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Trout Tips: Putting the line through the guides
Editor's note: The following is exerpted from "Trout Tips," TU's new book that can be shipped directly to you, overnight. The problem: When stringing a line on your rod, who hasn't reached the tip, only to drop the line and then watch it fall all the way down through all of the eyes? The solution:…
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Video spotlight: The Line
Good short films tell good stories. Below, the North Face film featuring professional skier Tatum Monod and her father does just that. Video of The LineAn extreme athlete, to be sure, Tatum notes that she was fly fishing with her dad before she was skiing. It's a sport that has the potential to bring us…
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Off the deep end
Photo by Al Quatrochhi What does the editor of TROUT magazine do for kicks on a free weekend?Chases 400- to 800-pound mako sharks with fly rods off the coast of California with his buddies. Naturally.Makos eat flies.They run fast. They jump high. They pull really hard. And they can eat you.Best gear test in the…
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Successful 2017 VSP Couples Trip in the Books!
The 2017 Veterans Service Partnership Couples Trip to Slough Creek and Yellowstone Park is in the books! Over the week-long trip, our 5 veteran couples and 5 volunteer guides shared what everyone agreed was the "trip of a lifetime!" Each day, the stream dropped and cleared, and we enjoyed excellent dry fly fishing for Slough…
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Wild: Firehole River brown trout
Tom Reed with a nice Firehole River brown trout. We’d walked maybe a mile away from the bike trail that crosses the Firehole River, just upstream of the Fountain Flat parking area, putting a bit of distance between us and the last couple of anglers we wandered past that early June day several years back.…
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Voices from the River: Full days
All photos, unless noted, by Hansi Johnson
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How are aquatic insects coping with climate change?
A Willowemoc creek green drake. By Jerry Schoen We have seen a lot on the TU blog and elsewhere about how climate change is affecting fish and their cold-water habitats, but one under-appreciated concern is that climate change also disrupts the life cycles of aquatic insects. This, in turn, might upset entire freshwater food chains…