Trout Magazine

  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: Keep false casts off target

    Editor's note: The following is exerpted from TU's book, "Trout Tips," available online for overnight delivery. False casts are free, and they're great for helping you measure out and judge distance. But they also spook fish. Several years ago, I stopped false casting directly over my target and started moving my false casts a little…

  • Conservation

    Making the world a better place

    TU does more work than any other organization in the country to make fishing better. For example, in Mill Creek, a tributary to the Russian River in California, we worked for seven years with our partners to remove a dam to reopen 14 miles of critical spawning habitat for imperiled Coho salmon. Across the country…

  • Conservation

    Looking back at 2017

    By Chris Wood Last week, I had an hour between meetings in Carmel, California, so I called Tim Frahm, who directs our CA coastal steelhead work. He invited me to look at a project that Christy Fischer, his spouse, and he had worked on. Over chicken sandwiches they told me a riveting story about how…

  • TU sets restoration record in Driftless Area in 2017

    By Duke Welter Trout Unlimited’s Driftless Area Restoration Effort set a restoration record in 2017 and produced a record of solid accomplishments. TU and the many partners who work with TUDARE completed nearly 20 miles of stream restoration through 50 Farm Bill and other projects, adding to the more than 1,200 miles of public stream…

  • The rise of the Phoenix

    Editors note: Every Friday, our science junkies over at Trout Unlimited's Wild Steelhead Initiative give us an inside look at what's happening in the world of steelhead science. During the Holidays, we're running the best of those Science Friday piec es on the TU blog. If you've ever spent any time thinking about the sheer…

  • Summer versus winter steelhead

    Editors note: Every Friday, our science junkies over at Trout Unlimited's Wild Steelhead Initiative give us an inside look at what's happening in the world of steelhead science. During the Holidays, we're running the best of those Science Friday pieces on the TU blog. If you've ever spent any time thinking about the sheer game…

  • The tale of Dry Creek

    Editors note: Every Friday, our science junkies over at Trout Unlimited's Wild Steelhead Initiative give us an inside look at what's happening in the world of steelhead science. During the Holidays, we're running the best of those Science Friday pieces on the TU blog. If you've ever spent any time thinking about the sheer game…