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How are aquatic insects coping with climate change?
A Willowemoc creek green drake. By Jerry Schoen We have seen a lot on the TU blog and elsewhere about how climate change is affecting fish and their cold-water habitats, but one under-appreciated concern is that climate change also disrupts the life cycles of aquatic insects. This, in turn, might upset entire freshwater food chains…
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Video spotlight: Strobel Xtreme
Forgive the overpowering soundtrack and the gratuitous use of the GoPro. Focus on the fish. I've had the good luck to visit Patagonia a couple of times and fish both lakes and rivers for plus-size trout. But these rainbows from Strobel Lake in Argentina are ... unbelievable. Notice how the anglers are essentially tossing large…
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Why this trout angler likes wind farms
By Paul DoscherI'll admit it. I was what some call an environmentalist (I prefer conservationist) before I was a TU member. Of course, I had angling in my history, but that was back when my father would wake me up at 5 a.m. on summer mornings so we could go out and catch our summer…
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Native: Trinity River ‘half-pounders’
A "half-pounder" steelhead from northern California's Trinity River. My buddy Sam and I met at the Fly Shop in Redding, Calif., eager to make the springtime drive over the Coastal Range to a little cabin on the banks of the fabled Trinity River. It was the tail end of steelhead season in northern California, and…
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Short casts: Show time!
The new Redington CRUX fly rod. Ah, it must be show time. As in the International Fly Tackle Dealer (IFTD) show held this year in conjuction with the International Convention of Allies Sportfishing Trades show (ICAST). You can tell because of all the press releases hitting social media over the last couple of days promoting…
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2.5 million comments for national monuments
If our support for public lands wasn’t apparent before, it should be now. More than 2.5 million American commented in favor of national monuments and the Antiquities Act over the past 90 days. In that mix were Trout Unlimited leaders from 30 states across the country who submitted comments for the official record yesterday. If…
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Voices from the River: Flossing
by Eric Booton The midnight sun came and went. We are so accustomed to the unending daylight that we neglected to pack headlamps. We were already run out a fishing hole earlier in the evening by black bear and passing anglers were warning us of a momma brown bear with cubs. It wasn’t the most…