Trout Magazine

  • Community

    Meet Anna, TU Alaska’s new education coordinator  

    Anna Petersen is Trout Unlimited Alaska’s new education coordinator. She will work across southcentral Alaska to educate kids in all the things fish need for healthy habitat. If you’re interested in connecting with Anna on a youth education opportunity, you can reach her here. Without further ado, meet Anna: What is your hometown/current town? Anchorage,…

  • Fishing Trout Talk

    Tip – euro nymphing

    There’s a handful of names for this technique of using weighted flies, a long tippet and a colored leader instead of an indicator; Euro, Czech, Polish, French, tightline nymphing, etc. Whatever you’d like to call it, there is no argument that it is effective for catching trout, so if you’re looking to try a new…

  • Fishing The True Cast Trout Talk

    The True Cast – Patience

    They say “patience is a virtue” and I’ve never encountered any situation in this world that better fosters patience than fly fishing for trout. In many years of fly fishing, including both great successes and dismal failures, I have learned that the number one factor that separates a truly great angler from the rest of…

  • Restoration

    An ongoing commitment to restoring the Upper Klamath

    As the Klamath River is reconnected, Chrysten Rivard reflects on the partnerships and dedication guiding TU’s work for the basin’s fish, water and communities Salmon, steelhead and lamprey have been absent from the Upper Klamath Basin for more than 100 years. As we ready ourselves for their return to the cold, spring-fed tributaries and headwater…

  • From the President

    It’s official: Apache trout are back

    FWS removes the native fish from Endangered Species list in a first for a trout or salmon species The survival of Apache trout is a testament to the wisdom of protecting, reconnecting and restoring river systems to recover native trout. First listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Preservation Act of 1966, they later…

  • Community

    Washington public TV celebrates TU volunteers measuring culverts

    In Washington state, TU volunteers on the Barrier Assessment Team (BAT) train and work alongside staff to document and measure failing culverts acting as migration barriers for salmon, steelhead and other native species. WCTU's Steve Miller speaks at the "State of Salmon" panel discussion. Photo by Dannon Engquist. The program works with state, federal, county…

  • Snake River dams Snake River

    Time to go all in

    Current efforts are no longer cutting it for salmon and steelhead survival on the lower Snake It’s high time we admit we got it wrong; salmon and steelhead cannot survive in a highly modified river system like the lower Snake River. Despite our best intentions, the facts remain the same: Chinook salmon, steelhead and sockeye…