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Alaska

  • Restoration

    Nuts and Bolts

    Nuts and BoltsThe intense effort and partnership behind restoring fish habitat on a remote Alaskan island This summer, Trout Unlimited completed a major restoration project on Kuiu Island in the Tongass National Forest 9 fish blocking culverts were removed 5 were replaced with new fish-friendly culvert designs and 4 were replaced with water bars and…

  • Partnerships

    Alaska Fly Out Giveaway

    Dime-bright salmon. Two-foot trout.

    Dime-bright salmon. Two-foot trout. Imagine pulling these fish out Alaskan rivers flowing right from the base of North American’s tallest mountain. The Alaska Flyout Giveaway gives you the opportunity to do just that. One winner will take home the grand prize package worth over $17,000 in gear along with a fly-fishing lodge package with Chelatna…

  • Headwaters

    A future with fish

    It’s almost odd to look back at milestones and what they meant to me at the time. First fish on a fly rod. First fish on a dry fly I tied. First twenty-fish day. First 20-inch fish on a No. 20 fly I tied myself.

    Once upon a time there was a dude who drove a blue, manual transmission Ford Focus into California’s Sierra Nevada by himself to catch rainbow and brook trout on caddis flies he tied himself. He thought highly of himself. He had persevered through the days of catching branches and bushes more than fish and graduated…

  • Fishing

    Tongass Guide Academy

    The success of this program caught the attention of several other Alaska regions searching for the same education and employment opportunities for their youth; this year marked the first time the Guide Academy model was applied elsewhere.

    The Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide Academy was created to provide local indigenous youth with work force development opportunities for sustainable outdoor employment. In the past 15 academies, the program has turned out 183 graduates with approximately 25 of them holding full-time, seasonal employment at lodges in Bristol Bay. The success of this program…