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TU’s Mill Creek project wins Honorable Mention, ICEEFP Distinguished Project Award
TU's Mill Creek Dam Fish Passage Project, completed last fall, earned Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Project Award at the International Conference on Engineering & Ecohydrology for Fish Passage, held in Corvallis, Oregon, this week. Mill Creek is a tributary to California’s Russian River, an important watershed for endangered coho salmon and steelhead. The project…
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TU Business Spotlight – Mossy Creek Fly Fishing Has a New Home!
Maybe you’re already planning to attend the Trout Unlimited Annual Meeting in Roanoke, VA in September. You should be – it’s going to be great. And while you’re there, you must – repeat: MUST – visit Mossy Creek Fly Fishing in Harrisonburg, VA. Brian & Colby Trow are twin brothers who opened Mossy Creek Fly…
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Voices from the River: Pandora
By Chris Hunt We had a moment this week, my youngest brother and I. As we struggled through the instructions that came with the Sam’s Club charcoal grill we’d hustled to the store to acquire while three juicy ribeyes sat stoically on the kitchen counter, we connected through music and memory. We have one thing…
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Clean Water Rule Unraveled
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially proposed today to rescind the 2015 Clean Water Rule, established under President Obama in 2015. This action begins a process of unraveling years of work to protect some of the most critical streams and wetlands in our country. The agency is giving Americans only 30 days to weigh in…
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Dam’s down, shad return to New Jersey’s Musconetcong
An excavator begins work on removing the Hughesville Dam on the Musconecetcong River in New Jersey By Cole Baldino The American shad has been a staple of the eastern United States, especially the Delaware River, since early colonization. Some say those fish are part of the reason America is the way it is today, as…
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Video spotlight: Arctic Seasons
Fly fishing filmmaking has come a long way in a relatively short time—the advent of DSLR cameras, drones and even the GoPro and the immitators have made the craft accessible to a lot of anglers. But not everybody does it well. In fact, I'd suggest a small handful of filmmakers really knock it out of…
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TU Business Spotlight: Thin Air Anglers
It’s been a rough spring for a lot of fly anglers in the interior West. It was winter until not very long ago, and now that epic snowpack is melting. The meadows at our home place are under anywhere from a few inches to several feet of water. All the places we like to fish…