Fishing Clubs, Associations & Organizations

Columbia Lakes Sporting Club offers online fishing-related links to help you in your search for information. Inclusion in this list does not represent an endorsement, although we do try to be selective - and reserve the right to do so. Note that active links indicate Columbia Lakes Sporting Club web partners.

American Bass Association

Number one bass organization in the Western U.S.
Website: http://www.americanbass.com/

American Crappie Association

The American Crappie Association is the first national organization for crappie fishermen.
http://www.crappieusa.com/

American Museum of Fly Fishing

A nonprofit institution intent on education and research into fly fishing and its related fields, social history and conservation
http://www.amff.com/

American Sportfishing Association

American Sportfishing Association providers information, newslettes educational links and more about fishing.
Website: http://www.asafishing.org/asa/

Bass Anglers Sportsman Society

Bass Anglers Sportsman Society B.A.S.S. was founded more than 25 years ago as a service organization for bass fishermen. Its primary aim is to help anglers get the most out of bass fishing - whether it's by protecting and preserving the fishing environment, reporting on the newest products and techniques, telling them about the latest 'hot spots', or providing an arena for professional and amateur fishing competitions.
http://www.espn.go.com/outdoors/bassmaster/

Bass Fishing Clubs, International

Bass Fishing Clubs, International - designed to allow Bass Clubs around the World to come together on the Web.
Website: http://www.bassfishingclubs.com/

Benzie County Sport Fishing Association

The Benzie County Sport Fishing Association is a non-profit organization, incorporated in May of 2002, formed to promote and protect the sport fishery of Lake Michigan, specifically in Benzie County and its adjoining Waters.
http://www.geocities.com/fishbenzie/

Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum

The Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to: preserving America's fly-fishing heritage; teaching its future generations of flyfishers; and protecting its fly-fishing environment.
http://www.cffcm.org/

Central Coast Salmon Enhancement, Inc.

Central Coast Salmon Enhancement, Inc. (CCSE) is a non-profit, tax-exempt, volunteer corporation dedicated to the enhancement and restoration of the Central Coast salmon fishery and local creeks. CCSE is also devoted to educating the community on the ecology and economy of these resources.
http://www.centralcoastsalmon.com/

Chicagoland Fishing Has No Boundaries

Chicagoland Fishing has no boundaries is dedicated to the disabled angler.
http://www.cfhnb.org/

Federation of Fly Fishers

The Federation of Fly Fishers is a unique non-profit organization concerned with sport fishing and fisheries, the conservation of fish and their habitat.
http://www.fedflyfishers.org/

Fishing has no boundaries, Inc

Our Goal is simply, to open the great outdoors for people with disabilities through the world of fishing ... a sport most of us take for granted. Fishing Has No Boundaries, Inc. (FHNB,Inc.)
http://www.fhnbinc.org/./programs.html

Future Fisherman Foundation

The Future Fisherman Foundation is the youth education vehicle of the American Sportfishing Association. Promoting curriculum-based aquatic education and stewardship, it encourages sportfishing among American youth.
http://www.asafishing.org/

Great Lakes Fishery Commission

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission was established by the Convention on Great Lakes Fisheries between Canada and the United States in 1955 to develop coordinated programs of research on the Great Lakes, recommend measures which will permit the maximum sustained productivity of stocks of fish of common concern, formulate and implement a program to eradicate or minimize sea lamprey populations in the Great Lakes.
http://www.glfc.org/

Izaak Walton League of America

To conserve, maintain, protect and restore the soil, forest, water and other natural resources of the United States and other lands; to promote means and opportunities for the education of the public with respect to such resources and their enjoyment and wholesome utilization.
http://www.iwla.org/

Kansas Angler Online
The Kansas Angler offers fishing reports and other information for Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Iowa, Colorado and Nebraska. Also included are tournament schedules, tournament results, fishing tips, kids fishing, Kansas Fishing Clubs, fishing photographs, fishing stories.

Master Index of Freshwater Fishes - Frames Version

Master Index of Freshwater Fishes contains over 40,000 references to the over 60 aquarium books and selected issues of 6 magazines. The index also contains over 300 images.
http://www.webcityof.com/miffwf.htm

National Striped Bass Association (NSBA)

Official website of The National Striped Bass Association.
Website: http://www.fishnsba.com/

North American Native Fishes Association

The North American Native Fishes Association is dedicated to the enjoyment, study and conservation of North America's native fishes.
http://www.nanfa.org/

North Georgia Trout Online

North Georgia Trout Online, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of trout fishing in North Georgia.
http://www.georgia-outdoors.com/ngto

Outdoors Network

Fishing , Fly Fishing, Hunting , Lefty Kreh, BASS and more, from Outdoors Network - Bringing the Outdoors Indoors.
http://www.outdoors.net/

Peacock Bass Association

Peacock Bass Association offers comprehensive information on peacock bass fishing lodges and trip providers, newsletter with tips and tactics for peacock bass fishermen.
Website: http://www.peacockbassassociation.com/

Project F.I.S.H. - Friends Involved In Sportfishing Heritage

Project F.I.S.H. is an educational program for youth and families sponsored locally by schools,fishing conservation organizations, others interested in fishing and our fisheries.
http://www.projectfish.org/

Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation

RBFF's mission is to implement an informed, consensus-based national outreach strategy that will increase participation in recreational angling and boating and thereby increase public awareness and appreciation of the need for protecting, conserving, and restoring this nation's aquatic natural resources. This directory is one of the services provided...
http://www.rbff.org/

Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Division of Fishes - Ichthyology

Information on fish and icthyology from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Division of Fishes - Ichthyology homepage
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/vert/fishes/

Trout Unlimited

Trout Unlimited is a private, non-profit organization with 100,000 members in 450 chapters nationwide who's mission is to conserve, protect and restore North America's trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds.
http://www.tu.org/

Wild Trout Trust of Britain and Ireland

The Wild Trout Trust is a charitable organization dedicated to the conservation of wild trout in Britain and Ireland through the protection and restoration of their habitats.
http://www.wildtrout.org/