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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…
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…
Wheeler wants the fish back. The Nez Perce people want the fish back. So does the Yakima nation, the Nisqually, the Sauk-Suiattle, the Nooksack. All united to one cause—bring the Snake River salmon back for once and for all. Bring the dams down.
A stream roiling dark with Chinook salmon in central Idaho’s wilderness high country. A throb, a pulse of life into a pristine river, the abundance of the ocean arriving in the flesh of thousands of salmon in a wild mountain river hundreds of miles inland. This was. This was life itself, for the land, for the water, for the people.
Growing coalition unites in effort to protect, restore and expand state’s Gold Medal fisheries FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 23, 2021 Contact: Scott Willoughby, Trout Unlimited, 970-390-3676, Scott.willoughby@tu.org DENVER, CO – Trout Unlimited (TU) today announced the launch of “Colorado Gold,” a new conservation campaign designed to change the way the angling community thinks about Colorado’s Gold Medal…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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,…
By Ed Ostapczuk Science of genetics and DNA continues to evolve, and a New York chapter of Trout Unlimited is using such science to study wild brook trout in a small stream in the Catskills. The Ashokan-Pepacton Watershed Chapter is conducting a Catskill heritage brook trout study, in partnership with the Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program (AWSMP). Late this past…
Trout Unlimited’s staff and municipal partners continue to work diligently to complete a wide-spanning list of New York priority culvert surveys and replacements. The reconnection of fragmented and dammed rivers resides at the core of our strategy to improve habitat for New York’s wild trout. With our small but mighty team, we reconnected over 30…
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…
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 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…
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…
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The headline was an attention grabber, and the story went viral almost instantly: “Monster Brook Trout Are Spawning on Moosehead Lake’s Shore.” Based on my Facebook feed about half of my angling acquaintances immediately made plans for winter ice fishing or shoreline trolling right after ice out next May. Maine’s Moosehead Lake is legendary. The largest…