Trout Magazine

  • Gear test: Filson Feather Cloth shirt

    When I think of what makes a great shirt for spending the day on a river, the first attributes that I look for are functionality, fit and color. Functionality, because I want pockets that accommodate fly boxes, fit because I want sleeves with adequate length, and color because I have a hard-enough time not alerting…

  • How I’ll be celebrating Alaska Wild Salmon Day

    Heidi and a Bear Trail Lodge client with a nice Bristol Bay rainbow. Photo courtesy of Heidi Wild Re-posted from the Peninsula Clarion. By: Heidi Wild In 2018, Bristol Bay broke the record of returning wild sockeye salmon. As the rest of the state closes to salmon fishing, Bristol Bay is breaking records. I’m stunned…

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the River: Water is life

    By Don Duff An effort to protect fragile aquatic wetland ecosystems and the wildlife that uses them has been under way in northeast Nevada for 15 years. The Southern Nevada Water Authority is proposing a 300-mile pipeline, 7-feet in diameter, to move pumped groundwater from the Snake Valley near Baker on the Nevada/Utah border and…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: The Chubby Chernobyl

    Everybody loves the venerable Chernoble Ant—the high-floating foam creation that late-summer trout simply can't seem to resisit. Video of Chubby ChernobylAbove, Tim Flagler ties his Chubby Chernobyl, and even gawdier, nuclear-inspired critter that "floats like a cork and works like a charm." Indeed, it is "Hopper Season," after all—there's no better time to tie up…

  • Five Rivers Odyssey: American Salmon Forest

    The Tongass National Forest is often referred to as America’s Salmon Forest because the entire ecosystem depends on salmon in one way or another. Salmon can be traced all the way to the trees, and the cycle runs full circle. Animals that feed on salmon drag the carcasses into forest, effectively applying thousands of pounds…

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the River: Teachers and preachers

    By Toner Mitchell The four-day gathering was a professional development course for secondary school teachers, its mission to explore the nexus of fly fishing, religion and philosophy, and how the re sulting ferment might motivate resource conservation in anglers (and students). We discussed several texts, some Thoreau, a PhD thesis arguing that fly fishing naturally…