Trout Magazine

  • Gear test: Simms Solar-Flex Armor

    When I fish, I do not trust sunscreen alone. My days of wearing a T-shirt and shorts, and slapping on a bit of SPF-15 (if I remember) are over. Doesn’t matter if I’m walk-wading for trout, or on a flats skiff, I’m now always in some sort of sun shirt designed specifically to protect me…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Selecting Sunglasses

    Often, the most neglected aspect of fly fishing, particularly in saltwater environs, is the choice you make when it comes to sunglasses. Below, renowned artist and angler Jeff Currier simplifies the process, noting that he always carries two pairs of sunglasses on the boat—one for bright days and one for overcast or broken, cloudy days.…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: How to Cast in Heavy Brush

    For a small-stream angler, the video below serves as an excellent reminder of the need for cast economy. As Dave Jensen demonstrates in the video, keeping your elbow tight might seem counterintuitive when you're trying to keep your backcast from getting caught on willows or alders behind you, but it really works best, simply because…

  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: 40 feet, 4 seconds

    When I first waded the flats some years back, one of the Bahamian guides explained to me that I should have a good amount of line out on the water at all times, and if I wasn't fishing, I should have the fly pinched between the thumb and forefinger of my non-casting hand. That way,…

  • TU volunteers, staffers tout Delaware efforts on Capitol Hill

    New Jersey TU staffer Cole Baldino and Musconetcong Watershed Association volunteer Bill Leavens. By David Kinney Last week, Trout Unlimited restoration staff and volunteers from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York visited their congressional offices in Washington D.C. to showcase efforts to restore wild trout habitat in the Delaware River Basin. In part, it was…

  • Reps. DeFazio and Huffman, champions for SW Oregon rivers

    U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio (Oregon) and Jared Huffman (California) today sent a letter to the House Committee on Natural Resources urging the committee to take immediate action to schedule a hearing for H.R. 310, The Southwestern Oregon Watershed and Salmon Protection Act. This bill would permanently protect salmon and steelhead strongholds on the southern Oregon…