Trout Magazine

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: Stripping quills

    Quill-body flies are some of the most beautiful creations tiers can craft at the vise, but stripping feather quills can be kind of a pain. Video of How to Strip a QuillHere, the process is somewhat demystified by Tim Flagler, who shows us the best ways to strip both hackle quills and peacock quills, and,…

  • TU helping with Boardman Dam removal in Michigan

    Trout Unlimited has been acting as a sub-contractor to provide construction oversight of the Boardman Dam Removal river restoration project in Traverse City, Mich., an effort that will continue through early 2018. The Boardman Dam, originally constructed in 1894 as a hydropower generation dam, had no fish passage capabilities. The project is one of three…

  • Import

    TU helping with Boardman Dam removal in Michigan

    Trout Unlimited has been acting as a sub-contractor to provide construction oversight of the Boardman Dam Removal river restoration project in Traverse City, Mich., an effort that will continue through early 2018.    The Boardman Dam, originally constructed in 1894 as a hydropower generation dam, had no fish passage capabilities.   The project is one of three dam removals on the…

  • Pebble’s permit application accepted by Army Corps

    Photo by Tim Romano Step 1: Take a deep breath. Really. Have you done it? Ok good. Now keep reading. On Friday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers accepted Pebble’s application for permits to mine in Bristol Bay. Step 2: repeat step one. The fact that the Pebble mine proposal even got this far is…

  • To net or not to net … that is the question

    I have good friends on both sides of this debate, and both sides make compelling arguments. I don’t really know where I fall half of the time. One camp suggests that nets are harmful for trout, and you shouldn’t mess with them. Some nets (like uncoated nylon) will damage the protective slime layer on a…