Utah – Appealing to anglers to voluntarily discontinue use of felt. Colorado – Phasing out felt for use by state agencies. Some fishing lodges, such as the Patagonian BaseCamp in South America, have ...

Idaho rivers have a host of unwanted organisms — from New Zealand mud snails (Silver Creek), to whirling disease and rock snot (South Fork of the Boise River) — and the list of threats to trout ...

MONKTON, Md. (AP) -- As an algae with a gross nickname invades pristine trout streams across the U.S., Maryland is about to become the first state to enforce a ban on a type of footgear the organism ...

As an algae with a gross nickname invades pristine trout streams across the U.S., Maryland is about to become the first state to enforce a ban on a type of footgear the organism uses to hitchhike from ...

At the Catskill Flies shop in Roscoe, the village at the confluence of the Beaverkill and Willowemoc rivers that calls itself “Trout Town USA,” all wading shoes with felt soles are on clearance sale.

The Minister of Conservation agreed in principle last week with a Fish & Game New Zealand submission to ban the use of felt soled wading boots for freshwater fishing. The ban, yet to be approved and ...

Quabaug Corp., the North Brookfield-based manufacturer of Vibram shoe soles, has teamed up with a well-known manufacturer of fishermen’s wading boots to reduce the spread of invasive aquatic plant ...