We won’t sugar coat this: If you care about Montana’s rivers, we need you now. This spring, Trout Unlimited helped launch the Yes for Responsible Mining initiative (I-186). I-186 can help guarantee a cleaner future for our rivers and streams. It will require mining companies applying for new permits to show reasonable proof that they
Read the 2017 TU Annual Report
Dear Reader, On behalf of Trout Unlimited’s 300,000 members and supporters, 220 professional staff, and our trustees and grassroots leaders, we want to share with you the 2017 Trout Unlimited annual report. We realize that annual reports are essentially ritualized bragging, and should be generally read as such. Please consider these numbers, however, before you
RIO announces winner of Amateur Fly Fishing Film Awards
RIO Products celebrates amateur film makers in the fly fishing arena with its second annual RIO Amateur Fly Fishing Film Awards. With many great films submitted for year two, Meris McHaney took away the grand prize for 2018 with her film “Lucky.” “Lucky” – Winner of the RIO Award in the 2018 RIO Amateur Fly
Keeping up the fight for trout
By Chris Wood I went to see Art Neumann a few months before he passed away. As I left, he punched me on the leg, and asked, “What are you going to do to keep up the fight for trout?” He died later that year after nearly 100 years of life and almost 75 years
Voices from the River: Shifting perspectives from a beginning Alaskan angler
One of our first rainbows in Alaska. I now find it hilarious we took a picture of this teeny little buddy. By Jenny Weis “I forgot people even target fish that small,” a veteran Alaskan guide quipped while paging through an intro level fly fishing instruction book with a photo of a colorful but small,
What’s Charlie thinking?
It’s raining here in Montana. The rivers are blown out and let’s be honest—it’s just kind of cold and miserable out there. So lets play a game. Fishing dogs are their own breed of hound. They’re goofier and light of heart in ways working dogs or hunting dogs aren’t. I like to think it’s because
Voices from the River: A ‘Common Sense’ conservation effort in Wyoming
Volunteers from the Jackson Hole chapter of Trout Unlimited gathered to help plant willows along a restored section of Unnamed Creek on the Upper Gros Ventre River Ranch Tributary Restoration Project. Trout Unlimited photo.< /span> By Leslie Steen Once the good part of the pavement stops it still takes nearly two hours to travel the