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A Better Path: Stewardship of the Metolius River Video of A Better Path: Stewardship of the Metolius River Editor’s note: Happy Trout Tuesday! This is part of an ongoing series looking at an incredible and underloved species of fish – the interior redband trout – and a recently signed Conservation Agreement that will promote conservation…
Region: Northern RockiesActivity: FishingSpecies: Cutthroat trout Where: The Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests encompass more than four million acres in north central Idaho. Three renowned white water rivers – the Selway, Lochsa and Salmon – course through the mountainous terrain. Many of the region’s streams hold healthy populations of westslope cutthroat. Why: Excellent top-water angling for…
John Day Dam on the Columbia River. A new Yale University study provides some daunting news for water and dam managers across the country: fish ladders aren’t the “fix-it” solution to fish migration over irrigation or hydroelectric dams. The study, which took place on three East Coast rivers—the Connecticut, the Susquehanna and the Merrimack—showed that…
So, what are the best trout fishing places in America? They are the ones that you appreciate most, often times for reasons other than how many fish you catch.
03/19/2008 Wine Industry Leaders and Trout Unlimited Announce Water and Wine Program to Enhance Stream Flow and Improve Water Supply Reliability in Sonoma County March 19, 2008 Contact: Brian J. Johnson, Trout Unlimited, 415-385-0796, bjohnson@tu.org Duff Bevill, Sonoma County Winegrape Commission, 707-529-7349, duffbevill@earthlink.net FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wine Industry Leaders and Trout Unlimited Announce Water and…
Eighteen species in two months across 10 states is one of the more challenging feats I have attempted to accomplish in my lifetime; and Utah posed as quite the challenge. But it’s OK, because the challenge is what keeps us fisherman coming back for more. We arrived in Utah in search of the Utah Cutthroat…
Bonneville cutthroat trout, caught in Mill Creek. By Bobby Boone I learned to fly fish when I turned ten years old. I caught nothing. I wasn’t even sure if I really liked it. However, three years later, my first time casting a fly in Utah would ensure that I would fall in love with the…
By Jason Willis It seemed like a good time to shed light on some positives from the 2019 field season as we deal with the trying times currently enveloping our country. Here is a brief history, summary and outcome of the successful Monarch Pass Gravel Mine project. The U.S. Forest Service’s Salida Ranger District released…
04/04/2008 Trout Unlimiteds On the Rise Launches on the Outdoor Channel April 4, 2008 Contact: Erin Mooney: 703-284-9408 emooney@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimiteds On the Rise Launches on the Outdoor ChannelNew fly-fishing program features TUs conservation achievements ARLINGTON, VA. Trout Unlimiteds (TU) new television program, On the Rise launches on April 4 at 8…
TU mourns the passing of a great friend, Sam Hamilton, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Hamilton, 54, died on February 20 of an apparent heart attack while skiing in Keystone, Colorado. Hamilton had served in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years, including in a number of…
So I finally shook off the COVID blues and decided to go fishing one day last week. Yampa River, northern Colorado, and admittedly it might have been a better day to ski, but I just couldn’t take it anymore. I needed to fish. So I trudged through the snowpack to a prime spot, and the sun…
Editor’s note: TU sent a handful of college students to the Pacific Northwest for this year’s TU Costa 5 Rivers Odyssey to study and fish in the Columbia River basin. Oregon’s Deschutes river has long been known as one of the West’s most legendary watersheds. Known for its prolific hatches and dry fly fishing, specifically…
Photo by Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Colorado’s state fish, the imperiled greenback cutthroat trout, got a boost this week when nearly 1,000 year-old fish were released into a small stream high along the Continental Divide above the famed Eisenhower Tunnel that cuts through the mountains that divide the state in two. The fish,…
Craig Harker and Matt Woodard on the Henrys Fork By Chris Wood Craig Harker and Matt Woodard, two native sons of eastern Idaho, sat in the front. The road hummed as we sped toward Ashton to get me a fishing license before we hit the Henry’s Fork. “I remember it like yesterday,” Craig said. “After…
By Chris Hunt I’m an unabashed fly guy, so much so that I’m probably part of that snooty long-rod culture that inadvertently looks down their noses at bait fishers. But I have nephews and a niece who have yet to really get into fishing, so I’m coming to grips with my tweedy issues and making…
Heidi Lewis, far left, took her friends Heather Hodson, Jen Ripple and Geri Meyer (left to right) on a Utah Cutthroat Slam adventure this summer. Courtesy photo. By Heidi Lewis When Heather Hodson calls I know things are about to get good. I don’t see her often, but when I do it typically means we…
But now we made the decision that we were going to leave no kid behind. Our family was going to do something great together. We were all going to complete the Utah Cutthroat Slam.
The fact is that since the construction of the dams, we have never been able to get enough adults to the Snake River’s high-quality spawning waters to keep these fish off an extinction trajectory.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it…
A backcountry trek in the Sierra to catch Goldens.