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Boulder Flycasters is participating in many local and regional youth fishing clinics this spring and we need volunteers to help with the youth presentations.  We partner with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife to man various stations educating children from ages 3 to 16 in areas such as fish habitat, game species, fish anatomy, regulations and […]

  Thanks to everyone who came out on a cold and rainy Saturday last weekend to install the final nine Catch & Release signs along the Boulder Creek Path.  A total of 21 signs have been placed between Ebin Fine Park and 55th St. giving a much higher profile for the Catch & Release regulations. 

The Centaurus High Trout in the Classroom program had some new arrivals late last week.  The fertilized eggs that were delivered about two weeks began hatching last Friday.  All seemed to have survived the hatching which was a problem for last year’s 1st egg delivery.  Craig Weinhold’s biology classes will rear the trout over the

Exciting news!  Some of you may have noticed new Catch & Release signs have appeared along the Boulder Creek Path last week.  Thanks to the City of Boulder, the Colorado Parks & Recreation Department and Boulder Flycasters, a total of 19 new signs are being installed from Ebin Fine Park to 55th St. The City

Didymo (Didymosphenia geminata) is a type of algae found in fresh water.  Commonly known as “rock snot,” didymo can form thick, brown mats on stream bottoms.  During blooms, didymo can cover long stretches of streambeds and can disrupt the organisms that live in and on the streambed.  This can have an adverse affect on fish

Stewardship Tip of the week Catch and release fishing is one of the most powerful tools for conservation.  It is also used across a wide, and diverse, population of anglers.  Consider: In the United Kingdom, course anglers have practiced catch and release for more than a century to prevent target species from disappearing from heavily

Stewardship Tip of the week “It can have some of the water, but not all the water.”  Geoffry McQuilkin, the former Co-Executive Director for the Mono Lake Committee, speaking at the Walker Lake Summit in 2002, was referring to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP). In 1941, the LADWP extended the Los

  Despite the snow, the BFC Youth Night last Friday evening was a great success.  We had 25-30 youth participants with their parents attend the various workshops sponsored by the local fly-fishing shops, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, Umpqua Feather Merchants, and the CU Fly-fishing Club.  Every youth attendee left with large bags of “Schwag” including

Good Morning! The  Bass Pro Fishing Classic is coming up and the Colorado Division of Parks & Wildlife is looking for help!   Allison Kincaid, the Division Hunting and Angling Outreach Coordinator, is recruiting volunteers to assist with the Colorado Parks and Wildlife fishing info. booth on the following days and time: Saturday, February 25     8:00 AM-12:30 PM,

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a controversial method of extracting oil and gas from shale formations.  Hydraulic fracturing is a process that occurs naturally.  Oil and gas companies attempt to accelerate the process to release oil or natural gas by drilling into rock formations and injecting highly pressurized fracking fluids.  Fracking fluid is composed of