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  • Partnership, persistence take out dam on Ausable

    The Quarry Dam blocked fish passage on the Ausable River for decades. Jeff Yates/Trout Unlimited. By Jeff Yates Quarry Dam was a non-functioning concrete and wood dam rendered useless for years. The dam did nothing more than impede trout migration and warm impounded water on the world-renowned West Branch of the Ausable River in the…

  • Fly of the week: Chubby Chernobyl

    I remember the first time I saw the Chubby Chernobyl. It was well into the salmonfly hatch on the Madison — the part of the hatch where the smarter fish would actually come up and nose the fly to make sure it was real before turning around to actually eat it. It takes nerves of…

  • ‘One TU’ in Action on Vermont’s Mettawee River

    What makesTrout Unlimited such a powerful force in conservation across the country is not our expertise in river restoration, led by the world's best and most committedstaff.It's not our 420 local chapters and state councils, led by over 4,000 passionatevolunteers who marshal our 300,000 members and supporters to take care of local streams, engage local…

  • Fly Rod Golf: Building Community While Improving Your Cast

    Whether at a local Trout Unlimited chapter event, a backyard barbecue with friends or simply on your own for practice, you can turn any park or backyard into a fly fishing training course - and have a hoot doing it!At a recent meeting of the 253 - Beamoc Chapterin Roscoe, NY, a historic chapter taking…

  • Madison Gallatin TU Chapter Veterans Service Partnership

    Congratulations to Madison Gallatin TU and chapter VSP Coordinator Robert Allen for some wonderful work on behalf of our veterans. This is an excellent example of how TU's Veterans Service Partnership (TU VSP) works with a variety of veterans service organizations, in this case, Project Healing Waters and the Montana State University Student Veterans Club,…

  • Endangered fish share water to help trout

    A side-by-side before and after illustration shows how much water was added to help sportfish in the Provo River thanks to extra flow from an endangered fish program. Photos by Brian Wimmer/Alpine Anglers TU Chapter. By Brett Prettyman Anglers are almost always the first to notice issues in the environment. When anglers on the popular…

  • No Room for Mistakes on New York’s Upper Delaware River

    National Park Service photo. By Chris Wood and Jeff Skelding It could have been far worse. The Up per Delaware River dodged a bullet last week when heavy rains and flooding washed out a railroad culvert, and a 63-car train carrying an assortment of waste materials, some of it toxic, derailed near Deposit, N.Y. Two…