five Conservation Projects for 2026

The angler-funded fishing challenge has generated more than $130,000 for native trout restoration since its 2016 launch, with 95 percent of every registration fee going directly to on-the-ground work. Image by Steve Dally The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and Utah Trout Unlimited announced on February 19 the selection of five new native Read more
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Montana’s Access Wars Heat Up as Corner Crossing, Water Rights Collide

March 2, 2026 Comments Off on Montana’s Access Wars Heat Up as Corner Crossing, Water Rights Collide

A flurry of legal rulings, agency declarations, and legislative pushes have converged on the question of where anglers and hunters can go in Big Sky Country—and the answer depends on who you ask. Montana’s long-simmering fight over public land and water access boiled over in February, driven by parallel developments that underscore how Read more
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Massachusetts Environmental Group Launches Statewide Campaign to End Non-Native Trout Stocking

March 2, 2026 Comments Off on Massachusetts Environmental Group Launches Statewide Campaign to End Non-Native Trout Stocking

The Berkshire Environmental Action Team is pressuring MassWildlife to end its stocking program, citing ecological harm to native eastern brook trout—and invoking the governor’s own biodiversity mandate to do it. The Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT), a Pittsfield-based nonprofit, has launched a statewide campaign called “Stop Read more
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Succession | Hatch Magazine – Fly Fishing, etc.

March 1, 2026 Comments Off on Succession | Hatch Magazine – Fly Fishing, etc.

On all the maps, the gravel-bottomed, tannin-tinted stream had a name, but Vincent and Sean—Master Maine Fishing Guide Sean Rideout—never spoke it, even to each other. They did have words for each of the stream’s discrete and singular features—its pools, its runs, its riffles—but these were names that had never been put to paper, which Read more
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Gear we love right now: February 2026 | Hatch Magazine

February 27, 2026 0 Comments

Anglers are drowning in gear choices—rods, reels, boots, waders, lines, packs, bags, boxes, vests, apparel and more. It seems harder and harder to know what’s worth coveting and what’s worth ignoring. Gear reviews are a great way to explore in-depth what might be right for you, but not every piece of gear is suited to […] Read more
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