Trout Magazine

  • 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.…

  • 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…