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Why fly fishing is like pizza

Published in Trout Talk, Featured

Stick with me here, because the analogy works for fly fishing (at least in my twisted mind). Great fly fishing prowess is also ultimately built from four key elements—the cast, reading water, presentation and the flies you choose

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.

Skills: Knot on my watch

Published in Uncategorized

As is the case with just about anyone who’s been fly fishing for more than a few years, I’ve gotten fairly adept at a handful of knots that I need to get through the average day on the water. Knots are always the weakest point in a fly-fishing rig, from the loop-to-loop knot that connects…

Eat a salmon for Bristol Bay

Published in Conservation, TU Business

Bristol Bay, Alaska … the center of the earth for wild sockeye salmon. It’s also focus of our battle against the proposed Pebble Mine, which would create North America’s largest open-pit gold and copper mine next to some of the most important salmon rivers left on earth. Bristol Bay continues to produce one of the…

Sunlight Sports

Aimed at helping you have a great outdoor experience in the Greater Yellowstone and Beyond, Sunlight Sports is Cody, Wyoming’s premier backcountry outfitter.

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

Published in Uncategorized

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…

‘Hunters and Anglers for CORE’ call for more access and habitat protections

Published in Uncategorized

Measuring 20 miles long with nearly 100 miles of shoreline, it’s difficult to ignore Blue Mesa Reservoir. Sitting on the western flank of Gunnison County, Colorado’s largest body of water is a pivotal cog of the Colorado River Storage Project and the centerpiece of the surrounding Curecanti National Recreation Area, a sport fishing and outdoor…

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.