Trout Magazine

  • River Champions

    A little motivation goes a long way

    What parent hasn’t dangled a reward in hopes of encouraging a child to accomplish something? Chris Myhrum fondly remembers such an enticement from his childhood. “Our neighbors had a pool with no shallow end,” he said. “I’d jump in and just hang on the edge. My dad said, ‘If you swim across this pool, I’ll…

  • Community

    Faces of Bristol Bay: Water is life

    A dispatch from Alaska’s salmon country; Tatyana Zackar on the seasonal rituals of subsistence harvesting and guiding. You know the saying; “I get by with a little help from my friends”. As we cross into our second decade of advocacy for Bristol Bay, friends are more important than ever. The region is threatened by open…

  • River Champions

    Visual storytelling at its finest

    For much of the last six years, Shane Anderson and his team at Swiftwater Films spent thousands of hours meticulously documenting the epic story of the long campaign to reconnect the Klamath River. They’ve gathered hours of historical footage, filmed key moments and celebrations and conducted hundreds of interviews with tribal leaders, conservationists, anglers, scientists…