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Asking for your help protecting more of our public lands on this National Public Lands Day
Some of the best fishing and hunting opportunities in the United States are found in our national monuments. National monuments — sites and landscapes with unique historic, cultural, scientific, geologic and ecological values — can be created either by Congress or by the President through the Antiquities Act of 1906. Hunters and anglers, outdoor recreation…
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The True Cast – Just knowing they’re in there
My friend David’s house was right on the river. He was kind enough to let me park there and fish the big bend out back. And often times, he’d come out on his porch to chat with me as I made some casts. I remember one evening in particular, when a burst of hatching mayflies…
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By the numbers on the Snake
Understanding the metrics used to evaluate and represent recovery of wild salmon and steelhead in the Snake River basin is an exercise worthy of a Ph.D. From annual abundance numbers, to understanding Endangered Species Act delisting criteria, to smolt-to-adult return ratios (SARs) to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) survival statistics, the numbers can…
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It is finally September in Northeastern Oregon
It is finally September in Northeastern OregonAs the season changes, TU’s Andy Scheele thinks about time, restoration and steelhead returning to their home waters It is finally September in Northeastern Oregon; my favorite month of the year. The weather and foliage are changing. Elk are bugling in the mountains. Insects are burying their heads into…
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Legendary Red Shed Fly Shop says the Lower Four should go
Legendary Red Shed Fly Shop says the Lower Four should go
Anglers talk a great deal about the incalculable importance of fly shops. While they’re great places to drop a few bucks on a new spool of tippet, a tube of floatant and a couple hot patterns, we’re talking about more than their value as retailers. A good fly shop is far more than that. The…
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Hooked
Snake River ambassador, Josh Warnick’s, journey to falling in love with the art of steelheading From first learning to fish in Mexico with makeshift reels made from plastic bottles and spare line to now guiding on some of the Olympic Peninsula and British Columbia’s most famed steelhead waters, Josh Warnick has spent his life fishing…
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Olympic Peninsula: Restoring Rainforest Rivers
“It’s go time” - Luke Kelly On the wild coastal rivers of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, Trout Unlimited is removing migration barriers, reconnecting floodplains and restoring critical spawning and rearing habitat for struggling populations of wild salmon and steelhead. Wisen Creek Culvert. Photo by Liam Gallagher Working alongside our partners at federal and state agencies, regional…