Trout Magazine

  • Conservation

    Wanted: A Conservative Conservation Agenda

    — By Chris Wood Conservatives have done as much as anyone to help advance the cause of American conservation. And why not? The root of both words, ”conservare” means to hold in a safe state. Conservative or liberal, the nation needs a conservation agenda. Read the Denver Post opinion editorial here: https://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/17/wanted-a-conservative-conservation-agenda/

  • No Room for Mistakes on New York’s Upper Delaware River

    National Park Service photo. By Chris Wood and Jeff Skelding It could have been far worse. The Up per Delaware River dodged a bullet last week when heavy rains and flooding washed out a railroad culvert, and a 63-car train carrying an assortment of waste materials, some of it toxic, derailed near Deposit, N.Y. Two…

  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: Think small, even on big water

    Editor's note: The following is exerpted from TU's book, "Trout Tips," which is available online for overnight delivery. Fishing big rivers can be intimdating. Large rivers contain complex patterns of habitat, some or all of which contain fish. The best way to approach a bigger water body is to almost partition it in your mind…

  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: Walk, spot, stalk… and then cast

    Editor's note: The following is exerpted from TU's book, "Trout Tips," available online for overnight delivery. Too many anglers waste precious time blind-casting, hoping to hook fish. Fishing for the trophy fish is muc like hunting big game. The dedicated big-game hunter walks, spots, stalks, and then shoots; of course you don't shoot (perhaps line),…

  • Gear Test: Cabela’s Rogue fly rod

    First impressions of the Cabela's Rogue fly rod out of the box are all positive…nice rod tube, premium-grade looking components and I liked the matte-black finish. We’ll see how it flies. I pushed through a full-on Montana stress test. Chucking streamers in the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park in late fall. Check. Dropping baetis…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Hungry Life

    Maybe it's because I'm coming up on about six weeks of self-imposed food deprivation (you know, that moment when you step on the scale and all you can say is, "WTF??"), or maybe it's because eating "cleaner" has become more important to me of late, but the video below speaks to me. Video of YETI…