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Every entry in our sweepstakes powers our work keeping rivers cold and fish thriving.
At times it’s all about trying different approaches until something works, and that couldn’t be truer when presenting a nymph rig. This week, learn some presentation options from Tom Rosenbauer at Orvis to get your nymph in just the right spot for a fish to eat it.
Even if you’re new to fly fishing, you can imagine the challenge that a windy day presents to the cast. But it doesn’t have to mean you have to pack it up and go home. It’s all about punching through that stiff breeze, so try these tips to do just that: Practice, practice, practice. As unappealing as it may sound…
Get tips for making an effective roll cast and learn about it’s many practical use cases in this week’s trout tip.
The Kanooka Chapter Trout Unlimited is committed to promoting coldwater conservation and fishing while having a great time outdoors. Please join us in making fishing better in Georgia. Our Chapter meets the third Tuesday of each month at 7PM at Frontera located at 1430 Five Forks Trickum Road SW Lawrenceville, GA 30044.
Our chapter’s vision is for the Denver South Platte from Chatfield Dam to 120th Avenue to become a healthy, urban river with a multi-species gamefish fishery.
A juvenile coho salmon from a small, previously undocumented stream on Douglas Island, Alaska. By Mark Hieronymus For the diehard fish nerd, spring is a wonderful time in Alaska. The days get longer and (slightly) warmer, the fresh waters around the state shed their winter cloaks and start to flow again, the fish start to bite, and…
Large wood additions on the East Fork of the Greenbrier River in West Virginia provide important habitat for brook trout — and a fishing location for a young angler. By Gary Berti In West Virginia, partnerships are critical as Trout Unlimited works on habitat restoration programs in the Potomac and Greenbrier River watersheds. Recently, because…
Strengthening protections for Eel River tributaries ensure continued fishery health
Interpretive sign on the Carmel River, spring 2019. It was while walking a seasonally-dry side channel of my local stream, the Carmel River, over the weekend that I started thinking about a guy from Michigan named John Rapanos. You should know this name, because this fellow—unintentionally, no doubt—could really put the hurt on your fishing.…
Over a couple of wet and chilly days in the fall of 2015, a cadre of Trout Unlimited volunteers were afield in Northcentral Pennsylvania with gear they use as part of TU’s Shale Gas Monitoring Program. A cameraman and producer followed their every move, recording their words and work for a planned documentary. Now, nearly…
By Chris Collier Working with the Town of Beaver and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Trout Unlimited recently helped replace a fish passage barrier on the North Branch Beaver Creek located in the middle of a state fishery area. Surveys at the site indicated fish passage and flood risk concerns associated with the existing, four-culvert…
Earlier this week, Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources, along with volunteers from Trout Unlimited, delivered rainbow trout eggs to 33 Utah schools taking part in the Trout in the Classroom program. The eggs are placed in specially designed tanks where students can watch them transform into baby fish. Brett Prettyman, intermountain communications director for Trout…
May 27, 2014 Contact: Chris Wood, President and CEO, Trout Unlimited (703) 284-9403 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Americas anglers stand behind new clean water rule WASHINGTON, D.C.The nations anglers stand firmly behind a new clean water rule that will protect Americas headwater streams from unchecked development while still allowing reasonable leeway when it comes to water…
TU projects in Alaska, Oregon and Washington Priority Waters recommended for a new round of federal infrastructure funding
We see a lot of video footage of migrating salmon spawning in Alaska and in other places around the world, but we often forget that our inland trout and char run upstream—just like salmon—to spawn, too. The video below shows spawning rainbow trout spawning this spring in a small tributary stream on the Helena-Lewis and…
03/13/2009 Trout Unlimited Supports Bureau of Land Management Decision to Drop Monongahela National Forest from Oil and Gas Lease Auction March 13, 2009 Contact: Elizabeth Maclin (202) 431-2676Erin Mooney (571) 331-7970 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited Supports Bureau of Land Management Decision to Drop Monongahela National Forest from Oil and Gas Lease Auction ARLINGTON, VA—Trout…
Steven Weinberg is a dedicated angler who put his art skills to use in The Fly Fishing Book: An Artful Guide to Angling. Through illustration and painting, he brings fly fishing to life guiding readers through the basics, through history, to lifestyle and beyond.
After some much-needed good news on the cancer front, I grabbed my cowboy hat and 1-weight and headed out the door. It was time to celebrate and I intended on doing just that by mountain biking and fishing (sometimes combined) on my gorgeous public lands. I pulled into the spot where I hiked out last week and trekked to see what this next section…
Conservation Towns Celebrating Rural America What are Conservation Towns? In America’s “Conservation Towns,” rural communities that survived the past century’s boom-and-bust cycles are building new blueprints for economic success by tapping into their most important assets: the rivers and streams, public lands and wild landscapes that have always sustained them. At Trout Unlimited, we are putting a spotlight on these communities at the heart of the work…