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  • New gear: RIO Kahuna LT strike indicator

    Nymphing with indicators can be a pretty base sort of fly fishing—your cast is sometimes more of a heave rather than a truly clean delivery, and sometimes, because of the way indicators add wind drag, casts don't always land where you want them to. Thanks to RIO, though, that awkward nymph cast might be a…

  • New gear: Simms Tributary waders

    Those of us with kids have all been there. Do we spend the money on quality waders for the young ones so the whole family can enjoy a day or a season on the water? Or do we go with a lesser-known brand, one we don't trust, and kind of roll the dice? In a…

  • New gear: Maxxon XPW 240

    Like a lot of fly fishers, I'm enamored by the idea of a boat, but I'm not ready to be a serious boat owner—a drift boat, for instance, feels like it traps me into fishing just a couple of stretches of water close to home (and, for the record, I have nothing against drift boats).…

  • Conservation partners: Rep Your Water

    One of the best parts of attending the IFTD show is the chance to catch up with folks who help TU and our chapters all over the country. So it was nice to catch up with Garrison and Corrine Doctor of Rep Your Water, which is based in Boulder, but sells apparel all over the…

  • Native Odyssey: Touchdown in Anchorage

    Editor's note: Building off the success of last year’s Native Odyssey campaign, Trout Unlimited is sending four of our brightest college club leaders in the TU Costa 5 Rivers Program to explore the home of the world’s largest runs of wild salmon: Alaska. Starting July 5, these students will explore the Kenai Peninsula, Bristol Bay…

  • Attribution for science

    My father was a statistician. After I took introductory statistics my fourth semester in college, I remember him saying he was glad that I could now appreciate that what he did for a living was more complicated than compiling the statistics I read each day in the sports pages. While I did not follow his…