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  • Team effort goes into Thompson Run restoration in Pa.

    A fisherman's concern about a stream was the impetus for a recently completed project on a small creek in State College, Pa. In November 2015, John Ford contacted Trout Unlimited stream habitat coordinator Phil Thomas and The Delta Program with the State College Area School District about an erosion and sedimentation problem (below) he had…

  • Ranching with cutthroat trout—an exercise in partnership

    Trout Unlimited worked with the Ramsay family to restore an important creek for both native cutthroat trout and farmlands in southwestern Wyoming. Jackson Ramsay photo. By Jackson Ramsay In August of 2000, a wildfire ripped through the rugged country of southwest Wyoming. At the time it was the largest fire burning in the United States.…

  • Mill Creek cutthroat restoration project complete

    Nearly 9,000 native Bonneville cutthroat trout, the state fish, were recently released in Mill Creek Canyon east of Salt Lake City. Mill Creek is now an entirely native fish system with Bonneville cutthroat, mountain suckers and longnosed dace all reintroduced after nonnative fish were removed. Brian Anderson photo. By Brian Anderson After a century absence,…

  • A day of celebration for the Roan Plateau

    Corey Fisher casts in the grottos of Parachute Creek atop the Roan Plateau in 2009. You haven't lived dangerously until you've subjected a rental car to the JQS Road. OK, sure. That might be a bit of an overstatement. But the sketchy, rocky, always-washes-out-when-it-rains, track up the east side of Colorado's Roan Plateau is easily…

  • Alaska Holiday High School fly tying material drive

    The egg sucking leech, a staple for every Alaskan's fly box - Photo: Jenny Weis This holiday season give the gift of learning, opportunity and fly fishing to Alaska High School Students! For the past 8 years Tim Lussow, a biology teacher at Colony High School, has helped expose the world of fly fishing to…

  • Through the mud and devastation there is opportunity

    A heavy sediment flush has turned the Shoshone River near Cody into a cholocate-covered death swim for trout and other aquatic invertebrates. Photo by Dave Sweet. By Tommy Thompson CODY, Wyoming - A recent mud flow in one of our local rivers has devastated not only a productive fishery, but also the hearts of our…

  • Summer’s End: Fishing with TU Teens of Gallipolis

    The TU Teens Club of Gallipolis, OH is the first of its kind in the mid-west region. Shannon Mayes is a teacher at the Gallia Academy Middle School and founded the club in 2013. TU Teens is part of the Recreation On Campus for Kids (ROCKS) program at GAMS. The club is strongly affiliated with…