Trout Magazine

  • From the field

    The call for rapid change

    The call for rapid change Greg McReynolds Dec 12, 2022 Beneath the slack water, it’s all still there. The main channel, braided in places, lined with reef and rock, hemmed in with granite and the dark loam that fueled the old orchards. Only 100 feet of water, less in most places, inundates the river below.…

  • Trout Talk

    Remembering Dave Whitlock

    It’s an editor’s worst nightmare to have to write something about the loss of a team member.  But that task is unimaginably more difficult when that person is your role model, inspiration and very dear friend. Dave Whitlock, who passed away on November 23, was among the kindest, most gracious, humble, yet supremely talented, energetic…

  • Advocacy

    Six “lame duck” wishes for trout and salmon

    Congress’ lame-duck session offers opportunities for trout and salmon The dust has (mostly) settled following the 2022 midterm elections, and next month a new Congress will be sworn into office. For Trout Unlimited, next year’s 118th congressional session represents an opportunity to forge new relationships and drive our coldwater conservation priorities. But while your newspaper…

  • Fishing

    Trouble in paradise: A reckoning for the Western life

    Questions for Bryce Albright, executive director of the National Dude Ranchers’ Association Editor’s Note: Trout Unlimited is inviting people from across the Colorado River Basin—ranchers, guides, elected officials, businesses, athletes, tourism officials—to talk with us about the West’s historic drought and how we can work together to meet the challenge of a world with less…

  • Conservation

    Sharing the water

    TU partnership secures permanent water protections for salmon and a historic mill in Oregon’s Rogue River basin Little Butte Creek joins Oregon’s Rogue River near the town of Eagle Point and contains some of the most important salmon and steelhead habitat in the upper Rogue basin. It is also home to the Butte Creek Mill,…