Trout Magazine

  • Conservation

    Reflecting on the Yankee Fork project

    Idaho work turns river right side up to help salmon, steelhead and trout It took a floating dredge just a few years between 1940 and 1952 to turn seven miles of Idaho’s Yankee Fork of the Salmon River upside down. In the 68 years since, there has been almost no natural recovery — the valley…

  • Boats

    Peer-to-peer boat rental? Yup, that exists

    Not unlike Airbnb for houses, or Turo for cars, the company Boatsetter basically does the exact same thing for boats. No kidding. Big boats, little boats, and almost everything in between. Recently, Boatsetter also acquired Fisher Guiding, a U.S.-based platform launched in 2017 for booking fishing guides and charters. Hum… Do I smell drift-boat rentals…

  • Trout Talk

    When the weather breaks and the rains come

    Photo by Mark H. Anbinder A group of friends had meticulously planned a big float of the upper Henry's Fork from Big Springs to Mack's Inn this past weekend. It's been a hell of summer — we went the better part of a month without rain and here in Idaho Falls, we went through the latter…

  • Travel Featured Fishing

    When terminal doesn’t have to mean the end

    Sometimes you get what you ask for. Sometimes you get much more, but my experience pursuing Lahontans served me a reminder that things worth having are always worth earning.

    Conservation success and concern for Lahontan cutthroat trout Daniel Ritz is fishing across the Western United States this summer in an attempt to reach the Master Caster class of the Western Native Trout Challenge, attempting to land each of the 20 native trout species in their historical ranges of the 12 states in the West. You can follow Ritz as he…