Video: tips for paddling a canoe on your own
I can say the next time I get in a canoe solo I’ll be much better prepared from these simple paddling tips they expertly explain here in this video.
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Video spotlight: Touching the Sun
I bought a mountain bike last spring with the intent of riding some backcountry trails to fishy haunts, and while I got out a few times, I didn’t use it nearly enough. Maybe next summer. It’s not an outlandish idea, biking to backcountry fishing. The video above shows two anglers who loaded their bike paniers…
Video spotlight: Fly Fishing for Brookies
Fly fisher and guide Bridget Fabel has a fairly robust collection of fly fishing videos—she’s a cheerful camera personality with some solid angling skills. And she fly fishes with her cats. Yes. Cats. Video of A Dozen Brookies On the Fly! Fly Fishing With Cats For High Country Brook Trout! A lot of us have…
Dunoir Fishing Adventures, LLC
About us Dunoir Fishing Adventures, LLC fly fishing guides: Bighorn, Green, and Wind Rivers serving Thermopolis, Lander, and Dubois, Wyoming’s rivers, streams, and mountain lakes. Personable and professional guides will provide a fly fishing adventure of a lifetime. Local permitted guides have many years of fly fishing and guide experience on Wyoming’s waters. We will…
Hallowed waters
For more than a decade, Montanans have worked together to create a lasting solution for public lands in the Blackfoot River watershed. That solution is the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act. This bill will protect the Blackfoot River by permanently protecting its most important tributaries. It will also secure and expand outdoor recreation opportunities in the…
The Fly Fishing Shop
Celebrating 42 Years in Business! The Fly Fishing Shop was founded in 1981 by Patty Barnes and Mark Bachmann. Our guide service is located with easy access to many fine trout, steelhead and salmon rivers. The surrounding rivers and lakes drain into the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean. Our home water is the Sandy…
Large-Scale Restoration Project for Native Fish Underway on Tincup Creek
Monday, August 19, 2019 Contacts: Leslie Steen, Snake River Headwaters Project Manager, Trout Unlimited, 307-699-1022, lsteen@tu.org Lee Mabey, Forest Fisheries Biologist, Caribou-Targhee National Forest, 208-557-5784, lmabey@fs.fed.us JACKSON, Wyoming –Trout Unlimited (TU) and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest (CTNF) announced today the Tincup Creek Stream Restoration Project’s third year of construction is underway. The project is a large-scale,…
Reflections from more than a decade of Alaska conservation
By Mark Kaelke Over the last 13-years as a Trout Unlimited staffer in Alaska I’ve learned successful conservation efforts are most often realized as a result of persistence and coalition-building, and that sometimes, “winning” means just keeping what we already have. As I wrap up my time as a TU employee, I’ve been asked to…
TU blends online learning with the outdoors to serve young people during lockdown
Trout Unlimited is serving youth and volunteers in new ways to keep them engaged in our mission to protect, conserve, and restore North America’s coldwater fisheries during the pandemic. Some of our programs have been adapted to fit virtual and at-home formats to provide safe avenues of participation. Online platforms come with unique challenges but boast some exciting prospects. Here are examples of how we, the…
Fishing and filming to ‘Escape’ the pain
“I knew the bugs would be smashed up against the bank and the angle and light would all be just right, but I was in pain. I ended up arguing with myself but seeing the shot already in mind forced me to get up and be a functioning human being. I knew if I didn’t go then, I would miss it. Things couldn’t have worked out any better. I owe that to the river.”
New York trout benefit from restoration efforts
Momentum is building for TU’s restoration team in New York
TU and Partners Launch Coaster Brook Trout Web Site, Directory of Researchers and Newsletter
4/22/2004 TU and Partners Launch Coaster Brook Trout Web Site, Directory of Researchers and Newsletter TU and Partners Launch Coaster Brook Trout Web Site, Directory of Researchers and Newsletter Contact: Todd Breiby Coaster Brook Trout Program Coordinator Trout Unlimited 608.255.0361 4/22/2004 — Madison, Wis. — More than a century after forces began converging to decimate…
New research: Quality hunting and fishing depend on roadless land in Utah
12/5/2006 New research: Quality hunting and fishing depend on roadless land in Utah Dec. 5, 2006 Contact: Chris Hunt (208) 406-9106, chunt@tu.org Bill Geer (406) 396-0909, bgeer@trcp.org MEDIA ADVISORY: Telephone press conference Thursday, Dec. 7, 1:30 p.m. To participate, call: (866) 740-1260. Pass code is: 406-9106 New research: Quality hunting and fishing depend on roadless…
Utah sportsmen ask for roadless protection to preserve hunting and fishing in the Beehive State
12/7/2006 Utah sportsmen ask for roadless protection to preserve hunting and fishing in the Beehive State Dec. 5, 2006 Contact: Chris Hunt (208) 406-9106, chunt@tu.org Bill Geer (406) 396-0909, bgeer@trcp.org MEDIA ADVISORY: Telephone press conference Thursday, Dec. 7, 1:30 p.m. To participate, call: (866) 740-1260. Pass code is: 406-9106 New research: Quality hunting and fishing…
Native Odyssey: Jacob Lacy
Editor’s note: The TU Costa Five Rivers Program is sending five college students on a native trout odyssey across America this summer. Meet Jacob Lacy one of the five lucky participants. As a Colorado native I knew I’d end up finding something to take me outside and up to the mountains. With biking, hiking, and…
Trout Unlimited Announces Policy Statement on Truckee River Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Recovery
5/23/2000 Trout Unlimited Announces Policy Statement on Truckee River Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Recovery Trout Unlimited Announces Policy Statement on Truckee River Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Recovery Contact: 5/23/2000 — — Contacts: David Bobzien, President, Trout Unlimited’s Sagebrush Chapter, Reno: (775) 324-6216 Steve Trafton, Trout Unlimited’s California Policy Coordinator: (510) 528-4772 May 23, 2000. Reno, NevadaTrout Unlimited,…
Save Bristol Bay with Nautilus Reels this month!
Pictured above: The custom Nautilus reel being offered as a prize for signing up to help protect Bristol Bay with Trout Unlimited By: The Alaska Program We are honored partner with our friends at Nautilus Reels to save a threatened world-class fishing destination in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Nautilus Reels will be giving away a custom…
Need a new fishing goal? Try the Western Native Trout Challenge
What if there was a program encouraging anglers to scour the amazing landscape of the West for elusive and beautiful fish while promoting conservation at the same time? Thanks to the Western Native Trout Initiative, its 12 member states, federal wildlife partners and Trout Unlimited, there now is such a thing. The Western Native Trout…
TU supports Pine Forest Wilderness Bill
Contact: Jim Jeffress – (775) 560-9594 Bill Deist – (775) 623-6300 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TU supports Pine Forest Wilderness Bill Grass roots legislation gains broad support in Nevada Winnemucca, Nev. Trout Unlimited (TU) announced today its strong support for the Pine Forest Recreation Enhancement Act of 2011. The legislation is the result of the collaborative…
Voices from the River: The posthumous gift of the ‘bug’
Sam Weis, the author’s late husband. By Jenny Weis My late husband had the fishing bug. He grew up fishing musky, walleye and panfish in the lakes of northern Wisconsin with his dad and grandpa. He eventually expanded his waters to Lake Superior, the Gulf of Mexico, and the driftless region of Wisconsin, picking up…