This Land is Your Land: Amanda Monthei
Long before she moved west to join a wildfire fighting crew, Amanda Monthei grew up fishing, hiking, hunting and camping in Northern Michigan’s Pigeon River Country, a vast network of state public lands surrounding her rural hometown.
Trip Report: The 2025 Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide Academy
Alaska in early June is a time of transition. Snow melts off peaks, rivers rise with cold water and a group of students gather for the learning opportunity of a lifetime.
5 Rivers Q&A – Costa Rica
We caught up with each of them to hear about where life has taken them, how 5 Rivers helped them get there and what advice they have for current students making their own way.
Trout Talk View more
The True Cast – What do you have against bobber fishing?
That’s a very fair question, and it isn’t easy to answer, but I’ll do my best.
TROUT Tip – hopper dropper alternative
It’s terrestrial time, so leading your rig with a hopper (aka grasshopper) is a great idea.
The True Cast – Wildfire
TROUT Tips – fishing terrestrials
Priority Waters View more
This Land is Your Land: Lucas Mullen
When the opportunities to guide and fish the lands and waters of the Tongass National Forest—America’s largest and biggest fish producing forest—came knocking, he answered.
The path forward for the Eel River’s fish and communities
As dam removal moves ahead, an innovative collaborative plan to share the basin’s water and restore its iconic salmon and steelhead runs is finalized
Yukon River salmon declines: What’s under the surface
Working to save a species
Photo of the week View more
Photo of the week – idyllic scenery
It’s been said a million times, fly fishing takes you to breathtaking locations, and that couldn’t be truer than in the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina.
Photo of the week – proud parent
This dad couldn’t have been more thrilled to net his son’s fish on a river in the Kenai region of Southeast Alaska.
Photo of the week – boat trip time
Photo of the week – campfire cooking
Explore topics
Snake River dams
Science
From the President
Conservation
Advocacy
