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National Volunteer Week: Celebrating Volunteer Impact April 15-21!
I believe in the power of volunteerism. I’ve been volunteering since I was knee high to a grasshopper. I’ve prepared meals for the homebound, built homes for families, implemented community recycling programs and complete erosion control projects–-no task too big or small. To me, that is the power of volunteerism. Often times strangers come together…
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Tickets Now On Sale for Our 5th Annual Tie One On Banquet!
Tickets are now on sale for one of the best events of the year! Jackson Hole Trout Unlimited's5th Annual "Tie One On" Banquetto benefit our cold water fisheries and their watersheds Saturday, May 19th, 2018Hotel Terra in Teton Village, WY Music By PTOLive AuctionSilent AuctionRaffles Doors open at 5:30 for a no host cocktail hourDinner…
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Madison-Gallatin TU VSP Takes Vets Fishing!
I was privileged to help the Madison-Gallatin Trout Unlimited Veterans Service Partnership program take a group of veterans from our Project Healing Waters program and from the Montana State University Veterans Club fishing on Depuy's Spring Creek near Livingston last Sunday. Despite some challenging weather, we caught some nice trout, created some good fish stories,…
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Voices from the River: Losing Patrick F. McManus
By Chris Hunt Years ago, after being abruptly transplanted from the high-mountain meadows of Colorado to the hot, sticky pine forest of East Texas, I found solace in the loss of my Rocky Mountain roots in the writings of men like Bob Saile, Ed Dentry and Charlie Meyers. And I found the spirit to laugh…
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Voices from the River: Conflict to Collaboration in Idaho
Snake River steelhead, an Endangered Species Act listed species, will benefit from a collaboration of groups in Idaho that once worked against each other. Trout Unlimited photo. By Kira Finkler Looking around the West, it is easy to find watersheds where people are fighting over too little water. In Idaho, a group of partners decided…
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Video spotlight: How to make a single-handed spey cast
I'm not a big steelhead guy—I'll go once in a while, usually for the company and not so much the fishing, which is generally pretty slow. So I rarely find myself needing a ton of "big-water" casting skills. But one skill I learned while chasing steelhead is the one RIO's Simon Gawesworth describes below—spey casting…
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Fly tying: The SBR Hendrickson Nymph
Heavy nymphs that get down are ideal this time of year, as rivers start to pick up steam from upstream snowmelt. They may not be cloudy or dirty with full runoff yet, but water levels in the spring are on the rise, and we anglers need flies to anchor two-nymph rigs that get down and…