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Video spotlight: Chasing Brook Trout
Here's one for the romantics in fly fishing—a teaser video to larger project to come about chasing native brook trout. I grew up in Colorado, fishing for introduced brookies in small headwater streams in the Rocky Mountain high country. As a kid, I had no idea that the fish I caught didn't belong in the…
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VSP TRAIN THE TRAINER EVENT IN SUN VALLEY!
Please save the date for this opportunity. The TU Veterans Service Partnership (VSP) and Higher Ground Sun Valley (HGSV) are pleased to announce our first VETERANS SERVICES PARTNERSHIP TRAIN THE TRAINER EVENT to be held in Sun Valley, ID from September 24-28. TU chapter or council volunteer VSP coordinators will receive expert training in how…
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Selling Flies, Healing Lives – The Fly Crate
Fly fishing is a great way to find peace. Being on the water, being focused on something so simple yet so complex...as fly anglers we understand this connection. Yet it took me years to understand why my father, a WWII veteran of the South Pacific, so valued fishing in his life. It wasn't about catching…
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TU Business Member Spotlight: Solid Rock Masonry
Not every TU Business member is a fly shop or an outfitter. In fact, as TU Business membership has grown from 80 to almost 500 over the course of the last five years, more and more “non-traditional” business members have joined the ranks. We’re grateful for their support. Take Solid Rock Masonry, for example. SRM…
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Video spotlight: Pira
The golden dorado is a bucket-list fish, sure. Ranging from Andes headwater rivers in Bolivia all the way to the southern marshlands of coastal Argentina, they are an amazing fly rod fish and one that has gained a lot of admiration over the last decade or so. The video above highlights the fly fishing for…
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Voices from the River: Mutual Respect
Who taught you a respect for the river? As an interviewer it’s a simple question, right? Ten years ago, I would never have imagined paying attention as I do today when a father and daughter speak about a family tradition of loving and respecting the river. Things change, people grow and we develop a game…
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Short casts: Fish ladders don’t work, public lands support in CO, whirling disease in the Bow
John Day Dam on the Columbia River. A new Yale University study provides some daunting news for water and dam managers across the country: fish ladders aren't the "fix-it" solution to fish migration over irrigation or hydroelectric dams. The study, which took place on three East Coast rivers—the Connecticut, the Susquehanna and the Merrimack—showed that…