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New book profiles women in angling industry
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.22.6" custom_margin="|auto|-306px|auto||"][et_pb_column type="1_3" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_text text_font_size="16px" _builder_version="3.22.6" background_color="#a5b446" custom_padding="10px|5px|10px|5px" text_font="|300|||||||"]Editor's note: This week we will celebrate some of the TU activists and volunteers featured in Fifty Women Who Fish. To get a copy of the book go to whywomenfish.com [/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Fifty-women-book-jacket.jpg" _builder_version="3.22.6"][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="2_3" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_image src="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/R5A4390_original-1.jpg" _builder_version="3.22.6"][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.22.6" custom_padding="||0px|||"]Lures, flies, bait, freshwater, salt water, yachts, kayaks,…
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Fly Fishing on a Changing Yellowstone
Sometimes is takes a crisis to spur action. It's an unfortunate reality—in order to realize that something is dreadfully wrong, something that can't be ignored must first happen. In the summer of 2017, after a low-snow winter in southwest Montana, thousands of native mountain whitefish went belly up on the Yellowstone River between Gardiner and…
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Who is the ‘fishy’ person in your family?
Every family has that one person with a knack for catching fish. Aiza is that person in our family. She simply loves to fish. My nephew is one lucky guy. Almost three years ago he married Aiza. She is a talented millennial with a successful career in the tech industry and a loving mother of…
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Oregon denies clean water certification for Jordan Cove LNG project
The Oregon coast near the proposed site of the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal. Photo: Gary Vonderohe By Kyle Smith Last week, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) denied the Clean Water Act Section 401 application for the Jordan Cove Liquid Natural Gas Project and the associated Pacific Connector Pipeline (collectively “Jordan Cove Project”).…
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What the Animas can learn from the Arkansas
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_image src="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Buck.jpg" _builder_version="3.22.6"][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_column type="2_5" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_image src="https://www.tu.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20170201_120929.jpg" _builder_version="3.22.6"][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="3_5" _builder_version="3.22.6"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.22.6"]Let’s take a minute to daydream. Close your eyes and envision beautiful mountain scenery and cold, clean water drifting through the valley floor, bugs flitting through the clear, blue sky, and the possibility of sighting wildlife around every bend. Listen…
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Time for a new fishing hat?
On one of its first big fishing trips, the hat blew off my head as we motored across the morning surface of Black Lake. The sun had just hit the water, filtered by a thin layer of fog coming off the lake, and our guide goosed the outboard without much warning. It flipped off my…
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The cruelest month
Biggest fish of the day, general trout season opener, Los Padres Reservoir, April 2019. April is the cruellest [sic] month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Thus begins The Waste Land, T.S. Elliot’s most famous work and the defining poem of the Modernist era…