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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…