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The True Cast: On guides and guiding
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it…
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Trout Unlimited Presents: Flowing Free
Recovering native trout and restoring communities in Wisconsin On a seasonably mild early September day last year, Chris Collier stood on a bridge deep in Wisconsin’s Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. As he watched the creek flow under his feet, Collier couldn’t help but smile. The newly installed bridge had replaced a culvert blocking fish passage, and…
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TU Costa 5 Rivers Club Spotlight: Fort Lewis College
TU Costa 5 Rivers Club Spotlight: Fort Lewis College Fort Lewis College Bucknell University Sewanee: The University of the South Washington and Lee University The TU Costa 5 Rivers Program is a network of over 70 college fly fishing clubs that work to encourage anglers of all experience levels to get involved in conservation and…
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Working together for the gold: Meadow restoration in Golden Trout country
For the California Golden Trout, even minor levels of meadow degradation have big impacts on resident populations.
Mountain meadows serve as a key habitat for many inland native trout species across the West. Unfortunately for California’s inland trout populations, some sixty percent of meadow habitat in the Sierra Nevada—home to eight distinct native trout species—is considered impaired. For the California Golden Trout, whose native range sits above 7,500 feet in elevation and…
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A wild Alaskan hunt now threatened
Wilderness experiences here today may not be tomorrow
Wilderness experiences here today may not be tomorrow Just north of Anchorage, a vast swath of land offers some of the best hunting and fishing opportunities in Alaska. The remote area west of the Susitna River currently has few roads and is teeming with healthy, productive habitat for salmon, trout and Alaska’s iconic big game…
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The True Cast: Is fly-fishing an “elitist” pursuit?
Okay, so as we shove this “True Cast” column/ship off the dock, we may as well start with a doozie. Every now and then, I get a nastygram telling me I focus too much on fly fishing, that I should get off my high horse, and run more stories about “conventional” tackle, and that fly…
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“The True Cast”
A new column for a new year.
A new column for a new year. New Year’s resolution—write more, and be more willing to say what I “really think.” I’m not assuming that anyone should care necessarily, but there’s a lot of confusing information out there about trout and salmon fishing—the way we go about it, how we measure success, who does what…