Trout Magazine

  • 11.2 miles

    The Mill Creek Dam Fish Passage Project site, post-construction and just prior to this winter's heavy rains. The roughened main channel and side channel will make it easier for coho and steelhead to migrate past the site. As record-breaking rains pounded northern California over the past three months, emphatically ending five years of extreme drought…

  • Madison Gallatin TU VSP Takes MSU Student Vets Fishing!

    The Madison-Gallatin TU Chapter in Bozeman has developed a great relationship with the Montana State University Student Veterans Club. MSU Vets have volunteered to help MGTU run 3 chapter fundraising events and participated in a willow planting project as part of a chapter stream rehab project on a tributary of the Madison River. MGTU has…

  • MT Smith: Did you get your permit?

    To everyone who drew a permit to float Montana's Smith let us be the first to say: Congratulations, you lucky son-of-a-gun. Not only are you about to embark on one of the country's most amazing floats, you have also earned the distinction of making nearly 10,000 hopeful applicants from across the country jealous of your…

  • 11.2 miles

    The Mill Creek Dam Fish Passage Project site, post-construction and just prior to this winter's heavy rains. The roughened main channel and side channel will make it easier for coho and steelhead to migrate past the site. As record-breaking rains pounded northern California over the past three months, emphatically ending five years of extreme drought…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Slow Down the Fall

    The video below may seem a bit poorly timed, what with spring springing all over the country, and its contents dealing largely with fly fishing in the fall. But, just the other day, on blustery March afternoon, I lucked out and managed to get into a really prolific blue-winged olive hatch on the South Fork.…

  • Cleaning up the Shoshone River

    A young volunteer moves one of the seemingly countless tires found in Shoshone River during a cleanup arranged by the East Yellowstone Chapter of Trout Unlimited near Cody, Wyoming. Photo provided by the East Yellowstone TU Chapter By Brett Prettyman The Shoshone River near Cody, Wyoming, put off an impressive tire hatch over the weekend…