Trout Magazine

  • TU work pays off: Smith and Cascade-Siskiyou

    Baldface Creek, Smith River headwaters, OR. Photo: California Department of Fish & Wildlife Two announcements last week that a region of the country renowned for its s almon and steelhead fishing and biodiversity would be better protected were good news for anglers and native trout conservationists. On Thursday, January 12, the Department of the Interior…

  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: The false cast

    False casting is a necessary evil for fly casters, but it's important to realize that it serves several purposes. First, if you're fishing dry flies, it helps dry your fly and keep the fly floating longer during a fishing session. Second, as TROUT Magazine Editor Kirk Deeter demonstrates in this week's edition of Trout Tips,…

  • Traditions: The Secret Spot

    By Sam Davidson I read recently that the Millennial generation cares more about experiences than possessions. This was gratifying to me, as I have hewn to that credo myself since I was old enough to understand the choice—and my two children are the tail end of the Millennials. alt="" title="" />It got me thinking about…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: JC’s Skunk Pygmy Sculpin

    I'm warming to streamer fishing for trout, but I'll be the first to admit, I'm a late convert. My aversion to heaving heavy flies into deep water using sink-tips, shooting heads or full-on sinking lines could more aptly be described as an abhorance of the inconvenient. Throwing that much weight with heavy rods just seemed…

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the River: An Idaho solution

    Redfish Lake, Sawtooth National Forest, Idaho. Photo by Chris Hunt by Chris Hunt I admit it. I'm biased. I love my home state of Idaho. Home to sprawling sage-brush seas, sky-piercing mountains, old-growth cedar and spruce forests and some of the best trout water on the planet, it's no accident that I arrived here some…

  • Short casts: Zinke and public lands, leases cancelled and the F3T

    Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore Not long after industry groups like the Outdoor Industry Association and the American Fly Fishing Trade Association vocally supported U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Montana) as President-elect Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Department of Interior, Zinke was among many in Congress who pushed a bill through that makes it easier…