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Family Air Tours and The Hook Up Fly Shop

Our story began in 2001, when Dave and Alice started sharing their love of Southeast Alaska’s waters with visiting anglers. What began as a small family operation built on hard work, hospitality, and a passion for fishing has grown into Family Air Tours and The Hook Up Fly Shop—a business still rooted in the same…

Make some time to fish with Reel ‘Em In Guide Service

Published in TU Business, Fishing

A lot of people use the Trout Unlimited calendar. And no wonder, it’s a beautiful publication and a great tool for keeping your life organized. Maybe you use it yourself. But I bet not many of us use it as hard as James Bradley at Reel ‘Em In Guide Service in Ellijay, Ga. Check out…

Adventure among Patagonia’s estancias

Published in Travel, Fishing, TROUT Magazine

It was quite the juxtaposition, honestly. Not exactly what I had in mind for my first fishing trip to Argentina, but then, the whole experience had been somewhat surprising. There I was, casually sitting in the back seat of a Toyota Hilux next to a waifish equestrian from Pennsylvania, a tumbler of iced Irish whiskey…

Skills: Super Easy Non-slip Knot

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I use non-slip knots almost exclusively when fishing streamers—I think they give flies more action in the water, and they’re very dependable. But, as age and … evoloving… eyesight are kicking in, tying the knot sometimes takes a while. Video of Super Easy Non Slip Loop Knot Above, Tim Flager shows a great way to…

Did the pandemic spark a fishing renaissance?

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Photo by Christine Peterson The brother and sister—ages 8 and 11—fired off one question after another. “What’s a sinker for?”  “What’s a bottom bouncer?”  “How does it work?” “What are we going to catch?” They’d never been fishing before. They wanted to know everything. Their instructor that day, my husband, put on his middle-school-science-teacher face,…

TU working to avert disaster for Oklahoma’s Lower Illinois River

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TU grassroots leader Scott Hood with a nugget from Oklahoma’s Lower Illinois River. The Lower Illinois River below Tenkiller Ferry Dam is one of only two streams in Oklahoma with a year-round trout fishery. The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) manages this tailwater for trout, striped bass and other game fishes thanks to cold-water…

The Lodge at Green Cove

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Tellico. It’s kind of a mysterious word. The Cherokee wrote it “Talikwa” and used it in the names of several of their towns in the Great Smoky Mountains. They say the actual meaning of the word was lost in their language. It’s possible that it’s origin isn’t Cherokee at all, but Muskogee. The Muskogee say…

SweetWater Brewing Co. stands with TU on Lower Snake dam removal

Published in TU Business

“SweetWater supports our friends over at TU in their mission of conservation and recovery of salmon and steelhead on the lower Snake River. Protecting healthy river ecosystems and a diversity of fish species ultimately means protecting the source of clean, quality water that turns into the downstream beer we enjoy. Because protecting our great outdoors is in our DNA – you just can’t make good beer without clean water.”

TU Business Member SweetWater Brewing Company

Published in Community

SweetWater Brewing Company in Atlanta, GA has made fly fishing and fly anglers the focus of their business. They’ve been a great TU Business member and a great partner in events across the southeast and beyond.

SweetWater Brewing Company is a sweet TU Business Member

Published in Community

Beer and fishing. They go together like lines and leaders. As every beer drinker knows, not all beers are the same. And not all brewers are the same. SweetWater Brewing Company in Atlanta, GA has made fly fishing and fly anglers the focus of their business. They’ve been a great TU Business member and a…

Video spotlight: Striker’s Point Lodge

Published in Video spotlight

In the summer of 2017, I was lucky enough to join a group of friends on a quick trip to northwest Ontario, where we visited a couple of lodges with Mark Melnyk, who works for Wildnerness North, which owns and operates a handful of lodges in the North Woods. One of these lodges was Stiker’s…

Video spotlight: Finding Fontinalis

Published in Video spotlight

Say what you will about far-flung fishing adventures … that they’re not worth the carbon footprint they create, or that they’re the fool’s errand for anglers with more money than sense … but the search for massive brook trout in the farthest reaches of Patagonia has a certain romance to it. And now, the full…

Laughing Grizzly Fly Shop

Laughing Grizzly Fly Shop is owned and operated by Mike Kruise and Scott Bley. We grew up fishing local waters- the St. Vrain, the Big Thompson, the Cache La Poudre, and the lakes and streams of Rocky Mountain National Park. We and our staff are proud of our local heritage, and welcome both local residents…

Midland X-tra Talk GXT radio

Published in Gear reviews, Fishing, TROUT Magazine

By Bill Thorne In this day and age of smart phones boasting limitless data capabilities, you may not think you need a set of walkie talkies. In the rural parts of the Ozarks, where I fish and hunt, I have found the Midland X-tra Talk, GXT Walkie Talkies to come in handy. These “Mossy Oak”…

Klamath Basin Rangeland Trust and Trout Unlimited merge, awarded NRCS grant for restoration work

TU Logo_2015.jpg February 18, 2016 Contact: Chrysten Lambert, Director, Oregon Water Project, (541) 973-4431 clambert@tu.orgBrian Johnson, California and Klamath Director, (415) 385-0796 bjohnson@tu.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Klamath Basin Rangeland Trust and Trout Unlimited announce merger, award of $7.6M from NRCS to support partnerships with agriculture in upper Klamath Basin Klamath Falls, Ore.The Klamath Basin Rangeland…