A cast and a spark
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Chasing steelhead with guide and artist Alberto Rey
TU’s Jack Rodgers recently connected with Alberto Rey, the 2021 Orvis Fly Fishing Guide of the Year, to chase steelhead in Lake Erie tributaries. He learned that Rey is not only a skilled guide but also a talented artist.
Tying the Douglas Salmon Camp Swinger
Articulated streamers are quickly becoming some of my favorite patterns to tie at the vise
Roadless photo essay
Adventures are endless on Roadless Areas.
TU Costa 5 Rivers Club Spotlight: Sewanee
We recently chatted with Zoë Mihalas, a former TU Teen Leader, recipient of TU’s Distinguished Service Award for Youth Education, and current president of the Sewanee 5 Rivers club.
Video spotlight: Bass on a fly
As Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing Host Tom Rosenbauer notes, bass are the top sportfish in North America, and he’s right. Just about anywhere you go, from the lakes of Canada to the swamps of the Deep South, bass are readily available. But, as Tom notes, most folks don’t chase bass with flies. “The key…
Sunny Days
I always look forward to the transition to wet-wading season. Here in the mid-Atlantic that usually hits in mid-May, unless you’re fishing a tailwater just downstream from a dam, in which case waders are still a must. Even with neoprene wading socks, the first steps into a chilly (but not frigid) trout stream can be…
Trout Tips: The still-water retrieve
Fly fishing lakes for trout can be tricky. With an entire of body of water at their disposal and no need to make quick decisions on food that floats by like it might in a river, trout tend to dial in on what’s in the water at any given time. Still Water Retrieve from Trout…
TU completes road-stream crossing projects in Mich.
By Matthias Bonzo In 2019, TU worked with its partners to complete two road stream crossings in the Huron-Manistee National Forest in Michigan. The crossings were on Boswell Creek, in Manistee County, and on Hinton Creek in Wexford County. Boswell Creek is a tributary of Bear Creek and contains a healthy population of brook trout.…
A Lahontan cutthroat trout story from someone who knows them best
Today we only have Lahontan cutthroat trout in 73 streams across the Great Basin — almost all are isolated and most of those populations exhibit low genetic diversity
Clearwater Daze
A pair of Great Lakes spey anglers share their love for Idaho’s Clearwater River and its big steelhead as well as their support for breaching the Lower Snake River Dams
Hope for the Everglades
No, southern Florida isn’t a trout fishery (at least not of the salmonid variety). But we’re all connected by water, and the Everglades might be the best living laboratory in the country that explains the virtues of water, not just to people, but to every living thing. Our friends at Orvis took to the Everglades…
Fly-Fishing for Warmwater Fish in the Summer Heat
Northern Pike, Bass, Bluegill, and other warmwater fish are great fly alternatives when trout need a break
TU teams with Wisconsin DOT to improve fish passage and flood resilience
The Bois Brule River is among the best-known of Wisconsin’s trout streams. While the big river teems with big rainbow and brown trout, its tributaries are good trout waters in their own right.
When “yesterday” actually happens today
Matt Jennings and I are standing on the bank of Wisconsin’s Root River on an early spring day. And we are plotting. “I think we need to cross down there,” says Jennings, who then starts pointing his fly rod at various spots in the river. “We’ll hit that one first, then that one, and then…
TU improving trout, salmon habitat in Michigan’s Bigelow Creek
Making fishing better in a Muskegon River tributary
Trout Unlimited applauds introduction of federal legislation to streamline floodplain restoration
Federal lawmakers have introduced the bipartisan Floodplain Enhancement and Recovery Act to reduce regulatory barriers that slow or prevent ecosystem restoration in Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)-mapped floodplains. The legislation, from legislators including Representatives Bryan Steil (WI-01), Troy Downing (MT-02), Janelle Bynum (OR-02), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03), aims to streamline approvals for low-risk floodplain restoration projects by reducing…
On native trout, wild browns, and common sense
TU has done more to protect and sustain and restore native trout species than any other organization, and it’s not close.
TU commends passage of spending bill
March 23, 2018 For immediate release Contact Shauna Stephenson / Trout Unlimited (307) 757-7861, shauna.stephenson@tu.org Trout Unlimited commends passage of spending bill Bill will fund important conservation priorities across the country WASHINGTON D.C. – A spending bill that will fund important conservation priorities such as the Land and Water Conservation Fund, funding for restoration of…
Short casts: Opening day, beer, growlers and conservation funding
Major League Baseball’s first pitches will start flying in less than a week. In generations past, another spring opener generated even more excitement among certain folks. The annual trout season opener was a major event. Trout openers have gradually faded away. Some states still have them — such as Missouri, pictured above — but many…