Wild: Salmon River brook trout

New water is always exciting, and, while I’ve fished Idaho’s Salmon River a lot for steelhead over the years, I’d never poked into the river’s extreme upper reaches at the base of Galena Summit, where the Sawtooths spread out to the northwest. My thought—and, frankly, my hope—was to get into some native west slope cutthroats…

Native Odyssey: Tackling the Utah Cutthroat Slam

Eighteen species in two months across 10 states is one of the more challenging feats I have attempted to accomplish in my lifetime; and Utah posed as quite the challenge. But it’s OK, because the challenge is what keeps us fisherman coming back for more. We arrived in Utah in search of the Utah Cutthroat…

Guides asked to donate a day’s tips to Montana TU

Montana Trout Unlimited is hosting the second annual Tip of the Hat event, this Saturday, July 22. Led by MTU volunteers (and revered outfitter and guide), Tim Linehan and Brian Neilsen, this event raised $3,500 last year. Tim and Brian understand that guides are constantly asked to “donate” a trip, and this event invites guides…

Voices from the River: The Princess

Photo by Rachel Andona By Chris Hunt A year ago, I was well into the British Columbian interior, motoring north toward my eventual destination at Deadhorse on the Arctic Ocean, a new camper in tow, many miles to go and about six weeks to get there and back. It was a marathon pocked by dozens…

Fly tying: The Casual Dress

I love fly patterns that incorporate a bit of inventiveness, or include some new tricks that I never considered at the vise. Polly Rosbourough’s Casual Dress is one of those patterns. Not only is a fairly simple endeavor to tie a few of these small streamers up, but the tying itself incorporates some nifty procedures…

Native Odyssey: Touring a molybdenum mine in Colorado

Editor’s note: TU’s Native Odyssey team is in Colorado, where the group of young anglers toured a molybdenum mine. Mining takes a toll on native trout throughout the West—some 40 percent of all headwater streams are impacted in one fashion or another by abandoned mine runoff. Molybdenum is the chemical element with the atomic number…