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  • TROUT Magazine

    Daughters of Trout Unlimited: Dustin Wichterman

    Daughters of Trout Unlimited:Dustin Wichterman Associate director of TU’s Mid Atlantic Coldwater Habitat Program (daughter Brooklyn) Dustin and Brooklyn "The why?" It’s the sleepless newborn nights, looking out the window wondering what it will be like when you can take her.    It’s putting her in a chest pack at 11-days-old and cautiously stepping into…

  • TROUT Magazine

    Daughters of Trout Unlimited: Tim Romano

    Daughters of Trout Unlimited:Tim Romano Photographer, TROUT contributor (daughters Mabel and Blair) While technically not a TU employee I have worked for the organization for many years as a contractor at both an ad sales position for TROUT media, as well as a contributing photographer/content creator to the magazine and online. I do believe my…

  • TROUT Magazine Fishing

    A letter to my daughter

    When the world feels on the brink, can a child bring us back?

    By Christine Peterson Our feet fall a little to the right on the smooth, gray stones. We sit where glaciers once pulsated slowly over thousands of years. They grew and shrank, grew and shrank, slicing into the rock and earth with each movement, creating this valley and leaving behind a clear, rocky river.  All I…

  • Boats

    Photo Gallery: First Float

    Over the Memorial Day weekend, my family and three others took a wonderfully run whitewater class from River Rescue Dynamics (@riverrescuedynamics) in Grand Junction, Colo., then had the privilege of spending three days in Ruby and Horsethief canyons in far western Colorado and Utah. This was a “let the kids (all nine of them) run…

  • Boats

    Everyone rows

    Reminders can be a pain. I certainly understand. If you’re anything like me, you lean on the ignore side of reminders more than the take action side. But there are some reminders that simply should not be ignored and when it comes to safety, we should all listen. We raft with a lot of different…