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Volpe Law, LLC

We are a local Colorado law firm dedicated to providing personalized client attention and exceptional results. We want to meet you, get to know you, and help you navigate the difficult and stressful legal situations you are facing. We enjoy educating our clients as we counsel them with respect to their legal needs. And, we…

John Muir East Bay

John Muir Chapter covers Alameda, Contra Costa, and a portion of Solano County. It was formed in the summer of 2016.

Maine's Kennebec Valley Chapter Receives Highest Award for Edwards Dam Efforts

8/25/1999 Maine’s Kennebec Valley Chapter Receives Highest Award for Edwards Dam Efforts Maine’s Kennebec Valley Chapter Receives Highest Award for Edwards Dam Efforts Contact: 8/25/1999 — — The Kennebec Valley (Maine) Trout Unlimited (TU) chapter led by Palmyra, ME President- Bruce Bowman and boasting over 250 local members drew high praise and recognition from the…

Trout Unlimited lauds House passage of Farm Bill

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 29, 2014 Contact: Russ Schnitzer: (307) 438-1365 Steve Moyer: (703) 284-9406 Trout Unlimited applauds House passage of Farm Bill Conference Report WASHINGTON, D.C. Trout Unlimited congratulated the House today for voting to reauthorize the Farm Bill and helping to keep trout and salmon resource conservation efforts in place across the nation.…

Short casts: Big fish in PA, mid-south tailwaters and “getting there”

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Cruising the Rio Yelcho enroute to some prime big-trout holding water. Anglers in Pennsylvania will get the chance to catch larger trout in six new waters that are a part of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Comission. How big? The Keystone Select Stocked Trout Program will have a total of 14 streams throughout the state…

Reilly Rod Crafters, LLC

About us Reilly Rod Crafters was born out of a passion for fishing that has spanned several generations. Collectively, our core team has over 250 years of fishing experience, over 100 years of design experience, and over 60 years of manufacturing experience. Our team members hold over 100 IGFA world records, some are members of…

The elusive Arctic char of the Kenai Peninsula

Published in Fishing

My heart raced as we proceeded down the almost 15-mile Swanson River Road. We kept expecting to be turned around any minute. Knowing there were so many lake options with confirmed populations of char, I had a lot of faith one would offer me the opportunity to bring an Arctic char to hand. The problem was, the bumpy pothole strewn dirt road was, as far as I knew, the only artery to the lake systems. If this fire got out of control, as the 2019 fire did, I could be shut out.

What does the SCOTUS decision mean for clean water?

Published in Conservation

Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that district courts across the country — not the circuit courts–should be the first to hear the merits of cases regarding the 2015 Clean Water Rule. In 2015, the Sixth Circuit stayed the Clean Water Rule nationwide. Pending the outcome of litigation in the district courts, yesterday’s decision potentially…

A Nation’s River

In the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia small streams tumble through hollows choked with hardwoods and laurel. In the valleys, creeks are born at gurgling limestone springs.  Generations ago there were trophy-sized native brook trout here. But as our nation grew the health of these creeks and these trout was an afterthought. Man’s impact damaged trout streams and trout populations. 

Is catch-and-release angling all it’s cracked up to be?

Published in Trout Talk, Featured
Releasing a brown trout into a river.

Releasing a nice brown trout back into the river. Kirk Deeter photo. Is catch-and-release angling overrated? It is if the only thing that matters is numbers of fish caught…  In 1936, the late, great Lee Wulff said, “game fish are too valuable to be caught only once,” and the “catch-and-release” movement was born.  I’m a

The Facts about Atlantic Salmon: Aquaculture

1/9/2000 The Facts about Atlantic Salmon: Aquaculture The Facts about Atlantic Salmon: Aquaculture Contact: 1/9/2000 — — SALMON AQUACULTURE The Maine Conservation Plan fails to adequately address the threats posed to wild salmon stocks by the aquaculture industry. The lack of progress being made on addressing these threats, outlined below, has been cited by the

Native: Partnership working on upper Gunpowder brook trout

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By Don Haynes When people think of the Gunpowder River in Maryland they invariably think of the 14-mile tailwater section flowing from Prettyboy Reservoir to Loch Raven Reservoir in Baltimore County. But above Prettyboy, from Hoffmanville to Southern York County in Pennsylvania, there are some 60 miles of the Gunpowder mainstem and tributaries that comprise

American Rivers names Delaware its River of the Year

Published in Conservation

By Rob Shane  For those in the Mid-Atlantic, or for anyone who’s been trout fishing long enough to have a bucket list of rivers, you’re certainly familiar with the Delaware River. Aside from being the source of drinking water for more than 15 million people in two of the largest cities in the United States (New York and Philadelphia), it