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Video spotlight: Hungry Life

Published in Video spotlight

Maybe it’s because I’m coming up on about six weeks of self-imposed food deprivation (you know, that moment when you step on the scale and all you can say is, “WTF??”), or maybe it’s because eating “cleaner” has become more important to me of late, but the video below speaks to me. Video of YETI…

Thinking about the future of fly fishing

Published in Youth, Conservation

Editor’s Note: Each year, participants at Trout Unlimited regional Youth Fly Fishing and Conservation summer camps are invited to enter the TU Teen Camp Essay Contest. The prompt for 2019 was “Why is conservation important to fly fishing?” We received many wonderful entries and are pleased to share the top five essays. To find a…

Faces of Restoration: Jessica Lockwood

Published in Restoration

Sitting atop the Colorado River Basin in southwest Wyoming, the Green River boasts incredible fisheries, red desert buttes, Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge and Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area.

Big, wild, and coming back: California’s Eel River

Published in Uncategorized

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…

Campbelle Redding

Trout Unlimited Youth Essay Contest Winner FIRST PLACE Campbelle Redding, Reno, Nevada, 11th Grade I started fishing when I was 4-years-old. My dad took me on my first quest to Cascade Lake in Yellowstone National Park. Traipsing across the stiff banks in my little purple waders, waiting for the freezing winds and torrential downpour to…

TU salutes conservation bills for California public lands

Published in Conservation, TROUT Magazine

More than 1 million acres of public lands in California would be better protected under a trio of bills introduced on April 10. Trout Unlimited has worked for years to better protect the habitat values and sporting opportunities found on some of these lands. The legislative package would strengthen protections for upland and aquatic habitat…

History

Our founders were anglers. By history and by nature, we are optimists. Founded in 1959 on the banks of the Au Sable River near Grayling, Mich., by a handful of anglers united by their love of wild trout and their growing disenchantment with the state’s practice of stocking its waters with cookie-cutter hatchery trout. Convinced…

Returning thanks

Saint Ambrose once said, “No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.” That sentiment defines the work of Trout Unlimited’s Veterans Service Partnership, and was visible at the recent “couples trip” hosted by the VSP and the Friends of the Upper Delaware. The Upper Delaware is a great, but challenging wild trout fishery.…

It’s OK to have a few secret spots

Published in Voices from the river, Featured

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Rabid protection of secret spots can be tricky. I think back to one I protected with a vigor that bordered on irrational paranoia.  It was a small stream not far from Roanoke, Va., and I fished it for the first time not long after I moved to the…

Thomas Jefferson

Based in Charlottesville, Va. just minutes from the Shenandoah National Park! Project stream- Stream stewards of 1 mile section of Moormans River below Sugar Hollow Reservoir Dam. TJTU runs watershed conservation and educational projects benefitting local waters, residents and students.

Anglers and hunters applaud actions to create Sáttítla National Monument

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  August 30, 2024 Contacts:Sam Davidson, Trout Unlimited, (831) 235-2542, sam.davidson@tu.orgJoel Weltzien, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (406) 925-3771, weltzien@backcountryhunters.org Trout Unlimited and Backcountry Hunters and Anglers support permanent protection for unique aquifer, upland habitats, and sporting opportunities of the Medicine Lake Highlands SACRAMENTO—Trout Unlimited (TU) and Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) praised today’s…

CastBack

Established in 2024, CastBack is a premier digital marketplace to buy and sell quality used fly fishing rods, reels, and gear. As a 100% veteran-owned small business, CastBack donates 5% of their annual revenue to support Project Healing Waters, a fly fishing-focused charity for military veterans.

Volunteers team up for Allegheny National Forest Snapshot Day

Published in Uncategorized

By Jake Lemon The Allegheny National Forest spans more than 500,000 acres in the headwaters of the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania. With over 1,000 miles of trout water, excellent hunting opportunities and an extensive trail network, including the North Country Trail, in the ANF and surrounding area draws recreationists from throughout the region. The area…

The autumn swindle

Published in Voices from the river, Fishing, TROUT Magazine

It got so cold so early this year that our aspens and cottonwoods didn’t really turn. Their leaves simply froze in place when the mercury dipped below zero in early October, and they’ve spent the last few months drying into sickly, gray, paper-thin ghosts and falling without ceremony to the ground.  Season theft. We were…