For me, nothing is more synonymous with the Maine fishing scene than wild native brook trout ponds…
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Long Pond offered salmon, brook trout and smallmouth bass while Echo Lake supplied brook trout, bass and white perch. But the magnetic attraction to me was the multitude of small brooks…
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As the temperature rises and the masses head to their favorite streams for some relief from the heat, they leave behind a trail of disturbance including litter, rock cairns, and small rock dams…
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Brook trout are diverse in regard to behavior if not genetics. What they lack in genetic diversity, they more than make up for in behavioral, or life history strategy diversity…
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This morning I woke to 9 new memberships, and after clearing my email just 6 or so hours earlier…
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After years of deafening silence, folks are finally speaking up for our wild native fish and against a status quo that promotes the spread of nonnative fish and stocking….
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Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act in a bipartisan vote of 15-5…
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Now available, South Carolina NFC decals…
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What makes shows like the State of Maine Sportsman’s Show somewhat unique for us is that they are not fly fishing shows…
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Like the browns in the Colorado River in Arizona that lived 25 miles downstream for decades before showing up in Lees Ferry, the bass in the Yellowstone didn’t follow the script and apparently started moving faster and further than planned…
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How NYS preserves heritage-strain brook trout.
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This week’s Massachusetts Fisheries and Wildlife Board meeting, held remotely on Tuesday, had an agenda item that informed the Board that a change to the Massachusetts RMV license offerings…
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Is there a species more worthy of National Fish designation than Atlantic salmon?…
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Comfortable and durable Gildan Ultra Cotton T-shirt in charcoal grey with hollow white NFC “PROTECT. PRESERVE. RESTORE” logo on front, blank on the back…
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NFC is in the process of bringing up a chapter in Ohio. This will give us a 3-state contiguous footprint in along with Pennsylvania and West Virginia…
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Most importantly, though, she’s co-founder and current vice chair of the Native Fish Coalition…
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While long classified as a native population, IFW’s recent attempts to draw the origin of Green Lake’s Arctic charr into question is based on subjective and inconclusive data…
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Green Lake in Hancock County is one of only 12 native Arctic charr waters remaining in the contiguous United States, all of which are in Maine…
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In early February, a podcast on Orvis News got the internet buzzing unlike anything I have seen in years. The podcast was entitled “Have we gone too far with native species?,” later retitled “Talking trout with Kirk Deeter” due to backlash…
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