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Why Stock Sterile Fish? | MidCurrent

Have you ever wondered what role sterile game fish—triploids and hybrids—play in fisheries-management plans? A cool story on the Idaho Fish & Game website explains: The most commonly stocked sterile fish in Idaho is Rainbow Trout. We stock triploid Rainbow Trout, meaning these fish have three complete sets of chromosomes instead of two. Read more
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The bedazzled angler | Hatch Magazine

They sit in a forgotten drawer in my tying desk, intermingling with odd-sized hooks, old fly boxes, and other ephemera that have eddied into this backwater over time. Some are bright and cartoonish, others stately and serious. All remain unused and will probably end up in the trash someday soon. They are the dozens of […] Read more
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Montanans Show Up in Big Numbers to Oppose Mine at Headwaters of Famous Trout Rivers

  The Bitterroot River in early spring. Photo: Phil Monahan In recent years, anglers and conservationists in Montana have fought several different mining proposals, with various levels of success. In Field & Stream, Travis Hall writes about the latest chapter in this saga: A company with Canadian roots that calls itself “US Critical Read more
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Video: Mastering Small Stream Fly Fishing with Joe Humphreys

You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in the world with as much angling experience as Joe Humphreys, and in this video from The New Fly Fisher, he shares one of his favorite small-stream tactics, the long-distance bow-and-arrow cast. The post Video: Mastering Small Stream Fly Fishing with Joe Humphreys appeared first on MidCurrent. Source Read more
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Sight-casting or blind-casting: A New Zealand take | Hatch Magazine

The bright-white yarn indicator dipped just as it passed over what my guide, Doug Corbett, said was a 5-pound brown trout swimming and feeding happily in an idyllic South Island stream. It was quintessential New Zealand trout fishing, with the guide gazing into the deep, green water and spotting the big trout, while I — […] Read more
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Best Tips for Winter Crappies on the Fly

Writing in Florida Sportsman, Chris O’Byrne offers some hot tips for targeting crappies on the fly in Florida: Good weather for crappie is often bad weather for other Florida activities. They are prompted to vigorous action by cooling lake and air temperatures, fresh winds predominantly from the north or west, and skies so cloudy that […] Read more
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