Small-stream angling is generally considered the “short game” of fly fishing—it’s rare that an angler would need to throw more than 20 feet or so. But that’s not always the case, and it pays to “bring a driver” on small water, too—come equipped with your double-haul. Chances are, you won’t need it, but when fish…
Outfitters and retailers of fishing equipment announce their supportfor permanently protecting the water, habitat, and sporting valuesof the Sáttítla region in Northern California. ContactsSam Davidson, Policy Director, California Public Lands, Trout Unlimitedsam.davidson@tu.org; (831) 235-2542Redgie Collins, Director of Law and Policy, California Troutrcollins@caltrout.org; (415) 748-8755Joel Weltzien, California Chapter Coordinator, Backcountry Hunters & Anglersweltzien@backcountryhunters.org; (406) 925-3771 REDDING,…
Contacts: Arlington, VA – The U.S. Department of Interior announced today that Deputy Secretary Tommy Beaudreau is stepping down at the end of the month after a combined 10 years at the agency, including the last two as deputy secretary, where he oversaw initiatives including protecting over 13 million acres of public land in Alaska,…
Don’t let up now. Healthy fish and clean streams need your help. When it comes to defending the Clean Water Act, it seems there’s no time to rest.
It’s been over a month since we released our Think Tank brook trout into the Cross River, and we are finding that they have new neighbors moving in: beavers! Evidence of the beavers can be seen all along the stream—from dams to lodges, chewed down trees to flooded plains. Beavers have long been known to be ecosystem engineers and drastically change the stream in many ways. The fur trade and the trapping…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Mooney, National Press Secretary (703) 284-9408 Trout Unlimited Calls for Additional Safeguards to Protect Streams from Drilling Accidents Arlington, Va.– On April 19, equipment failure at a Chesapeake Energy gas well site near LeRoy Township Pa., caused a leak, resulting in the release of thousands of gallons of hydrofracking water…
Photo by Colin Arisman By Daniel Ritz How Bristol Bay Fly Fishing & Guide Academy graduates are redefining fly-fishing travel culture in Alaska. Rounding a blind bend in the Brooks River, the nearly 900-pound brown bear surprises us as it sits haunches deep, ripping into the belly of a bright red 8-to-10 pound Sockeye salmon…
Several months ago, I noticed a thread on the TU online community that centered around “daughters,” and it really moved me. It moved me, so much, in fact, to think, “Jeez, so, so much of the trout fishing literary tradition is about fathers and sons… grandfathers and sons… we should turn that on its ear.”
RIGS – They’re here for the long haul, and they have a stake in the future of their home waters.
Fly fishing trophy hunters are all about traveling to far-flung places to chase big fish. Heck, we just highlighted a pair of videos that focus on chasing giant browns and rainbows in New Zealand, where both species of trout are interlopers in Kiwi waters. And then there’s Patagonia, where big trout swim in rivers where…
Farm Bill conservation programs actually fund a significant amount of coldwater conservation across the country, and Trout Unlimited leverages several Farm Bill programs to improve and restore coldwater streams for trout, salmon, and people.
Photo Seattle Times Anglers and commercial salmon fishers off the coast of Washington and Vancouver have known for years that the occasional escapee Altantic salmon from off-shore aquaculture nets is swimming wild in Pacific waters. Atlantic salmon have turned up in nets, and juvenile Atlantic salmon were reported off of Vancouver Island as early as…
Sarah Baker interned twice for TU before moving on in her own successful career in fisheries
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Erin Mooney, National Press Secretary (703) 284-9408 Trout conservationists applaud EPA/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers initiative to restore Clean Water Act protections Agencies guidance is a key first step for restoring fundamental protection to nations waterways. Milwaukee, Wisc.–Trout Unlimited commends the Obama Administration and its Clean Water Act agencies, the U.S.…
Trout Unlimited has partnered with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership on a series of videos highlighting a few of the projects powered by this critical source of conservation funding. For more information on the Keystone Fund, you can visit: https://keystonefund.org.
title=”application/pdf” />170131_TU Letter re CWRule – S.Res_.12.pdf Re: Trout Unlimited (TU) opposes legislation that would undermine the Clean Water Rule (Rule). TU’s 150,000 members nationwide work to conserve, protect and restore the nation’s trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds. Our members give back to the resource they love by investing dollars and volunteer hours…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Mooney: (703) 284-9408TU National Press SecretaryTwin Cities Trout Unlimited Chapter Receives Grant for Hay Creek Arlington, Va.– Trout Unlimited, (TU) the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, today awarded a $2,500 Embrace-A-Stream grant to the Twin Cities chapter in Minnesota. The Embrace-A-Stream grant will help fund a restoration…
By Chris Collier In August, TU worked with our partners in northeast Wisconsin to remove a remnant logging dam in the North Branch Oconto River. This is the second of three dams TU and our partners will remove on the river in Wabeno, Wisc. The dam was originally installed more 100 years ago to help…
This cherished river is one of Trout Unlimited’s Priority Waters, and I’m here to tell you more about it and our work there.
It’s a hot time to be fly fishing the river mouths and estuaries of Puget Sound. The annual run of chum salmon fry from rivers and streams down to the salt water is under way, and waiting for them at river mouths and in estuaries will be a host of predators, including sea-run cutthroat trout.…
