Trout Magazine

  • Challenges delay but don’t stop big project in NC

    Trout Unlimited’s project managers are accustomed to encountering challenges in the field.  Jeff Wright, who until recently was TU’s Southern Appalachians program manager, had no idea what he was to face for a major culvert replacement project deep in the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina.  Hurricane Helene, which devastated swaths of the landscape across the Southeast early in the fall…

  • Photo of the Week

    Photo of the Week – Be a champion

    Trout Unlimited has a new tagline: “Every River Needs a Champion.” And while we would like to think it describes an organization that has grown from one grassroots chapter in Michigan to a national operation with outsize impact on conservation, really the tagline is about the people of TU, all the hundreds of thousands of…

  • River Champions

    River champion Steve Brooke never gives up

    Steve Brooke doesn’t actually remember his “first fish.” But there is a memento of that moment, a photo of a not-yet-year-old Brooke sitting on his mom’s lap, her holding a pretty cutthroat trout caught near the family’s home in Colorado Springs. Steve Brooke got an early introduction to trout. Not yet 1, here he sits…

  • From the President River Champions

    Every river needs a champion.

    Look in the mirror. What you see is a champion.

    My home-water, the Potomac River, is far from trout country (although TU’s restoration work in the headwaters has anglers now catching native brook trout). This spring, the Friends of Fletcher’s Cove hosted a day on the Potomac for kids from D.C. who had never been near the river, much less caught fish from it. On…

  • Community

    2025 TU Sweepstakes Winners Announced!

    Our grand prize winner of the “Ultimate Montana Fishing Adventure”, Adam D. of Kansas, won a 4-day/5-night trip for winner and a guest at Healing Waters Lodge in Twin Bridges, Montana. Located in the heart of Ruby Valley, surrounded by incredible angling choices, our winner and guest will fish iconic rivers and streams that hold big browns, rainbows, cutthroats, and more. Led by experienced and personable guides, they will float and fish beautiful blue-ribbon fisheries…