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Trout Unlimited Applauds DEC Plan for Beaverkill Watershed

4/1/2000 Trout Unlimited Applauds DEC Plan for Beaverkill Watershed Trout Unlimited Applauds DEC Plan for Beaverkill Watershed Plan follows up on six-year TU study and sets path for new wild fish management program for Catskill Region Contact: 4/1/2000 — — Contact: Jock Conyngham: TU BeaMoc Project Manager, 207.846.9189 Nat Gillespie: TU Catskills Coordinator, 607.498.5960 April…

Voices from the River: The ONE bug

Published in Voices from the river

By Kirk Deeter I love off-beat, impossible-to-answer questions like these: What fly pattern do you think has caught the most fish in the history of the world? What do you think is the most common fly in the boxes of anglers throughout the world? Of course, I always get the “If you had ONE fly…”…

Major Step Forward for Yakima Basin Water Supply and River Restoration Plan

July 1, 2015 CONTACT: Steve Malloch, American Rivers, 206-818-0482 Lisa Pelly, Trout Unlimited, 509-630-0467 Ben Greuel, The Wilderness Society, 360-670-2938 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sen. Maria Cantwell Introduces Legislation for Precedent-Setting Water Deal SEATTLE A groundbreaking plan to address water supply and river restoration in the Pacific Northwest got a major boost today with the introduction…

TRCP and TU release video on Klondike property

Published in Conservation

Trout Unlimited and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership have teamed up on a series of videos to celebrate just a few of the conservation success stories made possible by the Keystone Fund and that make us all proud to be able to hunt and fish in Pennsylvania.

Quest for Kittatinny trout

Published in Uncategorized

By Rob Shane As an angler, discovering a new stream with healthy populations of wild trout is a reward that does not come without hours of exploration and research. Truth be told, this exploration can be quite difficult with a rod and reel. Thanks to the Kittatinny Ridge Coalition, Audubon Pennsylvania, and a few electro-shocking…

New TU field techs get to work in Catskills

Published in Conservation

Joe Liesman and Chris Pullano recently joined the Trout Unlimited staff for six-month stints as technicians in the Upper Delaware River basin. We recently caught up with the two avid conservationists and anglers to see how things have been going.  Q: Talk a little about your backgrounds. Where did you grow up and what got you interested…

Gear test: Orvis Battenkill III Reel

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This reel is a significant upgrade for any angler. Trading up my circa 2006 Battenkill III, to this newer model, the first thing I noticed was the more streamlined edges compared to its predecessor. The black nickel compliments any type of rod: from classic bamboo, to vintage fiberglass or even m y trusted Orvis 1980s-era…

Sportsmen invited to write about Special Places for Trout Unlimited essay contest

Jan. 22, 2015   Contact: Mark Taylor, Trout Unlimited, 540-353-3556, mtaylor@tu.org   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   Sportsmen invited to write about Special Places for Trout Unlimited essay contest   Winner will net a Scott Radian fly rod package and publication in TROUT Magazine   WASHINGTON, D.C.–Trout Unlimited today launched an essay contest open to the…

Breakthrough for the Eel

Published in Conservation

A new agreement promises to resolve decades of conflict over water use on California’s third largest watershed––and a legendary salmon and steelhead river 

Watch: Lifeblood

Published in Video spotlight

In the high deserts of Wyoming, habitat restoration work spans generations; providing kids an opportunity to get dirty and explore different career paths while building beaver dam analogs (BDA) on Muddy Creek. An important coldwater producer to the Colorado River Basin, Muddy Creek hosts native Colorado River cutthroat trout. Over-grazing, down cut banks, and drought…