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Roads to recovery in Wisconsin’s North Country
Where roads intersect with chilly, clean trout water, you'll find TU's Chris Collier at work As a kid growing up in Ohio, Chris Collier looked forward to vacations of fishing, camping and boating in the wilds of Northern Michigan. These days, he’s creating new memories as a relatively recent transplant to the region. “Northern Wisconsin…
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A drift boat takes shape
From the editor: A few weeks ago, we introduced you to a radical drift boat design from Justin Gallen over at Raindog Boatworks. Since then there have been a few updates. Today, we have another from Justin on how the boat is progressing. By Justin Gallen Hey all you raindogs! We left off just having flipped the "Gunnimoon" over…
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Cooling off coldwater streams
Cooling off coldwater streams BY CHRISTINE PETERSON In an ever-warming West, hydrologists and anglers place hope in Mother Nature's refrigerator The creek running through Pam and Brian Robertson’s property wasn’t actually a creek. It was a ditch. A really, really deep ditch that funneled rushing runoff from the mountain to the Clearwater River each spring.…
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PA’s Coldwater Habitat Program gets it done in ’21
Pennyslvania's Coldwater Habitat Program had another productive year in 2021, its efforts resulting in an astonishing reduction in sediment and nutrients across the state's waterways. The team has highlighted a handful of the projects in a newsletter that will be shared with the more than 14,000 TU members in the Keystone State, along with the…
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Wrestling calves, reconnecting rivers
TU’s Cory Toye brings people, industry, and agencies together to protect streams and native fish in the Bighorn Basin. Cory Toye’s birthplace of Meeteetse, Wyoming—population just over 300—is a prime example of Western ranching country. Here, like many rural communities, locals rely on their connections to land and water for their livelihoods. They are ranchers,…
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This force for native trout and salmon conservation is in Texas. (Yes, Texas.)
The Guadalupe River chapter of TU looks well beyond their state and their (engineered) river to drive important conservation changes for native trout around the nation.
Native fish come first at Trout Unlimited. Wild trout come second, when they do not compromise native fish. Hatchery fish do not belong if they interfere with wild and native fish. TU was founded on the banks of the Au Sable River of Michigan by a group of anglers who were frustrated that the state…
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Deeter: I really wish there were a new company selling XXXXXX to anglers
Even though I have some favorite brands, I think competition spurs innovation, and that pushes everyone to get a little better. I’m eager to watch what unfolds.
We are quickly approaching the International Fly Tackle Dealer trade show March 30-April 1 in Salt Lake City. That’s where the angling business community usually sees the debut of new products like reels, rods and the like. I’m like a kid in a candy store when I go there, and this year will be interesting,…