overcrowding

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Overcrowding 7) Finding the Liminal Spaces Within Your Favorite Fisheries

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Overcrowding 6) New Horizons in Angling

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Overcrowding 5) The Stage Is Set

Up next: Let’s look at how revitalizing exploration can serve to improve all of our angling endeavors.

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Overcrowding 4) How Did We Get Here? Flawed Icons

Exploring how iconic destinations are vulnerable, even flawed icons

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Overcrowding 3) How Did We Get Here? Over Reliance on Blue Ribbon and Gold Medal Fisheries

So how do fish respond to increased fishing pressure? Plus how does catch and release affect their behavior?

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Overcrowding 2) How Did We Get Here? Hatchery Obsessed

...feel free to stop at any local pond, Hell, just follow the hatchery truck around and sooner or later you'll stumble upon a plethora of rainbow trout...

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Overcrowding 1) How Did We Get Here? Human Tendencies

There are generational impacts on the world we see today, with actions set in place long before our existence.

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New Series On Overcrowding Launches

There are more anglers than ever. Soon all fly anglers will face the reckoning of a river too crowded, or a lake too busy with boat traffic.

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Let's Talk about Private Waters

The comparison of fishing pressured public waters to private regulated-access waters is enlightening for anyone interested in fish behavior.

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The Science of Rest: Trout Get Burnout Too

How long is a fish's recovery after getting hooked? And how long would it take to reset the timid behavior of previously hooked fish throughout an entire fishery?

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Frontiers in Angling

Let's take a look at those new fisheries, and how anglers can uncover new and unexplored frontiers in angling

climate change

Western Trout Rivers: An Angler's Prospectus

Fly fishing: Out west, with years of lingering drought, and now reports of declining trout populations in the holy-waters of Montana...

Rivers

At The Crack of 12

Fly fishing: The early bird gets the worm right? Consider this a night-owls manifesto