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Data loggers make monitoring stream temps easy

Published in Uncategorized

Check out TU’s Stream Temperature Monitoring Handbook. By Kurt Fesenmyer One great way to take the pulse of your local river is by monitoring stream temperatures. Inexpensive data loggers offer the opportunity to record water temperatures every hour for several years, providing easy access to important information on seasonal patterns, short-term trends, and the impacts…

Time to take the kids outside!

Published in Youth, Conservation

With spring in full swing it’s time to get outside. All over the country, small fingerling trout and salmon smolts are leaving classrooms in the hands of their student caretakers and heading to local rivers and streams via TU’s Trout in the Classroom and Salmon in the Classroom programs. Now is the time for other…

Planning A Film Screening Event

Film screenings have become an increasingly popular way to engage and inspire communities across the nation. These films cater to an audience that is deeply devoted, passionate and excited about the opportunity to gather with friends, celebrate their sport, and dream about casts still unmade. The International Fly Fishing Film Festival (IF4) is our official…

Tradition | Trout Camp Essay Contest | Natalie

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Each fall, TU Camp and Academy graduates are invited to enter the TU Teen Essay Contest in which they share their camp experiences. This year we had four finalists, and Natalie’s essay is the first in this series as the third runner-up. Natalie is from Georgia and is pictured above on one of her favorite…

Voices from the River: New water

Published in Voices from the river

By Chris Hunt Every move I made seemed amplified in the little jon boat—every time I set my fishing sling down on the aluminum deck or shifted my flip-flopped feet or repositioned a fly rod, it sounded as if I was ringing an off-key church bell. The little boat was new to me, as was…

Voices from the River: A trip west

Published in Travel, Voices from the river

By Ben Tayloe A spoiled, seven year-old yellow lab named Chester and a six-week stay in Germany for my wife’s job made the drive across the country a necessity. The only family member who volunteered to watch our dog happened to live on the central coast of California, a great place to visit but nearly…

American Rivers names Delaware its River of the Year

Published in Conservation

By Rob Shane  For those in the Mid-Atlantic, or for anyone who’s been trout fishing long enough to have a bucket list of rivers, you’re certainly familiar with the Delaware River. Aside from being the source of drinking water for more than 15 million people in two of the largest cities in the United States (New York and Philadelphia), it…

Hello to a River

Published in Snake River
A river in the distance with flowers in the foreground

For those of us born of water, sky, forest and meadow, for whom nature and the natural experience is not only a desired condition, but a necessary one, good writing about this world fuels our souls.

Caring for the Kenai

Published in Priority Waters

This cherished river is one of Trout Unlimited’s Priority Waters, and I’m here to tell you more about it and our work there. 

Trout Unlimited leading “transformational” work with landmark infrastructure funding

TU is working in six of 10 landscapes highlighted for attention by White House CEQ Contacts: Trout Unlimited media resources: https://tu.org/about/media WASHINGTON, D.C.—The White House Council on Environmental Quality this week highlighted “for focused attention” a group of 10 Transformational Fish Passage Projects, major watershed restoration projects across the country that are helping ecosystems recover…

Video spotlight: Palometa Club permit tournament

Published in Video spotlight

I’ve had the good fortune to visit the Palometa Club in Punta Allen, about three hours by car south of Cancun, to chase bonefish and permit. When I saw this video, a rush of great memories came back to me—from our jovial driver, Manny, to the ride to the lodge where all the magic happens,…

Video spotlight: The Sallee Boys

Published in Video spotlight

Ah, sibling rivalries. Anybody who has a brother or a sister understands exactly what it’s like to compete with those closest to you for everything from the food put on the table at night to the fish that come to hand. Meet the Sallee brothers—one is a musician and the other is robotics application engineer.…

Video spotlight: The Double Haul

Published in Video spotlight

Years ago, just prior to going to the Bahamas for my first-ever flats trip, I must have watched the video below a hundred times. I was told by the folks I was fishing with that “You need to know how to double haul” if you’re going to chase bonefish on the flats. Man, were they…