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A brief history of the drift boat
One can make the case that the Catskills of New York are the cradle of American fly fishing. Montana, with the “rivers that run through it,” may be the sport’s spiritual home. But unequivocally, my home state of Oregon is the birthplace of the McKenzie River drift boat—known more colloquially as the drift boat; or…
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Cool Fishing Shirts, Custom Designed for TU…
Oshki turns recycled Great Lakes plastic into fashion.
Oshki turns recycled Great Lakes plastic into fashion. Jackson Riegler wanted to be a marine biologist. Or maybe a scuba diver. He was a kid from small-town Michigan in love with the Great Lakes. Now as a newly-minted University of Michigan graduate, he’s swimming in fashion-industry waters poised to make an even bigger difference on…
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Behind the TROUT Cover: Tim Romano
Every year, our family takes our summer vacation to my wife’s family camp in the Adirondack Mountains in New York state. For me it’s Shangri-La. Days of barefoot cavorting with my girls in the lake blend into incredible fishing for trout, lakers, smallmouth, landlocked salmon. The human powered wooden boat scene there is incomparable, too.…
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TU Tested – The 2022 Gift Guide
NRS Slipstream Series Deluxe packages starting at $4,495.00 • nrs.com With 50 years of innovation, NRS (Northwest River Supply), is highlighting their well-deserved reputation in whitewater and marrying it with the angling community. This year, NRS released an angler dedicated inflatable, the Slipstream series. A sure challenger to any drift boat, the Slipstream is worthy…
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At Trout Unlimited, “infrastructure” = fixing rivers
One year after passage of the historic law, we’re getting to work on our waters This week marks the one-year anniversary of perhaps the most important piece of conservation legislation in a generation. A substantial portion of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s $1.2 trillion in funding is being invested in our natural infrastructure, into our waters…
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Reconnecting the Klamath
FERC’s license surrender order clears the path to remove four old dams on the Lower Klamath River The decades-long campaign Trout Unlimited and our Tribal and conservation partners have waged to restore the third most productive river for salmon and steelhead on the West Coast has taken a dramatic leap forward. Today, the Federal Energy…
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Trout Unlimited, Forest Service launch $40 million initiative
New chapter in a longstanding partnership to recover and reconnect trout waters on public lands A century ago, Gifford Pinchot wrote: “The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves, in a sense, responsible for that future.” As the nation’s first head of the U.S. Forest Service after its…