Trout Magazine

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Native Odyssey: Rocky Mountain National Park

    Public Land: Rocky Mountain National Park. Established Jan. 26, 1915, Rocky Mountain National Park was the 10th recognized national park in the United States. It is the best place in the Lower 48 for visitors to experience alpine landscapes and tundra. Driving in from Denver (just two hours away) allows for visitors to see numerous…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: The Catch

    When I was 13, I had a tackle box that awkwardly attached to the handle bars of my old 10-speed bike and my rod would break into two pieces, allowing it to stretch parallel to the handle grips. With the bike, the rod and the gear, I had glorious freedom. But in East Texas, a…

  • Community efforts make impact on Michigan’s Nash Creek

    By Jamie Vaughan Students in the Sparta, Mich., community have been crusading to protect Nash Creek for years, planting trees, restoring prairies, and installing rain gardens and other native plant gardens to reduce polluted stormwater runoff on Sparta Schools’ property. Last year, they took their work into the community and took on the large project…

  • Slough Creek Horse Ridin’ and Cutthroat Fishin’

    Today, our veteran couples took the morning off of fishing, put on their cowboy boots and hats, and did a horseback ride to Tucker Falls. The Tucker ride is a full-day ride to a beautiful waterfall on Tucker Creek, a tributary of Slough Creek. No fishing on this trip, but the scenery is gorgeous, and…