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Want more Gunnison River? Pass the CORE Act
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.3.4"]Curecanti provision offers overdue access to top Colorado trout fishery [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" fullwidth="on" _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_fullwidth_image src="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Gunnison-Blue-Mesa-Reservoir-Inlet.jpg" _builder_version="4.0.5" hover_enabled="0"][/et_pb_fullwidth_image][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.3.4"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.0.5" hover_enabled="0"]Photos by Connie Rudd. How does 12 miles of new public fishing access on one of the West’s best trout fisheries sound to you? I know,…
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Tying with bucktail
When I first started tying flies, I would avoid tying with bucktail altogether—it was unwieldy and my flies never seemed to come out the way I liked them. But, when I started fishing bigger water, and when I started chasing fish in saltwater, I had to get my head around tying with bucktail, and now,…
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TroutRoutes takes you to great fishing
Anyone who has tried to explore new fishing spots knows that it can be difficult and time-consuming to find and access high-quality trout streams. A free mobile app called TroutRoutes may be the way to change that. Zach Pope, founder of TroutRoutes, has made it his life’s mission to map out every trout stream in…
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Ice fishing for the converted
Ice fishing in Montana When I was a kid, I had this recurring nightmare. I was probably around 7 or 8 at the time. In it, I would be walking down a dirt road with my dad and in the road were a series of big, muddy puddles, the kind you get after a long…
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Querencia: A love of place
In 2011, when I was still president of New Mexico’s Santa Fe (Truchas) Chapter, I was approached by Nick Streit, president of the Taos (Enchanted Circle) Chapter and owner of the Taos Fly Shop, about restoring a section of the Red River in Questa. The Red had been a workhorse for several decades, impacted by…
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Take a child fishing and make a difference
By Mike Enos The bobber began to twitch and then it submerged twice just before taking off in an arc across the glassy surface of the lake. Just as her line, seemingly possessed by a supernatural force, started to move, the quiet was pierced by my 8-year old granddaughter’s high-pitched squeal of excitement. Avery, whose attention had…
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Draining pond in Maine has good unintended results
By Jeff Reardon Since 2014, TU’s Merrymeeting Bay Chapter has been focused on brook trout in coastal streams, at least some of which migrate downstream to saltwater for part of their life. They’ve been working with me to document brook trout populations in previously un-surveyed streams by angling and electrofishing surveys; monitor water temperatures with long-term data loggers; and,…