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30 Great Places: Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Region: Southern Appalachia Activities: Fishing Species: Brook, rainbow and brown trout Where: Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles 800 square miles along the border of western North Carolina and southeastern Tennessee. Within a day’s drive of nearly half of America’s population, it’s the nation’s most popular national park, with upwards of 9,000,000 visitors annually. Why:…
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30 Great Places: Hermosa Creek
Region: Southern RockiesActivities: Mountain biking; Skiing; 4WD; Fishing; Hunting, campingSpecies: Colorado River cutthroat trout; elkWhere: The Hermosa Creek Watershed comprises 107,886 acres in La Plata and San Juan Counties, in southwestern Colorado. The area, just north of the town of Durango, is in public hands, managed as a combination of wilderness, roadless and special management…
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Short casts: Waders and reels for Harvey relief, Alberta’s threatened cutthroats, Bessie Hudgens and more
Photo courtesy of The Advocate With the "Cajun Navy" recalled from the lakes and bayous of the South to help rescue stranded victims of the relentless rains brought about by Hurricane Harvey, the good folks at Orvis are out to turn the fly fishing community into the "Texas Marine Corps." The Vermont-based company is asking…
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Smith River: What’s next?
Tintina stumbles over first regulatory hurdle: Much more to come. While the DEQ has approved Tintina's application for a permit, the process is only beginning. Make your voice heard today. What can you do? 1. Write the Governor by clicking the take action button below 2. Post your support for the Smith on your…
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30 Great American Places
September is a month tailor-made for sportsmen and women and there is no better place to spend it than on our public lands. The dog days of summer have given way to cooler temperatures and a multitude of opportunities beckon hunters and anglers: brown trout chasing streamers, elk bugles ringing through the mountains, ruffed grouse…
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Native Odyssey: The Deschutes National Forest is a fishy wonderland
Editor's note: The TU Costa Five Rivers Program sent a handful of young anglers on fishing and discovery journey all across America in search of native trout. This installment focuses on Oregon's Deschutes National Forest. Location: Deschutes National Forest The Deschutes National Forest stretches out across 1.6 million acres of Central Oregon. It provides a…
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Brook trout discovery yet more proof that headwaters matter
By Jeff Reardon I’m following a green state truck through Freeport, a coastal Maine town best known as the home of L.L. Bean, horrendous summer traffic and outlet malls, when the truck slams to a stop on a busy road. I know this isn’t the right spot, but I check my GPS anyway. No, it’s…
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