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What do trout hear?
I get lots of questions about trout, but many of them come this time of year. The sunlight shows itself for short periods, and the nights are long and cold. Seeing ice on riverbanks and entire lakes frozen over, people begin to think about what happens to the species that swim under their surfaces. What…
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Finding ‘lake mode’ out of angling necessity
I'm not much of a lake guy. Don't misunderstand that statement. I like lakes as an idea. Fishing them, though, is problematic, mostly because the lakes I would relish fishing are well off the beaten track — I'm only willing to tote a float tube so far before I lose interest, and I'm only willing…
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Hiking the CDT: Old friends in new places
By Henry Strawbridge Editor’s Note: The Strawbridge family from Lakeland, Fla., hiked the length of the Continental Divide Trail – all 3,100 miles of it – from Canada to Mexico. Henry Strawbridge, 14, provided updates of their journey to Trout Unlimited as they passed through the historic range of seven native trout species. You can track the…
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Fishing Pennsylvania and beyond with Sky Blue Outfitters
Give Pennsylvania a shot. Fish for trout, fish for smallmouth, fish for carp – but whatever you do, fish with SBO.
A couple of decades ago, I lived in a neighboring state for a while, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was practically in our back yard. I loved the place the first time I saw it. Dense timber, ridge and valley after ridge and valley, and in the bottom of every valley, a stream or a…
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Keeping it real at The Reel Life
Truth: I love northern New Mexico. I love the people, the culture, the history and the food. I love the fishing. You may think of the Land of Enchantment as a desert state — parched, bone-dry country where a fish has to take an Uber to find place to swim. Not so, my friends, not…
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Fish northwest Montana with Wild Montana Anglers
Martin City, Mont. Can you point to it on a map? Yeah, when Mark Fuller's Wild Montana Anglers first joined as a TU Business member, I couldn't either. It's north of Kalispell and east of Columbia Falls, on the west slope of the Rockies. And it's a wonderful place for the fly angler. Mark Fuller…
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Think Tank: Resolutions and barriers
We all know 2020 was a tough year. Sadly, our trout were not spared. Tragedy hit the TIC Virtual Think Tank at the Trailside Museum as the year came to an end. A December snowstorm and building closures combined with power outages created unsuitable habitat for our small fry. The situation was exacerbated by the…
