Trout Magazine

  • Skills: Float tube basics

    By Dave Atcheson I have to smile to myself as I watch a line of buddies negotiating the trail in front of me. There’s nothing beautiful about it, just a tangle of legs and arms sticking out from brightly colored rings, bobbing from side to side between the trees in an absurd and uncoordinated display.…

  • Sacred Waters: The Pere Marquette system

    The author standing on the railroad bridge where the first brown trout were introduced to America. By Kirk Deeter Most anglers have home waters—places they consider sacred. For me, the tracks always lead back to Baldwin, Mich., and the Pere Marquette River system. It was here where I learned to fly fish. Many years ago,…

  • Bill threatens National Monuments and Antiquities Act

    The House Natural Resources Committee advanced a bill this week that would alter the very foundation of the Antiquities Act, a tool that has been in use for more than 100 years to protect important cultural and natural resources on public lands. The National Monument Creation and Protection Act, H.R. 3990, was introduced late last…

  • TU opposes H.R.3990 re: National Monuments

    171011_TU_oppose_H.R.3990_markup.pdfOctober 11, 2017 Re: Please Oppose H.R. 3990, the National Monument and Protection Act Dear Chairman Bishop, Ranking Member Grijalva, and members of the Committee: On behalf of behalf of Trout Unlimited and its nearly 300,000 members and supporters nationwide, I am writing to urge you to oppose H.R. 3990, the National Monument and Protection…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Slow Down the Fall

    The video below may seem a bit poorly timed, what with spring springing all over the country, and its contents dealing largely with fly fishing in the fall. But, just the other day, on blustery March afternoon, I lucked out and managed to get into a really prolific blue-winged olive hatch on the South Fork.…