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    When a river breaks your heart

    The devastating flooding that swept through Kerr County and Central Texas on July 4th didn’t hit the coldwater fishery on the Guadalupe that Trout Unlimited members know and love. The fishery was largely spared. But upstream, the damage was heartbreaking. Roads were washed away, homes destroyed, and so many lives were lost, and there are…

  • Trout Talk Featured

    The best month of the year

    So… if I could pick one month to fish anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, it would start now….  This is what I consider the “golden month.” Granted, it isn’t a “calendar” month, per se, but it is the best month to be a die-hard angler, in many places in America. Mid-September to mid-October. This is…

  • Trout Talk

    The popper-dropper? You bet

    My friend Rob McConnell is the Texas equivalent of a Rocky Mountain creek freak -- a kindred soul if you will ... a fellow traveler. But, instead of searching out small, out-of-the-way cutthroat trout streams in little-traveled reaches of high-elevation backcountry, he combs the precious few acres of public lands in East Texas for swampy…