New Hampshire’s Swift River is one of the most beautiful rivers in New England. It winds it’s way along the fabled Kancamagus Highway…
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The state has adopted a recreational fishing rule that will limit the use of live fish as bait in much of the northern management zone in order to protect wild trout waters, including tributaries and outlets of heritage ponds…
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The Vermont chapter of NFC attended the American Museum of Fly Fishing’s summer expo on Saturday, August 10th. They had a booth in the event tent and presented on brook trout in the museum itself…
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Don’t think you have a voice? Can’t make a difference even if you wanted to? Your opinion doesn’t matter? Don’t want to waste your time on lost causes? Deck is stacked against you? Think again…
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Last week the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s advisory council approved a rule that sounds ominous, but will actually change very little for the state’s anglers.
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The Maine chapter of NFC recently worked with Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands to post 11 custom State Heritage Fish signs on 7 waters in the new Cold Stream Forest public land…
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NFC National Vice Chair Bob Mallard talked brook trout with Roger Maves from Ask About Fly Fishing internet radio…
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Maine’s newest critical wild native brook trout public land, Cold Stream Forest near Jackman and West Forks, just got custom State Heritage Fish signs (SHF)…
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Covering more than 580 waters, Maine’s State Heritage Fish (SHF) law is the largest and most important wild native brook trout initiative in the nation…
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DIFW fisheries biologists think that catch and release is hurting our fish. Deirdre Fleming’s story about this, in the Maine Sunday Telegram on August 11, was very provocative…
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Big shout-out to Cameron at The Fiberglass Manifesto for publishing NFC National Vice Chair Bob Mallard’s piece on native fish, small streams and fiberglass fly rods…
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The Maine chapter of Native Fish Coalition Chair and emerging native fish conservation superstar Emily Bastian talks about native fish and NFC in the current edition of Fly Fish America magazine…
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Brook trout have been in the area for thousands of years, but warmer, cloudier waterways and invading fish have caused the number of brook trout in New Jersey to drop…
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The Maine chapter of Native Fish Coalition is working on custom State Heritage Fish signs and backboards for posting on state-owned land managed by Bureau of Parks and Lands…
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For decades Green Lake in Dedham, Maine, was classified as a native Arctic charr water. At 3,132 acres, it was the largest of the 12 native charr waters left in the contiguous United States, and twice as large as the next biggest…
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The Veazie Salmon Club hosted a lobster dinner for 18 students from Scotland, Canada, and the United States so they could learn more about Atlantic salmon…
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For more than a decade, Bob Mallard has established himself as one of the state’s most determined cold-water fisheries advocates, working on conservation projects and legislation that have ruffled feathers in Augusta but paid dividends in the end…
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Just in, custom State Heritage Fish signs for Maine’s state-owned public lands. Working with Bureau of Parks and Lands, Maine NFC designed a special sign that uses agency colors and includes an agency logo…
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NFC National Vice Chair Bob Mallard talks about nonnative trout, how they got here, and who’s to blame…
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Before moving to Maine nearly twenty years ago, I spent just over twenty years straddling the border of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. My time was split between an apartment in Pepperell, Massachusetts, and my first house in neighboring Brookline, New Hampshire — both of which were home to the Nissitissit River…
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