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50 Fish, 50 States: Bartram’s Bass
Bass fishing can be one of life’s simple pleasures. It also demonstrates that humans have a nearly infinite capacity to overcomplicate things.
50 Fish, 50 States: Overlooked Native Fish in National Parks
50 Fish, 50 States: Matt Miller searches for chubs and sauger on the Little Missouri River in North Dakota.
50 Fish, 50 States: Refuge
The U.S. National Wildlife Refuge system, in its 120th year, is one of the largest protected area networks in the world. And many refuges are great places to fish.
50 Fish, 50 States: Bluegill Break
As you travel around the US there are some fish species you encounter again and again. The bluegill is one of them.
50 Fish, 50 States: Rudd of South Dakota
Many invasive fish are well known and well publicized. But you might not have heard about rudd.
50 Fish, 50 States: Freaks in the Hot Springs
When the water is not too hot, not too cold, expect fishy weirdness. Exhibit A: Matt Miller catches giraffe cichlids, native to Africa, in the desert. In Utah.
50 Fish, 50 States: Whitefish & the End of the World as We Know It
You can’t freeze time, even when ice fishing
50 Fish, 50 States: Cutthroat Connections
A search for native cutthroats offers connections in a crazy year.
50 Fish, 50 States: Yellowstone’s Native Fish
Yellowstone’s large mammals get the attention, but the park’s underwater wildlife is special, too.
50 Fish, 50 States: Silver Creek Preserve
The legendarily difficult trout stream is not always so difficult.
50 Fish, 50 States: Razorback Sucker Nursery
A new project in Utah gives endangered fish a fighting chance.
50 Fish, 50 States: Small Stream Wonders
An easy-to-overlook New York stream yields a strange and ferocious fish.
