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Cookies on Saturday—Royal Treatment Fly Fishing
By Walt Gasson People sometimes ask me why I’m such an advocate for the small businesses – the family-owned fly shops, outfitters and other businesses - that make fly fishing happen in America. I don’t make any excuses for that advocacy, but I try not to get real preachy about it either. I usually just…
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Making headway in headwaters: 2017 a big year for restoration in WV
TU's work in West Virginia is improving conditions for trophy wild brook trout such as this 15-inch fish. By Mandy Nix Some have said that our history is in our trees, but for many others, there’s a blueprint of history in every ripple of water. It’s in the icy trickle from a limestone spring, and…
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Short casts: WA shuts down salmon farm; fly fishing industry going after women; nymphing with tiny flies, and more
Photo courtesy of Steve Ringman, Seattle Times The same company that allowed the accidental release of hundreds of thousands of farmed Atlantic salmon into the waters of Puget Sound has been ordered to shut down another of its salmon farm net pens, this one off the coast of Port Angeles, Wash. We've known for a…
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Tie now, fish later
The longest night of the year is approaching, which might sound a bit ominous to those who don't hunch over a fly-tying vise on cold winter nights, concocting next summer's offerings to rising trout. As kids of all ages are anxiously awaiting the arrival of good, old Santa Claus in just a few evenings by…
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Great Gear for Christmas – Vedavoo Rod Holster!
Sometimes, the simplest ideas are the best. I first saw this one at the ICAST show last summer, and it was love at first sight. I grabbed one immediately. We loved it so much we included it in the Holiday Gift Guide in the winter issue of TROUT. It’s not big, it’s not expensive and…
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A River’s Reckoning in Wild and Scenic Film Festival
A River’s Reckoning in the Wild and Scenic Film Festival Today Trout Unlimited is proud to announce that our film A River’s Reckoning, in partnership with American Rivers, has been officially selected into the 16th annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival—one of the nation’s most popular and prestigious environmental film events. The film, which will…
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TU statement on new recovery plans for Snake River salmon, steelhead
Recently NOAA Fisheries, the federal agency responsible for recovering marine and anadromous fish species listed under the Endangered Species Act, released new recovery plans for spring and summer Chinook salmon, and steelhead, in the Snake River. The Snake is the largest tributary to the Columbia River. Its runs of salmon and steelhead have declined dramatically…
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