Trout Magazine

  • The Lodge at Green Cove

    Tellico. It’s kind of a mysterious word. The Cherokee wrote it “Talikwa” and used it in the names of several of their towns in the Great Smoky Mountains. They say the actual meaning of the word was lost in their language. It’s possible that it’s origin isn’t Cherokee at all, but Muskogee. The Muskogee say…

  • Climate change amplifies stressors, stresses PA’s state symbols

    Pennsylvania's native brook trout already face stessors. Climate change is making those stressor more accute. Photo by Chris Hunt. By Brian Wagner On March 27, I attended a program titled, “Roundtable on Climate Change: Effects on Fish, Wildlife and Forests,” at Wilkes University in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. The program was put together by Ed Perry,…

  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: Skate the fly

    This little small-stream rainbow gobbled up a skated caddis. Ah, the dry fly, cast upstream over the perfect current seam. Is there a better sight in all of fly fishing?And when it works out ... Damn, it 's awesome. It's inspiring, effective and, well, it's proper. But things don't always line up just right, do…

  • Join Us for Spring Cleanup Next Saturday, May 12th!

    Spring Clean Up Day, coordinated by the Rotary Club of Jackson Hole, is a community tradition in Jackson Hole - a chance for community volunteers to roll up their sleeves and clean up trash and debris left behind after the snow has melted. JHTU will once again be participating to cleanup Flat Creek in Karns…

  • Students, volunteers celebrate Connecticut’s Salmon Creek

    In celebration of Earth Day, Sharon Central School students and local volunteers took part in a day-long planting project to help restore the banks of the Salmon Creek in Salisbury on Tuesday, April 24. At the annual Salmon Kill Watershed Festival organized by Trout Unlimited and the Housatonic Valley Association, students planted native trees and shrubs such as…

  • Shasta Trinity Cascades TU: Serious stewardship

    When your local trout stream is the lower Sacramento River, one of the best tailwaters in the world, you might have extra incentive to take care of it. TU’s Shasta Trinity Cascades Chapter, based in Redding, Calif., is channeling that incentive into action. STCTU recently celebrated the onset of spring and the amazing trout fishery…