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Tying Tuesday: No Name Required

April 7, 2026 Comments Off on Tying Tuesday: No Name Required

This week’s lineup covers the range. Sea-Run Fly & Tackle’s beaded purple nymph is built for low-light, overcast days when high-contrast color is doing the work your visibility can’t. AvidMax walks through the GFC Fly, a spare midge-style pattern that excels in the clear, pressured water of stillwaters and tailraces. Root River Rod Co Read more
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Tying Tuesday: Surface, Film, and Open Water

March 31, 2026 Comments Off on Tying Tuesday: Surface, Film, and Open Water

This week’s Tying Tuesday is a water-column master class: four patterns that collectively cover every feeding lane from the surface film to open water, giving you a complete toolkit as hatches begin to fire and predatory fish start pushing into the shallows. We start at the top with the Dyret, a buoyant Norwegian attractor tied […] Read more
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Florida Guides Win a Round Against an Everglades Rock Mine. The Fight Isn’t Over.

March 30, 2026 Comments Off on Florida Guides Win a Round Against an Everglades Rock Mine. The Fight Isn’t Over.

A settlement has produced an amended Environmental Resources Permit for a proposed rock mine in Florida’s Everglades Agricultural Area, clarifying the project’s approved scope and requiring new permits for any expansion—but the project survives, and Army Corps review is still pending. A February settlement among the Tropical Audubon Society, Read more
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Colorado’s Tolland Ranch and Georgia’s Okefenokee Land Deal Expand Fly Fishing Access in 2026

March 30, 2026 Comments Off on Colorado’s Tolland Ranch and Georgia’s Okefenokee Land Deal Expand Fly Fishing Access in 2026

A landmark Colorado acquisition, a conservation follow-through in Georgia, and a sweeping federal access directive add up to a strong spring for angler access on public land. Image courtesy of Colorado Parks and Wildlife. In the span of a few months, fly anglers secured the promise of access to miles of previously private water, saw […] Read more
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Tying Tuesday: On the Surface

March 24, 2026 Comments Off on Tying Tuesday: On the Surface

This week’s Tying Tuesday leans all the way into the surface, bringing you four patterns that cover the dry fly spectrum from classic to quirky: a soft-fur caddis built around a coyote mask, a foam hopper that’s as fun to tie as it is to fish, a CDC soft hackle emerger designed specifically for the […] Read more
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Wyoming’s Corner-Crossing Bill Dies in Senate as Montana Eyes 2027

March 23, 2026 Comments Off on Wyoming’s Corner-Crossing Bill Dies in Senate as Montana Eyes 2027

Wyoming’s effort to codify corner crossing into state statute is dead. Montana’s parallel push won’t reach the legislature until 2027 at the earliest. Together, the two states show how far the West remains from resolving a question that directly determines where anglers and hunters can legally go. Corner crossing refers to stepping from one Read more
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