Trout Magazine

  • Headwaters

    Exploring conservation through TU Expeditions

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    Learn More and Apply Today! We are excited to announce our second summer of Trout Unlimited Expeditions. TU Expeditions offer high school and college students a unique opportunity to engage in hands-on conservation work, develop outdoor skills and build lifelong connections with like-minded peers. These immersive programs blend adventure, education and service to inspire the…

  • Restoration

    Faces of Restoration: Reid Brothers restore Southeast Alaska streams

    When it came time to find a construction contractor for a restoration project on a remote, mostly uninhabited island in Southeast Alaska, Trout Unlimited’s Alaska habitat restoration director, Aaron Prussian, didn’t have to look very far. “Construction projects in remote Alaska are inherently challenging,” said Aaron. “We needed a contractor with the right expertise and…

  • Gear reviews

    Book review: A must-read for those who share the passion

    xcite is exactly what his words did for me during the dead of winter doldrums when fishing doesn’t have the same allure that summer hatches bring.

    As a wanna-be fly fishing writer, I know just how hard it is to make words dance, excite and motivate. But as I put down Dave Karczynski’s Calling After Water; Dispatches from a Fishing Life, I deeply felt the calling of rivers and streams thanks to his effortless prose. Excite is exactly what his words…

  • Restoration

    Faces of Restoration: Mike Nelson, Washington coast contractor

    Olympic Resources: Restoring salmon and steelhead habitat on the Washington Coast On one of his first visits to Ziegler Creek, a tributary of the Quinault River watershed on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, TU’s Luke Kelly remembers finding a Sockeye salmon stuck in the pool below the large culvert blocking access to the creek’s high-quality spawning and…

  • Barrier removal

    Avoiding science imperils salmon

    A long-awaited environmental impact statement (EIS) regarding plans for fish passage improvements on Maine’s Kennebec River finally dropped on Feb. 28. Trout Unlimited and our many partners and supporters who are invested in the health of the Kennebec are disappointed that the EIS ignores the best available science and could doom endangered Atlantic salmon to…