HANCOCK, N.Y.— the annual One Bug fly-fishing tournament might seem like a nutty idea–unless you’re crazy about trout.

For the past five years the One Bug has lured two-person fishing teams to Hancock, where the East and West branches of the Delaware River meet. Though contestants must fish with only “One Bug” for the entire day of fishing, face uncertain early spring weather and water conditions, and are up against some of the toughest trout to catch on the planet, they keep coming back for more. :Read full press release

Click to here to view One Bug pics taken by Dennis Cabarle

HANCOCK, NY–It sounds like the start of a joke: Guy walks into a bar. But the punch line didn’t seem so funny.

The story began when I got a call on the morning of April 26 from Jim “Coz” Costolnic, a board member of Friends of the Upper Delaware River and the owner of Border Water Outfitters, a fly shop and guide service in Hancock.

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We hope you can make it to the “Come Hell or High Water 3.0″ Fly Fishing Expo and Film Festival this year at the West Branch Angler on Saturday April 14. This year’s efforts will benefit Project Healing Water, Friends of the Upper Delaware River, and Trout Unlimited. :Read all about this awesome event

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In The New York Times today:

When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took office last year, his administration seemed to be in hurry-up mode as it decided whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, a controversial gas drilling process. State regulators kept to tight deadlines to produce for public review an environmental impact study and proposed drilling rules, and the state’s top environmental official said drilling permits could be granted as early as this year.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/07/nyregion/in-albany-a-decision-on-natural-gas-drilling-suddenly-seems-less-certain.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

DENVER — Chemicals used to hydraulically fracture rocks in drilling for natural gas in a remote valley in central Wyoming are the likely cause of contaminated local water supplies, federal regulators said Thursday.

The draft report, after a three-year study by the Environmental Protection Agency, represents a new scientific and political skirmish line over whether fracking, as it is more commonly known, poses a threat in the dozens of places around the nation where it is now being used to extract previously unreachable energy resources locked within rock.

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Last year we asked you to sign on to a Coalition Letter which requested that Governor Andrew Cuomo withdraw the RD SGEIS (Revised Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement. Whew!). Thanks to all of you that signed the letter now has more than 10,500 signatories with many of the signatures coming from FUDR members and Friends!!! Continue reading →

DEC Commissioner Joe Martens says he thinks New York will likely vote against the regulations on hydrofracking that the Delaware River Basin Commission released earlier this week, though he says the DEC is still reviewing the proposal.

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On November 21, 2011, the Commission will consider adoption of Article 7 of DRBC’s  Water Quality Regulations to protect the water resources of the Delaware River Basin during the construction and operation of natural gas development projects. Go to http://www.state.nj.us/drbc/notice_naturalgas-draftregs.htm for more info.