Fly Fish America

12/25/2021

Book #4 is now shipping... Nice to get them on Christmas Eve..

A guide to fifty fly patterns for fishing in Maine. Lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams. Multiple species.

05/15/2021

Only 18 tickets left to win this really awesome Epic 7'6", 4-weight, 5-piece salsa red S2 with black hardware glass pack rod. I have one and love it... A $995 value, only 100 tickets will be sold.

Items in our online store are available for the noted donations. Amounts include ground shipping within the Contiguous United States. PayPal memberships and donations can be processed through our online store as well. All proceeds are used to fund native fish conservation initiatives. Please all

03/14/2021

This is a really important issue folks. Red Brook is a true conservation success story, and the water most responsible for the recent resurgence of sea-run brook trout as a focus species.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=184388970116857

11/25/2020

Here's a link to a raffle for premium custom trout net from our friends at Native Fish Coalition.

This net by Sam Lacina of Lacina Nets was inspired by nets made by Lyle Dickerson, a well known Michigan bamboo rod maker…

08/15/2020

Brook trout live in beautiful places. They represent fly fishing in its purest form: Wild native fish in a natural environment. What they lack in size they make up for in beauty.

07/16/2020

Want a chance to win a badass glass rod from our friends at Epic? And support wild native fish in the process...

Epic fiberglass fly rods are a favorite of NFC members and supporters. Nothing excels on the small wild native trout streams we love like fiberglass, and no one does fiberglass better than Epic…

06/26/2020

It's about that time again :) Big bugs and hungry trout... ME, NH, VT, and northern NY...... Go hex or go home...

06/22/2020

Cool new NFC brook trout schwag... $5.50.. Proceeds go to native trout conservation.

3" x 10" Blue and White NFC "Making Native Fish Cool Again" Outdoor Grade Vinyl Bumper Sticker 

06/01/2020

Big news for Maine's Atlantic salmon...

Ten conservation groups and a number of scientists, advocates, and authors, have petitioned Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) Commissioner Judy Camuso to review Atlantic salmon to determine if they warrant listing as "Endangered" under Maine's Endangered Species Act

05/26/2020

An important message about bass/brookie interactions...

To those who don't think nonnative bass are a problem when they are introduced over wild native brook trout, or that these two species somehow find a way to peacefully coexist, here's a picture from Downeast Maine.

Note the two dead brookies that were removed from the stomach of this bass. Now multiply that by the number of bass in the system, and the aggregate impact could be huge. This is what the Rapid River, and many other important Maine brook trout waters, are up against

Add to that the fact that these highly invasive fish are now found in federally, and critically, endangered Atlantic salmon watersheds, and the problem gets much more significant as I doubt the bass have a preference for brookies over salmon.

Bass and brook trout don't mix. They don't find a safe and comfortable niche. And the latter always loses. This is why it is so important that we do everything we can to lessen the spread of bass, and knock their numbers down wherever they have been introduced on top of wild native salmonids.

03/19/2020

Be safe..

01/15/2020

Here is a new publisher Bob Mallard just did on specialty leaders in MidCurrent. There's much more to the leader story than 9' 5x. In fact, some of the most effective leaders out there fly under the radar.

I owned and operated a fly shop for roughly 15 years. As is the case with most fly shops, leaders were an important product category, and in my case second only to flies in regard to total sales. Leaders outsold tippet, the third highest selling product category, at a ratio of ten-to-one.