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Video spotlight: WWHD Pebble Mine
In today's polarized political landscape, it's not uncommon to have federal agencies and their directives change drastically when administrations change. Take the Environmental Protection Agency, for instance, and its findings in 2015 that hard-rock mining in Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed would likely prove harmful to the region's salmon runs—it's home to half of the world's…
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Video spotlight: Trevor Sithole, Fly Fishing Guide
A lot of anglers don't know that trout swim in the cold, clear rivers of South Africa—brown trout are common, having been planted in African waters well over a century ago. And Trevor Sithole, who lives in the village of Thendela in the KwaZulu province of South Africa, guides anglers for browns in his local…
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Video spotlight: A Day in the Life: Alaskan Bush Guide
When I was younger and much more enamored by the idea of being a fishing guide, I received a Father's Day gift of a guided trip down the Cardiac Canyon stretch of the Henry's Fork. The trip was awesome—our guide, the legendary Rod Patch, put us on fish most of the day. And he worked…
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Video spotlight: Trout of steel
The rainbow trout fishery of Bristol Bay is simply legendary. With hundreds—maybe thousands—of miles of salmon streams that flow from the headwaters of the drainage to the sea, it's easy to see why rainbow trout are so vibrant and plentiful, given the food base. Alaska Sportman's Lodge, run by all-star TU volunteer Brian Kraft, is…
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Video spotlight: Listening to a river to help sturgeon
The Kootenai River starts and ends in Canada. It runs 485 miles with about a third of those miles dipping into Idaho and Montana. The Kootenai Tribe lives along the river and once relied on its sturgeon for food. Chuck Cathcart/Idaho Public Television Native white sturgeon in the Kootenai River need some help and researchers…
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Video spotlight: Flip Pallot
"Things get said in a skiff that wouldn't get said in a confessional," Flip Pallot says. No kidding. As a trout guy, I've always said that the truth always comes out around a campfire. And I'd love to share a campfire conversation with Flip Pallot. As a formative fly fisher in my 20s and early…
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Video spotlight: Atlantic Salmon Reserve
Imagine a river system where management depends on the lightest possible human footprint. Where trees aren't cut. Trails aren't improved. Rivers left to flow on their own to the sea. Such a place exists, about an hour's chopper ride from the Russian city of Murmansk, on the remote Kola Peninsula, where Atlantic salmon, arctic char,…
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