Trout Magazine

  • River Champions

    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…

  • Conservation

    Knowledge = protections

    For the past seven years, Mark Hieronymus has been on a mission to explore and document previously unknown anadromous waters in Southeast Alaska for Trout Unlimited’s Fish Habitat Mapping project.  Waters listed in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s (ADFG)  Anadromous Waters Catalog (AWC) are protected under Alaska law. Once streams are included in…

  • Fishing

    Is trout fishing better out West? Or just different?

    The instant the trout ate I felt my courtesy rewarded.

    The instant the trout ate I felt my courtesy rewarded. A few minutes earlier, Erik Johnsen and I had slipped down the dusty riverbank trail to a sweet-looking run on Colorado’s Eagle River, not too far from Vail. Johnsen wanted me to have the first shot, but I wasn’t having it. “It’s all you,” I…

  • Conservation

    Trout Unlimited Wins: What we accomplished in 2025 and where we’re going next year. 

    And without your support, Trout Unlimited would not be nearly as effective

    Trout Unlimited president and chief executive officer, Chris Wood, highlighted a tremendously successful 2025 for the organization, its members and supporters in this Year End Review: Celebrating 2025 Because of You. Augmenting the work of 370 dedicated national staff members, hundreds of thousands of volunteers produced tens of millions of dollars' worth of tangible impact that helped TU restore and protect waters nationwide.  The fish are back thanks…