Trout Magazine

  • The True Cast

    The True Cast – Why bother with fishing?

    I’ve spent a whole professional career writing about fly fishing (at least most of it). And looking back, sometimes I wonder if it was worth it. Sure, the ride has been fun. Who could argue against getting paid to write stories about fishing, and edit magazines and all the other stuff? I’ve seen places I…

  • Science Partnerships

    Spot trout, catch trout, photograph trout… for science

    By harnessing the power of angler catch data, it uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify individual fish from angler-submitted photos.

    Picture this, you’re on your favorite river, you spot a nice trout sipping off the surface. After careful observation, you tie on a fly you think matches. Then you watch this fish for a few more minutes, cast, land your fly just ahead of the sipper, and much to your delight, it raises its head,…

  • TROUT Magazine

    Fin and Feather

    Meet the two-man show filming a conservation series between country music tour stops When 18-year-old Ben Dunning first pointed his camera at Colby Acuff onstage, he didn’t know he was capturing the start of something much bigger. Years later, the two friends are touring the country not just to share music, but to spotlight the…

  • Public Lands

    What’s at stake on this Public Lands Day

    On this Public Lands Day and National Hunting and Fishing Day, join Trout Unlimited in celebrating our shared public lands and sporting heritage while standing up for the places you fish and hunt. The state of public lands has been at the forefront of many Americans’ minds this summer. The places we go to fish,…