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Drought and native trout: Colorado and Rio Grande Rivers
Finding resilience in a summer of reckoning across the Rockies and Southwest We’ve all seen the headlines: fast growing wildfires, record low snowpack, drying reservoirs, heat waves, hoot owl restrictions, mandatory fishing closures and other worrisome conditions for our favorite coldwater critters. But for humans, too, these challenges remain stubborn after 25+ years of drought in a lot of the West. Across the Colorado…
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Looking for America
When I left the warm embrace of New Jersey to attend college in Vermont, I discovered public lands. I would ascend to the Green Mountain National Forest on weekends and fish for native brook trout. It was a salve for my soul. A legal challenge by Utah and other states could risk access to public…
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The True Cast – Small trout make the world go around
We might all agree that since the dawn of fly-fishing time, the benchmark for “success” has, for better or worse, revolved around “catching the big one.” When you tell your spouse, friends or anyone else you had a great day on the river, what’s the first question you get asked to substantiate your claim? “Anything…
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Watch: “Reviving the Bear”
Once thought genetically extinct, this native trout is on the path to recovery They call the Bear a “working river.” Covering more than 500 miles and tracing a broad horseshoe on its journey to the Great Salt Lake, the river connects rural ranching communities in Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. Its heavily controlled flows are interrupted…
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Not giving up on natives
Southeast volunteers of all ages offer brook trout a hand
Southeast volunteers of all ages offer brook trout a hand With all due respect to all the legendary trout states in America, perhaps my favorite Trout Unlimited trip was to my home state of New Jersey. A few TU legendary volunteers, such as Agust Gudmundsson, Rick Axt, Rich Thomas, and the late Rick Ege, offered…
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BLM Solar Plan Can’t Come at the Expense of Wild and Native Trout and Salmon
Trout Unlimited has worked for decades advocating for balanced management of our public lands that are so important to sustaining healthy trout and salmon populations and our angling and hunting heritage. Our nation has set ambitious goals for expanding renewable energy development, including the Biden Administration’s goal of a carbon pollution-free electricity sector by 2035,…
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The Power of Native.
Like your first kiss, no one ever forgets their first native trout. The memory is as searing as the sun's reflection off snow through a windshield. My friend and fishing mentor, Bill Sargent had pointed me to a small and little-known stream in the Green Mountains to fish for native brook trout. Bill explained to…
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