Fishing and boating enthusiasts in the Great Lakes region can be proud and relieved that their actions since 2006 have helped to contain huge fish die-offs from the infectious disease Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS), according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) veterinarian Dr. Paul G. (Gary) Egrie.
“While this is good news, people still have to [...]

Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection has established a website which will continuously be updated with the latest information on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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A small group of hard core and fun Fly Guides working the waters of Long Island from NYC/Jamaica Bay, North Fork, Gardiners/Peconic Bays and Montauk. This page is dedicated to giving us all the latest, freshest, most interesting, and Most Honest -user submitted, reports for the region. Remember…”The Tug is the Drug, Y’all”!
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This is the first issue of This is Fly on our new platform. You can now download the issue in PDF and take it with you on the road. We are also bringing you larger video in a more cinematic setting. Volume 2 Issue 1 is better than ever. Join Ryan Hammond on an adventure [...]

CAMARILLO, Calif. – Wildlife artist James Prosek and precision fishing tackle manufacturer Abel have combined their creativity for the ninth time to produce a fund raising fly reel, this one to benefit the Big Hole River Foundation’s fight to preserve the area’s native Arctic grayling.

Paul and David Mellor announced yesterday that they will no longer pursue the proposed Pelagic Aqua-culture Tuna Fishing Program which garnered lots of public opposition in recent months.
The Mellors had planned to purse-seine yellowfin tuna to create what they claimed would be a sustainable and profitable aquaculture industry.
By: Genea Noel
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Photo: Peter Schuchert
You are looking at what might be the only animal in the world that is immortal. The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish can regenerate it’s entire body over and over again. They have traveled beyond their native Caribbean waters and are now invading oceans around the world. This jelly may have escaped death, [...]

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Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang stared collecting plastic debris from Kehoe beach in 1999. Kehoe Beach, a remote stretch of the Point Reyes National Seashore, in Northern California, produced bags full of ocean killing plastic. They sort and categorize everything to create hauntingly beautiful prints that are a reminder [...]

In the US, Google Maps now offers step-by-step biking directions; bike trails outlined directly on the map; and a new Bicycling layer that indicates bike trails, bike lanes, and bike-friendly roads.

Lefty Kreh, Flip Pallot, Stu Apte, Mark Sosin, Tim Rajeff, Bob Popovics, Dave Klausmeyer headline L.L.Bean’s annual celebration of all things fishing
FREEPORT, Maine—The biggest names in the history of fishing will be at L.L.Bean on March 20-21 for L.L.Bean’s annual Spring Fishing Weekend. These “Legends of Fishing” will be available at the store from 10am [...]