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Mini-Crankbaits For Trout

The mere mention of a Rebel Crickhopper lit up Richie Hays’ face as the long-time trout guide remembered the first time anyone threw Crickhoppers from his boat. A guide at Gaston’s White River Resort (www.gastons.com) […]

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Blue Trout Swimming In PA

Reported First by Penn Live: Golden rainbow trout will attract a lot of attention on Saturday, the first day of the trout fishing season, but there’s an even rarer genetic mutation in trout swimming in […]

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Russian River Steelhead Hatchery

Ninety-six Russian River steelhead were spawned Feb. 20 at Warm Springs Hatchery, marking a strong but late start for the hatchery’s annual steelhead spawning operation. The Russian River and its tributaries comprise one of the […]

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Vermont Retains Record Trout

Burlington Free Press reported: Vermont’s lone world record fish will keep its top spot thanks to a sharp-eyed conservation officer in Canada. A northern Minnesota angler recently pleaded guilty in Fort Francis, Ontario, to possessing […]

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White River Trout Fishing

The line of pink cabins along this stretch of the White River in Arkansas is as distinct as they are historical. The main buildings house the main office, restaurant, sports bar and a huge dining […]

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Cleaning King Salmon at Sea Prohibited

Marine boat anglers returning to ports within the Kodiak Road system will be prohibited from filleting, mutilating, and de-heading sport caught king salmon at-sea. Marine boat anglers returning to any port on the road system […]

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Missouri Trout Fishing

If you have never fished for trout, Missouri might not be the first place that comes to mind when someone mentions the sport. Many people visualize a mountain stream with someone fly fishing in the […]

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Quebec Gold Rush

I want to share with everyone my favorite place to fish in the province of Quebec. It’s called “L’Auberge La Barrière”. Although only located about 90 minutes north of Montreal, when you arrive, it seems […]

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Shrew-Eating Trout

If you’re a small mammal, it’s definitely not safe to go back in the water… One of the most popular posts on Cool Green Science has been the story of rodent-eating trout at The Nature […]

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Chinook & Coho Runs

Salmon fishing in the ocean and the Columbia River this summer could be great thanks to an abundant run of hatchery coho and a potentially historic return of chinook, according to state fishery managers. Opportunities […]

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Big Browns Take Patience

Two years ago Scott LaRochelle and I were fishing an upper stretch of one of my favorite streams. We had fished a long ways and I was sucking wind and dragging my left knee.  My […]

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Kill Creek Lake Trout Record

The Kansas City Star 1st Reported: Josh McCullough knew the Johnson County Park and Recreation District had stocked some big rainbow trout in Kill Creek Lake this year. But not this big. Fishing with Berkley […]

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Salmon Defenders Gain Legal Victory

KCET.org reported: We reported in December on a complex legal contest between Marin County and a group of wildlife activists seeking to protect coho salmon in bucolic West Marin. Today, an update: the California Court […]

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Denver’s Fraser River Gets Help

Denver Water, Trout Unlimited and Grand County have announced agreement on a package of river protections designed to keep the Fraser River and its trout populations healthy. The Mitigation and Enhancement Coordination Plan brings to […]

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Big Runs of Columbia River Chinook, Coho

Salmon fishing in the ocean and the Columbia River this summer could be great thanks to an abundant run of hatchery coho and a potentially historic return of chinook, according to state fishery managers. Opportunities […]

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Fighting to Save Sockeye Salmon

Amid fevered protests against Alaska’s proposed Pebble Mine, which included opposition from the Berkley Conservation Institute (BCI), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will now consider the Clean Water Act in its environmental […]

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Wisconsin Invasive Snail

With a potentially prolific invasive snail recently documented in Black Earth Creek, one of Wisconsin’s premier trout waters, and a native parasite spreading among brook trout statewide, anglers can help keep Wisconsin fish and streams […]

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River Exploits

You know how frustrating it is to run into roadblocks when you’re trying to get somewhere? Think about how difficult it must be for wild Atlantic salmon whose very survival depends on a migration up […]

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Orvis Conservation Grants for 2014

