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TROUT Tying Tip – all about hooks

Published in Trout Tips

Here are a few more videos to get you started. Understanding hook sizes, debarbing them and securing them to the vise will get you on your way to tying your first fly.

TROUT Tying Tip – simple midge

Published in Fly tying

A midge is a good place to start learning to tie flies. Not only is it an effective fly pattern, but it is also fairly simple to tie and is often a go-to fly for winter fly fishing.

Stand up for the Clean Water Act

CLEAN WATER AND HEALTHY FISHERIES At Trout Unlimited, we spend a lot of time thinking about “Blue Lines”—those small streams on the map that are the headwaters from which everything ultimately flows.    Blue lines are the coldest and cleanest waters this country has to offer. They are critical to the native and wild trout and…

Dementors

Published in Voices from the river

We hopped out of the canoe at the head of a big rapid. Truthfully, we could probably have made it through, but our Ojibwe guides Keith and Joe didn’t want to take any chances, and possibly put a damper on an otherwise perfect day on the water. We were floating and fishing a little no-name…

Climate Science & Adaption Work

Declining populations & stress Trout and salmon will not weather climate change without our help. Coldwater species have evolved and adapted to changing conditions over thousands of years. But given the declines in populations and the continuing stresses they are already facing, they will not weather climate change without our help. Trout Unlimited’s work addresses…

The 117 degree Kern River melting pot

Published in Travel

Buhler was right. There was absolutely no mistaking it. The Kern River rainbow has a vibrancy in color, all of its colors, that simply isn’t present in its hatchery imposters. The back of the fish was more densely clustered with darker and more defined spots, the rose coloring along its lateral line was more clearly defined and the most telltale mark, the white edges along its fins, were clearly defined.

TU Tacoma Chapter Receives $1,000 Grant to Restore Puget Creek

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Mooney, (703) 284-9408, TU National Press Secretary TU Tacoma Chapter Receives $1,000 Grant to Restore Puget Creek Tacoma, Wash. — Trout Unlimited (TU), the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, today awarded a $1,000 Embrace-A-Stream grant to its Tacoma Chapter in Washington state. The chapter is partnering with…

TU Ted Trueblood Chapter Receives $10,000 to reconnect Pierce Creek with the South Fork Boise River

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Mooney, TU National Press Secretary, (703) 284-9408 James Piotrowski, Idaho Council Chair, (208) 332-3552 Chris Topmiller, East Yellowstone TU, (208) 587-2249 TU Ted Trueblood Chapter Receives $10,000 to reconnect Pierce Creek with the South Fork Boise River BOISETrout Unlimited, (TU) the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, today…

TU Teton Valley Chapter Receives $9,000 to improve fisheries habitat on Trail Creek

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Mooney, TU National Press Secretary, (703) 284-9408 James Piotrowski, Idaho TU Council Chair, (208) 331-9200 Kasey Collins, Teton Valley TU, (307) 413-6683 TU Teton Valley Chapter Receives $9,000 to improve fisheries habitat on Trail Creek VICTORTrout Unlimited, (TU) the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, today awarded a…

Weister Creek project highlighted on Driftless Area tour

Published in Uncategorized

Participants walk along the site of recent restoration on Weister Creek as Project Manager Paul Hayes briefs them on the project. (Photo by Gillian Pomplun, Crawford County Independent.) One of the more notable projects in the Wisconsin part of Trout Unlimited’s Driftless Area Restoration Effort in recent years has been the Weister Creek project near…

East Jersey

Founded in 1971, the East Jersey chapter of Trout Unlimited has more than 700 members who continue to protect, reconnect and restore local waters in Northeastern New Jersey. The chapter is proud winner of Trout Unlimited’s Highest award, the Golden Trout for Conservation, and in 1992 EJTU received Trout Unlimited’s Silver Trout Award.​