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Video spotlight: Engler

Published in Video spotlight

Yeti’s film series on guides is just outstanding. The latest installment, focusing on Colorado northern pike and trout guide Mark Engler, digs pretty deep into the psyche of a socially awkward kid who became a guide because fishing and hunting were the only things that made him happy. Sound familiar? Today, Engler is a celebrated

Trout Love Snow

Published in Fishing
Person in wide river casting with snowy mountains behind

The rest of us, not so much. Winter continues in the West, but that’s ok with us anglers.

More changes for monuments?

Published in Uncategorized

Interior Secretary Zinke recommends additional changes for national monuments Report outlines actions that would have far-reaching consequences for hunters and anglers WASHINGTON D.C. — In a final report released to the public today, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke recommended to President Trump that additional national monuments – those public lands managed to protect objects

Trout Unlimited applauds Gov. Richardson?s petition for roadless area protection

5/31/2006 Trout Unlimited applauds Gov. Richardson?s petition for roadless area protection May 31, 2006 Contact: Brian ODonnell, 970-903-0276 Bill Schudlich, 505-470-4878 Kevin Reilly FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trout Unlimited applauds Gov. Richardsons petition for roadless area protection Inclusion of Valle Vidal in request is in best interest of sportsmen SANTA FE Trout Unlimited today applauded Gov.

Wild: Firehole River brown trout

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Tom Reed with a nice Firehole River brown trout. We’d walked maybe a mile away from the bike trail that crosses the Firehole River, just upstream of the Fountain Flat parking area, putting a bit of distance between us and the last couple of anglers we wandered past that early June day several years back.

Nervous Waters Fly Fishing

Nervous Waters is the leader in international Fly Fishing luxury destinations, with a collection of 9 lodges spread out across Argentina, Chile, and the Bahamas. We offer a plethora of coveted gamefish including bones and tarpon, sea-run and resident brown trout, rainbow trout, golden dorado, pacú, and pirá pitá. What started as a family business,

Thanks Joe

Published in Conservation

By Chris Wood “I was the first person Charles Gauvin hired at Trout Unlimited when he became CEO in 1992. He wanted to hire Steve Moyer, but Steve and Michelle just had their first child, and Steve thought the organization’s finances were too unstable. At the time Trout Unlimited had a budget of $2 million

’Tis the Season

Published in Conservation

What’s not to love about brown trout? They’re crafty, tenacious, mean, strong, and damn near invincible. Jason Bourne, Derrick Henry, Kaiser Soze, and Dracula all rolled into one fish.

State of the Trout: Native fish in the Southwest in perilous state

June 23, 2015 Contacts: Jack Williams, Trout Unlimited senior scientist, jwilliams@tu.org, (541) 261-3960 Chris Hunt, Trout Unlimited national communications director, chunt@tu.org, (208) 406-9106 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Trout Unlimited report highlights challenges facing native trout in the U.S. Climate change, non-native species among biggest threats to native trout in the Southwest WASHINGTON, D.C.North Americas already

National Monuments, A Net Gain for Hunters and Anglers

Report evaluates existing national monuments and offers principles for future proposals Contact: Drew YoungeDyke, TU, 734-280-8909, drew.youngedyke@tu.org Katie McKalip, BHA, 406-240-9262, mckalip@backcountryhunters.org Noah Davis, TRCP, 406-926-3201, ndavis@trcp.org In a new report, National Monuments: A Hunting and Fishing Perspective, 25 groups and businesses –championed by Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation

Alpine Archery and Fly stands with TU on Lower Snake proposal

Published in TU Business

Their business exists to serve the local folks who love to hunt and fish here and the people who come from all over the world to experience the Grande Ronde country. They’re hunters and anglers themselves, and they’re concerned about the future of fish in their home water. Like John says, “Time has taught us that we can either have wild fish in the Grand Ronde or we can have dams on the Lower Snake. We can’t have both.”

Video spotlight: The importance of proper positioning

Published in Video spotlight

Years ago, while fishing the Rio Grande in southern Colorado with Kirk Deeter, I was casting to a rising trout but getting foiled by contrary currents in the river. Drag kept, well, dragging me down. Kirk, a guide and now the editor of TROUT Magazine, gave me the simplest—yet most important—piece of advice I’ve ever

Voices from the River: In the company of ghosts

Published in Voices from the river

By Toner Mitchell I spent Halloween this year in the company of ghosts. They weren’t the bed-sheet kind, but the long-gone n ative residents of Frijoles Canyon, in the Bandelier National Monument on New Mexico’s Pajarito Plateau. Established around 1150 AD by ancestral Puebloans fleeing drought and social strife in the Four Corners region, Bandelier

Native stories, for fish and people, are still untold

Published in Featured, Voices from the river

Since 1867, an obelisk has stood in the center of Santa Fe’s downtown plaza to honor fallen Union soldiers in Civil War battles fought in New Mexico, as well as soldiers who fought against “savage Indians.”   Another structure nearby honors Kit Carson who, as a Union colonel, did as much as anyone to push the Southwest’s Indigenous People to the brink of extinction. A statue on the grounds of one of Santa Fe’s prominent cathedrals honored

The Western Coachman

Published in Fly tying, Fishing, TROUT Magazine

I love old-school flies. I think it comes from my involvement, many years ago, with the Trout Unlimited chapter in Salida, Colo., when I was the news editor of the local paper there. After penetrating the initial crustiness of the “old timers” at the chapter meetings, I made some great friends there, and these guys

NE Oregon program

The Blue Mountain and Idaho Batholith Ecoregions in NE Oregon and SW Washington provides habitat for numerous threatened and endangered trout and salmon. Trout Unlimited (TU) focuses our work on four of its most critical river basins – the John Day, Umatilla, Grande Ronde, and Clearwater. Each of these watersheds is a stronghold for resident