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Adirondack Brook Trout Are Recolonizing Streams Lost to Acid Rain—But Warming Water May Undo the Comeback

February 23, 2026 0 Comments

  A landmark USGS study documents four decades of recovery in 42 Adirondack streams, while a new DEC management plan confronts invasive species, habitat loss, and a warming climate. Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) now occupy 33 of 42 western Adirondack study streams—more than half of which held no trout in the mid-1980s—according to a Read more
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New Law Will Put Federal Waterway Rules on Your Phone

February 23, 2026 0 Comments

The MAPWaters Act, signed in late December, gives agencies five years to digitize access points, fishing restrictions, and boating regulations on all federally managed waters. The Modernizing Access to Our Public Waters Act is now law. The Senate passed the bill unanimously on December 16, 2025, and President Trump signed it on December 26 as Read more
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CalTrout Warns of “Almost Certain” Extinction Events for California’s Native Fish

February 20, 2026 0 Comments

The conservation group ties the repeal of the federal endangerment finding to accelerating threats against the state’s salmon, steelhead, and trout—and launches a once-a-decade scientific assessment to track the damage. California Trout issued a stark warning on February 18: without science-based federal climate action, the state’s wild Read more
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Colorado TU Turns the Tying Season Into a Gift for the Next Generation

February 20, 2026 0 Comments

A statewide tying challenge asks members to stock fly boxes for youth programs before April 1. Image courtesy of Colorado Trout Unlimited Colorado Trout Unlimited has turned the winter tying season into a statewide competition. The organization’s new Tie-4-the-Future Challenge, launched in January, asks members and chapters across the state to Read more
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Gone fishing with some clown | Hatch Magazine

February 19, 2026 0 Comments

While trout fishing on a rural Pennsylvania spring creek a few summers ago, I came upon a five-foot-tall wooden clown standing in the river. Cut from a piece of plywood, and painted in simple shades of red, yellow, and blue, it must have come from one of the small towns a few miles upstream. I […] Read more
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The siren song of the Texas redfish | Hatch Magazine

February 17, 2026 0 Comments

It’s not often that a place sings to you, and calls you in. Some places play more alluring tunes than others, and, while I think it’s safe to say that anglers hear siren songs more than most folks, these magnetic and rhythmic sonnets conjured up by water and fish are always fleeting, always remarkable. For […] Read more
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