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SweetWater Brewing and TU team up to raise more than $50,000 for clean water
By Mark Taylor Scott Jenson had some words of wisdom for a crowd gathered recently for a celebration at the Orvis distribution center in Roanoke. “We at SweetWater Brewing Company and Trout Unlimited have a lot in common,” he said, smilling. “There are two things that get us out of bed in the morning: fishing…
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How much backing do you need on a fly reel?
Gearing up a new fly reel is one of those anticipatory endeavors–it's a bit of work, but the pay-off is simple. You get to go fishing. But, believe it or not, there is a science to this process. I've geared up fly reels with backing and line, only to realize I've loaded too much backing—or…
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Let’s get back to our roots
These days, it seems like we encounter a lot of distraction - we're sucked in by problemsthat don'tmatter and daily stressthat haslittle consequence in the grand scheme of things.So for this year's State of Trout Unlimited speech we decided it was time to get back to our core values.For a few of us, that came…
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Short casts: Top streamers; skinny water fishing; farm pond bass; two flies for chromers
Photo courtesy Hatch Magazine. It's full-on fall in the Rockies. Snow has fallen in the high country and the aspen leaves are bright and gold. It's officially "streamer time," and Pat Straub, owner of Gallatin River Guides in Big Sky, Mont., is sharing his list of favorite fall streamers for trout on the prowl this…
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Reminder – “A River Runs Through It” at Sundance Mountain Resort
It was the movie that brought thousands of new people to fly fishing. Director Robert Redford's interpretation of Norman Maclean's classic novella about family and fly fishing was an overwhelming success when it came out in the fall of 1992. Set in Missoula, Mont., in the 1920s it brought the beauty of wild fish and…
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Growing up with fresh water means never growing out of it
By Mandy Nix I’ve always been a child of water. A native to the North Carolina Piedmont, I spent the stickiest of summers at Kerr Lake (pronounced “Car”), the 50,000-acre reservoir that stretches across the line between the Old Dominion and my own Tar Heel State. Some mornings I’d greet the water as a freshwater…
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TU members rally behind Clean Water Rule
What Happened: Sept. 28 marked the close of comment period on the first step of a two-step rollback of clean water protections under the Clean Water Rule. Trout Unlimited members and supporters came out in force to express opposition to this proposed rollback and to share concerns about protections of headwaters and small streams so…
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