Trout Magazine

  • Community Featured

    Spring Fly Showdown: Clouser Minnow vs. Elk-hair Caddis

    Vote in the TU-Loon Outdoors Spring Fly Showdown

    Editor’s note: The biggest sporting event of spring, the NCAA basketball tournament, is simply not happening this year thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Anglers, though, can still effectively “social distance” and go fishing in areas where it’s safe and legal to leave the house, using their favorite flies. In that spirit, TU and our friends…

  • Community TU Business

    Help TU help our TU Business members

    Support our TU Business Partners

    Keeping our partners in business matters to us. After all, we're all in the same boat. Editor's note: In the coming weeks, we'll be asking you, our TU members, supporters and followers, to do some online business with some of our best TU Business Partners who give back to conservation again and again, and who…

  • Community Featured

    Spring Fly Showdown: The Hornberg vs. the Royal Wulff

    The Hornberg vs. the Royal Wulff

    Editor’s note: The biggest sporting event of spring, the NCAA basketball tournament, is simply not happening this year thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Anglers, though, can still effectively “social distance” and go fishing in areas where it’s safe and legal to leave the house, using their favorite flies. In that spirit, TU and our friends…

  • Community

    Adding some color to the chaos

    Bri Dostie, like so many others during this coronavirus epidemic, finds herself seeking comfort in something familiar. The Maine resident often ends up working on drawings to complete a nature/conservation-themed coloring book she plans to eventually release. Dostie is also keeping in touch with family and friends. A common theme has emerged among parents during…

  • Spring Fly Showdown: Schminnow vs. Purple Haze

    The Schminnow and the Purple Haze face off for bragging rights

    Editor’s note: The biggest sporting event of spring, the NCAA basketball tournament, is simply not happening this year thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Anglers, though, can still effectively “social distance” and go fishing in areas where it’s safe and legal to leave the house, using their favorite flies. In that spirit, TU and our friends…

  • From the President

    Mayflies making a difference

    Helping foster kids find a home on the water

    My friend, Billy, visited Middlebury College in Vermont, when we were seniors at St. Peters in Jersey City. I will never forget his reaction when he returned. “Cows! Chris, there are cows. Cows everywhere!” For a 17-year-old kid from North Bergen, N.J., cows were as foreign as trout are familiar to a fly-angler. Billy ended…