Trout Magazine

  • Conservation

    2024 Photo Essay

    2024 Recap (so far) - Photo Essay (Photos by Swiftwater Films) Iron Gate was over 500 feet wide and stood as tall as a seventeen-story building. The farthest downstream of four Klamath barriers dismantled over the past year in the largest dam removal project in history, it impounded a reservoir covering over 1,000 acres and…

  • Video spotlight

    Trout Unlimited Films

    How much do you know about the vital work Trout Unlimited is doing across the country? One great way to learn more is to watch some of our recent films. Discover why streams need trees in the East. Learn who was instrumental in removing the Apache Trout from the endangered species list and find out…

  • Headwaters

    Did you know TU has a podcast?

    Emerging is the official podcast of the TU Costa 5 Rivers program and has been running for four seasons.  The show began in the fall of 2020 when University of Georgia fly fishing club president, Joseph Berney, had the idea to share stories using this medium. Thanks to early support from Simms and Costa, the…

  • TROUT Magazine

    Fishing our conscience

    One warm, mid-May morning, some friends and I rented a raft to fish our home tailwater. We’d never floated the river before; usually we spent our days wading the winding river’s public stretches. So, we decided to pool enough money to rent one for a day. Rafting meant we could hit the holes we’d never…

  • Fishing Trout Talk

    Tip – reach cast

    Orvis continues to come out with great videos teaching us tips to help our fishing. This video is no different from fly fishing instructor, Pete Kutzer. The reach cast helps anglers put a mend in the line to get a drag-free drift before it’s on the water. Watch and learn and then give it a…

  • Climate Change

    Floods and building reconnected rivers

    Jordan Fields recently connected with TU vice president for eastern conservation, Keith Curley, to talk about Fields’ work.

    August 28, 2011, was a day that changed Jordan Fields’ life. That day, Tropical Storm Irene dumped more than 11 inches of rain on Fields’ hometown in Vermont in just a few hours. “It was a week before I started my senior year of high school,” remembers Fields. “I watched as my friends’ and neighbors’…