Trout Magazine

  • TU Councils on national monuments

    Want to know what 30 of Trout Unlimited's state councils had to say about national monuments? Here's the full text of their official comments, submitted July 10. July 10, 2017 Monument Review, MS-1530 U.S. Department of the Interior 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240 Comments of Trout Unlimited on DOI-2017-0002, Review of Certain National…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: The Line

    Good short films tell good stories. Below, the North Face film featuring professional skier Tatum Monod and her father does just that. Video of The LineAn extreme athlete, to be sure, Tatum notes that she was fly fishing with her dad before she was skiing. It's a sport that has the potential to bring us…

  • Off the deep end

    Photo by Al Quatrochhi What does the editor of TROUT magazine do for kicks on a free weekend?Chases 400- to 800-pound mako sharks with fly rods off the coast of California with his buddies. Naturally.Makos eat flies.They run fast. They jump high. They pull really hard. And they can eat you.Best gear test in the…

  • Travel

    Successful 2017 VSP Couples Trip in the Books!

    The 2017 Veterans Service Partnership Couples Trip to Slough Creek and Yellowstone Park is in the books! Over the week-long trip, our 5 veteran couples and 5 volunteer guides shared what everyone agreed was the "trip of a lifetime!" Each day, the stream dropped and cleared, and we enjoyed excellent dry fly fishing for Slough…

  • Wild: Firehole River brown trout

    Tom Reed with a nice Firehole River brown trout. We’d walked maybe a mile away from the bike trail that crosses the Firehole River, just upstream of the Fountain Flat parking area, putting a bit of distance between us and the last couple of anglers we wandered past that early June day several years back.…