Trout Magazine

  • Community

    2023 TU Sweepstakes winners announced

    Our grand prize winner, Ronald K. of Florida, won a 5-days/5-nights trip for winner and up to three guests aboard the Equinox yacht departing from Sitka, Alaska or other location. He’ll enjoy fishing some of Alaska's pristine rivers and streams that hold big browns, rainbows, and more… and relaxing from the yacht after a productive day…

  • TROUT Magazine Snake River dams

    Naxiyam Wana and the Uniter

    Editor’s Note: This Native American Heritage Month, Trout Unlimited is celebrating and honoring the efforts of our tribal partners who, since time immemorial, have been stewards of the lands, waters and wildlife they hold sacred. We are inspired by the stories of the Nez Perce working to recover salmon on the Snake River, of the…

  • Dam Removal

    Naxiyam Wana and the Uniter

    Editor’s Note: This Native American Heritage Month, Trout Unlimited is celebrating and honoring the efforts of our tribal partners who, since time immemorial, have been stewards of the lands, waters and wildlife they hold sacred. We are inspired by the stories of the Nez Perce working to recover salmon on the Snake River, of the…

  • Fishing

    Business Depends on It

    We find ourselves advocating for what we love. It’s the unintentional experiences that cement our passion to conserve and protect. For Grant Richie, owner and operator of Minam Store Outfitters, that is clearly the case. Grant is a passionate advocate for cold-water fisheries, particularly the Grande Ronde River system. While attending college in Walla Walla,…

  • Fishing Snake River Snake River dams

    Love and Connection

    Ask north Idaho Spey anglers to describe what wild steelhead mean to them and you will get 100 rambling, mostly incoherent responses. But you will hear common themes: love and connection, unadulterated, unconditional, tough, infinite love and a longing for connection with the gamest fish in freshwater, not to mention the rivers and wild places…

  • Fishing The True Cast Trout Talk

    The True Cast – On Guides, Ghillies and the Great Ones

    I now get asked, all the time, whether guides these days, on average, can stack up against the guides from a generation ago...

    Twenty-some years ago, I wrote the book Castwork: Reflections of Fly-Fishing Guides and the American West with my cousin Andrew Steketee. It never got much commercial traction, but it did garner a cult following, and it got me discovered by Field & Stream. For all of you would-be authors out there, understand that a book…