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The article was pretty eye opening in how we can can an effect on larger trout and is, at the very least, worthy of some thought.

Many fly anglers have - or think they have - removed themselves from the blood part of the sport but fly fishing is a blood sport.

Probably one of the most discussed and maybe most poorly understood fisheries management topics is that of regulations.

Crowding is relative. My idea of stream crowding changes depending upon the situation (day of the week, location, etc.).

We all exploit natural resources to some extent. The debate is always over how much exploitation we are willing to allow ourselves and other

Earlier, I wrote a bit about whether or not to hire a guide, this post is digs a bit deeper into how to make the best of a guided trip.

Fish the way you are having fun and makes you happy. Isn't that what it is all about?

Instead of a more straight-forward narrative, I have a little story to tell around a project on West Virginia's Shavers Fork.

On its face, it would seem that what anglers catch determines their satisfaction but it is not that simple.

I think we can do away with the idea that trout regulations are any more complex than warm-water regulations and that people are not fishing

The "catch and kill" opener is about as close trout fishing gets to deer camp. There is something compelling about the crazy opener.

It really is not more difficult than that. Treat a fish like you would like to be treated if you lived in their world.

Mortality - the word scientists give to the deaths of individuals - is not as simple as it might first look.

Understanding people is so much more difficult than the biology part, near impossible I'd say. We are some messed up, complicated animals.

Wisconsin's inland trout stamp program was created in a bold and nearly unprecedented action that continues to pay dividends today. 1977...

You hate politics - I get it. That said, if you care about trout streams, politics are inescapable.

Populations are incredibly complex as they are always changing - hence why we talk about population dynamics. The factors responsible for...

As I sit around over the Holiday break with trout season not yet open and not a lot of safe ice around me - nor maybe the desire to be on...

Like many, I am sure, I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with social media. It is a pretty easy target these days. It has...

Quite simply, there are things that alter population densities that are a function of the population's density and things that have an...