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Major win for one of America's best coldwater fisheries

Published in Uncategorized

Five hundred miles. That’s a pretty significant distance, right? Now, imagine swimming that far. That’s how many river miles will re-opened to native steelhead in the Klamath River under the terms of a revised agreement between the federal government, the states of California and Oregon, and the utility company PacifiCorp. The amended Klamath Hydropower Settlement

Dinner Time Conservation

Published in Boats

I understood what years of talking about water, rivers, fishing and agriculture have done to them. It’s made them advocates. It’s made them passionate.

TU lauds WaterSMART program

Oct. 31, 2016 Contact: Laura Ziemer, lziemer@tu.org, (406) 599-2606 Trout Unlimited, Senior Counsel and Water Policy Advisor Steve Moyer, smoyer@tu.org, (571) 274-0593 Trout Unlimited, Vice-President for Governmental Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Trout Unlimited lauds WaterSMART program New criteria prioritizes both water savings and river health WASHINGTON, D.C. Trout Unlimited today praised the Bureau of Reclamations

Conservation and Fishing Groups Ask Energy Bill Conferees to Reject Hydro Measures

Conservation and Fishing Groups Ask Energy Bill Conferees to Reject Hydro Measures Conservation and Fishing Groups Ask Energy Bill Conferees to Reject Hydro Measures Contact: Steve Malloch Counsel TU (703) 284-9415 7/15/2002 — Arlington, VA — The nations leading conservation and fishing organizations have asked Congressional conference committee members working on the federal energy bill

TU and partners improve fish passage for spawning cutthroat on Bar BC Spring Creek

December 23, 2019 Contacts: Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org JACKSON, Wyoming –Trout Unlimited (TU) announced today that on-the-ground implementation for the Bar BC Spring Creek Fish Passage & Channel Restoration Project is currently underway. The project is a collaboration between agency partners and private landowners to improve fish migration into

Senate reviews TU-supported public lands bills

Published in Government Affairs

Public lands are vital for trout fishing in America. Any decent map proves this. A hearing in the U.S. Senate on Oct. 19 provided a major opportunity to highlight the importance of public lands for coldwater conservation and to advance legislation that will better protect and restore some of the most famous trout, salmon and

One fish

Published in Fishing, Science, Voices from the river

A single fish made me really happy recently, and I wasn’t even fishing. To be sure, this was no ordinary fish. It was a brute of a steelhead, as long as my arm and 12 pounds in heft, easy. So perhaps anyone seeing it languidly finning just upstream of the bridge footing nine miles from

Naxiyam Wana and the Uniter

Published in Dam Removal

A stream roiling dark with Chinook salmon in central Idaho’s wilderness high country. A throb, a pulse of life into a pristine river, the abundance of the ocean arriving in the flesh of thousands of salmon in a wild mountain river hundreds of miles inland. This was. This was life itself, for the land, for the water, for the people.

Naxiyam Wana and the Uniter

Published in TROUT Magazine, Snake River dams

Wheeler wants the fish back. The Nez Perce people want the fish back. So does the Yakima nation, the Nisqually, the Sauk-Suiattle, the Nooksack. All united to one cause—bring the Snake River salmon back for once and for all. Bring the dams down.

Video spotlight: I am a Fly Fisherman

Published in Video spotlight

Put yourself in the shoes of Rich Schwend, a hard-rock miner from Billings, Mont., but also a rabid fly fisher. “Being a miner in a fly fishing community isn’t easy,” he says. He gets that, in today’s fly fishing world, protecting our trout resources often means that anglers are at odds with the mining industry.

Video spotlight: Three runs

Published in Video spotlight

Russia’s Ponoi River might be the last, best place on earth to catch wild Atlantic salmon on the fly in appreciable numbers. And the river’s fish are incredibly resilient, largely due to the fact that their habitat is largely intact. The river is home to three runs of salmon (hence the title of the video

Healing Waters Lodge

About us Orvis Endorsed fly fishing lodge and a guide service, in southwest Montana near the town of Twin Bridges, in the beautiful Ruby valley. Our lodge has 9 clean and comfortable guest rooms with a Lodge capacity of 18 guests, door-to-door fly fishing guide service, and all meals created fresh by our chefs. We