Trout Magazine

  • House hydropower bill bad for fish and wildlife

    On Wednesday, Nov. 8, the U.S. House of representatives will vote on HR 3043, the Hydropower Policy Modernization Act of 2017. This bill is described as an effort to improve the licensing process for non-federal hydropower projects. The bill seeks to accomplish this goal by placing new constraints on the participation of states, tribes and…

  • Flies to die for?

    The Royal Coachman. Worth dying for? Let's have a little fun, if no other reason than to talk about those fly patterns that just never seem to let us down. Here's the question: What fly would you climb out on a limb to retrieve, even if the limb looked a little sketchy and the tumble…

  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: Bird’s-eye view

    Sometimes, you can learn an awful lot more about a river, and specifically where fish will be holding in a river, by looking at it from above, rather than standing in it. Granted, that’s not always that easy when you are fishing in flat terrain. But I know plenty of anglers who have been driven…

  • The State of TU’s Grassroots

    TU National Leadership Council Chair Mick McCorcle delivers the State of TU's Grassroots at the TU annual meeting conducted in September in Roanoke, Va. State of Grassroots 2017 from Trout Unlimited on Vimeo.

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Fly fishing for cats

    Count me among the many who didn't think it could be done, at least not on a regular basis. I've managed to catch hard-head catfish on a fly in the Lower Laguna Madre and in the mangrove swamps near Pine Island in Florida. The former was on crystal-clear flats and I was sight-fishing to foot-long…