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Voices from the River: Gages
Fishing for steelhead at the mouth of the Carmel River in the 1960s. By Sam Davidson For most of the past year we have been living next to a river. This has changed the way I think about streams, and fishing. Every angler knows that rivers are dynamic (where they are not dammed, anyway). That…
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Video spotlight: Olympic Peninsula Steelhead
Steelhead fishing is an exercise in patience, no matter where you chase these majestic fish. My first two steelhead trips were fruitless endeavors—I spent hours casting over Idaho's Salmon River with nothing to show for it but a sore shoulder a bout with frustration. It's a thinker's brand of fishing, which makes it easy to…
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Video spotlight: The Dorado
What do you get when you send one of the world's best-known steelhead anglers into the Bolivian jungle with a spey rod? Some pretty impressive cinematography, to start. This is a land of wild rivers teeming with toothy fish, high-canopied jungles sheltering everything from jaguars to snakes as long as some of the dug-out canoes…
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Short casts: Fish ladders don’t work, public lands support in CO, whirling disease in the Bow
John Day Dam on the Columbia River. A new Yale University study provides some daunting news for water and dam managers across the country: fish ladders aren't the "fix-it" solution to fish migration over irrigation or hydroelectric dams. The study, which took place on three East Coast rivers—the Connecticut, the Susquehanna and the Merrimack—showed that…
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Big, wild, and coming back: California’s Eel River
Soda Creek, tributary to the upper Eel River. Large wood structure project directed by TU's North Coast Coho Project. The Eel River is the beating heart of California’s “Lost Coast,” a swath of rugged country famous for its steelhead a nd salmon streams. Historically, the Eel was the third largest producer of salmon and steelhead…
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TU Comments – Columbia-Snake – EIS Scoping
170207_TU CRSO EIS Scoping Comments_Final.pdf Comments of Trout Unlimited submitted during the Scoping period for the NEPA review of the Federal Columbia River Power System. This comment period is just the start of a multi-year review process. TU looks forward to engaging throughout the process to ensure adequate review of system impacts on Pacific steelhead…
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Video spotlight: Down and Across
Spey casting is becoming a much more mainstream angling method for big-river fishing, and not just for steelhead and salmon. I'm starting to see spey casters on the South Fork and the Henry's Fork of the Snake with regularity, chasing rainbows, cutthroats and browns in sweeping runs and throwing 100-foot casts with so little effort…