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Tip – Is this the right fly?

Published in Trout Talk

Building on last week’s True Cast, Tom Rosenbauer goes over more flies. He chooses 12 flies that should work nearly anywhere in the world for trout. This is a great place to start building your fly box. Go with these patterns and then start to diversify with varying sizes and colors.    Then go give them…

Idaho’s bull trout persevere as search for other precious resources continues

Published in Fishing

Unable to see my fly, I was worried I wouldn’t pick up on a take. I shouldn’t have been concerned. My line ripped taut as something far under the surface inhaled my imitation and began to run with it like it had stolen something. I watched my line travel back and forth in the deep pool. Overwhelmed with emotion, I literally slid down the awkward rock outcropping of the outlet channel and brought a 16- to 18-inch brightly spotted and beautiful olive bull trout to the net.”

Fly tying: The Insult

Published in Fishing, Fly tying

Some flies are so simple to tie that you wonder how, with such little effort at the vise, they can be effective. The Insult, tied below by Tim Flagler, is such a fly. Designed to imitate active nymphs that either swim or end up in the current quite often, The Insult is a great pattern…

Madison Gallatin TU VSP and Montana State U Veterans

Published in Uncategorized

Thank you to Dave Kumlien, Robert Allen, and all those associated with Madison Gallatin Trout Unlimited for your generous donation to the Student Veteran’s Club @ MSU. We appreciate it and plan on paying it forward! Good things to come in the near future! We’ll keep you all posted! If your Chapter is interested in…

Millions of stream miles risk losing protection

EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers aim to cut protections for millions of stream miles across the United States  Final “repeal” rule leaves important drinking water sources and habitat at dire risk of being unprotected from pollution, and opens the door for the expected “replacement” rule later this year which will be even worse for streams…

Hiking the CDT: Learning to dislike roller coasters

Published in Youth, Featured, TROUT Magazine

“From the very first day of this section, we could see all the way to where we would be in three days. Across a wide, high desert valley we could see a pass that we would eventually cross over to stay on the divide. To our right and in front of us there was a mountain range that the CDT climbs up into twice.”

Trout Unlimited to Restore Cutthroat Habitat in Grade Creek

6/8/2006 Trout Unlimited to Restore Cutthroat Habitat in Grade Creek June 8, 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Warren Colyer, 435-753-3132 or Scott Yates, 307-332-7700 Trout Unlimited to Restore Cutthroat Habitat in Grade Creek Federal Grants Jumpstart Planning and Construction Work WASHINGTON, D.C. Thanks to two major federal grants, Trout Unlimited (TU) will soon begin work…

Bristol Bay Wild Salmon Featured in Prestigious Science Journal

Contact: Tim Bristol, Trout Unlimited, Alaska Program Director, 907-321-3291, tbristol@tu.orgPaula Dobbyn, Trout Unlimited, Alaska Director of Communications, 907-230-1513, pdobbyn@tu.org Bristol Bay Wild Salmon Featured in Prestigious Science JournalStudy’s Main Authors Suggest a Large Mineral Development Such as Pebble Could Pose a Substantial Threat to the Fishery’s Long-Term Health. (Anchorage, Alaska, June 2, 2010) — An…

Responding to warming waters in the Gulf of Maine

Published in Conservation

By David VanBurgel Picture fly fishing in Maine: canopied streams; cold water tumbling over granite; deep lakes; brook trout as colorful as the streambed gravels of their native waters. The impacts of climate change may not be so easy to see in Maine as they are other places. Still, a recent articleby prize-winning journalist Colin Woodard…

Cold Stream—A Trout Conservation Inventory

Published in Uncategorized

Today, ownership of 8,000 acres of Maine’s finest trout habitat transferred to the state’s Department of Conservation. Staff there will start working with their colleagues at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to develop a management plan to protect and enhance brook trout and whitetail deer habitat on the Cold Stream property, while…

Gear test: Solve the mystery bird call with Song Sleuth

Published in Uncategorized

Identifying that mystery bird call is only a recording away with a new app. Courtesy photo. By Brett Prettyman There are few things that can distract me while fishing. I tend to tune everything out except the sounds of the water and wildlife. Watching certain species of birds flying erratically over the river has tipped…

Deming Creek restoration benefits Klamath bull trout, redband

Published in Uncategorized

The new confluence of Deming Creek and the South Fork Sprague River. By Chrysten Lambert Trout Unlimited, in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service Parnter’s Program completed a substantial habitat reconnection project on the South Fork Sprague River, the headwaters of the iconic Klamath River. The project involved restoring the Deming Creek tributary…