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Decline in Deschutes trout hurts local economy
Editor’s note: TU sent a handful of college students to the Pacific Northwest for this year’s TU Costa 5 Rivers Odyssey to study and fish in the Columbia River basin. While floating the eight miles from Warm Springs to Trout Creek on the Deschutes River, you can’t help but notice the vast amounts of watercraft…
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CORE Act closer to protecting the best of Colorado
With a pump of their fists and a tip of their caps, Colorado sportsmen and women are celebrating another successful step toward protecting some 400,000 acres of prime public lands and commending the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources for advancing the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy (CORE) Act out of committee this week. The legislation introduced by Colorado…
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High Water
The creek was out of it's banks when we crossed the bridge. Hard rain and a higher than normal snowpack had made its way down the mountain, spilling out into the hayfields and pastures, jumping out of the bend near the diversion ditch and coursing past the log fence in the back yard, a good…
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Struggles of the lower Deschutes
Editor’s note: TU sent a handful of college students to the Pacific Northwest for this year’s TU Costa 5 Rivers Odyssey to study and fish in the Columbia River basin. Oregon’s Deschutes river has long been known as one of the West’s most legendary watersheds. Known for its prolific hatches and dry fly fishing, specifically…
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Q&A: Pat Byorth
Pat Byorth has long been an advocate for anglers in Montana and with his recent appointment to Montana's Fish and Game Commission, he is continuing that tradition for the benefit of all Montanans. As a long-time TU employee, he has worked to restore some of our most iconic rivers such as the Madison and the…
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TU bloggers collect awards through OWAA
TU's digital content team reaped six awards at the 2019 Outdoor Writers Association of America conference in Little Rock, Ark., this week. Chris Hunt, national digital director, received four awards from the prestigious organization, including first-place awards in the Family/Youth Participation and the Humor categories. He also took two second place awards, one each in…
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Fishing dry flies over gravel runs
Those long, featureless gravel runs that can be found on a lot of western rivers--and freestone rivers throughout the country--might often be trout "dead zones," but as Orvis' Dave Jensen points out in the video below, during hatches, these stretches of water can be very productive. https://youtu.be/yjZbz_L7rPc Otherwise nondescript habitat, these gravel shelves can be…
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