Transporting fly rods and other gear and tackle on long trips involving air travel or even overland trips across sketchy mountain roads has long been a challenge for anglers. There are lots of options for containing rods and reels, from double-compartment duffles, to heavy and bomb-proof “vaults” that essentially put your fly rods at the…
Sun Creek, Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon. Photo: National Fish Habitat Partnership Trout Unlimited’s brand of conservation is, above all, pragmatic. Nowhere is this more evident than in the upper Klamath River basin, in southern Oregon, where TU is working with ranchers, resource agencies, tribes and other partners to improve streamflows and fish passage for native…
When I was a kid, the idea of catch-and-release fishing was simply foolish. Why put a perfectly good dinner back in the river? And, of course, I and my brothers and cousins were encouraged by our grandfathers to harvest our limit—fresh trout fried up on the grill back at camp was part of the experience.…
Tellico. It’s kind of a mysterious word. The Cherokee wrote it “Talikwa” and used it in the names of several of their towns in the Great Smoky Mountains. They say the actual meaning of the word was lost in their language. It’s possible that it’s origin isn’t Cherokee at all, but Muskogee. The Muskogee say…
Pennsylvania’s native brook trout already face stessors. Climate change is making those stressor more accute. Photo by Chris Hunt. By Brian Wagner On March 27, I attended a program titled, “Roundtable on Climate Change: Effects on Fish, Wildlife and Forests,” at Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. The program was put together by Ed Perry,…
This little small-stream rainbow gobbled up a skated caddis. Ah, the dry fly, cast upstream over the perfect current seam. Is there a better sight in all of fly fishing? And when it works out … Damn, it ‘s awesome. It’s inspiring, effective and, well, it’s proper. But things don’t always line up just right,…
Amateur scientists examine bug life on the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam. Photo by USGS Editor’s note: Every day, all across America, TU volunteers are working in their local watersheds to improve habitat, water quality and angler opportunity. We’re starting a new weekly feature here on the TU blog to honor those volunteers and…
