Trout Magazine

  • Gear test: Rodmounts Rod-Up System

    Here in Wisconsin starting on one stream in the morning, meeting for lunch somewhere else, hitting another stream in the afternoon, and then heading to yet another river for the evening rise is not uncommon. All of that requires driving around, and can involve multiple instances of taking down and then reassembling rods, or trying…

  • EPA receives record-setting comments for Bristol Bay protections

    By Jenny Weis You learned the facts about the massive proposed Pebble Mine. You've seen the fish pictures. Maybe you've released the legendary rainbows back into the cold, clear water. You've read the science. You've been outraged at the lies told by the Pebble Partnership. And then, you took action. More than 750,000 comments were…

  • New California law reflects TU priorities, input

    Multi-benefit flood control projects in California's Central Valley, which will help bolster depleted runs of salmon and steelhead in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, will benefit from funding authorized by the state's new parks-and-water bond legislation. On Sunday, October 15, Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr. signed into law a measure that has been one…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Trickle

    Want to feel small and insignificant? Take a look at this film below that follows a single trickle of water as it rises from vapor in the Pacific Ocean, moves west as part of a cloud over the Kitimat Range of northwestern British Columbia and then falls as a single snowflake high in the mountains.…

  • Reflecting on the Summer | TU Teens of Gallipolis

    by Shannon Mayes Our summer started off with a bang on some brook trout streams in WV. The fish were mostly small, but plentiful. WV brook trout are absolutely beautiful fish! On June 27th eight students, four boys and four girls, along with four chaperones and myself left Gallipolis, Ohio to travel 9 hours, crossing…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: Craft-fur Clouser

    I love fishing Clousers. I hate tying with bucktail. I can never seem to get the bucktail material to lie flat and stay flat. Most of my Clousers tied with yellow and white bucktail have splayed tails and likely swim like nothing a fish predator has ever seen. Video of Craft Fur ClouserThanks to Tim…