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Eat a salmon for Bristol Bay
Bristol Bay, Alaska … the center of the earth for wild sockeye salmon. It’s also focus of our battle against the proposed Pebble Mine, which would create North America’s largest open-pit gold and copper mine next to some of the most important salmon rivers left on earth. Bristol Bay continues to produce one of the…
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New book profiles women in angling industry
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.22.6" custom_margin="|auto|-306px|auto||"][et_pb_column type="1_3" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_text text_font_size="16px" _builder_version="3.22.6" background_color="#a5b446" custom_padding="10px|5px|10px|5px" text_font="|300|||||||"]Editor's note: This week we will celebrate some of the TU activists and volunteers featured in Fifty Women Who Fish. To get a copy of the book go to whywomenfish.com [/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Fifty-women-book-jacket.jpg" _builder_version="3.22.6"][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="2_3" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_image src="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/R5A4390_original-1.jpg" _builder_version="3.22.6"][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.22.6" custom_padding="||0px|||"]Lures, flies, bait, freshwater, salt water, yachts, kayaks,…
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Who is the ‘fishy’ person in your family?
Every family has that one person with a knack for catching fish. Aiza is that person in our family. She simply loves to fish. My nephew is one lucky guy. Almost three years ago he married Aiza. She is a talented millennial with a successful career in the tech industry and a loving mother of…
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Time for a new fishing hat?
On one of its first big fishing trips, the hat blew off my head as we motored across the morning surface of Black Lake. The sun had just hit the water, filtered by a thin layer of fog coming off the lake, and our guide goosed the outboard without much warning. It flipped off my…
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Double dose: Volunteers plant riparian edges of two New York trout streams
The Trees for Tribs Program from New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation provides Trout Unlimited with bare root and potted trees to plant along trout streams. Being a stream guy, I had to take advantage of the offer, made possible by funding from the Arbor Day Foundation. Walking through the tree garden I had my…
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Voices from the River: Return to Evolution Lake
by Toner Mitchell Editor's Note: This post was first published on July 23, 2018, on the TU blog. Gordon Becker was in love with nature for as long as anyone can remember. He climbed it, hiked it, fished it, and boated it. After earning a master's degree in fisheries biology, he built a career out…
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Spring on Jack Creek
Beyond its confluence with Cow Creek near the village of San Ysidro, the Pecos River’s southward crawl is rarely supplemented by significant inputs other than random flash floods. Deriving its existence from how much snow falls on a mere six percent of its watershed, the Pecos flows most of its length through a desert, which is why I’ve always had difficulty believing that it’s the sixteenth longest river…
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