Yellowstone River Outfitters

About us WE OFFER GUIDED FLY-FISHING ADVENTURES ON THE PRISTINE WILD TROUT STREAMS OF THE GREATER YELLOWSTONE AREA. WHETHER YOU ARE AN EXPERIENCED ANGLER OF 20 YEARS, A COUPLE WITH A NEW FISHING PASSION, OR A FAMILY OF FOUR WANTING TO TRY FLY-FISHING FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE GREATER YELLOWSTONE AREA PROVIDES A DIVERSITY OF

Fast Times in Government Affairs

TU’s Government Affairs staff with the 2018 TU-Costa Five Rivers Odyssey team and program coordinator Andrew Loffredo, working the Halls of Congress recently. The last couple of weeks have been wild and wooly around Washington, D.C., as major packages of legislation worked their way through congressional conference committees prior to the government’s fiscal year coming

Voices from the River: Field day

About 800 miles from the ocean, high on the western slope of Lolo Pass, king salmon cling to life. By Warren Colyer You never know quite what to expect at a project site. And that’s one of the things I love most about my job. Granted, I don’t get too many field days anymore. It

Voices from the River: Fisherman’s Nightmare

By Scott Willoughby They call it Fisherman’s Nightmare. And as scare tactics go, it’s as accurate as it is effective. Floating into the chaotic jumble of rocks and water that serves as sentinel to the Colorado River’s daunting Gore Canyon, it’s easy to imag ine how the rapids earned their name. Dropping precipitously from the

What can you do in a roadless area?

By Corey Fisher What can you do in a roadless area? Just about anything. What is a roadless area? Roadless areas, or Inventoried Roadless Areas, are generally those undeveloped portions of National Forests 5,000 acres or larger that are not designated as Wilderness, but that meet to minimum criteria for for consideration under the Wilderness

Gear test: The new Redington Butterstick

Mike Sepelak fishes the Redington Butterstick on a remote Idaho freestoner for native cutthroat trout. Photo by Chris Hunt. When I unzipped the bright orange rod tube containing the new Redington Butterstick and slowly lifted out the three-piece length of snazzy white fiberglass, I swear I heard the trumpets warming up for a sweet rendition

Voices from the River: In praise of railroads

By Toner Mitchell Conservation-oriented anglers have at least a foggy idea of what American landscapes and waterways have gone through on their way to their current state. Since Europeans first landed here, we have generally grazed, logged, mined, drilled, dammed, channelized, polluted and otherwise dewilded our natural estate to within an inch of its life.