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Red is the new golden
Rough roads and spooky golden trout in California 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…
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The popper-dropper? You bet
My friend Rob McConnell is the Texas equivalent of a Rocky Mountain creek freak -- a kindred soul if you will ... a fellow traveler. But, instead of searching out small, out-of-the-way cutthroat trout streams in little-traveled reaches of high-elevation backcountry, he combs the precious few acres of public lands in East Texas for swampy…
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Infrastructure package could help the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin
A massive package of legislation, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is currently working its way through Congress, having been passed by the Senate earlier this week. If enacted, this bill would make essential investments of remarkable size and scope to help the nation address the impacts of climate change, including some of the worst impacts of the…
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Volunteers use app to monitor water quality in Driftless Area
By Dan Dauwalter Sometimes it is easy to identify areas where restoration will best benefit a river system, but not all issues within the environment are obvious to the human eye. Following a successful 2019 pilot program conducted by volunteers from the Kiap-TU-Wish Chapter of Trout Unlimited in western Wisconsin, a decision was made to…
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“Equitable treatment” for wild salmon and steelhead
A 41-year-old promise is yet to be met in the Columbia River basin Back in 1980, Congress promised that salmon and steelhead would receive “equitable treatment” with the operation of the Columbia River basin hydropower system. What we are seeing today is far from “equitable.” The fact that wild salmon and steelhead in the Snake…
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Sweetwater Travel stands with TU on Lower Snake
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” —Winston Churchill At first blush, none of the three Vermillion brothers bear much resemblance to Winston Churchill. They’re taller, fitter and I have yet to see any of them wearing a Homburg hat or travelling with their own stock…
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TU Tested: Sea Run rod and gear cases
From the moment I spied the photos and read snippets about Sea Run cases from Italian high-end gun case maker Negrini, I knew they had made something special. I’ve made my own fly rod cases multiple times, and used about every manufacturer’s version over the years for both travel and extended float/road trips. Most of…