Common Ground Fair is NFCs most successful non-sporting event and has been for 5 or so years…
Read MoreOther topics include project updates in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, as well as our org-wide manmade rock dam initiative…
Read MoreOnly three tickets to go before we draw a winner for this really awesome custom made bamboo fly rod…
Read MoreBe a cool kid, or adult, with our new NFC logoed roped flat brim…
Read MorePlease consider donating to help NFC offset travel costs for this critically important 3-day trip…
Read MoreWhen state fish and game agencies do what they are telling the public not to do, they send mixed messages and confuse the masses. It is another example of, “Do as we say, not as we do…”
Read MoreWhile nonnative bass, pike, muskies, and walleye get all the attention, more wild native trout have been lost to the introduction of nonnative salmonids...
Read MoreZero-harvest in regard to wild native brook trout is a voluntary precautionary approach, not a mandate or moral high ground…
Read MoreA year or so after NFC was founded, our Maine chapter undertook what is likely the largest…
Read MoreNFC’s June 2025 Newsletter features updates in regard to the new Virginia native fish snorkel trail…
Read MoreStream friendly 6’6”, 3-weight, medium/fast action, two-piece, hollow-built, with tip-over-butt 100% bamboo ferrules…
Read MoreIn two cases we are aware of in New Hampshire, ponds that were stocked with brook trout for decades reverted to self-sustaining fisheries once stocking was suspended…
Read MoreSeven years, 364 ponds, and 510 State Heritage Fish signs later, while the sign had a couple of bullet holes in it and the tree it was posted on had lost its bark, the sign was in amazingly good shape…
Read MoreNFC Executive Director Bob Mallard recetly wrote about the cost of trout stocking in Maine, a state rich in wild native trout resources…
Read MoreTo lose someone in their prime to a fishing accident is beyond comprehension…
Read MoreAs this years sponsored non-profit, close to $5,000 was donated to NFC…
Read MoreWhen species misidentification involves trout, more often than not it is specific to native trout, and brook trout in particular…
Read MoreNFC Executive Director Bob Mallard and National Chair Emily Bastian stopped by Cabelas in Scarborough, Maine, to see “Chance” the traveling brook trout…
Read MoreThere is no better time than now to treat yourself to a new fly rod, and no better way to do that than by taking out a lifetime membership with fly rod from NFC…
Read Moreeferred to as “Citizen Science,” this will allow the chapter to conduct their own stream surveys and informational public seigning events…
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