Trout Magazine

  • TU responds to lapse of Chetco River mineral withdrawal

    The Chetco River, one of the finest salmon and steelhead fisheries in the West. For more than a decade TU has worked with other fishing and conservation groups to protect coastal salmon and steelhead streams in southwest Oregon from mining and o ther types of resource development that could harm legendary fisheries such as the…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: How to drift a soft hackle

    Soft-hackle fishing can be absolutely deadly, particularly for trout that are feeding higher in the water column, but not quite on top. These are the fish that are after emerging bugs, and soft-hackle flies very often draw strikes from these dialed-in fish. Video of How To Drift A Soft Hackle - Fly Fishing Video -…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: The GFA Hopper

    For me and other dry-fly enthusiasts (and that's putting it mildly, at least in my opinion), this month is the month. It's "hopper time." Here in Idaho, our backcountry streams are in great shape–runoff is well past done, night-time temperatures are a bit chilly, whcih serves to keep our high-country streams cold. The warm summer…

  • Dunoir Fishing Adventures – In the Heart of Wyoming

    Dunoir – from the French “du noir," literally “of black.” The footprints of the French trappers faded long ago from the upper Wind River country in Wyoming. But the place names live on in the black timbered ridges of the Great Divide. You cross the Wind River above Dubois at the mouth of the Dunoir.…

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the River: Extreme behavior

    The iconic Sundial Bridge, spanning the Lower Sacramento River in downtown Redding, California before and during the Carr Fire. By Sam Davidson California is burning. There are 17 wildfires charring the Golden State, at present. The biggest and gnarliest (of 2018, anyway) is the Carr Fire, which has torched more than 100,000 acres, mostly of…