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Pursuing ‘the people’s fish’ in Alaska

Published in Fishing, Featured

“When we think about people, and the ‘habitat’ people utilize, we don’t just look at the superhighways where they can easily be seen traveling,” he said. “People don’t live on the freeways, people don’t ‘spawn’ on the freeways or on their commute.”

TU Teen Summit: Bios

The 10th Annual TU Teen Summit is happening June 28th thru July 2nd on Georgetown Lake, Montana. This annual leadership event brings together teen leaders from around the country, many of whom have attended one of TU’s state fly fishing camps. Part of each Teen Summit includes brainstorming and planning new ways to involve young…

Planning A Trash Cleanup

Cleaning up a local river or stream is a great way to bring your community together to care for local waters. Depending on the conditions, this event may be family focused or more fitting for adults with special skills. Either way, use the opportunity to get your community outside and enjoying the outdoors while making…

Conservation Funding: TU Letter to US House re: Agriculture Appropriations

Published in Uncategorized

Conservation Funding: Trout Unlimited Letter to U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee for Agricultue and related – urging strong support for Farm Bill programs in FY18 Appropriations process. 170627_TU_FY18_Ag_Approps_House_FNL.docx.pdf June 27, 2017 RE: Trout Unlimited strongly supports Farm Bill conservation program funding in your FY18 Appropriations bill. Dear Chairman Aderholt, Ranking Member Bishop, and Members of the…

Sportsmen stand behind land protection bill

01/12/2009 Sportsmen stand behind land protection bill Jan. 9, 2009 Contact: Charles Gauvin, (703) 284-9401 Tom Reed, (307) 349-8266 Mike Beagle, (541) 772-7720 Sam Davidson, (831) 235-2542 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sportsmen stand behind land protection bill Wyoming Range, Copper-Salmon among places in need of safeguarding WASHINGTON, D.C.Hunters and anglers throughout the country support an omnibus…

Volunteers go big on the Hooch

Published in Conservation

TU volunteers in the Southeast turned a $7,500 Embrace-A-Stream grant into a quarter-million-dollar project and energized the local conservation community.

Trout Unlimited, Caribou-Targhee National Forest in Final Year of Large-scale Restoration Project Benefitting Native Fish in Idaho’s Tincup Creek

Tuesday, August 11, 2020 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, lee.mabey@usda.gov TROUT UNLIMITED AND CARIBOU-TARGHEE NATIONAL FOREST COMPLETING FINAL YEAR OF LARGE-SCALE RESTORATION PROJECT FOR NATIVE FISH ON TINCUP CREEK, ID  JACKSON, Wyoming – Trout Unlimited (TU) and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest…

This Land is Your Land: Amanda Monthei

Published in Public Lands

Long before she moved west to join a wildfire fighting crew, Amanda Monthei grew up fishing, hiking, hunting and camping in Northern Michigan’s Pigeon River Country, a vast network of state public lands surrounding her rural hometown.

Win A YETI Cooler in the Save Our Water Instagram Contest!

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To win this retro TU logo YETI cooler, all you have to do is post photos to Instagram using #saveourwatertu and @troutunlimited @sweetwaterbrew. Every post equals one entry in the draring for the cooler and other great TU swag! The SweetWater Brewing Company has long been a supporter of TU – and of clean water…

Spring Fly Showdown: The Circus Peanut vs. the Hornberg

Published in Community, Featured

Editor’s note: The biggest sporting event of spring, the NCAA basketball tournament, is simply not happening this year thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Anglers, though, can still effectively “social distance” and go fishing in areas where it’s safe and legal to leave the house, using their favorite flies. In that spirit, TU and our friends…

Fly tying: SBR Sulphur Nymph

Published in Fishing, Fly tying

Nymphing has come a long way over the last couple of decades—many fly anglers will start with attractor nymphs on new water, simply because they make great searching patterns and tend to be top-of-mind when nothing is obviously hatching. But, even searching with attractors like a Prince or a basic hare’s ear or pheasant tail…

Fly tying: The Rusty Rat

Published in Fishing, Fly tying

When I first started tying my own flies, I became infatuated with Atlatic salmon flies, even though, in the heart of Colorado’s Arkansas Valley, there wasn’t an Atlantic salmon within 2,000 miles that wasn’t lyling flat on ice in a grocery store. There was just something about the art of it all. The colors. The…

Madison Gallatin TU VSP Takes MSU Student Vets Fishing!

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The Madison-Gallatin TU Chapter in Bozeman has developed a great relationship with the Montana State University Student Veterans Club. MSU Vets have volunteered to help MGTU run 3 chapter fundraising events and participated in a willow planting project as part of a chapter stream rehab project on a tributary of the Madison River. MGTU has…

Trout Tips: The throw bag

Published in Fishing, Trout Tips

One of the many “little things” that can foul up your fly cast is a wandering elbow. First it’s tight to your side, like it should be. Then, after a while, you get a little tired and a little lazy and it starts to meander away from your side and, before you know it, it’s…

Fly tying: The Mickey Finn

Published in Fishing, Fly tying

A couple weeks back, I asked what your favorite fall streamer pattern was, and I got a lot of good answers, ranging from the Egg-sucking Leech to the Black Ghost to the venerable Mickey Finn. Video of Tying a Mickey Finn with Barry Ord Clarke In the video above, Barry Ord Clarke ties the Mickey…