TROUT Tying Tip – prepping materials
As we continue our tips for tying flies, it’s finally time to gather your materials, understand them, measure them and start spinning up some flies.
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TROUT Tying Tip – simple midge
A midge is a good place to start learning to tie flies. Not only is it an effective fly pattern, but it is also fairly simple to tie and is often a go-to fly for winter fly fishing.
TROUT Tying tip – pheasant tail
Follow along on this fly tying video from Orvis and then get to tying these in various sizes to cover many situations.
TROUT Tying Tip – woolly bugger
Another fly you shouldn’t leave home without is the woolly bugger. You can tie in a wide spectrum of colors and sizes, and is a good trout producing streamer in lakes or rivers. So, follow along with this week’s fly tying video from Orvis to master this pattern. See All Orvis Learning Center Fly Fishing Video Lessons
TROUT Tying Tip – Prince nymph
Another nymph that can save a day of fishing is worth learning to tie; the prince nymph comes in a variety of styles. Dial in tying this pattern to fill your boxes with a few sizes to prepare for spring fishing. See All Orvis Learning Center Fly Tying Videos
TROUT Tip – Nymphing in deep pockets
Chances are good that a trout or two is living in a deep pool below plunge pools or other similar lies, so check out this video for tips on how to nymph in deep pockets.
TROUT Tying Tip – Copper John
This fast-sinking, highly-effective fly pattern is ideal for imitating mayflies or even stoneflies, especially in fast-moving water. Created by John Barr in the early 1990’s this is a great pattern for spring fishing. Tie some up today with these tips from Orvis. See All Orvis Learning Center Fly Tying Videos
2020 Orvis Award Winners Are TU Business Members
Both Healing Waters Lodge and Linehan Outfitting Company are vital parts of the TU Team.
Clean Water Rule Update: April 2020
The EPA’s new Waters of the U.S. Rule weakens the Clean Water Act, the landmark law that made many of America’s great rivers fishable and swimmable over the past half century. This puts in peril the sources of our rivers: the small headwater streams … where big fish go to make little fish. We need your help. Stand up for clean water now
Attacks on the Clean Water Act continue
EPA issues final rule limiting state and tribal authority to protect their streams Six weeks after stripping federal protections from millions of miles of streams and millions of acres of wetlands, the Environmental Protection Agency is further weakening the Clean Water Act by sharply restricting the longstanding authority of local communities to protect their streams…
Forest Service honors Home Rivers Initiative in East
By Mark Taylor Trout Unlimited doesn’t work to win awards. But that doesn’t mean it’s not great when recognition comes TU’s way. The U.S. Forest Service has honored TU’s Eastern Home Rivers initiative as the Volunteer and Service Award winner for the agency’s Region 9, in the Restoration category. Michael Owen, aquatic ecologist for the…
Trout Unlimited volunteers fan out to survey Wilson Creek in North Carolina
Armed with mountains of scientific data, Trout Unlimited is starting to dig into reconnection and stream restoration efforts in a large, important watershed in western North Carolina
Behind the Cover: The fire issue of TROUT Magazine
Wildfire and its impact on our rivers and the places we all call our home waters is a heavy topic. One that doesn’t often need any further description
Like most issues of TROUT Magazine this one started with a subtle theme. Fire and what that might mean for us as anglers and conservationists. It’s pretty easy to get caught up in the flashy, and often devastating, images of landscapes swallowed up by this natural and human caused phenomenon.
Voices from the River: Jon Baiocchi, California’s guide
John Baiocchi, on one of his home waters, the Truckee River.
Madison-Gallatin TU VSP Takes Vets Fishing!
I was privileged to help the Madison-Gallatin Trout Unlimited Veterans Service Partnership program take a group of veterans from our Project Healing Waters program and from the Montana State University Veterans Club fishing on Depuy’s Spring Creek near Livingston last Sunday. Despite some challenging weather, we caught some nice trout, created some good fish stories,…
Stream protection effort in PA, featured in new film, gains traction
By Rob Shane Pennsylvania boasts more than 86,000 miles of rivers, streams and creeks, second in the United States only to Alaska. That’s three-and-a-half trips around the earth. Thirty trips from Los Angeles to New York. It’s five times more than the 10 largest rivers in America—combined. These 86,000 miles provide clean drinking water to…
EPA Section 401 proposal weakens state and tribal authority to protect clean water
The proposed rule opens the door to increased pollution, sediment discharge, and irreversible harm to rivers and streams and the native trout they support. Contact: Washington, DC – Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a proposed rule revising regulations relating to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. The proposed rule would significantly weaken state and tribal authority by…
Biodiversity needs a chance to flourish on BLM Lands
Sometimes it seems utterly hard to fathom the losses of biodiversity we are facing today.