Trout Magazine

  • Sierra Trout Camp 2018

    By Tom Kloehn It was the first day of Sierra Trout Camp 2018, and even though the kids weren’t fishing yet, it was hard to miss their enthusiasm for any chance to get near a river. The kids were bouncing around the creek, splashing in and out of the water, completely oblivious to rocks and…

  • New gear: Snowbee XS Plus fly line

    For new anglers, the numbers and weights attached to most fly-fishing jargon can be a bit much. Mabye there's a simpler way of doing it. The folks at Snowbee, a UK company that's making some inroads here in the U.S., has launched two new fly lines under the XS Plus brand that it claims match…

  • New gear: Tacky Flydrophobic fly box

    One of the biggest challenges with waterproof fly boxes is that they're waterproof on the outside ... and on the inside, too. How many times have you opened your waterproof fly box a week or so after you last closed it, only to find the flies you used on your last outing busy rusting out?…

  • New gear: RIO Kahuna LT strike indicator

    Nymphing with indicators can be a pretty base sort of fly fishing—your cast is sometimes more of a heave rather than a truly clean delivery, and sometimes, because of the way indicators add wind drag, casts don't always land where you want them to. Thanks to RIO, though, that awkward nymph cast might be a…

  • Conservation

    Dam Removal: Not a passing fancy

    By Chris Wood Last week, I saw a video celebrating the removal of the Tack Factory Dam on Third Herring Brook in Massachusetts. Like all dam removals, it involved many partners especially the North and South Rivers Watershed Association, local TU chapters, the MA/RI Council, NOAA, and Steve Hurley of the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries…