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Anchorage: A hub for women leaders in fly fishing
By Meghan Barker It doesn’t take much time spent in Alaska’s largest city to see that Anchorage is a growing hub for women who are taking charge and leading others in the fly fishing community. With access to some of the best salmon and trout streams in the world, the female angling community in Alaska…
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Hats off to educators across TU
I recently sat under a tent at the Western North Carolina Fly Expo and watched four teenagers speak to an audience of anglers about their experience as leaders in Trout Unlimited. Articulate, professional and a little nervous, they told the story of how it all started at Trout Camp. “Rivercourse changed my life” every one…
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Eat a salmon for Bristol Bay
Bristol Bay, Alaska … the center of the earth for wild sockeye salmon. It’s also focus of our battle against the proposed Pebble Mine, which would create North America’s largest open-pit gold and copper mine next to some of the most important salmon rivers left on earth. Bristol Bay continues to produce one of the…
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New book profiles women in angling industry
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.22.6" custom_margin="|auto|-306px|auto||"][et_pb_column type="1_3" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_text text_font_size="16px" _builder_version="3.22.6" background_color="#a5b446" custom_padding="10px|5px|10px|5px" text_font="|300|||||||"]Editor's note: This week we will celebrate some of the TU activists and volunteers featured in Fifty Women Who Fish. To get a copy of the book go to whywomenfish.com [/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Fifty-women-book-jacket.jpg" _builder_version="3.22.6"][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="2_3" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_image src="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/R5A4390_original-1.jpg" _builder_version="3.22.6"][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.22.6" custom_padding="||0px|||"]Lures, flies, bait, freshwater, salt water, yachts, kayaks,…
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Who is the ‘fishy’ person in your family?
Every family has that one person with a knack for catching fish. Aiza is that person in our family. She simply loves to fish. My nephew is one lucky guy. Almost three years ago he married Aiza. She is a talented millennial with a successful career in the tech industry and a loving mother of…
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Time for a new fishing hat?
On one of its first big fishing trips, the hat blew off my head as we motored across the morning surface of Black Lake. The sun had just hit the water, filtered by a thin layer of fog coming off the lake, and our guide goosed the outboard without much warning. It flipped off my…
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Double dose: Volunteers plant riparian edges of two New York trout streams
The Trees for Tribs Program from New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation provides Trout Unlimited with bare root and potted trees to plant along trout streams. Being a stream guy, I had to take advantage of the offer, made possible by funding from the Arbor Day Foundation. Walking through the tree garden I had my…
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