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Tying Tuesday: Four Flies to Cover the Column

March is here, and with it comes that restless stretch where winter’s grip is loosening but spring hatches haven’t quite kicked off. The water’s still cold, the fish are still deep—mostly—and the best thing a tyer can do right now is fill the box from top to bottom. This week’s Tying Tuesday does exactly that, […] Read more
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2026 Wading Gear Goes Lighter, Greener, and Grippier

The 2026 wading gear market has arrived with recycled fabrics, PFAS-free water repellents, and smarter sole technology as the expected baseline. Several major releases in the past few months—from Patagonia, Simms, Skwala, Guideline, and SITKA Gear, which just entered the fishing category—reflect an industry where materials science now pairs Read more
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Tying Tuesday: Mastering Seasonal Shifts and Subsurface Stealth

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

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

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

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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