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Virginia Capital

The Virginia Capital Chapter of Trout Unlimited, serves the Central Virginia Piedmont District in its capacity as a volunteer organization and is composed of members with varied backgrounds and professional skills. Although there are not any cold water fisheries in our direct area we collaborate with other chapters that do providing personnel and the expertise…

New flow standards key to recovering Central Valley salmon and steelhead

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Central Valley salmon and steelhead runs, such as those in California’s Merced River (above), have been in decline for decades due primarily to lack of water at critical times. Phase I of the Bay-Delta Plan, in which the State Water Board is considering new flow standards for environmental water needs, is our best chance to…

It's a new and better day for fisheries conservation on the farm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 27, 2014 Contact: Russ Schnitzer: (970) 309-0285 (West) Jeff Hastings: (608) 606-4158 (Midwest) Gary Berti: (304) 704-2731 (East) Steve Moyer: (703) 284-9406 (National) Its a new and better day for fisheries conservation on the farm WASHINGTON, D.C.Trout Unlimited saluted USDA Secretary Vilsacks announcement in Michigan today that the Natural Resources Conservation…

CX3 Twin Cities: Community. Coldwater. Conservation.

JOIN CONSERVATIONISTS AND ANGLERS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY JULY 20-24 IN MAINE Group lodging for CX3 will be through the Holiday Inn by the Bay, with a rate of $299 per night. To book your lodging by phone, please call (207) 775-2311 and ask for the Trout Unlimited rate. Join Trout Unlimited members, supporters and…

NRCS Awards Chesapeake Bay Funds for Brook Trout Habitat Restoration

Contact: Wade Biddix, 804-287-1675 July 12, 2010, Richmond, VA USDA NRCS has approved $32,000 in funding to expand ongoing partnership activities with Trout Unlimited (TU) aimed at restoring native brook trout habitat in priority springs within the Shenandoah Valley. Authorized through the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative (CBWI-CCPI), NRCS funds will be…

TU Expresses Concern Over ISA

3/16/2001 TU Expresses Concern Over ISA TU Expresses Concern Over ISA Infectious Salmon Anemia Detected at Cobscook Bay Contact: 3/16/2001 — — PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release March 16, 2001 Leon Szeptycki, TU Eastern Conservation Director, (703) 284-9411 Jeff Reardon, TU New England Conservation Director, (Brunswick, ME) (207) 373-0700, jreardon@tu.org Brunswick, Maine . . .…

TU Business spotlight: Wolfe Outfitters

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One of the first people I met when I came to Trout Unlimited was Capt. Ben Wolfe, the owner of Wolfe Outfitters. It was clear from the get-go that he was the real deal. Capt. Ben caught his first fish at the ripe old age of four on his grandfather’s fly rod. He’s been fishing…

Conservation programs on the administration chopping block once again

Published in Government Affairs, Advocacy, Conservation

The Trump administration is once again proposing significant government funding cuts that that would hamstring critical clean water programs and weaken TU’s federal partners. If these cuts were enacted, they would undermine efforts by Trout Unlimited and our conservation partners to protect coldwater habitat in places like the Colorado River basin, the Chesapeake Bay and…

Getting out there

Creek crossing.

Allegra, Grant and I emerged from the densely wooded trail, stepping out onto the wooden bridge for our first view of Resurrection Bay. Mountains jutted up from the water as the evening sun shone through Tonsina Creek valley, and ravens flew overhead. Spawning silver and chum salmon pooled up in riffles below us, and our noses filled with the decaying fish that came before them, soon to be the ravens’ feast.

Draining pond in Maine has good unintended results

Published in Conservation, Community, Science

By Jeff Reardon Since 2014, TU’s Merrymeeting Bay Chapter has been focused on brook trout in coastal streams, at least some of which migrate downstream to saltwater for part of their life.   They’ve been working with me to document brook trout populations in previously un-surveyed streams by angling and electrofishing surveys; monitor water temperatures with long-term data loggers; and,…

Functional streamflows key to recovering salmon and steelhead

Published in Science, Conservation

California’s Bay-Delta, where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers converge to form the largest estuary on the West Coast, is the hub of both the state’s water supply and the second largest runs of salmon and steelhead south of Alaska. The Bay-Delta is also the hub of the struggle over how to provide enough water…

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Some of the wildest fishing destinations on earth

Published in Trout Talk, Fishing
angler fly fishing Stikine River

How can I adequately capture the essence of fishing the world’s most extraordinary fishing destinations in a few sentences when only a book might do them justice?  I can’t. But it’s fun trying, so what the heck… Tasmania, Australia Overlooked, under-appreciated and wide open, the trout in shallow lakes cruise, wake and tail like 7-pound bonefish.…

We Are TU: Eric Booton

Published in Community, Conservation, Featured

Fishing has always been a part of my life, starting with bait casters and Powerbait on family camping trips. I got my first fly rod around the age of 13 and only managed to master wind knots