Thanks to the generosity of the folks at Swift Fly Fishing out of New Zealand, NFC is raffling off a Studio Built 370 FastGlass II fly rod. With a retail value of $825, this 7-foot 3-weight 4-piece S2 fiberglass rod is arguably the finest and most versatile small stream rod on the market today…
Read MoreThe brook trout became New Hampshire’s state fish in 1994. And there’s a group that doesn’t want to see it be forced out of the Granite State by non-natives like the rainbow or brown trout taking over its habitat…
Read MoreIf you carefully examine Central Maine Power’s plan to build a transmission line to deliver Canadian hydropower to Massachusetts, you’ll discover the company is promising that in return for being allowed to ravage the western part of this state, the project will turn everybody in the Bay State into a nicer person…
Read MorePeople love fishing for trout. They love it so much that we are willing to go to insane lengths to catch them. But what should we make of the fact that much of that experience of fishing for trout is just a facsimile of what it once was… and may actually be BAD for the very same fish, that we so love to catch?
Read MoreThe Michigan Department of Natural Resources has extended an experimental regulation allowing a 10-fish daily possession limit for brook trout in 33 streams in the Upper Peninsula…
Read MoreFloods Pond in Maine is an outdoor laboratory where rare wild native Arctic charr can be studied in a natural setting…
Read MoreWhen 20 years later you can remember every freshwater fish you caught [four] in the 10- to 15-pound class and recall their willingness to take you on with a fervor still unfamiliar, then get to hold them and be awed by beauty only matched by brook trout, you caught the Salmonidae arctic char [Salvelinus alpinus]…
Read MoreSteve Hurley (Mass Fish and Wildlife) made the following video in November, 2016.
Watch the video and then read Steve’s own words explaining what he observed below.
This interesting finding was the subject of a popular article in Fly Fisherman Magazine…
Read MoreTrout Unlimited, represented pro bono by Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its recent decision to withdraw protections for the Bristol Bay region of Alaska…
Read MoreHistorically, the Saco River was one of the premier trout fishing rivers in the Northeast. Today, the natural reproductive capability of native fish populations has been exceeded by angler demand, and stocking of hatchery reared brook, brown, and rainbow trout…
Read MoreThe Hippo, a weekly free newspaper out of Manchester, NH, recently did a piece on New Hampshire’s state symbols. While they noted the brook trout as the State Freshwater Fish, they posted pictures of nonnative brown trout on the cover…
Read MoreIt was recently announced that 11-year New Hampshire Fish and Game Executive Director Glenn Normandeau would be stepping down at the end of his term this March…
Read MoreNFC National Vice Chair and Maine Board member Bob Mallard along with volunteer Jeff Moore made a trip to the northern end of Franklin County in Maine to post the first tribe-specific State Heritage Fish signs on tribal-owned land…
Read MoreWhile much of our emphasis is on habitat, nonnative fish are arguably the biggest threat to our native trout today. When you consider state-sponsored introductions — stocking and transfers, including trout; private stocking — often organization-sponsored; the in-migration of stocked fish from a secondary source; angler-initiated “bucket-biology,” and nonnative minnows resulting from the illegal, and legal, use of live fish as bait, it’s likely nothing even comes close…
Read MoreIn just 16 months, Maine NFC and volunteers have posted State Heritage Fish signs on 200 so-designated waters. The 200th water, aptly named Lucky Pond in Piscataquis County, was posted on Thursday , September 26th…
Read MoreThe department just has not moved forward as much as we would have liked to see it,” Phillipson said. “By getting a new director, we get new ideas and ways to deal with emerging stuff.”…
Read MoreMaine NFC Chair and National Secretary/Treasurer Emily Bastian talks about our State Heritage Fish sign project with The Maine Sportsman magazine…
Read MoreWritten by NFC National Vice Chair Bob Mallard, and published on the Epic Fly Rods blog, while not a conservation piece per se, it connects fishing to conservation, something that is very important in the grand scheme of things…
Read MoreAt a recent public hearing in regard to a proposed prohibition on the use of live fish as bait in Maine’s North Region, retired Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) biologist Paul Johnson defended the use of live fish as bait…
Read MoreNFC National Vice Chair Bob Mallard chimed in on the Bangor Daily News in regard to a recent story where Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife was quoted as saying that catch-and-release was harming Maine’s fisheries…
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