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TU Five Rivers Odyssey: Bristol Bay today
Editor's note: Building off the success of last year’s Native Odyssey campaign, Trout Unlimited is sending four of our brightest college club leaders in the TU Costa 5 Rivers Program to explore the home of the world’s largest runs of wild salmon: Alaska. These students will explore the Kenai Peninsula, Bristol Bay and the Tongass…
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Trout Tips: The lake cast
Fly casting from the open surroundings of a lake shore is one of the best ways to improve your technique and gain some casting confidence. But, as Russ Miller from Fishpond demonstrates below, casting can be even better if you position yourself for success. Cast Stillwater from Trout Unlimited on Vimeo. The idea is to…
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New gear: New glass from Scott
Years ago, while perusing a pawn shop in Pocatello, Idaho, I stumbled upon a gem. In a dank corner of the old store rested an old bourbon barrel that bristled with fishing rods. After thumbing my way through the rods, I noticed something unique, especially at the time. There, unceremonious ly protruding from the barrel…
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Voices from the River: A picture not taken
The sun sets on an epic day in the Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah. Brett Prettyman/Trout Unlimited. By Brett Prettyman Years ago, when I was starting out as an outdoors newspaper reporter, the editor looked at my request for a photographer to go on a 40-mile backpacking trip for six days and laughed. “Take a…
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Upper Delaware Veteran Couples Retreat!
The VA acknowledges that the first line of defense in supporting our nation's veterans is the spouse and family. Dr. Steven Sayers of the VA's "Families at Ease" program says "the role of family members in supporting the treatment of our military Veterans is now a key part of the services provided by VA." TU's…
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Video spotlight: How to set up a hopper-dropper rig
Ah, hopper season. For dry-fly anglers, it's like Christmas, the Fourth of July and the day we got our first bicycle all rolled up into one. Fat, floating hunks of foam and rubber legs that bring big fish to the top? Oh, hell yeah. But let's face it. Even during "hopper season," trout don't always…
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Fishing spurred invention in ancient Japan
Photo courtesy Cosmos Magazine They say necessity is the mother of invention. In ancient Japan, it seems that pottery essentially came to be thanks to the need to store fish. Fishing made pottery necessary. Who knew? According to Cosmos Magazine, the initial assumption was that pottery came into being some 20,000 years ago because a…
