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Best U.S. Rivers for Fly Fishing That Aren't Already Crowded Image credit: Flux.1 Fly fishing has a crowding problem. As the sport has grown in popu

Inside the Big Horn Outfitters Elk Tag Fraud: How Three New Mexico Men Allegedly Gamed the Draw and Cheated Thousands of Hunters On the surface, it looked like any other successful big-game outfitting operation in the American Southwest — guided hunts across some of the most storied elk country on

Three Million Texas Hunters and Anglers Hit in Major Data Breach — Here's Everything You Need to Know If you've bought a hunting or fishing license in Texas anytime in recent years, your personal information may now be in the hands of a criminal. A sweeping cybersecurity breach involving a third-p

How Anti-Hunting Groups Found a Cash Cow Hidden in Federal Law For years, a quiet legal strategy has been funneling taxpayer dollars into the bank accounts of anti-hunting organizations — and most Americans have no idea it's been happening. A new bill introduced in Congress is now trying to close

Trail Signs Most Hikers Can't Read — And What They Mean Image credit: Flux.1 The wilderness communicates constantly — through bent branches, stacked

Congress Moves to Lock In Commercial Fishing Rights Inside Marine National Monuments For the better part of a decade, the question of whether American commercial fishermen can legally drop a line inside a federally designated marine national monument has been answered differently depending on who

The Case for Going Lifetime: Everything Texas Hunters and Anglers Need to Know About the State's Permanent License Program Every August, the ritual plays out the same way across Texas. Millions of hunters and anglers find themselves back in line at the sporting goods counter or staring down the Te

Louisiana Puts Sportsmen First: New Laws Shield Hunters and Fishers from Public Records Exposure Louisiana has long marketed itself as the Sportsman's Paradise, and for good reason — the state's bayous, coastal marshes, bottomland hardwoods, and rich offshore waters draw hundreds of thousands of h

What's at Stake at the Natural Resources Board Meeting on June 24, 2026 There are meetings that set the tone for a single season, and then there are meetings that shape the entire arc of how hunters and anglers will operate for years to come. The Natural Resources Board meeting scheduled for June

Pennsylvania's "Coming Home to Hunt" Bill: What It Does, Why It Matters, and the Bigger Crisis Behind It Pennsylvania has always meant something specific to the kind of man who grew up waking before dawn, pulling on blaze orange, and stepping into cold November woods with a rifle or bow in hand. T