Trout Magazine

  • Photo of the Week

    Photo of the week – the big guns

    Photo of the week by Sam Dean Sometimes river restoration work has TU working with sawyers who use massive chainsaws like this. In the Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee, TU partnered with the Forest Service to help place large wood products in the river to improve trout habitat. Selectively cutting trees and using heavy equipment…

  • Public Lands

    Thanks Antiquities Act for a great hunting season

    After a final trip to hunt Gambel’s quail in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest in February, another hunting season ends. Once shotguns and rifles are given a final cleaning all that remains is storytelling with family and friends. This is often done around backyard barbeques and the dinner table over delicious meals of wild duck, quail,…

  • Restoration

    Faces of Restoration: Larry Mohn, Virginia

    As a newly minted fisheries biologist with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, one of Larry Mohn’s first big projects was to complete an inventory of the state’s wild trout streams. “I think they had designated something like 500 miles of trout water,” Mohn remembered. “I think we ended up with 2,500 miles…

  • Photo of the Week

    Photo of the week – taking flight

    Photo by FlyLords for Trout Unlimited Our field work season is just about to take off just like this drone that's headed up over rivers in the Great Lakes region to monitor coldwater refugia for trout.   Using a drone outfitted with thermal imaging technology allows TU to look for groundwater influences. Knowing where cold…

  • Fishing

    TROUT Tips – wind

    Casting in the wind is many anglers’ nemesis, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Practice in the wind with these video tips, and you’re sure to have a better day on the water next time it’s windy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_So17hCF5lg&list=PLEXZljM8NmhtGMQuVaaJ9TZq3SZY74R_5&index=79