Trout Magazine

  • TU Business Spotlight: Alaskan Angling Adventures, LLC

    Until you’ve been to Alaska, you don’t really understand the scope of the place – the sheer, monumental size of the 49th state. Saying you’ve been to Alaska is like saying you’ve been to Asia – there’s a lot of different places and experiences in that vast landscape. But one of my f avorite places…

  • Celebrate Arbor Day with TU in New York

    Trout Unlimited is working in partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Trees for Tribs Program and other partners to plant more than 4,200 native trees and shrubs on priority coldwater stream throughout eastern New York this spring. The goal of the planting projects is to help…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: I am a Fly Fisherman

    Put yourself in the shoes of Rich Schwend, a hard-rock miner from Billings, Mont., but also a rabid fly fisher. "Being a miner in a fly fishing community isn't easy," he says. He gets that, in today's fly fishing world, protecting our trout resources often means that anglers are at odds with the mining industry.…

  • Wyoming loses steadfast conservationist and visionary

    Mark Fowden retired ater 39 years with Wyoming Game and Fish in early January. He passed away March 31. Photo courtesy Wyoming game and Fish. By Cory Toye Wyoming lost a man who dedicated his life to the conservation and management of our great fisheries when Mark Fowden passed away March 31. Mark led a…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: The Red and Black Midge

    Midge nymph patterns are deliciously simple to tie, and the pattern Tim Flagler demonstrates in the video below is no exception. I love any fly that uses simple thread as a true fly ingredient, not just something to fasten all the other ingredients to the hook. The Red and Black Midge is dependen t on…