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Video spotlight: How to perfect your forward cast
Ah, the loop. The tight loop. The wide loop. That god-awful tailing loop. As RIO's Simon Gawesworth explains in the video below, the loop is the key to perfecting your forward fly cast. Gawesworth, the brand manager for RIO, walks us through the process to improving your basic forward cast. Don't laugh. Even season anglers…
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2017 Sweepstakes Winners
Grand Prize: Michael W. (CA) First Prize: Michael K. (NY) Second Prize: James W. (AR) & Nathan P. (PA) Third Prize: Michael P. (CA), Janet J. (CO), & Gregory A. (CA) Fourth Prize: Clayton B. (CA), Mark J. (ME), & Eric M. (PA) Fifth Prize: Troy R. (CO), Henry H. (WI), Kathy S. (MN), Thomas…
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Video spotlight: How to perfect your forward cast
Ah, the loop. The tight loop. The wide loop. That god-awful tailing loop. As RIO's Simon Gawesworth explains in the video below, the loop is the key to perfecting your forward fly cast. Gawesworth, the brand manager for RIO, walks us through the process to improving your basic forward cast. Don't laugh. Even season anglers…
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Voices from the River: An urban ‘Dream Stream’ is born
Trout landed at Confluence Park in downtown Denver, with an amazed Mayor Hancock in background. By Randy Scholfield For many years, the South Platte through Denver, like many urban rivers, was an industrial sewer—a place where people dumped trash and chemicals into the river and hoped it all washed downstream. Out of sight, out of…
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Great Lakes Stream Restoration program makes big gains in 2017
By Laura MacFarland In 2017, Trout Unlimited staff and volunteers helped to reconnect 42 miles of coldwater habitat within the Peshti go River watershed in Northern Wisconsin, as part of TU’s Great Lakes Restoration Program. In collaboration with the Forest Service and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, 10 inadequate culverts were replaced with fish-friendly…
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Trout Tips: Do new anglers a favor
Editor's note: The following is exerpted from TU's book, "Trout Tips," available online for overnight delivery. As somebody who has covered fishing for more than 25 years, I have realized, hopefully not too late, that I relied too heavily on the people I was writing about. Too often, I let them tie the knots, pick…
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Get loopy
By Kirk Deeter I go through cycles when it comes to fly selection. I once spent an entire summer fishing only five patterns, just to test the theory that presentation matters more than the fly pattern itself. I didn’t draw any conclusions, but I caught plenty of trout. For the record, those patterns were: Olive…