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Tip – how to fish streamers
This time of year, many fish are looking to bulk up for winter, so fishing streamers can be thrilling. Give this video from Far Bank Fly Fishing School’s Simon Gawesworth a watch to learn more about how to fish with streamers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obiSR60BSS0&list=PLf2jMTk22hA104BZdrAQUZSCHsz_P_3pN&index=2
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The True Cast – Poise
Even now, If I could earn any one word, it would still be “poise.”
The tallest one-word compliment I ever got in my life came from a high school English teacher, Bill Schoff, who was tasked with providing one word to describe a student upon their graduation from Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. Mr. Schoff was a magnificent writer who contributed to The New Yorker and many other…
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A Love Letter to Trout Town
There’s a knock on the door at 3:00 a.m., barely loud enough to register. I turn back in bed and begin to drift, but a subtle rap-rap-rap follows. Cody gets up from the other queen bed and walks across the room to check the motel room peep hole. He cocks his head and turns to…
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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…