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Trout Tips: The approach

Published in Trout Tips

Patience is perhaps the most elusive virtue—instant gratification, especially these days, is easier to attain. And it’s no different for fly fishers. Finding a good stretch of water to fish isn’t all that hard, but approaching it correctly, and giving yourself the best opportunity to catch not just one fish, but several fish, can prove

Gunnison River: Concrete Levy Restoration

Gunnison River: Concrete Levy Restoration

Goals In 2013 TU partnered with a landowner to remove a 500-foot section of concrete rip-rap on a popular recreational stretch of the Gunnison River. The armored bank was causing channel incision, and depositing sediment in undesirable locations downstream. Lack of vegetative cover and in-channel refuge increased trout susceptibility to low flows and increased water

TROUT UNLIMITED CALLS FOR RESTORATION OF THE MIDWEST'S DRIFTLESS AREA

4/01/2005 NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until: 1:00 p.m. CST, April 1, 2005 For more information: “Duke” Welter 715-579-7538 Laura Hewitt 608-250-3534 Steve Kinsella 651-647-1545 TROUT UNLIMITED CALLS FOR RESTORATION OF THE MIDWEST’S DRIFTLESS AREA Minneapolis, MN – A wide scale restoration of the streams and rivers of the Midwest’s Driftless Area will bring enormous environmental and

Conservation Groups File Suit to Save Yuba River Salmon and Steelhead

6/18/2001 Conservation Groups File Suit to Save Yuba River Salmon and Steelhead Conservation Groups File Suit to Save Yuba River Salmon and Steelhead State Water Resources Control Board leaves no option but the courts in efforts Contact: 6/18/2001 — — Monday, June 18, 2001 ALBANY, CALIF. The nations largest coldwater fisheries conservation organization today joined

Whirliing Disease: New TU Report on the "State Of The Epidemic"

2/17/1999 Whirliing Disease: New TU Report on the “State Of The Epidemic” Whirling Disease: New TU Report on the “State Of The Epidemic” Updated Report Documents New Research and Continuing Challenges Facing Fisheries Conservationists Contact: 2/17/1999 — — Trout Unlimited today released a comprehensive new report detailing the current knowledge about whirling disease, the parasitic

Headwaters Board Members

Anne Hamilton Anne Hamilton is a graduate of Boston University. She serves on the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Academy of Music, and the International Tennis Hall of Fame boards. Anne is very active in the communities of Newport and Philadelphia and started the Newport Antiques Show in 2006. Her hobbies include fishing, tennis riding, traveling and helping dogs.

Military, mountains, and a new monument

Published in From the field

President Biden designates his first national monument in the Rocky Mountains, recognizing the history of WWII soldiers who later became the catalyst for America’s burgeoning outdoor recreation economy

A boat trailer’s curse

Published in Boats, Featured

Some things aren’t meant to last a lifetime. It was a good run of nearly six years, but I think it’s time to part ways with an old friend.

I’m not a superstitious person but this raft trailer is cursed. I’m sure of it which is why I’ve chosen to cut it loose on the open market.

What kind of trout is this?

Published in Uncategorized

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

Conservation of Greater Little Mountain Area included in draft BLM management plan  

Proposed Rock Springs resource management plan balances conservation and energy development  ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. – Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a draft resource management plan (RMP) for the Rock Springs Field Office, located in southwest Wyoming. The area is home to the Greater Little Mountain Area, a 500,000-acre region prized by hunters

Trout Unlimited Supports Sen. Mark Udalls Good Samaritan Bill

For Immediate Release Contact: Chris Wood, Chief Operating Officer (703) 284-9403 Trout Unlimited Supports Sen. Mark Udalls Good Samaritan Bill Bill increases the ability for groups to clean up abandoned hard rock mines ARLINGTON, VA.–Trout Unlimited (TU) commends Colorado Sen. Mark Udall for his bill introduced today, The Good Samaritan Cleanup of Abandoned Hardrock Mines

Odyssey profile: Anthony Ortiz

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Editor’s note: Building off the success of last year’s Native Odyssey campaign, Trout Unlimited is sending four of our brightest college club leaders in the TU Costa 5 Rivers Program to explore the home of the world’s largest runs of wild salmon: Alaska. Starting July 5, these students will explore the Kenai Peninsula, Bristol Bay

Trout Unlimited Applauds Introduction Of Pacific Salmon Recovery Act

12/13/2001 Trout Unlimited Applauds Introduction Of Pacific Salmon Recovery Act Trout Unlimited Applauds Introduction Of Pacific Salmon Recovery Act Contact: Jeff Curtis, TU Western Conservation Director: 503.827.5700 x.11 12/13/2001 — PORTLAND, ORE. — Officials with Trout Unlimited, the nations leading trout and salmon conservation organization, today applauded the introduction by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) of