Trout Magazine

  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: The Mirror Effect

    Editor's note: The following is exerpted from TU's book, "Trout Tips," available online for overnight delivery. Just like it's always shocking to hear your own voice, it can also be surprising to see what you look like when you cast. There's a reason ballet studios and music rooms have large mirrors: this is the way…

  • TU Regional Rendezvous Aftershocks: Now What?

    When organizing a day on the water, you spend time before your departure planning to maximize your time and enjoyment.  You get out on the water and enjoy the trip, reveling in the moments.  Upon your return home, you rinse, dry and organize gear while reflecting on your experience.   Just like a fishing outing is…

  • Conservation

    Bipartisan effort needed to protect Great Lakes Restoration Initiative

    By Taylor Ridderbusch   For the third consecutive year, the Trump Administration’s budget proposal looks to cut critical programs that protect and restore coldwater resources and that form the foundation of multi-billion dollar commercial and recreational fishing economies.   The proposal would significantly cut funding to the EPA and other agencies, essentially eliminating programs such as the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), Section…

  • Voices from the River: Sometime streams

    Southern steelhead country. My son and I wandered into the land of the southern steelhead yesterday. Cactus sprouted like gargoyles from the sandstone outcroppings that lined the creek up which we hiked. This winter has been profligate all across California and yet another massive cumulonimbus cloud reared up over the peaks above us. Then it…

  • Community Conservation

    Great Lakes Newsletter, Winter 2019

    Trout Unlimited’s efforts in the Great Lakes region continue to expand and 2018 was a big year for accomplishments in both the field and in advocacy efforts. TU staff and volunteers worked on dozens of major stream restoration, protection and reconnection projects in the region. TU’s active involvement in important issues helped move the needle on issues…

  • Large wood additions improving habitat in Vermont

    By Erin Rodgers  A Trout Unlimited project in Vermont is improving fish habitat in an important native trout stream.   In July and August 2018, a field team of seven people — led by me and Joel DeStasio— installed a significant amount of large woody habitat on 3.5 miles of Michigan Brook in Pittsfield.   The team used…