Trout Magazine

  • Import

    Used Christmas Trees Become Habitat for Coho Salmon

    Christmas for Coho is proud to announce we collected 400 used Christmas trees this January, which will be placed in an off-channel wetland complex in Oregon's Necanicum River as habitat enhancement for threatened coho salmon.    This project began in January of 2011 when the Tualatin Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited started collecting used Christmas…

  • Climate Change

    Climate change and Nevada’s Walker Lake

    The relationship between fish, people and water in Nevada is a sordid tale, with Walker Lake, nestled in the western corner of the state, as a particularly interesting character.  Walker Lake historically sustained one of the few lake-form populations of Lahontan cutthroat trout, growing large predatory trout similar to the much-famed Pyramid Lake just to…

  • Lifelong love affair

    Childhood days spent wandering and fishing California's South Fork Kings River became the foundation of a man's life as a sportsman-conservationist. By Bill Templin You probably have one of those places in the Great Outdoors that you've been visiting since you were very young. For me it's the South Fork Kings River.SFKingsRiver@oldSwimminHole_Templin.jpg (L) The "old…

  • Redbands: Fish of the desert

    A Better Path: Stewardship of the Metolius River Video of A Better Path: Stewardship of the Metolius River Editor's note: Happy Trout Tuesday! This is part of an ongoing series looking at an incredible and underloved species of fish - the interior redband trout - and a recently signed Conservation Agreement that will promote conservation…