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Salter Brook Trout

Salter brook trout are a unique species that once was the focus of some of our nation’s earliest trout fishing aficionados. But development pressures and habitat fragmentation caused by dams and culverts pose a risk to salter brook trout across the northeast. In the fall of 2015, survey crews failed to find a single brook…

Brook Trout Atlas

Welcome to TU’s Brook Trout Atlas. The following interactive atlases provide a means to explore mapped data related to brook trout populations, habitats, and threats in local watersheds and across their eastern range. Each atlas presents a different theme of information and can be used to identify, evaluate, and explore conservation opportunities. The maps allow…

A Celebration on the Elwha River

Published in Restoration, Community

advocates for dam breaching, free-flowing waters and river restoration are celebrating the news that the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe has been able to fish for coho salmon for the first time since two large dams blocking the Elwha River were removed a decade ago.

From Bigotry to Brook Trout

Published in Video spotlight, Fishing, Travel, TROUT Magazine, Veterans

We’ve all heard stories about the healing power of water and fly fishing. At Trout Unlimited, our chapters and volunteers devote significant resources to helping physically and emotionally wounded veterans heal from the horrors of war. But it’s more than that. Ask any die-hard fly fisher why they fish, and, after getting through all the…

Native: Ontario brook trout

Published in Uncategorized

Above: Native brook trout from the northwest Ontario interior. Photo courtesty of Paul Smith. Below: The author holds a brook trout from Argentina’s Corcovado River. When those of us here in the lower 48 think of brook trout, we might think of boulder-hopping in a secret Appalachian canyon that has managed for more than two…

Parasites in brook trout on the rise

Published in Conservation

Gill lice in a Wisconsin brook trout. Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Trout Unlimited. By Jack Williams In Wisconsin, Department of Natural Resources staff are finding increasing rates of gill lice parasitism in brook trout as waters warm. In North Carolina, the same gill lice have been found for the first time on brook trout from…

Tip – underwater world of brook trout

Published in Fishing, Trout Talk

Watch this stunner of a video following wild, eastern brook trout to get a sense of their behaviors, curiosity and impressive sizes. You’re sure to learn a thing or two for your next fishing adventure once the waters cool off a bit on your favorite small stream.

Home-Waters

The Home-Waters Chapter of TU acts in support of the National mission of Trout Unlimited – to conserve, protect and restore cold water fisheries and their watersheds, through education and conservation efforts focused in Rensselaer County, New York.

Keeping brook trout secrets in Appalachia

Published in Fishing, Featured, Featured, Women
A brook trout under water.

In my cusped hands dripped a lustrous jewel.  Its belly was streaked pink, and the rest of its body speckled in luminescent hues of amber and bronze.  The overall effect was that of a fine watercolor, hand-painted by a master. It was a gem of a fish.

Clark Brook, Oliverian Brook and Eastman Brook, New Hampshire

Goals No matter how clean and cold the water is for brook trout, a bountiful population cannot occur without a significant amount of uninterrupted stream mileage to allow the fish to move throughout the length of stream. Streams like Clark Brook, Oliverian Brook and Eastman Brook in western central New Hampshire have habitat characteristics of…

Woodworking for brook trout in the Vermont forest

Published in Voices from the river, Conservation

By Zack Hoisington On July 14, 2019, I found myself in uncharted territory, driving north through upstate New York on highway 87 into Adirondack State Park.   As the sun started to lower, I noticed a sign for Montreal. Although I have spent very little time in this part of the country, something told me I was going the wrong direction. I had…

Eastern Brook Trout Conservation Portfolio

Trout Unlimited developed three conservation planning products to help identify strategic conservation opportunities and evaluate potential projects within the range of Eastern Brook Trout in the eastern United States. The Conservation Portfolio uses the 3-R framework (Representation, Resiliency, and Redundancy) to evaluate each population patch for resiliency to disturbances, likelihood of demographic persistence, and representation…