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The International Fly Fishing Film Festival tours through November, the American Museum of Fly Fishing opens a major new exhibition on the sport’s four pillars, a new Asheville expo debuts next March, and more. FLOW Fest Expo makes it’s debut on March 13-14th in Asheville, N.C.. Image courtesy FLOW Fest Expo. Following our late-summer to fall calendar rundown last month, a handful of additions worth stacking on the calendar.

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The Denver Board of Water Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to end the lawn watering season a month early, banning grass watering for the utility’s 1.5 million customers after Sept. 30. The amendment to Denver Water’s Stage 1 drought resolution carries no end date, and sprinklers are expected to stay off well into spring 2027 unless the board acts again. Cheesman Reservoir and curve of Cheesman Dam. Photo courtesy: Carol M.

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum signed the 2027–2028 Operating Guidelines and Record of Decision for Colorado River operations on Friday, August 21, with the combined contents of Lake Powell and Lake Mead lower than at any point since before Powell began filling in 1963. The Colorado River.

Timing is everything when it comes to fishing dry flies. Photo:Don Mroczkowski/ Adobe Stock Question: I fish a few small rivers up in the mountains here, and by mid-September it seems like everything’s shut off. No bugs, no rising fish, just cold gray water. Am I wasting my time with dry flies at this point, or should I just nymph and throw streamers until October? —Greg M., New Hampshire (via the Ask MidCurrent form) Answer: You’re probably not wasting your time.

A 190-page order finds that not one of North Carolina’s 13 state-managed coastal stocks exhibits long-term viability, southern flounder and estuarine striped bass among them, and sends the case to a remedy phase with a joint report due in 45 days. Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge.

To start off this Tying Tuesday, we brought one back from the archives: Matt Grobert’s October Caddis, as tied by Tim Flagler. MidCurrent highlighted this fly back in 2012, and it holds as a classic fall pattern. Next up, Cheech from Fly Fish Food takes us through the Two Tone Perdigón nymph, which, in Cheech’s own description, is built around the idea that many aquatic insects are dark on top and light underneath. Next up is the Fat Head Cicada as tied by AvidMax for his own Tying Tuesday feature.

Google announced Thursday that it will donate $600,000 to Trout Unlimited for a culvert-replacement project on a tributary of the Salt River in Apache County, Arizona, aimed at restoring streamflow and reconnecting habitat for Apache trout. Apache Trout. Photo courtesy USFWS The money will replace three undersized culverts with larger structures in the Paradise Creek area, allowing more water to flow beneath the roadway.

If the fish aren’t behaving… give ’em the slap reach. It’s a cast that rings the dinner bell and sets up a perfect drift using the energy of delivery to pivot slack line upstream into a mended position.

You don’t need a boat full of rod tubes to tackle changing water conditions. In this Fly Fish Food Skill Builder, Lance Egan breaks down how to maximize a single rod and reel setup to present four completely different fly rigs on the river!