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Projects in Driftless area informing approaches to future efforts
By Duke Welter TU and partners continue to work together to improve trout streams — and to improve trout fishing — in the Driftless Area. Lessons learned along the way are being used to inform future efforts. Kiap-TU-Wish Trout Unlimited, Wisconsin DNR, NRCS and other TUDARE partners recently completed a project on the Trimbelle River…
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Video spotlight: Orvis presents “Mend”
By Kirk Deeter If you haven’t already, please take a moment to check out this video by Orvis about a great young man (and fine angler) named Joey Maxim. I had the opportunity to fish with Joey and his father several years ago at the Orvis Guide Rendezvous in Missoula. The day on the water…
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No Room for Mistakes on New York’s Upper Delaware River
National Park Service photo. By Chris Wood and Jeff Skelding It could have been far worse. The Up per Delaware River dodged a bullet last week when heavy rains and flooding washed out a railroad culvert, and a 63-car train carrying an assortment of waste materials, some of it toxic, derailed near Deposit, N.Y. Two…
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Voices from the River: TU internship fuels public lands appreciation
The author shows off a bright steelhead pulled from a Great Lakes tributary. By Chad Tokowicz Fly fishing is more than a hobby. The sport has allowed me to develop a closer relationship with the various places I have called home. Fly fishing helps me align with the rhythm of the natural world, providing a…
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Brook trout restoration projects taking hold in Virginia and Pennsylvania
Recent electrofish sampling of Virginia's Passage Creek, site of a native brook trout repatriation effort, found a mix of stream-bred young of the year trout and transplated adults. By Mark Taylor A trout stream with no trout? That doesn’t make sense, does it? A pair of projects in the East are showing what’s possible when…
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Voices from the River: Penns Creek gets even better
Great scenery, prolific hatches and beautiful wild brown trout combine to make Penns Creek one of Pennsylvania's most iconic trout streams. (Rob Shane photo.) By Rob Shane Penns Creek in central Pennsylvania has something for every type of angler. The bug life is outstanding, producing what might be the most prolific green drake hatch in…
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Voices from the River: Browned out
By Mark Taylor The river was brown. Coffee-with-heavy-cream brown. It's-been-raining-for-days brown. You-don’t-have-a-chance-in-hell brown. “Top off the raft and get the stuff down to the shore while I go drop off the truck,” I told my fishing partner for the day, Brett Prettyman. “I’ll probably be back before you’re done.” So, if conditions were more appropriate…
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