By Toner Mitchell Though it’s only been two years, it feels like forever since New Mexico had a winter. Throughout the last one (2017/2018), during which we sported short sleeves in February and fished dry flies in March, the peaks called to mind Hereford cows, mostly brown with white blotches here and there. After 16 years of restoring the wetlands of Comanche Creek, we wrung our hands – and at
Dustin Wichterman lives trout. By day he manages Trout Unlimited’s restoration and protection work in the Potomac headwaters. Most of the rest of the time he’s either fishing for trout or dreaming about fishing for trout. And a big part of that dream is that one day the Potomac headwaters will again regularly churn out native brook trout pushing
Fishing the Carmel River lagoon during steelhead season. In his 1945 novel Cannery Row, John Steinbeck called the Carmel River, on California’s central coast, “a lovely little river… [with] pools where trout live … a place for fishermen to wander in.” In those days the Carmel was a well-known fishery and hosted a robust run
Trout Unlimited has partnered with Costa and SweetWater on five major “Kick Plastic” trash cleanups in the East for this summer. The Roanoke cleanup will be on the Roanoke River from 1-4 p.m. on Aug. 4. Meet at Wasena Park (near the Vic Thomas bridge) at 1 p.m. Cleanup materials will be provided but please
We’ve partnered with Costa and SweetWater on five major “Kick Plastic” trash cleanups in the East for this summer. If you would like to volunteer, please fill out the form below:
The Greater Boston Chapter of Trout Unlimited and the Neponset River Watershed Association have partnered with TU national, Costa and SweetWater to run a special “Kick Plastic Cleanup” here on the Neponset River. We will meet at 1 p.m., parking along Riverside Ave in Milton, MA to clean trash out of the tidal area of
The upper Klamath Basin. Over the past year, TU’s long involvement in the campaign to restore the Klamath River and its salmon and steelhead runs paid dividends as this three-pronged effort passed several major milestones. TU’s staff and grassroots in both California and Oregon have played integral roles in this progress. Most recently, the Klamath
Competitors will start with a 2.65-mile run, most of it on the Toms Creek trail runs, which is adjacent to this designated Class A wild trout fishery. Click HERE for the full run course map. Competitors must run to the end of the trail and back, a total of roughly 2 miles, and then run for just over a
By Jamie Vaughan Trout Unlimited and local partners recently completed construction on a wetland restoration in downtown Cedar Springs, Mich. With help from a grant from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) this is the second wetland restoration that Trout Unlimited has implemented in this community, which is home to Cedar Creek, an important coldwater tributary to the Rogue River.
Trout Unlimited and the Federation of Fly Fishers identified potential Native Fish Conservation Areas (NFCAs) in the Upper Snake River Basin above Hells Canyon Dam. NFCAs are watersheds where management emphasizes proactive conservation and restoration for long-term persistence of native fish assemblages while allowing for compatible uses. This report describes the methods and results of
it’s shaping up to be a busy year ahead in the pursuit to restore salmon runs on the Eklutna River. Here are some standouts from 2019 and what to keep on your radar for 2020.
Trout Unlimited is putting a bit of a twist on the triathlon concept for an event that will debut this spring in Northeast Pennsylvania. The inaugural Delaware River Fly Tri will feature a run, bike and paddling legs with a dose of fishing thrown in. The event will be held May 16 in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area near
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By Rob Shane For those in the Mid-Atlantic, or for anyone who’s been trout fishing long enough to have a bucket list of rivers, you’re certainly familiar with the Delaware River. Aside from being the source of drinking water for more than 15 million people in two of the largest cities in the United States (New York and Philadelphia), it
We have a small window of opportunity to encourage Congress to introduce legislation that will recover salmon and steelhead on the Snake River. But we need to show hunters and anglers care about bringing back our salmon and steelhead. Sign the petition today and Trout Unlimited will deliver it to delegates in the Pacific Northwest, urging them
Join me on September 28 – that’s Monday – at 1 PM PDT @troutunlimited when we talk with Chad @soulriverinc about his exciting new “Love Is King” initiative. Clear your calendar and tune in – this will be awesome
“It is our collective opinion, based on overwhelming scientific evidence, that restoration of a free-flowing lower Snake River is essential to recovering wild Pacific salmon and steelhead in the basin.” So reads a remarkable letter recently sent to the governors of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana by 10 of the finest and most-respected salmon and steelhead scientists in
As infrastructure to support natural gas extraction expanded across the Appalachians over the past decade, the Delaware River Basin remained untouched as the group responsible for the coordinated management of the watershed considered the practice. Now, after years of uncertainty, a vote by the Delaware River Basin Commission has formalized a ban on high-volume hydraulic fracturing — often called “fracking” — in the basin. In a special business meeting on Feb. 25, 2021, commissioners
On Wednesday, March 17th, 2020, Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN), the largest statewide Native organization in Alaska, endorsed efforts to restore the Eklutna River.
Earlier this week I bumbled on about river ettiquette and how not to be a jerk on the river. Since this little editorial space is so new we might as well get some housekeeping out of the way and talk about one of the most import aspects when on the water besides etiquette. How to fish from a boat while being safe.
