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• Voices from the river

  Voices from the River: Filling buckets

  

  The author and his daughter, filling buckets on Yellowstone's Lamar River. By Tim Frahm When my daughter was in third grade (she’s in sixth grade now), her class practiced a regular exercise they called “filling buckets.” This involved being kind or thoughtful or in other ways a good friend to each other. The outcome of…

• Voices from the river

  Voices from the River: Cabin No. 3

  

  “Thank you No. 3. See you next time,” I whispered to the warm cabin as I closed the door of one of my favorite public-use cabins in Southcentral Alaska and turned to soak in the view from the deck with my wife and two dogs. It’s my trusty routine to thank the public resource that…

• TU praises new bill supporting key Klamath Basin agreement

  

  The Lambert family on the Klamath River. Trout Unlimited has been working for nearly two decades to resolve long-standing conflicts in the Klamath River basin over water. Our efforts have helped develop several ground-breaking agreements that will provide more water security for upper basin agriculture, wildlife refuges, and tribes while advancing major actions (inluding removal…

• Voices from the river

  Voices from the River: Bananas

  

  The Steelhead Whisperer on the legendary Trinity River By Sam Davidson Knowing full well the inexorable influence of superstition on fishing success, I have no excuse for my gross negligence which weighed heavily on our recent experience on the Trinity River. The warning signs were there, including this fine piece from TU’s Eric Booten on…

• Fishing Trout Tips

  Trout Tips: Bird’s-eye view

  

  Sometimes, you can learn an awful lot more about a river, and specifically where fish will be holding in a river, by looking at it from above, rather than standing in it. Granted, that’s not always that easy when you are fishing in flat terrain. But I know plenty of anglers who have been driven…

• Final push for the Klamath River

  

  You can help restore the third most productive river for salmon and steelhead on the West Coast

• Short casts: Guides save drowning baby; restoring a PA spring creek; Nova Scotia salmon, and more

  

  Those of us who have employed fishing guides know just how hard the work really is. It may seem a romantic profession—and certainly aspects of it border on ethereal—but mostly it's an up-early and to-bed-late gig with no traditional benefits like health insurance, a retirement plan or a pension. And it's not an easy job,…