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New SweetWater beer and #fishforafish campaign benefits brookies
By Mark Taylor Who isn’t drawn to beer featuring really great trout artwork on cans and packaging? And how great is it when that beer is not only super tasty, but also benefits wild trout? SweetWater Brewery’s new fall seasonal, Mosaic Hazy IPA, checks all the boxes. It’s a juicy, fruity, moderately hoppy (65 IBUs)…
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TU honors 2018 class of conservation award winners
Recognizing Trout Unlimited’s amazing chapters, volunteers and partners is one of the most important parts of our organization’s annual meeting. This year in Redding, California, two chapters, five volunteers and four partners were singled out for their contributions to Trout Unlimited efforts across the nation. TU’s national conservation awards have been a part of our…
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‘I am just a typical TU volunteer’
By Chris Wood Roberta and Curtis Cole are members of the board of the Shasta-Trinity-Cascades Chapter. Like dozens of others, they volunteered at the Trout Unlimited annual meeting in Redding this past weekend. The Coles are like many other members of their chapter—excep t, their house burned to the ground in the Carr Fire. Their…
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Voices from the River: Call me an angler
By Jenny Weis “My boyfriend didn’t teach me that!” was the way I indecorously retorted when a guide complimented my cast, saying, “Dang, your boyfriend must have been giving you some tips.” He meant no harm. But I’d known how to cast long before I met my boyfriend. My friend Nanci taught me years prior,…
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Voices from the River: How it starts
By Sam Davidson A few years back I saw a post on one of my social media feeds from a guy I know named Gabe. It was an image of a letter he had written to his mother from Salmon, Idaho, when he was a kid. This short note to a distant mom—with affection appended…
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Responsible energy development: Reflecting back on a better path forward
By Corey Fisher Over a decade ago, plans for drilling on the Roan Plateau in western Colorado ranked fifth in the top 10 Colorado news stories of 2007, noting that the Roan Plateau had become a “national battleground over energy independence as the state fights the federal government over gas drilling.” That year, the Bush…
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Mid Hudson TU Hosts West Point Fly Fishing Club
The Veterans Service Partnership (VSP) is a TU initiative with a mission to serve and engage our nation’s military family, all veterans, able and those with disabilities, active duty military, their spouses, and their families in Trout Unlimited. Through fishing and related acti vities, the VSP seeks to engage our nation’s military family with TU…

