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Native Odyssey: Jacob Lacy
Editor's note: The TU Costa Five Rivers Program is sending five college students on a native trout odyssey across America this summer. Meet Jacob Lacy one of the five lucky participants. As a Colorado native I knew I’d end up finding something to take me outside and up to the mountains. With biking, hiking, and…
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Native Odyssey: Heather Harkavy
Editor's note: The TU Costa Five Rivers Program is sending five college students on a native trout odyssey across America this summer. Meet Heather Harkavy, one of the five lucky participants. Hi everyone. My name is Heather Harkavy and I am a senior at Florida State University, majoring in marketing and minoring in hospitality. Throughout…
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Native Odyssey: Matt Crockett
Editor's note: The TU Costa Five Rivers Program is sending five college students on a native trout odyssey across America this summer. Meet Matt Crockett, one of the five lucky participants. I have lived in Tennessee my entire life. I first began to fly fish in the Nashville area, where I grew up. I waded…
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Fishing Alaska: Don’t forget the lakes
I always look forward to this time of year, when the ice is newly broken off our nearby lakes, the black flies and mosquitos aren’t too ferocious, and the resident fish are extremely hungry. Unfortunately, lake fishing in Alaska often plays second fiddle, and is too often taken for granted, when compared to our state’s…
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Trout Tips: Size down or switch on a refusal
Editor's note: The following is exerpted from TU's new book, "Trout Tips," available for order online. If you know a fish saw your fly and didn't pay attention to it, switch your pattern entirely. When the fish does pay attention, mabye even tracks it ... rises... juuuust about opens its mouth, but, at the last…
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Voices from the River: Steelhead
Outgoing president of the Southcentral Alaska TU Chapter, Shannon Carroll, waiting for the tug of a steelhead. By Eric Booton I tossed and turned all night. The image of the chrome sides of that fish on it’s first jump forever etched on my brain and I fear, doomed to haunt me until I get redemption.…
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A Native Odyssey: A conservation road trip of a lifetime
"The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel." —Theodore Roosevelt President Theodore Roosevelt was a visionary, having set aside 230 million acres during his presidency for the American public to enjoy. In doing so, he…
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