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Win a trip to Patagonia & amazing fly fishing gear
Fly Fusion’s Trout Tour + Land the Brands Sweepstakes
Fly Fusion’s Trout Tour + Land the Brands Sweepstakes Fly Fusion’s Trout Tour is back for its second epic season! Join us for an unforgettable night of fly-fishing films featuring monster trout, breathtaking cinematography, and stories that fuel the obsession with the sport. Watch the sizzle reel and film trailers. To celebrate, we’re excited to…
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The True Cast – Saving the planet by fly fishing
I had the great honor of fishing with Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank not long ago. Dana (who has been in the trenches of covering American politics for years) launched a new column, the focus of which is “getting back in touch with our humanity.” Somehow, someone convinced him that spending a couple days on…
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Photo of the week – spooky
Not blood, just another TU River Champion hard at work on a restoration project No, that’s not blood from a barbed hook wound on his waders. It’s just a drawing in red marker of a river restoration project in progress. Just another of TU’s River Champions hard at work.
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TROUT Tip – parachute and pile casts
It’s always nice to have more tools in your casting arsenal to present a fly effectively. That is certainly true when fishing the tails of pools, where you’ll often find big trout holding and feeding. Of course, these casts also come in handy in numerous other situations, so watch this week’s tip video to learn…
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ConHydro hits the century mark
TU’s Conservation Hydrology program has built the largest non-governmental stream gage system in California At its core, Trout Unlimited’s restoration work is dedicated to improving flow, water quality and stream connectivity for trout and salmon. In the West, this effort is accomplished largely by working in partnership with landowners, agricultural operators and water agencies. Those…
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A barrier on Jenny Creek is gone
Salmon and steelhead gain access to more habitat on a key Klamath River tributary A little over a year ago, the four dams blocking the Klamath River came down after multi-decade advocacy efforts by regional tribes, anglers, commercial fisherman and conservationists. It was the largest dam removal project in history, and the fish responded…
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TROUT Tip – mastering the reach cast
The reach cast is a critical piece to add to your quiver of casting tools to smoothly deliver a fly and help ensure a drag-free drift. After all, that’s what we’re aiming for when tricking a fish to take our fly. Pete Kutzer with Orvis walks us through the why’s and how’s of mastering a…