Category Archives: Conservation
Opening Day
Is the end of the beginning the beginning of the end? For years, maybe decades, my buddy Dan and I have kept a tradition. To be on Dan's home water together on opening day of trout season. This is a high point on the calendar for...
Saturday Shoutout / Videos Via Patagonia
Three great films with a focus on conservation. There's a renewed zeal among fly fishing film-makers for conservation. This interest in preserving our fisheries for future generations lines up perfectly with one of the largest players in the fly fishing industry. Patagonia puts it's money where...
Saturday Shoutout / Hatch On Land Thieves
THIS IS A GREAT PIECE OF TRUE JOURNALISM. I have friends in Europe who pay handsomely to fish just a few days a year on rivers which have been devastated by private land management. Their stories make my blood cold. If you ask them, we live...
The Bonefish and Tarpon Trust Needs You To Go Fishing
Of you like bonefish, tarpon or permit, you'll love BTT. The Bonefish and Tarpon Trust is the only conservation group dedicated to studying bonefish tarpon and permit. That's just a little frightening! Add to that that they only started in 1998 and you may start to...
Is America’s Keystone Fishery A City Block From Disaster?
By Brian Kozminski I live in northern Michigan, epicenter of the world’s largest freshwater system. Twenty percent of the world’s fresh water surrounds us, and that's great. It provides us multiple uses for recreation. Swimming, boating, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, SUP's, and fishing. When I ask people from...