Trout Magazine

  • Community

    Instagram Live with Kara Tripp and Lynae Axelson from Damsel Fly Fishing

    Join me on Instagram Live at 2 PM MDT on Wednesday October 14 @troutunlimited when we talk with Kara and Lynae @ @damsel_fly_fishing about fishing, fashion and the road ahead for women in fly fishing!

    Kara Tripp and Lynae Axelson are sisters from Montana, and they are the straight-up real deal. I met these two several years back at a fly fishing show in Denver, and they became one of the first TU Business members focused entirely on creating great fly fishing experiences and gear especially for women. Kara is…

  • Conservation Advocacy Climate Change Featured Living with Fire

    Wildfire and climate change in Utah sparks conversation

    By Andy Rasmussen This summer Utah has suffered through a near record wildfire season. And residents along the Wasatch Front have been breathing smoke from California’s four million burned acres for the past two months. Catastrophic wildfire on this scale can destroy everything Trout Unlimited works so hard to accomplish. High-country rivers and headwaters can…

  • Youth Featured Travel TROUT Magazine

    Hiking the CDT: Old Faithful and goodbye Montana

    Just like that it was time to say goodbye to our friends. We had finished Montana and completed 991 miles of the trail.

    Editor’s Note: The Strawbridge family from Lakeland, Fla., is hiking the length of the Continental Divide Trail – all 3,100 miles of it – from Canada to Mexico. Henry Strawbridge, 14, will be providing updates of their journey to Trout Unlimited as they pass through the historic range of seven native trout species. You can track the…

  • Community TU Costa 5 Rivers Youth

    College group and TU team up for brook trout in Maryland

    By Morgan Stum  Trout Unlimited is working with Frostburg State University's AmeriCorps program to restore brook trout habitat in headwater streams in western Maryland. On Oct. 3, 2020, nine members of Frostburg State's ECHOSTARS program joined conservation staff from TU’s Western Maryland Initiative to plant 100 potted trees alongside a small Savage River headwater.   ECHOSTARS is an acronym for Empowering Communities, Helping Others, Service Through Action, Resources and Sustainability. The group is a university division of AmeriCorps where, through volunteerism in local…

  • Advocacy Featured

    The wild Tongass and common-sense policies

    If you’re an angler, throughout the year you can search out the elusive steelhead in small creeks, swing flies for all five species of wild Pacific salmon, catch sea-run cutthroat, Dolly Varden and rainbow trout.

    I grew up in the Tongass, the largest national forest in the United States. Most days, I feel like my upbringing here was like winning the lottery. My home bursts with diverse attractions and incredible recreation opportunities no matter my thrill of choice at any given time. One of my favorite parts about the area…

  • Community Featured Fishing

    Blues and fly fishing: two intertwined pursuits

    How are the blues and fishing intertwined? Check this out

    An angler fishes the salt off of Vancouver Island.

    I have been a lifelong musician and fisherman, but it wasn't until I really  seriously started fly fishing that I realized how closely the two pursuits are intertwined.  Becoming a blues musician has been a lifelong learning process that never seems to end. I can say the same for my fly fishing life. By the time I…