The PA Brook Trout Odyssey Team: Charlie Charlesworth (left to right), Hunter Klobucar, Chris Piccione, Matteo Moretti, Sara Mueller, Tyler Waltenbaugh. By Matteo Morretti Not very often does a college kid get told that they’ve been selected for an all-expenses paid, three-week long adventure. So, you know that when four passionate, engaged, and, frankly, pretty…
Who wants to go fishing? Well, just grab the bag. It has everything we need in it. The rods are tucked safely inside. The reels in their cases. All of the flies in the outside pockets with the nippers, the floatant, the extra leaders are all there for quick and easy access. Don’t forget the…
Katy, with support from her friend Tiffannie, was able to land this beauty of a brown trout at the last bend before the boat ramp during the Women’s Fly Fishing Float. Photo by Miguel Valdez. By Sadie St. Clair When the Seedskadee Chapter of Trout Unlimited started the annual Women’s Fly Fishing Float five years…
By Kirk Deeter Word is out that the water temperatures in some stretches of important rivers like the Roaring Fork and the Colorado have climbed above 70 degrees, and that’s not good news for trout. Water that warm stresses the fish. And if you pull them around by their faces at this time, you add…
Abandoned mines are a problem for water quality across the West. There are more than a half million sites, many leaking toxic pollution like acid mine drainage and heavy metals into our streams and rivers. In other places, streams and rivers have been re-routed, straightened into unsustainable channels that make it difficult for aquatic life…
A father and his daughter work to plant willows along the Esther Simplot Park in Boise, Idaho. David Garman photo. By Kira Finkler Some say families that get dirty together stay together. If that is indeed the case my family will be a tight-knit bunch for a long time. On a recent cool and cloudy…
Washington’s salmon, steelhead, and other native fish are critical to our state’s economy, way of life, and identity. Many of our most prized fish populations are struggling, with some on the brink of extinction, and we are spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on recovery efforts to try to save them. Suction Dredge Mining…