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Reflecting on the Summer | TU Teens of Gallipolis
by Shannon Mayes Our summer started off with a bang on some brook trout streams in WV. The fish were mostly small, but plentiful. WV brook trout are absolutely beautiful fish! On June 27th eight students, four boys and four girls, along with four chaperones and myself left Gallipolis, Ohio to travel 9 hours, crossing…
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Still standing strong for Bristol Bay
By Nelli Williams Standing in a packed elementary school gym last week I found myself once again marveling at the persistence and perseverance of the people when it comes to protecting Bristol Bay’s salmon resources. The fight to safeguard Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine has been waging for over a decade, and yet…
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TU applauds Regional Conservation Partnership Program improvement bill
Oct. 17, 2017) WASHINGTON, DC – Trout Unlimited, its 300,000 members and supporters nationwide, and its dozens of staff members who work with farmers and ranchers daily, applaud the introduction of the Regional Conservation Partnership Program Improvement Act bill today. The bill is designed to make the Farm Bill’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program, (RCPP), one…
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State of Trout Unlimited 2017
SOTU 2017 10142017 from Trout Unlimited on Vimeo. Trout Unlimited President and CEO Chris Wood presents the State of Trout Unlimited at the TU annual meeting in Roanoke, Va., in September 2017.
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Beads demystified
Beads for fly tying can be mystery, especially for beginning tiers who are looking to either dress up a nymph or a streamer or to simply get the fly down deep and avoid having to use split shot while fishing. Video of Beads and ConesHere, Tim Flagler gives some sage advice on beads, and notes…
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The hardest fly to tie?
The author's Adams. Or... a distant cousin to the Adams. I love to tie flies. But, like a guy who also loves to sing in the shower, I'm better off keeping my skills to myself. Of late, while working away at the computer, my office has turned into a remote fly-tying station. I'll tie a…
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Do you ‘fish and tell?’
What if I were to tell you, hypothetically speaking, that I had an absolutely epic day today (which is often the case in October in Colorado, unless it snows … and sometimes even when it does)? So what qualifies as e pic? Put in at a public launch. Took out at a public launch. Floated…
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