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Alaska

  • Restoration

    Faces of Restoration: Reid Brothers restore Southeast Alaska streams

    When it came time to find a construction contractor for a restoration project on a remote, mostly uninhabited island in Southeast Alaska, Trout Unlimited’s Alaska habitat restoration director, Aaron Prussian, didn’t have to look very far. “Construction projects in remote Alaska are inherently challenging,” said Aaron. “We needed a contractor with the right expertise and…

  • Science

    Striving to learn more about steelhead

    Alaska TU chapters expand knowledge of steelhead on Kenai Peninsula There are many reasons steelhead, that coveted and often illusive quarry, have captured the imaginations of anglers for so long. Perhaps it’s their large size and the almost inconceivable power they exhibit as they bolt upstream, melting line from your reel in unimagined fury. Perhaps…

  • Restoration

    Nuts and Bolts

    Nuts and BoltsThe intense effort and partnership behind restoring fish habitat on a remote Alaskan island This summer, Trout Unlimited completed a major restoration project on Kuiu Island in the Tongass National Forest 9 fish blocking culverts were removed 5 were replaced with new fish-friendly culvert designs and 4 were replaced with water bars and…

  • Partnerships

    Alaska Fly Out Giveaway

    Dime-bright salmon. Two-foot trout.

    Dime-bright salmon. Two-foot trout. Imagine pulling these fish out Alaskan rivers flowing right from the base of North American’s tallest mountain. The Alaska Flyout Giveaway gives you the opportunity to do just that. One winner will take home the grand prize package worth over $17,000 in gear along with a fly-fishing lodge package with Chelatna…

  • Headwaters

    A future with fish

    It’s almost odd to look back at milestones and what they meant to me at the time. First fish on a fly rod. First fish on a dry fly I tied. First twenty-fish day. First 20-inch fish on a No. 20 fly I tied myself.

    Once upon a time there was a dude who drove a blue, manual transmission Ford Focus into California’s Sierra Nevada by himself to catch rainbow and brook trout on caddis flies he tied himself. He thought highly of himself. He had persevered through the days of catching branches and bushes more than fish and graduated…