The tonic of wildness

by | September 22, 2020 | Voices from the river, Conservation, Featured, Fishing, Responsible Recreation, TROUT Magazine

If you are active in the outdoors, it’s hard to beat living in the American West. That’s because all states west of the Great Plains have big swaths of public lands available for fishing and hunting. Except when big swaths of extraordinary wildfire shut them down. Right smack in the middle of Public Lands Month.…

TU’s Conservation Hydrology program steps in to monitor and measure California streams

by | September 16, 2020 | Science, Conservation, Featured, From the field

One of the fundamental precepts of science is that, to understand a phenomenon or a system, it is necessary to observe change over time, the rate of change, and the influence of causal factors. In other words, to monitor and measure. Yet frequently resource managers are stretched too thin to do consistent monitoring of salmonid…

Matt Heron Fly Fishing takes you to the Truckee

by | August 19, 2020 | Community

I suppose there are people – perhaps many people – who do not immediately think of fly-fishing when the hear the word “California”. There was a time when I might not have, either. But I’m over that now, mostly because of great people like my friend Matt Heron.

FEDERAL REGULATORS CLARIFY PATH TO KLAMATH DAM REMOVAL

P R E S S  R E L E A S E Karuk Tribe ● Yurok Tribe ● Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations ● Trout Unlimited ● California Trout ● Sustainable Northwest ● American Rivers ● Save California Salmon ● Klamath Riverkeeper    For Immediate Release: July 16, 2020 For more information:  Craig Tucker,…

The slug

by | July 15, 2020 | Voices from the river, Fishing, Responsible Recreation, TROUT Magazine

I hereby state for the record that I would much prefer to catch small trout, rather than larger fish. Not that size doesn’t matter, of course. So there are caveats. The first is that this predilection doesn’t apply to steelhead or salmon. The second is that it only applies on streams with a mix of…

Holdredge WInes

We are a husband and wife with a small winery in Sonoma County California. One of us (John) is a lifetime fisherman (raised in Michigan and holds the Au Sable sacred) who is in the depths of a fly fishing addiction, apparently beyond recovery, and as happy as he’s ever been.