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Chris Hunt

  • TU Five Rivers Odyssey: A future for salmon and Bristol Bay students

    Photos courtesy Bristol Bay Fly Fishing and Guide Academy. Teaching young adults about the significance of salmon conservation is one of the best methods to ensure our fishy friends’ existence in the future. Corporations and non-profit organizations in Alaska have teamed up to make sure that this effort goes full send. The Bristol Bay Fly…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Arctic Char in Baffin Bay

    The Arctic char of Nunavut, the northern-most Canadian territory that lies just west of Greenland across Baffin Bay, are amazing fish. They cruise into rivers and streams running into the Arctic Ocean on tidal flows starting in the summer, and they are aggressive eaters. In the fall, just like their char cousins, the Dolly Varden,…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: The Bluegill Belly Bean

    Here in the West, we're officially in the Dog Days — it's hot. As Niel Simon wrote in Biloxi Blues, "Man, it's hot. It's like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn't take this kind of hot." OK, maybe I'm being a little dramatic. But, when it gets this hot, it stresses our lower-elevation trout strea ms—water temperatures…

  • The gift of a fly pattern

    Photo shamelessly lifted from Scott Hood's Facebook page. My friend Scott Hood shared a little video recently on his Facebook page—simple instructions for tying his locally famous TFTCE fly (The Fly That Catches Everything). To date, Scott tells me, this Woolly Bugger-variant has nabbed about 15 species of fish, both near Scott's home in Broken…

  • TU Five Rivers Odyssey: Running on empty

    Editor's note: Building off the success of last year’s Native Odyssey campaign, Trout Unlimited sent four of our brightest college club leaders in the TU Costa 5 Rivers Program to explore the home of the world’s largest runs of wild salmon: Alaska. These students are exploring the Kenai Peninsula, Bristol Bay and the Tongass National…

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the River: Yellowstone promise

    A native Yellowstone cutthroat trout. A backcountry treasure. Photo by Chris Hunt. By Chris Hunt Who knows how many times I'd driven over the little creek as it flows southeast through an arched culvert toward its eventual confluence with the mighty Yellowstone River. A hundred? At least a hundred. And every time, I made a…