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  • Short casts: Show time!

    The new Redington CRUX fly rod. Ah, it must be show time. As in the International Fly Tackle Dealer (IFTD) show held this year in conjuction with the International Convention of Allies Sportfishing Trades show (ICAST). You can tell because of all the press releases hitting social media over the last couple of days promoting…

  • 2.5 million comments for national monuments

    If our support for public lands wasn’t apparent before, it should be now. More than 2.5 million American commented in favor of national monuments and the Antiquities Act over the past 90 days. In that mix were Trout Unlimited leaders from 30 states across the country who submitted comments for the official record yesterday. If…

  • TU Councils on national monuments

    Want to know what 30 of Trout Unlimited's state councils had to say about national monuments? Here's the full text of their official comments, submitted July 10. July 10, 2017 Monument Review, MS-1530 U.S. Department of the Interior 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 Comments of Trout Unlimited on DOI-2017-0002, Review of Certain National…

  • Off the deep end

    Photo by Al Quatrochhi What does the editor of TROUT magazine do for kicks on a free weekend?Chases 400- to 800-pound mako sharks with fly rods off the coast of California with his buddies. Naturally.Makos eat flies.They run fast. They jump high. They pull really hard. And they can eat you.Best gear test in the…

  • Travel

    Successful 2017 VSP Couples Trip in the Books!

    The 2017 Veterans Service Partnership Couples Trip to Slough Creek and Yellowstone Park is in the books! Over the week-long trip, our 5 veteran couples and 5 volunteer guides shared what everyone agreed was the "trip of a lifetime!" Each day, the stream dropped and cleared, and we enjoyed excellent dry fly fishing for Slough…

  • Wild: Firehole River brown trout

    Tom Reed with a nice Firehole River brown trout. We’d walked maybe a mile away from the bike trail that crosses the Firehole River, just upstream of the Fountain Flat parking area, putting a bit of distance between us and the last couple of anglers we wandered past that early June day several years back.…