Trout Weekly

  • Conservation

    WaterSMART: The smartest water program you’ve never heard about 

    WaterSMART fishing on the green river

    Drought. Wildfire. Flooding. Excessive Heat. Low snowpack.   Look at any state in the West and you’re sure to find local examples of these extreme weather events and natural disasters. But while the challenges and headlines generated by these events are well known, the tools available to mitigate and combat their increasingly unpredictable impacts have received far less attention.  …

  • Photo of the Week

    Photo of the week – learning

    learning insect samples and guide book close up

    As anglers, we are naturally curious. There are many pieces to the puzzle to figure out while fishing, so we ask many questions seeking the answers with careful observation.   The insect puzzle is a good one to sort out early on in your fishing career. Once you know the bugs and hatches, you can often catch more fish.   Here’s to…

  • Community

    Conservación y educación en el río Fall

    Click Here for English El río Fall y Trout Unlimited El río Fall es una fuente esencial de agua fría y limpia para el río Deschutes, una de las Aguas Prioritarias de Trout Unlimited. El río Fall serpentea a través de tierras públicas, privadas y estatales, y es disfrutado por excursionistas, personas que pasean a…

  • Conservation Youth

    Conservation and Education on the Fall River

    Click Here for Spanish The Fall River and Trout Unlimited The Fall River is an essential source of cold, clean water for the Deschutes River, one of Trout Unlimited’s Priority Waters. The Fall River meanders through public, private, and state lands and is enjoyed by hikers, dog walkers, bicyclists, anglers, and locals who come here daily…

  • Restoration

    Creating balance on a Lower Sacramento tributary 

    paynes creek aerial view

    A new diversion facility on Paynes Creek improves fish passage for Northern California’s salmon and steelhead  Photos by Katie Falkenberg Flowing into one of Northern California’s most robust salmon rivers, the Lower Sacramento, Paynes Creek offers excellent spawning grounds for Chinook and Central Valley steelhead. But it’s also an important source of water for the people and…

  • Fishing

    The rarest hatch: Hard water in Virginia 

    ice fishing at sunset

    The text was short.  “How’s your schedule looking next week?” I typed to my buddy Sam. “I think we’re going to get a hatch by Sunday.”  He replied quickly: “Hatch? It’s February and it’s freezing.”  “Exactly,” I answered. “It’s the rarest of hatches here in Virginia: fishable ice.”  Ice fishing is an annual pastime for our friends up North. Here in…