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Data loggers make monitoring stream temps easy
Check out TU's Stream Temperature Monitoring Handbook. By Kurt Fesenmyer One great way to take the pulse of your local river is by monitoring stream temperatures. Inexpensive data loggers offer the opportunity to record water temperatures every hour for several years, providing easy access to important information on seasonal patterns, short-term trends, and the impacts…
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Read the 2017 TU Annual Report
Dear Reader, On behalf of Trout Unlimited’s 300,000 members and supporters, 220 professional staff, and our trustees and grassroots leaders, we want to share with you the 2017 Trout Unlimited annual report. We realize that annual reports are essentially ritualized bragging, and should be generally read as such. Please consider these numbers, however, before you…
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Gear test: Sage SALT HD
When I first started saltwater fly fishing, I was generally clueless as to the role solid fly rods played in the success of anglers pursuing fish that didn't have banks or rapids or waterfalls to stop their runs. Not until I went to the Bahamas for the second time did I come to understand that…
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RIO announces winner of Amateur Fly Fishing Film Awards
RIO Products celebrates amateur film makers in the fly fishing arena with its second annual RIO Amateur Fly Fishing Film Awards. With many great films submitted for year two, Meris McHaney took away the grand prize for 2018 with her film “Lucky." "Lucky" - Winner of the RIO Award in the 2018 RIO Amateur Fly…
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Skills: Super Easy Non-slip Knot
I use non-slip knots almost exclusively when fishing streamers—I think they give flies more action in the water, and they're very dependable. But, as age and ... evoloving... eyesight are kicking in, tying the knot sometimes takes a while. Video of Super Easy Non Slip Loop KnotAbove, Tim Flager shows a great way to tie…
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What’s Charlie thinking?
It's raining here in Montana. The rivers are blown out and let's be honest—it's just kind of cold and miserable out there. So lets play a game. Fishing dogs are their own breed of hound. They're goofier and light of heart in ways working dogs or hunting dogs aren't. I like to think it's because…
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Gear test: Simms Bounty Hunter vault duffle
Transporting fly rods and other gear and tackle on long trips involving air travel or even overland trips across sketchy mountain roads has long been a challenge for anglers. There are lots of options for containing rods and reels, from double-compartment duffles, to heavy and bomb-proof "vaults" that essentially put your fly rods at the…
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