Trout Magazine

  • Pebble advisors must know the answer is still no

    Alaska Program director, Nelli Williams, holds a microphone for a crowd of Pebble Mine opponents saying, "Wrong Mine, Wrong Place!" at a Monday rally in Anchorage. Photo by Brandon Hill From an op-ed published in the Alaska Dispatch News. Amid another EPA comment period regarding protections for Bristol Bay, Alaska from Pebble Mine (click here…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Extreme fishing with Dad

    Technology in fishing has grown by leaps and bounds over the last half-century or so. Anglers now can take to the water in bass boats equipped with mapping-grade sonar fish finders, trolling motors and gear that, to our grandfathers, would be likely be described as "newfangled." Even fly fishing has changed drastically—we now use graphite…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: Perdigon-style Zebra Midge

    The first time I ever used a Zebra Midge, I was bundled up in Neoprene waders and walking my float tube down the S-curves of Idaho's Silver Creek. Full disclosure: I'm not an enthusiastic nympher, and floating a sunken midge nymph under an indicator is probably my least-favorite brand of fly angling. But when I…

  • New gear: The Ripplebox

    A pair of fly fishing entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom are hoping to modernize the average fly box by making inserting and removing flies easier and cleaner, giving anglers more time with flies in the water. The new Ripplebox is brilliantly simple in its design, and, from what I can tell, a significant improvment over…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Patagonia’s first TV ad

    Outdoor manufacturer and retailer Patagonia took a bold step recently and produced the company's first-ever TV ad. Was the commercial about the new Patagonia waders that pack down into a bag the size of a loaf of bread? Or the company's new offerings in raingear or light-weight climbing attire? No. To all of the above.…