Trout Magazine

  • Fly of the week: Bird’s Nest Sulphur Emerger

    Sulphurs. Lots and lots of sulphurs. A lot of people tend focus on the insanity of the evening’s spinner fall without thinking about the just as productive — if a bit more unpredictable hatch. With the millions of nymphs necessary to create that epic spinner fall, just think about how many bugs trout manage to…

  • Conservation

    Red light — Green light

    By Chris Wood The other morning, my friend, Brent Fewell, an attorney who worked at the EPA under President George W. Bush, wrote: “Had dinner and a very encouraging conversation last evening with seven prominent GOP Senators who want to make the environment and conservation a greater priority for the GOP, a return to Teddy…

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the river: Being relevant

    Some of the "new generation of conservationists," Bay Area Youth Fly Fishing event, May 19, 2018. By Sam Davidson I recently spent a day fishing for trout—a rewarding mix of small wild fish and 10- to 12-inch stockers—on an obscure tributary to the upper Salinas River that flows out of the Santa Lucia range on…

  • Parkside Elementary, TU team up to protect Rum Creek in Mich.

    By Jamie Vaughan Rockford – Parkside Elementary students are changing the way their school is impacting their neighboring trout stream. The past two years, Parkside fifth graders have been analyzing the health of Rum Creek, an important coldwater tributary to the Rogue River, and decided they wanted to improve the footprint of the school on…