by Tara Granke | November 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Each year, TU Camp and Academy graduates are invited to enter the TU Teen Essay Contest in which they share their camp experiences. This year we had four finalists, and Alex’s essay is the second to be posted in this series as the second runner up! Alex is from Michigan and attended the Michigan Trout…
by Kate Miller | November 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
Asian carp are currently one of the biggest and most serious threats the health of the Great Lakes, and preventing them from making it further up the Chicago Waterway should be a national priority. Congress, in a bipartisan effort, instructed the Army Corps of Engineers to explore different options for creating a barrier at the…
by Chris Hunt | November 1, 2017 | Fishing, Fly tying
Being a western angler, I’m not terribly familiar with the steelhead flies used in Great Lakes tributaries. Most western steelhead patterns are purple or pink or some color variation that just looks loud and gawdy. Higher up in the steelhead drainages, like here in Idaho, it’s easier to get awa y from the “eggy” and…
How do you take a fairly mundane subject (for most folks) like the health of the Great Lakes and make it interesting? Have the folks at The Daily Show with Trevor Noah tackle it. In this segment, Daily Show “correspondent” — yeah, he’s actually a stand-up comedian — MIchael Kosta connects with Dan Egan to,…
by Mark Taylor | October 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Duke Welter Near ly 60 people participated in a recent bus tour to visit restored streams in the heart of Southeast Minnesota’s Driftless Area. In this 10th annual tour organized by the Trout Unlimited Driftless Area Restoration Effort, participants got to walk four streams and talk with project managers, biologists, designers and contractors. Questions…
by Tara Granke | October 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
Gavin, three-time Youth Leadership Council representative from Ohio, is pictured above, center, with the GlenOak TIC trout crew, a project that he initiated after attending a Trout Unlimited Fly Fishing and Conservation Camp. by Gavin Nupp Throughout high school, I tried my hand with many activities. I spent countless nights nearly sleepless studying for Science…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 19, 2017 Contacts: Shauna Stephenson, Trout Unlimited, shauna.stephenson@tu.org ; Mark Taylor, Trout Unlimited, mark.taylor@tu.org WASHINGTON, D.C. Trout Unlimited recently welcomed seven new members to its board of trustees at its annual meeting in Roanoke, Va. The new board members bring a mix of conservation expertise, fishing industry acumen, business management experience…