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Video spotlight: South—The Road Trip
New Zealand's South Island is known for its off-the-charts brown trout fishing, and for most of us outside of Kiwi borders, seeing is a once-in-a-lifetime adventure (if that) that generally involves parachuting in for a week, maybe two, and sampling a small number of rivers. But what if we had a camper van, a raft…
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‘Scorpion’ trilogy of fly fishing movies released this month
Throughout the month of May 2018, Off the Grid Studios, in conjunction with The Orvis Company, will be celebrating the first public release of the fly fishing film “Corazón.” To honor the release, Off the Grid Studios will engage in a month-long campaign focused on each of the three films in “The Scorpion Trilogy” —…
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What am I fishing for?
TU's Kirk Deeter wants to test your fishing chops. See the photo above? What's he fishing for in that water? The first five readers who answer correctly in the comments section below will be entered in a drawing to win this TU HydraPak water bottle. Hurry! Time's a wastin'!
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Trout Tips: Choosing a rod
When you can, cast a rod, or even take it fishing, before you spend hundreds of dollars on it. These days, when even a modestly priced rod will set you back $350, it's more important than ever to choose wisely. Whenever I rod shop, I'm reminded of that scene in Indiana Jones and the Last…
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Video spotlight: Fly Fishing for Bass in Tough Structure
First, let's just get this out of the way. Conway Bowman is probably the coolest fly fisher I know. Who else could stand atop a Yeti cool in the bow of a wobbly bass skiff and cast flies on a sinking line to bucketmouths in brutal structure? And this is when he's not chasing mako…
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Sportsmen key to cleaning up abandoned mines
Trout Unlimited began organizing sportsmen and women in a coordinated manner in 2001–largely in response to my observation when I worked at the Forest Service that the voice of hunters and anglers was largely missing from the development of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule—an initiative that protected nearly 60 million acres of some of the…
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Projects reconnect trout water in North Carolina mountains
By Andy Brown Recent projects to remove in-stream barriers on two North Carolina streams have opened miles of habitat for trout and other creek-dwelling creatures. The work was completed on Powdermill and Cedar Rock creeks and is part of TU's coldwater conservation program in the Southern Appalachians. Removing barriers helps fish, including native brook trout,…