Heads Up FlyFishing offers guided flyfishing adventures on the San Juan River below Navajo Dam in New Mexico, the Animas River, as well as other rivers/streams/lakes that surround Durango, Colorado. Heads Up Fly Fishing from TwoFisted Heart Productions on Vimeo.
German tackle company D.A.M. kicked off the 36th EFTTEX trade show in real style by officially unveiling a new logo and an exciting plan for one of the industry’s oldest brands. The D.A.M. ‘angler’, who has graced the logo with distinction since 1960, has been retired. It maintains the company’s strong heritage, but seeks […]
Following the sale of Lars Svendsen’s company to Maj Invest Equity 18-months ago, a new CEO has been appointed. Lars Svendsen explains: “Having managed Svendsen Sport for nearly 40 years, it’s time for me to step down. With new ownership and substantial growth over the last period, our company has never been in a stronger […]
Svendsen Sport A/S – one of the most significant suppliers of tackle for European anglers – announced around the middle of December that André Akkermans has been hired to manage the future operation of DAM. Coming from Holland, André draws on 23 years of experience with leadership in the European fishing tackle Industry. In the […]
The City of Aspen is planning to build a pair of dams in some of Colorado’s most iconic mountain landscapes and streams. One is slated for Maroon Creek, just below the Maroon Bells, and the other on Castle Creek not far below the old town of Ashcroft. These dams would inundate significant portions of these […]
Plans to build a controversial hydro scheme on the iconic Conwy Falls in the Snowdonia National Park have been withdrawn following strong objections submitted by the Angling Trust and Fish Legal, working with local member angling clubs and representatives of the ‘Save the Conwy’ campaign. The applicant – Innogy Renewables UK Ltd – was faced […]
A flood-like release from Glen Canyon Dam is coming November 7, 2016, as federal agencies assess the benefits of high-water flows down the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park. The high-flow experiment, conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in partnership with the National Park Service, is scheduled to include a peak magnitude release […]
On September 23, 2016, the Klamath River Renewal Corporation (KRRC) filed two applications with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), which together mark a major milestone in the process of implementing the revised Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement (KHSA), signed in April 2016. The primary objective of the KHSA is to decommission four old, unproductive hydropower […]
Heavy machinery removing Lyons DamLyons Dam in Ionia County, Michigan, a high-hazard structure located on the Grand River, was completely removed this summer, restoring natural river functions and allowing unimpeded fish movement. Lyons Dam, owned by the village of Lyons, was an 8-foot-high, concrete-covered, rock-crib structure. The dam was in a deteriorated state, which earlier […]
Menno van Dam casts and fishes with the lightest Sage One Trout Spey flyrods for a line class #2 and 3 on a river in the south of Germany. The subtitles and the spoken language are both in German.