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Photo of the week – coastal
Whether you’re on the East or West coast, you know the beauty they provide, not to mention the abundance of life.
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TROUT Tying Tip – all about hooks
Here are a few more videos to get you started. Understanding hook sizes, debarbing them and securing them to the vise will get you on your way to tying your first fly. See All Orvis Learning Center Videos
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TU Science: Salmon, forests, floodplains, and carbon on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula
Trout Unlimited is working with a broad coalition of partners to restore the aptly named Resurrection Creek on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. Resurrection Creek was a locus of gold mining activity in Alaska in the early 20th century. Prospecting river gravels left some lucky few richer, many others without much to show for their efforts but…
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Where passion meets purpose: Join TU Expeditions
TU Expeditions applications are now open. Read on to learn more about what Expeditions entail. At just five years old, I was encouraged to embrace every opportunity. That’s how I found myself gripping a fly rod nearly twice my height, casting it once and never looking back. Ten years later, fly fishing was still a…
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Photo of the week – New Year
May this New Year bring you many smiles, many fish, many successes, and many many days on the water.
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Doing something to protect what you love
For Mike Mihalas, a surprise encounter in that pond (located in suburban Connecticut in this case) was the springboard to a life focused on fish, rivers and wild places.
Most of us don’t start our fishing lives on some storied fishery. Not many people spend their formative years on the Railroad Ranch of the Henry’s Fork nor in the lore-rich valleys of the Catskills, but a great many begin their journey at the exact same humble body of water; the neighborhood bluegill pond. For…
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TROUT Tying Tip – get started tying
To get to the fun stuff of tying actual flies sooner, here are a few videos to get you started tying. This week, Tim shows how to load the thread, get it started on the hook, and how to finish a fly with a whip finishing tool. Practicing all these skills before playing with tying…

