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Hey folks, grab your rods and listen up, cause 2026 is shaping up to be a wild ride for us fly flingers across the US. Over in Oregon, ODFW just adopted the 2026-2027 regs according to the Northwest Steelheaders, slapping a nine-dollar Ocean Endorsement on marine fishing excluding salmon and steelhead, with that cash funding nearshore surveys so we know where stripers are staging. They simplified kokanee to ten a day year-round, no fuss, and opened spearfishing on bass and walleye runs to lighten pressure on our native steelhead swings, keeping those swing waters cleaner for dry flies and nymphs.
Wyoming's dropping a bombshell on the Snake River near Jackson Lake per the Spreaker podcast on 2026 regs, ending a seventy-year October closure next year for fall lake trout action, and bumping the tailwater trout limit from three to six daily below the dam, no length caps on those abundant browns while cutthroats stay at three with one over twelve. Bait chuckers are stoked, but us fly guys can sight-fish big boys easier now without the old restrictions cramping our style.
Feds at Fish and Wildlife are opening over eighty-seven thousand acres in refuges across Idaho, Montana, and Washington, aligning with state rules and no lead tackle bans, just pure public wade-and-cast gold as reported in that same Spreaker update. And heads up for the Sowbug Roundup in the Ozarks March 26 to 28, where pros like Davy Wotton will tie and teach delicate dries for White and Norfork rivers, straight from Fly Fishers International.
Meanwhile, Colorados Lower Blue River is heating up with CPW's fishery survey via Flylab Substack calling out pellet-feeding as the real villain behind overcrowding, gill lice, and trout die-offs, not us floaters. Landowners want a permit system for boats, but the data says angler mortality is minor in this catch-and-release stretch, so keep swinging those streamers locals.
Locals, mark your calendars, tighten those leaders, and get after it before the crowds. Thanks for tuning in, come back next week for more. This has been a Quiet Please production, and for me check out Quiet Please Dot A I.
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Wyoming's dropping a bombshell on the Snake River near Jackson Lake per the Spreaker podcast on 2026 regs, ending a seventy-year October closure next year for fall lake trout action, and bumping the tailwater trout limit from three to six daily below the dam, no length caps on those abundant browns while cutthroats stay at three with one over twelve. Bait chuckers are stoked, but us fly guys can sight-fish big boys easier now without the old restrictions cramping our style.
Feds at Fish and Wildlife are opening over eighty-seven thousand acres in refuges across Idaho, Montana, and Washington, aligning with state rules and no lead tackle bans, just pure public wade-and-cast gold as reported in that same Spreaker update. And heads up for the Sowbug Roundup in the Ozarks March 26 to 28, where pros like Davy Wotton will tie and teach delicate dries for White and Norfork rivers, straight from Fly Fishers International.
Meanwhile, Colorados Lower Blue River is heating up with CPW's fishery survey via Flylab Substack calling out pellet-feeding as the real villain behind overcrowding, gill lice, and trout die-offs, not us floaters. Landowners want a permit system for boats, but the data says angler mortality is minor in this catch-and-release stretch, so keep swinging those streamers locals.
Locals, mark your calendars, tighten those leaders, and get after it before the crowds. Thanks for tuning in, come back next week for more. This has been a Quiet Please production, and for me check out Quiet Please Dot A I.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
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By Inception Point AiHey folks, grab your rods and listen up, cause 2026 is shaping up to be a wild ride for us fly flingers across the US. Over in Oregon, ODFW just adopted the 2026-2027 regs according to the Northwest Steelheaders, slapping a nine-dollar Ocean Endorsement on marine fishing excluding salmon and steelhead, with that cash funding nearshore surveys so we know where stripers are staging. They simplified kokanee to ten a day year-round, no fuss, and opened spearfishing on bass and walleye runs to lighten pressure on our native steelhead swings, keeping those swing waters cleaner for dry flies and nymphs.
Wyoming's dropping a bombshell on the Snake River near Jackson Lake per the Spreaker podcast on 2026 regs, ending a seventy-year October closure next year for fall lake trout action, and bumping the tailwater trout limit from three to six daily below the dam, no length caps on those abundant browns while cutthroats stay at three with one over twelve. Bait chuckers are stoked, but us fly guys can sight-fish big boys easier now without the old restrictions cramping our style.
Feds at Fish and Wildlife are opening over eighty-seven thousand acres in refuges across Idaho, Montana, and Washington, aligning with state rules and no lead tackle bans, just pure public wade-and-cast gold as reported in that same Spreaker update. And heads up for the Sowbug Roundup in the Ozarks March 26 to 28, where pros like Davy Wotton will tie and teach delicate dries for White and Norfork rivers, straight from Fly Fishers International.
Meanwhile, Colorados Lower Blue River is heating up with CPW's fishery survey via Flylab Substack calling out pellet-feeding as the real villain behind overcrowding, gill lice, and trout die-offs, not us floaters. Landowners want a permit system for boats, but the data says angler mortality is minor in this catch-and-release stretch, so keep swinging those streamers locals.
Locals, mark your calendars, tighten those leaders, and get after it before the crowds. Thanks for tuning in, come back next week for more. This has been a Quiet Please production, and for me check out Quiet Please Dot A I.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Wyoming's dropping a bombshell on the Snake River near Jackson Lake per the Spreaker podcast on 2026 regs, ending a seventy-year October closure next year for fall lake trout action, and bumping the tailwater trout limit from three to six daily below the dam, no length caps on those abundant browns while cutthroats stay at three with one over twelve. Bait chuckers are stoked, but us fly guys can sight-fish big boys easier now without the old restrictions cramping our style.
Feds at Fish and Wildlife are opening over eighty-seven thousand acres in refuges across Idaho, Montana, and Washington, aligning with state rules and no lead tackle bans, just pure public wade-and-cast gold as reported in that same Spreaker update. And heads up for the Sowbug Roundup in the Ozarks March 26 to 28, where pros like Davy Wotton will tie and teach delicate dries for White and Norfork rivers, straight from Fly Fishers International.
Meanwhile, Colorados Lower Blue River is heating up with CPW's fishery survey via Flylab Substack calling out pellet-feeding as the real villain behind overcrowding, gill lice, and trout die-offs, not us floaters. Landowners want a permit system for boats, but the data says angler mortality is minor in this catch-and-release stretch, so keep swinging those streamers locals.
Locals, mark your calendars, tighten those leaders, and get after it before the crowds. Thanks for tuning in, come back next week for more. This has been a Quiet Please production, and for me check out Quiet Please Dot A I.
For more http://www.quietplease.ai
Get the best deals https://amzn.to/3ODvOta
This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI