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TROUT Tip – detecting strikes
Detecting strikes while fishing with nymphs is often difficult. Strike indicators are helpful, and Tom Rosenbauer from Orvis walks us through how to use them most effectively. But don’t forget they are not mandatory as you can often watch the line for a strike as well. Give both methods a try depending on the water…
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Challenges delay but don’t stop big project in NC
Trout Unlimited’s project managers are accustomed to encountering challenges in the field. Jeff Wright, who until recently was TU’s Southern Appalachians program manager, had no idea what he might face during a major culvert replacement project deep in the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina. Hurricane Helene, which devastated large swaths of landscape across the Southeast early in the fall of…
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Photo of the Week – Be a champion
Trout Unlimited has a new tagline: “Every River Needs a Champion.” And while we would like to think it describes an organization that has grown from one grassroots chapter in Michigan to a national operation with outsize impact on conservation, really the tagline is about the people of TU, all the hundreds of thousands of…
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Trout Tip – selecting nymphs
Now that dry fly season is pretty much over, it’s time to fish under the surface. Watch this week’s tip video from Orvis on how to select nymphs, which kind of trout food they imitate and how to pick the right fly. See All Orvis Learning Center Fly Fishing Video Lessons
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Exemplifying service partnership in the Golden Trout Wilderness
The Golden Trout Wilderness is one of those rare places that captures the imagination—a remote, wild landscape that sits high on many anglers’ bucket lists. Rugged terrain and long miles of backcountry trail can make it feel out of reach, but for those who make the journey, it’s an experience unlike any other. This past…
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River champion Steve Brooke never gives up
Steve Brooke doesn’t actually remember his “first fish.” But there is a memento of that moment, a photo of a not-yet-year-old Brooke sitting on his mom’s lap, her holding a pretty cutthroat trout caught near the family’s home in Colorado Springs. Steve Brooke got an early introduction to trout. Not yet 1, here he sits…
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Every river needs a champion.
Look in the mirror. What you see is a champion.
My home-water, the Potomac River, is far from trout country (although TU’s restoration work in the headwaters has anglers now catching native brook trout). This spring, the Friends of Fletcher’s Cove hosted a day on the Potomac for kids from D.C. who had never been near the river, much less caught fish from it. On…