As many of you know, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) has been working on a proposal to limit the use of live fish as bait in the North Region which encompasses most of the state’s wild native salmonid waters. This is the result of legislation submitted by George Smith and supported by NFC members in 2017…
Read MoreIt’s awesome to see some of the new signs going up on the upper Wood River in Rhode Island. The sign below is part of a kiosk system that allows anglers, and others, to dispense of spent leader and tippet…
Read MoreA couple of years ago NH State Chair Nate Hill and me came across some freshly cut trees along a formally designated National Wild & Scenic River in White Mountain National Forest in New Hampshire. Twenty minutes from the nearest road, we were perplexed by what we saw…
Read MoreNative Fish Coalition National Vice Chair and Maine Board member Bob Mallard talks about the native charr of Maine’s Baxter State Park…
Read MoreSpring is here, the snow is melting, ponds are losing their ice, and dirt roads are becoming passable. This means that it’s time to get back into the field, catch some fish, and while you are at it, post some signs to help protect what we all hold near and dear — wild native brook trout...
Read MorePlease welcome our newest Business Partner, Fins & Furs Adventures, from my home town Skowhegan, Maine…
Read MorePlease welcome our newest Business Partner, Rangeley Region Sport Shop, in historic Rangeley, Maine. As anyone who knows brook trout knows, Rangeley, Maine, is the brook trout capital of the United States — nothing is even close…
Read MoreFew waters in the northeast have been talked about as much as Rhode Island’s (RI) Wood River. For years trout conservationists have challenged Rhode Island Department Environmental Management (RIDEM) and Rhode Island Fish & Wildlife (RIF&W) , as well as each other, as to how the resource should be managed…
Read MoreAs anyone who knows me can attest to, I am not one to throw compliments around lightly. I am also not one to mince words or pull any punches...
Read MoreCongress and the White House have saved the key piggy bank for protecting wildlife habitat and hunting and fishing access, and are now dueling over how much money to leave in it…
Read MoreIt's official, Native Fish Coalition National Vice Chair and Maine Board member Bob Mallard’s upcoming brook trout book is now in the proofing stage and heading to the printer in May for a summer release...
Read MoreWe formed a web team to work with the North Atlantic LCC and Ferguson Lynch Consulting to create a comprehensive web content management system tailored to the needs of all partners involved in Atlantic salmon and sea-run fish restoration in Maine…
Read MoreMaine NFC just finished three days at the State of Maine Sportsman’s Show in Augusta. Hosted by The Maine Sportsman and Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, this was NFC’s strongest so-called “hook-and-bullet” show to date, and second to only Common Ground Fair as a non fly fishing show…
Read MoreIt should come as no surprise that Vermont Fish and Wildlife and the governors office backed off their proposal to close the Salisbury fish hatchery…
Read MoreThe Maine chapter of NFC just posted roughly 20 Atlantic salmon informational signs on the lower Penobscot River and tributaries…
Read MoreTony Demboski can’t think of a better breakfast than a few brook trout, rolled in flour, salt and pepper and fried alongside eggs and potatoes. “One of the finest-eating fishes there is,” said the 79-year-old resident of Quinnesec, a speck of a town outside of Iron Mountain in Michigan’s western Upper Peninsula…
Read MoreThe brook trout once was king in New York, and, in fact, it was the only trout east of the Mississippi, but when the statewide trout season opens April 1, most every angler will be trying to catch a brown trout. Or a lot of them….
Read MoreThe Maine chapter of Native Fish Coalition testified at a public rule-making hearing in regard to the proposed ban on live bait, minnows, in the North Region of Maine…
Read MoreThe Maine chapter of NFC and our partners Downeast Salmon Federation and Atlantic Salmon Federation worked with Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) to help protect adult critically endangered Atlantic salmon from misidentification…
Read MoreTo save money, Gov. Phil Scott wants to shut down a fish hatchery, and the organized angling community is in a tizzy…
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