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Image courtesy of Umpqua Umpqua Feather Merchants has launched Swiftlink, a four-pack collection, alongside Link, a modular magnetic accessory system that connects pack and tools through a proprietary baseplate. The system centers on the Link Base Station, a magnetic mount that clips onto Swiftlink packs or any standard webbing. From there, anglers snap on...

The first caddis appear on warm afternoons, blue-winged olives scatter through the cloudy ones, and every hard rain sends a fresh batch of worms into the current. This week's Tying Tuesday leans into that shift with four patterns suited to spring flows and the hatches starting to show up. Ryan at Trident Fly Fishing walks through a clean version of the San...

This year marks the 5th anniversary of the Battenkill Fly Fishing & Arts Festival in Arlington, Vermont, held from April 30 to May 2. Featuring expert presentations from the likes of Tom Rosenbauer, Thomas Ames, and Phil Monahan, plus live music, vendors, casting competitions, and local food and drink, the festival brings together anglers, artists, and...

Image by Daniel Thornberg The resolution heads to President Trump's desk, clearing a path for Twin Metals' long-stalled copper-nickel mine in the Rainy River headwaters of the BWCAW. The U.S. Senate voted 50-49 on Thursday to pass H.J. Res. 140, a Congressional Review Act measure that nullifies the 20-year mineral withdrawal protecting 225,504 acres of...

This week's Tying Tuesday we're starting on the surface with the Taco Tuesday, a bi-visible variation born from a decade of father-daughter tradition and a conversation about what colors belong in a taco. From there we drop into the drift with a Gradient Perdigon, a clean thread-body nymph whose color-stacked abdomen does the heavy lifting subsurface. Back...

The draft environmental impact statement that was due in March still hasn't appeared. When it does, it will open the last public comment period before a final decision expected later this year on roughly 45 million acres of national forest—including the headwaters of some of the country's best trout and salmon rivers. Image by Jeff Whyte Conservation...

The Rice's whale (Balaenoptera ricei), the only baleen whale that lives year-round in the Gulf of Mexico, is managed under the same ESA and Marine Mammal Protection Act authority the FY2027 budget proposes moving from NOAA Fisheries to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The current Rice's whale population estimate is 50 individuals. Photo credit: NOAA...

This week's lineup covers the range. Sea-Run Fly & Tackle's beaded purple nymph is built for low-light, overcast days when high-contrast color is doing the work your visibility can't. AvidMax walks through the GFC Fly, a spare midge-style pattern that excels in the clear, pressured water of stillwaters and tailraces. Root River Rod Co shares their go-to...

The agency that manages more than 40 percent of the country's blue-ribbon trout streams is relocating to Salt Lake City, closing all nine of its regional offices, and consolidating its research program—one year after DOGE cut more than 3,400 of its employees. The U.S. Forest Service announced on March 31 that it will move its Washington, D.C....

This week's Tying Tuesday is a water-column master class: four patterns that collectively cover every feeding lane from the surface film to open water, giving you a complete toolkit as hatches begin to fire and predatory fish start pushing into the shallows. We start at the top with the Dyret, a buoyant Norwegian attractor tied with yearling deer hair that...