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Video spotlight: The Line
Good short films tell good stories. Below, the North Face film featuring professional skier Tatum Monod and her father does just that. Video of The LineAn extreme athlete, to be sure, Tatum notes that she was fly fishing with her dad before she was skiing. It's a sport that has the potential to bring us…
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Off the deep end
Photo by Al Quatrochhi What does the editor of TROUT magazine do for kicks on a free weekend?Chases 400- to 800-pound mako sharks with fly rods off the coast of California with his buddies. Naturally.Makos eat flies.They run fast. They jump high. They pull really hard. And they can eat you.Best gear test in the…
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Wild: Firehole River brown trout
Tom Reed with a nice Firehole River brown trout. We’d walked maybe a mile away from the bike trail that crosses the Firehole River, just upstream of the Fountain Flat parking area, putting a bit of distance between us and the last couple of anglers we wandered past that early June day several years back.…
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How are aquatic insects coping with climate change?
A Willowemoc creek green drake. By Jerry Schoen We have seen a lot on the TU blog and elsewhere about how climate change is affecting fish and their cold-water habitats, but one under-appreciated concern is that climate change also disrupts the life cycles of aquatic insects. This, in turn, might upset entire freshwater food chains…
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Native Odyssey: Rocky Mountain National Park
Public Land: Rocky Mountain National Park. Established Jan. 26, 1915, Rocky Mountain National Park was the 10th recognized national park in the United States. It is the best place in the Lower 48 for visitors to experience alpine landscapes and tundra. Driving in from Denver (just two hours away) allows for visitors to see numerous…
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Video spotlight: The Catch
When I was 13, I had a tackle box that awkwardly attached to the handle bars of my old 10-speed bike and my rod would break into two pieces, allowing it to stretch parallel to the handle grips. With the bike, the rod and the gear, I had glorious freedom. But in East Texas, a…
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Short casts: New lake in Wyoming; shad in Oregon, clean water takes a hit
Big migratory Bonneville cutthroat trout are among the fishiest resources of the Wyoming Range. This spring, a landslide created a new lake in the Wyoming Range's Willow Creek drainage. From the “How Cool is This?” department comes the news of a new lake in western Wyoming. This last winter’s record-setting snowfall caused an entire mountainside…
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