Photo of the week – cutthroat
Snow is melting in the mountains, which has us dreaming about high country forays to catch native cutthroat trout.
Search results for “coaster brook trout waters”
Resilient waters, hope for the future
Matteo Moretti, Dan Eiden, Dyer Benjovsky and Morgan Bradley spent last summer like most college anglers do—fishing. However, this was no ordinary fishing trip. Over the summer, the four college students involved in TU Costa 5 Rivers Programs across the country explored the Columbia River drainage for five weeks. Their mission: to gain a greater understanding of what has happened to worlds former salmon stronghold. In…
Scientist Dave Kazyak discusses fascinating brook trout genetics work
Innovation is a central theme for many of the stories in the current issue of Trout magazine. We’re expanding on that share at TU.org news of innovative work from TU and our many partners. TU’s Keith Curley recently connected with USGS scientist Than Hitt for a fascinating Q&A session on Hitt’s important brook trout research.…
USGS scientist Than Hitt spearheading innovative brook trout research
USGS fish biologist Than Hitt during stream assessment work in Shenandoah National Park, in Virginia. The summer issue of Trout Unlimited’s Trout magazine that is hitting mailboxes now is full of stories that feature innovative work by TU employees, volunteers and partners. TU’s vice president of eastern conservation, Keith Curley, recently caught up for a…
Living Waters Fly Fishing
About us Living Waters Fly Fishing is a Texas-based fly shop dedicated to conservation and education. The business started in 2006 solely as a fly fishing guide service, but in June of 2008, Living Waters Fly Fishing opened the doors of Round Rock’s first and only fly shop. The business is operated by guide and…
Millers River
Millers River Chapter of Trout Unlimited brings people together to care for and recover their waters through local conservation and community science projects. We are making our brook trout, brown trout populations stronger, our water cleaner, and our communities healthier.
TU scores victory for brook trout in Pa.’s Twomile Run
TU stream sampling efforts recently turned up wild brook trout in Pennsylvania’s Twomile Run, a stream in the Kettle Creek watershed that had been dead for decades due to abandoned mine drainage that was addressed by passive treatment systems. By Amy Wolfe With some projects, the results are immediately tangible. Take for instance a project…
NRCS Awards Chesapeake Bay Funds for Brook Trout Habitat Restoration
Contact: Wade Biddix, 804-287-1675 July 12, 2010, Richmond, VA USDA NRCS has approved $32,000 in funding to expand ongoing partnership activities with Trout Unlimited (TU) aimed at restoring native brook trout habitat in priority springs within the Shenandoah Valley. Authorized through the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative (CBWI-CCPI), NRCS funds will be…
TU Georgia Council Receives $9,000 Grant to Restore Brook Trout
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Mooney: (703) 284-9408, TU National Press Secretary TU Georgia Council Receives $9,000 Grant to Restore Brook Trout Atlanta, Ga.– Trout Unlimited (TU), the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, today awarded a $9,000 Embrace-A-Stream grant to the Georgia Council of Trout Unlimited for a native brook trout recovery…
Video spotlight: Finding Fontinalis
Say what you will about far-flung fishing adventures … that they’re not worth the carbon footprint they create, or that they’re the fool’s errand for anglers with more money than sense … but the search for massive brook trout in the farthest reaches of Patagonia has a certain romance to it. And now, the full…
17 Eastern States Announce Coordinated Strategy for Brook Trout Conservation
3/7/2007 17 Eastern States Announce Coordinated Strategy for Brook Trout Conservation March 7, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gary Berti, 828-318-5052 or gberti@tu.org Steve Perry, 603-271-1745 or sperry@wildlife.state.nh.us 17 Eastern States Announce Coordinated Strategy for Brook Trout Conservation Unprecedented New Plan Sets Firm Targets for 2025 WASHINGTON The future of the Easts premier native trout…
Want bigger trout in the Driftless? Eat some smaller ones
When I first joined Trout Unlimited and became engaged in environmentalism in the early 90s, the catch and release ethic was so much a part of our ethos that it took on a moral, almost religious quality. Today, I believe it is still an important management tool and absolutely critical in some situations (obviously where we…
Video spotlight: Stories from the Fountain
More than 200 years ago, the entire of state of Pennsylvania was forested. By the 1930s, the whole state had been completely logged. Today, Pennsylvania is a reforested trout wonderland—it has more miles of trout streams than any state other than Alaska. But, for native brook trout, all is not well. The state’s forest are…
Brookies to benefit from Nissitissit dam removal
By Robert Shane When we think of dams, especially dam removals, we think BIG; we think the Elwha and the Penobscot and the Snake. We imagine monstrosities of concrete and steel blocking important trout and salmon spawning waters. This plight, however, is not secular to big dams. In the state of Massachusetts there are over…
Overlooked brookies of Ontario
My TU coworker Mark Taylor has a great laugh. Kind of a mix between a giggle and guffaw. A guffawggle, if you will. I know this because I’ve seen Mark in any number of circumstances—mingling with conference attendees at a hospitality suite, surrounded by his great family having dinner, casting to Arctic grayling in Alaska,…
Trout and conservation get two big wins in Pennsylvania
By Rob Shane Pennsylvania’s trout fisheries were on the receiving end of two conservation wins recently. The first is passage of legislation that will pump much needed revenue into the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s coffers. The second is the long-awaited release of the 2020-2024 Draft Trout Stream Management Plan. Over the past 16 years, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has not been able to implement a fishing license fee…
Fly tying: The Wood Special
In the Northeast, where fly fishing got it’s American start on the brook trout waters of the Adirondacks, the Catskills and in the north woods of Maine, older, more traditional flies still find their way into fly boxes. And why not? They’re beautiful creations that were meant to attract native brook trout in tumbling mountain…
Shop local with a TU Business member
We have somewhere over 400 great TU Business members. Check them out. Buy some gear. Book a trip. Buy a gift card. You’ll be glad you did, and so will the fish.