Category Archives: All Things Fishing
Legions Love the Muddler
In the spring issue of TROUT our Classics section featured the Muddler Minnow fly pattern. They say there really is no wrong way to present the original Muddler whether it is greased and floating on the surface, twitched while swinging … Continue reading
Trout Magazine Spring 2013
As of today everyone should have received their spring issue of TROUT. In this issue of TROUT there was an omission in the classified section. As you can see from the ad not letting everyone know about this event … Continue reading
Why fish love ‘large woody debris’
By Alan Moore “Large woody debris.” A local self-taught stream savant I know has mounted a campaign to do away with that phrase. Wood deserves better, he says, than to be referred to as “debris” in streams. That unsavory distinction … Continue reading
Beavers play role in protecting trout from worst of changing climate
By John Zablocki Heraclitus of Ephesus, an ancient Greek philosopher, is quoted to have said “No man steps in the same river twice.” One supposes this Greek sage was a fly-fisherman. Anybody that’s fished our nation’s wild trout streams long … Continue reading
Farmed salmon? No thanks …
I got a kick out of Greg Thomas’ blog post today about his experience in a Denver seafood joint he visited during the International Sportsmen’s Expo last week. Greg asked the server at the restaurant whether the establishment’s salmon was … Continue reading
The Greenbacks, young professionals pursue the TU mission
In the winter issue of TROUT there was the article: Let ‘Em Run… Colorado’s “Greenbacks” Group Involves the Young Professional Crowd in the TU mission. The group of men and women are a mix of members from other Colorado chapters and … Continue reading
The Rod that Changed the World: Eagle Claw Trailmaster
“If Trailmaster rods could talk, their collected adventures would produce an epic,” Paul Bruun’s Classics feature in the 2013 winter issue of TROUT. Do you have a favorite memory of an afternoon on the river? Or a tale you had to … Continue reading
Top TU volunteer awarded with Patagonia Sur adventure
Casting a fly to wild Patagonian trout and salmon is atop many an angler’s bucket list. What better way to say thank you to Peg Keller? One of the founding members of TU’s Coldwater Conservation Fund, an avid fly fisher, … Continue reading
Worth more than gold…
Friends: If the White House and EPA do not initiate the process to protect Bristol Bay before the end of July, it is unlikely to get done in a first term of President Obama’s Administration; and that would come as … Continue reading