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USAC 2025 General Membership Meeting & Board of Directors Nominations

From USAC:

Mark your calendar! The 2025 USAC General Membership meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m., at the Murray City Library, located at 166 East, 5300 South, Murray, Utah 84107. We encourage all members in good standing to attend. In addition to hearing updates from USAC’s Officers and legal team, we will be holding elections for the 2026 USAC Board of Directors.
Meanwhile, USAC needs you, our faithful members, to get more involved with the fight for stream access in Utah! We seek representation from across the state. Living along the Wasatch Front is not mandatory, and we believe broader membership participation is critical to the success of our mission. USAC is looking for ...continue reading at the URL below

https://www.anglingtrade.com/2025/11/21/usac-2025-general-membership-meeting-board-of-directors-nominations/

Product Review: What we really think of the new Scott GT…

Everyone knows I lean favorably toward Scott fly rods. I called the Radian the greatest fly rod ever made in a Field & Stream review many years ago. I felt that Centric was worthy of a comparison to AC/DC’s “Back in Black” album. I fish Sector in the salt, and consider Session the best dollar-for-dollar value on the fly rod market today.

So, what the heck do you expect me to say about the new “GT” series?

Yes, I love it. And yes, I highly recommend it. But maybe not for just anyone.

For the record, “G” series goes way back to the roots of the Scott Fly Rod Company. Back in the 1970s, founder Harry Wilson (he named the company after his son) produced a medium-action graphite rod with hollow internal ferrules that stood apart from the field. He called it the “G” (for graphite, as the “F” series were made of fiberglass). I like to think that, while the rod naming wasn’t exactly innovative, the design was. Indeed, it set a standard for feel and responsiveness and gathered a cult following amongst certain casters.

It took bold moves to improve upon G. But after 30 years, “G2” was launched in 2006. To be honest, I wasn’t enamored with G2. The company itself sought better with the launch of a new “G” in 2017, and that series has lived up to its billing, especially for certain applications like dry fly fishing in technically demanding water. Some models like the 8-foot-8-inch 4-weight stand apart, and if you have one, it’s a keeper.

I was actually a bit skeptical when GT arrived a couple months ago. But ...continue reading at the URL below

https://www.anglingtrade.com/2025/11/18/product-review-what-we-really-think-of-the-new-scott-gt/

From American Saltwater Guides Association:

Release Mortality Update!

COMPREHENSIVE SCIENCE FROM MASS DMF SHOWS RELEASE MORTALITY IS ROUGHLY HALF OF HISTORICAL RATE

This has major implications for striped bass management.

For 30 years, managers have used a 9% “release mortality” rate for striped bass — a number pulled from a 1990s study that even its author said shouldn’t guide management. Now, new research from Massachusetts DMF is set to change everything. Using telemetry tags and data from over 8,000 fish, this comprehensive research finds that release mortality is closer to 4–5%, and under 2% for anglers fishing single hook artificials or flies.

That means responsible catch-and-release anglers — the same ones who’ve been vilified for “playing with fish” — aren’t the core of the problem. Our community held the line valiantly. Now, we finally have what may be the most comprehensive release-mortality research ever done for a saltwater species, and it tells a very different story.

So, where does that leave us?

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https://www.anglingtrade.com/2025/10/28/striped-bass-release-mortality-revisited/

American Saltwater Guides Association

Pflueger Brings Proven Craftsmanship to President Fly Fishing Combos

Pflueger is building on its long-standing reputation for quality and performance with the introduction of the President Fly Combo and President XT Fly Combo. Designed to provide anglers with complete, ready-to-fish packages, these fly combos combine Pflueger’s proven craftsmanship with features that deliver dependable performance whether anglers are pursuing trophy Trout or their first bass or panfish on the fly.

“Pflueger has been, and will remain, committed to delivering high-quality fishing gear that blends value with performance,” said Andrew Wheeler, Pflueger Product Director. “These new fly combos continue that legacy, offering fly anglers a complete, value-driven package they can count on season after season.”

The Pflueger President Fly Combo pairs a 4-piece medium-action carbon composite fly rod with a continue reading at the URL below

https://www.anglingtrade.com/2025/10/17/pflueger-brings-proven-craftsmanship-to-president-fly-fishing-combos/

Pflueger Fishing

Down the Path Podcast Releases New Episode

If you have been a fan of any of the Down The Path podcast series over the last few years, a new episode was just released and is available wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Down the Path Season 3, Episode 7 continues the story of the mysterious disappearance of Stanley Bain from South Andros Island in the Bahamas.

Down the Path is a narrative true-crime style podcast created and hosted by freelance journalist Will Rice. The show explores unsolved cases, mysteries, and disappearances connected to fly fishing and travel destinations around the world, often weaving together first hand reporting, recorded interviews, police reports and other archival material.

One of its central stories is “The Disappearance of Stanley Bain,” a multi-part investigation into the 1995 disappearance of Bahamian fly fishing lodge owner and businessman Stanley Bain and four other men who went missing during an expedition in the remote waters of South Andros Island in the Bahamas. The series looks at what is known about the trip, the unanswered questions, theories about what might have happened, and the impact of the disappearance on Bain’s family and the fly fishing community.

The Disappearance of Stanley Bain was first released in January 2023, and this is the first major update since then. In this chapter, host Will Rice devotes an entire episode to an interview with ...continue reading at the URL below

https://www.anglingtrade.com/2025/10/17/down-the-path-podcast-releases-new-episode/