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Stripers and steelhead

On the California coast between San Francisco and Santa Barbara, a number of streams still have runs of wild steelhead. On a handful of these mostly small drainages, you might get tight to a slabby adult during the winter steelhead season. And on perhaps three of these streams, you might actually be likely to get

Virginia Capital

The Virginia Capital Chapter of Trout Unlimited, serves the Central Virginia Piedmont District in its capacity as a volunteer organization and is composed of members with varied backgrounds and professional skills. Although there are not any cold water fisheries in our direct area we collaborate with other chapters that do providing personnel and the expertise

Is it good … or bad to obsess?

Published in Featured, Voices from the river
Boxes full of fishing flies.

Fly fishing is arguably the ideal pastime for someone with obsessive tendencies. Inches matter on the stream, as do thousandths when it comes to spools of tippet or fly-tying thread. A guy I once fished with said he never saved leftovers from home-cooked meals; it was a sanitary thing. Sure

Resource Restoration Group, LLC

Resource Restoration Group, LLC is a full-service ecological construction and consulting company focused on stream restoration, shoreline stabilization, wetland creation and water quality enhancement projects benefiting the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Video spotlight: Tarpon in Belize

Published in Video spotlight

There’s a lot of good fisheries conservation work being done in saltwater these days, what with the appreciation anglers have developed for fish like permit, tarpon and bonefish over the last two decades or so. Angler science is becoming a mainstream idea—just a few years ago, I helped catch and tag permit in Mexico’s Ascension

Simms Head Coach

Published in Community

What happened when the Montana fishing gear manufacturer took on mental health amid a global pandemic.

Small-stream tactics in the age of non-native invasives

Native Rio Grande cutthroat trout. Contrary to many conservation-minded anglers, I am one who believes that, along with cockroaches, coyotes and Siberian elm trees, brown trout will survive the apocalypse. They possess many of the traits we Americans admire most: they are intelligent, confident, adaptable, rugged, ambitious and breathtakingly handsome. And for the time being

ACE Act a big win for fish habitat

Published in Conservation, Featured
A brook trout hooked by a fly.

This week, anglers across the nation are celebrating the passage of a sprawling conservation bill, the American Conservation Enhancement Act (H.R. 925), or ACE Act for short. Earlier this month, the package was approved by the U.S. Senate, and on Wednesday, it passed in the House of Representatives. The ACE Act now goes on to President Trump for his signature. He is expected to sign it

Why the federal budget matters for trout and salmon

Published in Advocacy

On Tuesday, the President signed this year’s massive $1.5 trillion funding bill into law … Here are four reasons why Trout Unlimited is excited about the passage of the federal government funding omnibus bill.  

Alaska’s wild salmon legacy is in our hands

Published in Uncategorized

Anglers demonstrate support for Ballot Measure 1 while fishing the Kenai River. Photo courtesy of Eric Booton By Eric Booton “I came from one of your possible futures: California. Not too long ago, our king salmon runs were bigger than yours, our salmon were bigger than yours, and there still are some,” Hank Shaw, author

Voices from the River: Angler etiquette

Published in Voices from the river

Combat fishing in Alaska at its finest. By Dave Atcheson My reasons for fishing vary. Sure, sometimes it’s utilitarian; to fill the freezer, but more often than not it’s about the experience. It’s about connecting to the outdoors, to something larger than myself, the sense of peace and relaxation that only comes streamside. This is

NRCS Awards Chesapeake Bay Funds for Brook Trout Habitat Restoration

Contact: Wade Biddix, 804-287-1675 July 12, 2010, Richmond, VA USDA NRCS has approved $32,000 in funding to expand ongoing partnership activities with Trout Unlimited (TU) aimed at restoring native brook trout habitat in priority springs within the Shenandoah Valley. Authorized through the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative (CBWI-CCPI), NRCS funds will be

New flow standards key to recovering Central Valley salmon and steelhead

Published in Uncategorized

Central Valley salmon and steelhead runs, such as those in California’s Merced River (above), have been in decline for decades due primarily to lack of water at critical times. Phase I of the Bay-Delta Plan, in which the State Water Board is considering new flow standards for environmental water needs, is our best chance to

It's a new and better day for fisheries conservation on the farm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 27, 2014 Contact: Russ Schnitzer: (970) 309-0285 (West) Jeff Hastings: (608) 606-4158 (Midwest) Gary Berti: (304) 704-2731 (East) Steve Moyer: (703) 284-9406 (National) Its a new and better day for fisheries conservation on the farm WASHINGTON, D.C.Trout Unlimited saluted USDA Secretary Vilsacks announcement in Michigan today that the Natural Resources Conservation

CX3 Twin Cities: Community. Coldwater. Conservation.

JOIN CONSERVATIONISTS AND ANGLERS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY JULY 20-24 IN MAINE Group lodging for CX3 will be through the Holiday Inn by the Bay, with a rate of $299 per night. To book your lodging by phone, please call (207) 775-2311 and ask for the Trout Unlimited rate. Join Trout Unlimited members, supporters and