Trout Magazine

  • Fly of the week: Hendo Hammer

    As winter spits its last few storms at those of us in the East, our minds naturally turn to the first main-event hatch of the spring. Hendricksons are on the horizon, and I’m planning my pilgrimage to the Au Sable for a few days of cold fingers and a few nights of huddling in a…

  • Time to weigh in on Pebble Mine – yes, again!

    By: Jenny Weis, Alaska Program This month, we have the first formal chance to weigh in on Pebble's latest mine plan. Our comments will help ensure the proposed Pebble mine doesn’t become a reality and irreparably harm the Bristol Bay region of Alaska. Photo: Ben Knight In December, the Pebble Partnership applied for the first…

  • Conservation

    Tell your story

    My Dad says it happened when I was about 7 years old. Some punk lifeguards and their hangers-on were tormenting a sand shark they had pulled from the surf down the Jersey shore. I marched in between the sea of tree-trunk legs and, through my tears, carried the dead fish back to the surf. My…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Five flies for April

    April, particularly in the West, is a bona-fide shoulder month. Higher up, it's still winter. In the valleys, spring is springing and water is rising. It's a tough month for trout fishing, given the transition happening between winter and spring and all the trappings that come with it, both good and bad. Video of Trouts…

  • What’s on your fly-fishing bucket list?

    The bowfin, once a bucket-list fish on the fly. When I stared fly fishing, it was solely an endeavor I saved for trout. In fact, I thought fly fishing for anything but trout was foolhardy. Then I started really soaking up the information put out there by the magazines of the day. Old Rod &…