Most people in the industry know that Orvis gives 5% of our pre-tax profits to conservation and canine care issues, but few people realize how much time and energy the staff at Orvis contributes to […]

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Trout Unlimited – Q&A with Henry Winkler

Henry Winkler, “The Fonz,” recently released a memoir on fly fishing, family and photography, “I’ve Never Met an Idiot on the River,” published by Insight Editions. An avid fly fisherman, Henry sat down to answer […]

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Pebble Mine Update

An unusual group of Alaska Native leaders, commercial fishermen, investors, jewelers and conservation organizations applauded the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final scientific assessment of Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed, released yesterday. The study documents the global […]

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Monster Trout Haunts Lake Taneycomo

Anglers looking for a state-record fish might catch a state-record fish almost anywhere in the Show-Me State. But dozens of anglers who witnessed the catch and release of a 31-inch rainbow trout on Nov. 2 […]

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Oklahoma Record Rainbow

News- Leader.com Reported: To Mark Clemishire’s eye, the fish looked like “a submarine coming up out of the water,” pushing a bow wave and trailing a big, deep wake through the edge of Lake Taneycomo. […]

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Record Oklahoma Rainbow

Reported by News OK. Mark Reed certainly wasn’t expecting to break a nearly 50-year-old state record when he decided to go trout fishing last Sunday at Lake Watonga. “Never in my wildest dreams I thought […]

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Wisconsin Chinook Strategy Set for 2104

The state’s strategy for stocking chinook salmon in Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan waters in 2014 and beyond is set and seeks to maintain existing great fishing opportunities in spring and summer all along the coast while […]

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St. Croix Wild River Series

If you listen closely, you can actually hear the sound an inferior fishing rod makes under pressure. It starts with the incessant “creak” as a shoddy outer finish crinkles while the blank bends under extreme […]

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Yakima River Basin Grants

Reported by the Yakima Herald: The state has approved $42 million worth of grants for salmon recovery projects across the state, including $1.26 million for the Yakima River Basin. The money will be split between […]

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Brook Trout Needed In Vermont

You can help bring back the brook trout this week! Vermont’s state fish, the native brook trout, has been in trouble for several decades now, depriving Vermont and visiting anglers of a piece of our […]

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Nantahala Salmon Run

One of the most peculiar occurrences in southern trout fishing is underway right now on the Nantahala River in western North Carolina Kokanee-salmon where scarlet red Kokanee salmon are running upstream for a life-ending spawn. […]

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Remove Non-native Trout?

During the week of Nov. 4, biologists with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will be surveying 18 miles of McDermitt Creek looking for and removing non-native rainbow and brook trout – part of […]

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Bristol Creek

When the Morell River Management Coop’s Project Coordinator Becky Petersen headed out last summer to do a habitat assessment of Bristol Creek on Prince Edward Island, she left the usual tools of the task at […]

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Fall Steelhead On The Run

When steelhead begin moving out of the Great Lakes and into the rivers, it’s time to break out your floats and get ready to drift some baits. “It all starts with the salmon, after they […]

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Sea Lions Loss To The Salmon

Decision to allow lethal take of sea lions upheld. Good news for salmon, steelhead and sports fishing. The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled last week that state officials from Oregon, Washington and Idaho are allowed […]

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Record Grayling Caught

During a recent trip to Slovenia, American angler Christian Anderson landed a potential new All-Tackle Length record grayling (Thymallus thymallus) while fishing the Soca River on August 7th. Anderson was fly fishing with a small […]

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Atlantic Salmon Conservation Announcement

Atlantic Salmon Conservation Announcement. It’s always nice to announce that we’ll have more money available for groups working to preserve wild Atlantic salmon populations and habitat. In the next round of grants an extra $100k to […]

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Scofield Reservoir Giant Trout

On Oct. 3, aquatic biologists with the Division of Wildlife Resources sampled the reservoir using gill nets. What they found should cause any trophy angler’s heart to beat a little faster. Biologists captured good numbers […]

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Escaped Farm Salmon Growing

Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) biologists are concerned that the large number of farmed salmon showing up at the fish trap on the Magaguadavic River is indicative of a large escape from sea cages in the […]