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Short casts: Guides save drowning baby; restoring a PA spring creek; Nova Scotia salmon, and more
Those of us who have employed fishing guides know just how hard the work really is. It may seem a romantic profession—and certainly aspects of it border on ethereal—but mostly it's an up-early and to-bed-late gig with no traditional benefits like health insurance, a retirement plan or a pension. And it's not an easy job,…
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Embrace A Stream Challenge: ‘Give Where You Fish’
HELP LOCAL TU PROJECTS WIN $50,000 IN CASH PRIZESHelp local TU supporters, members and volunteers like you improve rivers across the country and unlock $50,000 in cash prizes to support their work!The Embrace A Stream Challengeis a fun, week-long online competition encouraging all of us to “give where you fish” and support local projects led…
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Trout Unlimited Alaska Hosts Chinook Panel
By Dave Atcheson Most Alaskans are painfully aware of the recent downturn in king salmon runs on many of our streams. The numbers of returning Chinook salmon have remained alarmingly low for the last several years, prompting fishing closures in many areas, including the previous season’s closure of the entire Southeast region. It was with…
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TUDARE hosts 10th annual bus tour of restoration sites
By Duke Welter Near ly 60 people participated in a recent bus tour to visit restored streams in the heart of Southeast Minnesota’s Driftless Area. In this 10th annual tour organized by the Trout Unlimited Driftless Area Restoration Effort, participants got to walk four streams and talk with project managers, biologists, designers and contractors. Questions…
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Stream protection effort in PA, featured in new film, gains traction
By Rob Shane Pennsylvania boasts more than 86,000 miles of rivers, streams and creeks, second in the United States only to Alaska. That’s three-and-a-half trips around the earth. Thirty trips from Los Angeles to New York. It’s five times more than the 10 largest rivers in America—combined. These 86,000 miles provide clean drinking water to…
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Short casts: Roadless battle over?; EPA cuts; salmon sex, and more
Some of America's wildest lands should staty that way if a legal decision last month in Washington has any staying power. The U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia threw out the state of Alaska's last-ditch effort to undermine the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects some 50 million acres of public lands, including Alaska's…
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How big will you go with a click-and-pawl?
I spent most of the past few weeks fishing only with click-and-pawl reels. That was mostly just for kicks. I have nothing against disc-drag reels (What are you kidding? I love disc-drag reels), but every now and then I get into palming the reel myself. And let’s face it, a click-and- pawl reel sounds beautiful…
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