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Latest news from USAC. We Did it!! Legislative Update Last Friday was a win for stream access in Utah. Over 400 people showed up at the Capitol steps to support our cause. Objective number one was accomplished: HB 68 was withdrawn from consideration by the Legislature. It was your calls, your emails and letters, and [...]

Last Friday was the rally at the State Capitol opposing HB68.  We met up on the Capitol steps at 10am.  We were able to listen to representatives from USAC as well as Rep. Dixon M. Pitcher which is helping USAC draft a bill to combat HB68.  This bill I have heard will reflect language that has been adopted [...]

see full event details at USAC Facebook page UTAH RALLY FOR PUBLIC WATER ACCESS Salt Lake City, Utah – Utah Stream Access Coalition will be holding a Press Conference and Rally to fight the proposed House Bill68 and to support a new bill (yet to be numbered) sponsored be Rep. Dixon M. Pitcher to offer Compromise. We [...]

The 2013 legislative session starts TODAY! It is URGENT that we all contact our Representatives right NOW to   OPPOSE HB68!! The assault on public stream access has already begun behind closed doors! House Bill 68 [HB68] WILL lock down Utah’s public waters to private interests. TODAY is the time to make a final stand. [...]

Conservation – USAC The Utah Stream Access Coalition is a group we have followed, supported, and admired since its inception.  They are a great group striving to get Utah’s anglers access to it’s fine fisheries. We just wanted to give an update of what they’ve seen happen in 2012 and the outlook for 2013.   [...]

The fight for Utah’s water is still going on.  We all need to do what we can to help out this fight.  With the theme of “Giving Tuesday” check out a way you can all support USAC. Good Morning, You have made thus far since Thanksgiving Thursday. With Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday [...]

By Brett Prettyman | The Salt Lake Tribune There was a time not long ago when crumbling concrete raceways and birds feasting on fingerling were the biggest concerns of Utah state fish hatchery officials. In recent years much larger issues have emerged — namely whirling disease, bacterial coldwater disease and New Zealand mud snails — [...]

Post taken from KSL.com SPIRIT LAKE, Daggett County — Killing every fish in a group of lakes and streams to make the fishing better sounds counterintuitive, but that’s exactly what state and federal wildlife officials have done here. Using boats, backpack sprayers and five-gallon buckets, a team of 60 people introduced rotenone Wednesday into the Middle Fork [...]

I learned a hard lesson over the weekend while fishing On the South Fork of the Snake River.  We we fortune it enough to participate in a charity fly fishing tournament for Casting 4 A Cure last Friday and Saturday.  Ever year we try and raise money for this great group.  We have been able to donate [...]

Craig Zimmerman from Billings, MT is the winner of our ContourRoam HD Camera. Thanks for buying a shirt and donating to Casting 4 a Cure.

Felt Soul Media Pretty cool trailer about the removal of dams and the problems associated with that. DamNation | Trailer from FELT SOUL MEDIA on Vimeo.

Frenzy Shop and Casting 4 A Cure Something tasty just came off the screen print!  Frenzy shirts are here and we want to help out a group that we have known for quite a while. We have, are, and always will be big advocates of Casting 4 A Cure.  It is a fantastic organization representing [...]

Taken from Featherhook.com Lovers of water and rivers in Utah listen up! Here is an oppertunity to cleanup the Weber River. The Utah Whitewater Club is hosting their annual Weber river cleanup on This weekend, Saturday June 23, 2012.  The Utah Stream Access Coalition wants to make sure all of you, the membership get out and give [...]

Fishing Michigan There has been a legal battle in Michigan’s Salmon Trout River for public access for fisherman that is really starting to roll.  I haven’t had any direct impact on it, but I’ve seen the challenge of Public Access in Utah and I know it is a hot topic. Here is a very interesting [...]

Yesterday afternoon we got word from the Utah Stream Access Coalition that the Utah Court made a key ruling in favor of public access to Utah Streams.  We have been waiting a couple months for this ruling and we are ecstatic it was leaning in our favor.  I have read a few different articles on the [...]

Fly Fishing Idaho Many times as anglers we don’t see the extra work that goes into the river projects.  Some of this extra work is what keeps fly fishing places like Idaho wonderful. A great example of this work was done on the Ashton Reservoir Dam on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River in [...]

A proposed pipeline to divert billions of gallons of water from Wyoming and Utah to Colorado’s Front Range threatens more than the world-class trout fishing in the Green River and Flaming Gorge Reservoir. It poses a threat to a series of small communities and a way of life. This video from TU and the Sportsmen’s [...]