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We bring people together to protect and restore rivers, sustain and recover trout and salmon, and in the process, make communities healthier.
A Mossy Creek brown trout. Photo courtesy Mossy Creek Fly Fishing. Not everyone is lucky enough to live next to a naturally reproducing trout stream, even in a state like Pennsylvania, where wild trout waters are generally quite plentiful, and designations of new wild trout waters are growing. For instance, many anglers around Potstown are…
TROUT UNLIMITED PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Feb. 12, 2016 Contact: Steve Moyer: (703) 284-9406, smoyer@tu.org, (TU National) Randy Scholfield, (720) 375-3961, TU communications, rscholfield@tu.org Trout streams to benefit from RCPP grants WASHINGTON, D.C. Trout streams from Minnesota, Wisconsin and New Hampshire to Oregon and Idaho are about to get a big boost thanks to…
Contact: Nelli Williams, Deputy Director, Trout Unlimited, Alaska Program, at nwilliamstu@gmail.com or (907) 230-7121 For immediate release American Military Women to Enjoy Once-in-a-Lifetime Fishing Trip to Bristol Bay, Alaska Excursion Designed to Honor Their Service to the Nation ANCHORAGE, ALASKA Four U.S. military service members all women will spend time in Bristol Bay, Alaska, next…
Just like that it was time to say goodbye to our friends. We had finished Montana and completed 991 miles of the trail.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Erin Mooney, (703) 284-9408, TU National Press Secretary Mike Willet, (406) 728-3607, West Slope TU Doug Nation, (406) 375-2189 TU West Slope Chapter Receives Almost $10,000 to Restore Deer Creek MISSOULATrout Unlimited, (TU) the nation’s oldest and largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization, today awarded a $9,400 Embrace-A-Stream grant to its West…
January 14, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Steve Moyer, Vice President of Government Affairs, smoyer@tu.org, 202-796-9406 Trout Unlimited applauds EPA stream connectivity report Science unequivocally supports the need to protect headwater streams WASHINGTON, D.C.Trout Unlimited (TU) today applauds release of the report Connectivity of Streams and Wetlands to Downstream Waters by the Environmental Protection Agencys…
For Immediate Release October 14, 2009 Contact: SELC DJ Gerken, 828-258-2023 Representing: Trout Unlimited, North Carolina Council Michael Squeak Smith, 828 205-2355 Trout Unlimited, Tennessee Council George Lane, 865-414-1527 PEER Barry Sulkin, 615-313-7066 WildSouth Ben Prater, 828-258-2667 Conservationists back USFS action to restore water quality in NCs Tellico ORV area Asheville Conservation groups concerned about…
“The big show starts around 7 p.m. in front of the cabin. From that time until it is too dark to fish, the stream will boil trout. If you are lucky to match one of three to five hatches going on, you will be rewarded with epic fishing. Sometimes everything comes together and the fish…
Here are some frequently asked questions (and answers!) about climate change and their impacts to coldwater fish resources. The following is divided into four sections: general climate change, impacts to trout and salmon, impacts to landscapes and rivers, and getting involved. General Climate Change HOW DO SCIENTISTS MONITOR CLIMATE, AND WHAT EVIDENCE IS THERE THAT…
Contact: Erin Mooney, National Press Secretary (571) 331-7970 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited Supports Removal of Energy Leases from BLM Auction Over 4,300 acres in Monongahela National Forest pulled from sale. Arlington, Va.–Trout Unlimited (TU) supports the decision by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to remove West Virginia’s Monongahela National Forest from its planned…
By Chris Wood “I was the first person Charles Gauvin hired at Trout Unlimited when he became CEO in 1992. He wanted to hire Steve Moyer, but Steve and Michelle just had their first child, and Steve thought the organization’s finances were too unstable. At the time Trout Unlimited had a budget of $2 million…
We often make fly fishing more complicated than we need to. A good example of that is mending our fly line to get a better, more natural drift as our flies work their way downstream. Often, as TU’s Kirk Deeter points out in the video below, our mends are too jerky or move the flies…
The wind is the perceived enemy of many a fly fisher, but, as Kirk Deeter points out in this week’s video, it needn’t be. The key, as Deeter puts it, is to “make friends with the wind.” Or, as he demonstrates, use the wind to your advantage, even when it’s in your face. The key?…
New drilling policies are a win for fish and wildlife. Now a key federal agency needs to modernize its oil and gas leasing rules.
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When I was a kid, the first fly-fishing technique my grandfather ever shared with me was “dapping.” Rather than burden a 10-year-old with all the details of a complex fly cast, he would simply pull about three feet of fly line through the tip-top and put a hopper or some high-floating dry fly on my…
The trick to knowing what you’re going to catch before you catch it, is knowing what lives in the river. Of course. Some people, however, have dialed it in a bit more. For example, they know the rainbows like the riffles in certain places on the Colorado River, whereas the browns hug the banks and…
Editor’s note: For more great tips on fishing from TU members across the country, get your copy of TU’s book, “Trout Tips,” available online for overnight shipping. This time of year, when I plan out some distant winter fishing trips to places warmer and farther south, I become a lurker. Not the creepy, “Psst! Hey…
‘Tis the season for tailwater angling, even in the coldest of mountain climes, and Garrison Doctor of Rep Your Water has some simple advice for anyone taking to the river this shoulder season: be stealthy. Trout Tips | Be Stealthy from Trout Unlimited on Vimeo. In the video above Garrison offers up some great advice…
We’ve all grown out of fishing with worms, right? Well, maybe we shouldn’t have, especially when this time of year rolls around and runoff strikes, sending a winter’s worth of snow down our rivers in a murky torrent. When high water hits and scours riverbanks, worms that dwell in the earth often find themselves waterborne,…