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Inyo National Forest releases Final Revised Management Plan
Backcountry meadow stream, Kern Plateau, Inyo National Forest A newly released resource management plan for public lands in California's southern Sierra reflects Trout Unlimited's long-term investment in such planning across the country. This region is home to some of the most unique coldwater fish, habitat and fishing opportunities in North America, including the native range…
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Promoting biodiversity in streams and in TU’s membership
The author with his fly-fishing instructor, Maddie. By Jeffrey Constantz The week before I started my internship with Trout Unlimited, I had the opportunity to learn fly fishing for the very first time. I had the honor of receiving guidance from a true master. Her name’s Maddie. She’s my girlfriend. I came of age bass…
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Video spotlight: How to fish small dry flies in low light
Here's a pretty common challenge: you're on a great stretch of trout water at last light, and fish are rising to small mayflies or tiny micro-caddis flies. You have the right fly, but in the low light, there's virtually no chance you're going to be able to see it. How many times have you been…
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Trout Tips: Dust your fly
This time of year, when dry-fly fishing is about all I do here on the creeks and streams of the Yellowstone region, I have become a fan of the silica-based fly "dusts" that help soak up water from spent dry flies and give them a second life. Most of us, when fishing dries, apply that…
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TU urges public comment on new designation for PA streams
A fine wild trout from Glade Run, southwest Pennsylvania By David Kinney Paradise Creek, Tank Creek, and Devils Hole Creek are small freestone streams running through an area of the Poconos in northeast Pennsylvania that is 90 percent forest and water. All these waters harbor healthy populations of wild trout, and the Brodhead Chapter of…
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The long game: TU and the Yuba River
Getting bent on the lower Yuba River. The Yuba River is one of California’s many coldwater fishery jewels. In its upper forks the Yuba is a fine freestone trout stream; in the reach between Englebright Dam, where the river flows into the Central Valley, and its confluence with the Feather River near Marysville, the Yuba…
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How Utah’s Cuttslam changed a young angler’s life
Bonneville cutthroat trout, caught in Mill Creek. By Bobby Boone I learned to fly fish when I turned ten years old. I caught nothing. I wasn’t even sure if I really liked it. However, three years later, my first time casting a fly in Utah would ensure that I would fall in love with the…
