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Conservation Funding: Interior and Related Trout Unlimited Letter to U.S. House appropriators, opposing harmful riders to Interior, Environment and Related Agencies spending bill
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Wild: Bill Templin and the South Fork Kings River
Bill Templin and wild trout, SF Kings River. By Sam Davidson Almost twenty years ago, a man who had carried on a long term love affair with what must be one of the most underappreciated trout streams in the Sierra Nevada decided he was in a generous mood, and would form a group to share…
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Short casts: Greenbacks get a new home; Zinke tours Oregon monument; volunteer preaches clean water
Photo by Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Colorado’s state fish, the imperiled greenback cutthroat trout, got a boost this week when nearly 1,000 year-old fish were released into a small stream high along the Continental Divide above the famed Eisenhower Tunnel that cuts through the mountains that divide the state in two. The fish,…
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New gear: Waterworks Lamson Center Axis rod and reel
The idea is to "de-lever" the fly rod. To remove the weight of the reel from the fly rod and make it so you're holding a single product, not two unique tools for fly fishing. It's brazen, I'll give you that. The Waterworks Lamson Center Axis rod-and-reel combo was perhaps the most curious new product…
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AmeriCorps Team Moose 4 helps out trout!
The Moose 4 team: (Left to right) Becca Marcott, 25, Linwood, Mich; Brandon Shepard, 23, Mt. Juliet, Tenn.; Adam Bagley, 20, Seattle; Josh Kenon, 22, Colquitt, Ga.; Jacob Allen, 25, Golden Meadow, La.,: Gus Merwin, 25, Pardeeville, Wisc.; and Kennedy Morris, 22, Greenville, S.C. . A team from AmeriCorps has been helping out trout in…
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Voices from the River: The impartial third party
By Jenny Weis I imagine the following series of events has played out in households other than just mine: Partner loves fly fishing and goes all the time. Partner tells me *he thinks I, too, would love fly fishing. I believe him and am genuinely excited for him to teach me! Partner teaches me to…
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Video spotlight: Fly Fishing for Cutthroat Trout
It's that time of year ... runoff is over, for the most part. High-country streams are cold and clear and accessible. The bugs aren't as bad as they were a month ago. It's cutthroat time. These magical weeks of summer and into the fall are the best time of year to catch native cutthroat trout.…