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Vermont Fish & Wildlife’s Sept. 17 release: cooling water and shorter days put bass, pike, perch, walleye, trout, and salmon on a heavier feed with less boat traffic. Biologist Shawn Good points at weedbed edges, 6–8 ft transitions, and a late-morning window.
Great Days Outdoors’ Sept. 11–17 Delta report: Capt. Joey Lemoine says Grand Isle trout quality is up as water cools; Capt. Shawn Mitchell has white shrimp leaving Hopedale–Biloxi ponds and redfish on the drains. First 4–5°F front could lock in fall.
Randy Meredith’s Sept. 16 Navarre Newspaper pier report: water clearing at 83°F, NE wind 3–15, 1–3 ft seas. By 7 p.m. Spanish, king, ladyfish, yellowtail, and hardtail were on the sheet. Windows: 11:30–12:30, 4–6 p.m., and 9:30–10:30 p.m.
Osceola News Gazette, Sept. 17: the Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit Championship launches Friday–Sunday from Big Toho Marina on the Kissimmee Chain. Purse $453,000, top prize up to $135,000, plus a REDCREST 2027 berth. Drought has the chain low.
WDFW closes salmon fishing north of the 520 bridge, east of Montlake, and on the lower Sammamish River from Sept. 16 until further notice after Ballard Locks counts showed a smaller-than-forecasted coho return.
A Sept. 15 USFWS story: biologists helicoptered into the Gila Wilderness after the Hummingbird and Sacaton fires, electrofished 78 genetically distinct Iron Creek Gila trout, and trucked them to Mora National Fish Hatchery at 100 percent survival.
Fisherman’s Post’s Pamlico/Neuse September 2026 guide roundup: citation-class red drum from the ferry line into the sound on soft plastics, topwater, and cut bait; slot reds and a few specks in the river shallows; stripers still consistent up past New Bern.
WDFW listed 40 tentative evening razor-clam digs Oct. 9–Dec. 27 at Long Beach, Twin Harbors, Copalis, and Mocrocks. Every series still needs Department of Health marine-toxin clearance, and Kalaloch stays closed.
Utah DWR’s fall kokanee viewing note: it is illegal to possess kokanee statewide Sept. 10–Nov. 30. Free look-ins at Strawberry Reservoir Sept. 19 and Fish Lake’s Twin Creeks boardwalk Sept. 26, plus DIY spots from Jordanelle to Sheep Creek.
ODFW’s Sept. 10 Northwest Zone report rates Nehalem Bay fall Chinook fair and consistent, with Nestucca and Tillamook starting to produce. Wild adult coho is open Wed/Sat/Sun through Oct. 28 in those three basins.
IDFG changes fall Chinook and steelhead bag limits at the end of fishing hours Thursday, Sept. 17: only clipped adult Chinook may be kept, and the statewide steelhead daily limit drops to two.
The Georgia Wildlife Blog’s Sept. 11 statewide sheet says Silver Lake PFA is fishing well — dock lights, vegetation-pocket bass, House Pond bluegill over 9 inches — while the Chattahoochee and Flint stay a catfish-and-bream play until water cools.
Green Cove Springs’ Cody Morgan took the MLF Phoenix BFL Gator Division finale on the St. Johns River at Palatka with 10 bass, 61 pounds 9 ounces, and $3,920 after a shell-flat program and a 12-11 on Day 2.
Jules Lingenfelter in the Flathead Beacon (Sept. 14): Montana FWP wants an emergency catch-and-kill rule for brown trout in Flathead Lake and waters upstream after confirmed fish at Ashley Lake and likely reports at Church Slough. Comment through Sept. 24; commission Oct. 14.
US FishingNews deskFederal for-hire reef-fish boats in the Gulf get 147 days of red snapper in 2026, 19 days longer than last year, under a 3.38-million-pound quota.