Located just outside Portland and a stone’s throw from the Willamette River in West Linn, OR, Royal Treatment Fly Shop offers a comprehensive inventory of fly fishing equipment from top brands, and serves as a community center for conservation-minded anglers from across the Portland metro area. Named after a steelhead fly that owner Joel La Follette dreamed up on the …
Hope for Idaho’s Salmon
By Chris Wood, Trout Unlimited CEO “I have concluded that I am going to stay alive long enough to see salmon return to healthy populations in Idaho.” Those words by U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) at a conference at the Andrus Center last week may do more to project the recovery of the imperiled Snake River salmon …
Science Friday: Revisiting the Carmel River Steelhead Mitigation Program
Written by Natalie Stauffer-Olsen, PhD, TU Staff Scientist Every now and then we publish something that prompts a reaction from the authors of a report we analyze or others in the science world. This happened with our recent post on the Carmel River that focused on some biological and ecological aspects explored in the paper “Size-conditional smolting and the …
Throwback Thursday- A Friendly Reminder: Hatchery Steelhead Are Tasty
With summer just around the corner, the Wild Steelheaders crew is feeling a bit nostalgic. Winter rods are packed up and summer steelhead are a ways away, and we’ve been finding ourselves daydreaming of tiny flies, drylines, baseball games, cherry pie, and some of the internet’s most prolific fishy blog posts. In the spirit of days gone by, we’re kicking …
TU’s Chris Wood Speaking at Idaho’s Energy, Salmon, Agriculture, and Community Conference
On Tuesday, April 23rd, the Andrus Center for Public Policy will host government representatives, fish advocates, grain growers, energy executives and other stakeholders at its annual environmental conference at Idaho’s Boise State University. The theme of the 2019 Andrus conference is Energy, Salmon, Agriculture and Community: Can We Come Together? Trout Unlimited and Wild Steelheaders United salute the …
North Idaho Field Coordinator Job Opening
Hey folks! Do you love steelhead? Do you love the public lands that provide them cold, clean water? Well do we have an opportunity for you. Trout Unlimited is hiring a North Idaho Field Coordinator to work on protecting those very things. Don’t miss this opportunity to join a great team doing great things. What are you waiting for? Head …
In Support of a Hatchery Steelhead Program in the Upper Willamette
By Dean Finnerty, Wild Steelhead Initiative Director Trout Unlimited’s Wild Steelhead Initiative is all about increasing populations of wild steelhead across their native range. Why should we care so much about wild steelhead? There are several reasons, among them the fact that wild steelhead cost nothing to produce, they can be more aggressive towards the gear anglers use to …
Honoring Two Oregon Treasures and Protecting Steamboat Creek
Last Thursday, a small group of local advocates gathered in Roseburg, Oregon to pay homage to Frank and Jeanne Moore. Frank is a WWII veteran who landed on the beaches of Normandy, and upon returning from his service settled with his wife Jeanne on the banks of the North Umpqua River. There the couple built the Steamboat Inn, which became …
Protecting Oregon’s Steelhead Heritage
Few Oregonians have had a more profound, positive influence on so many people in the Beaver State than Frank and Jeanne Moore. This remarkable couple, whose decades-long efforts to protect Oregon’s natural treasures—in particular steelhead streams and native flowers—have been an inspiration for many, were recently honored by the nation with the passage of the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, …
Lessons from a steelhead rescue and captive rearing program on California’s Carmel River
By: Natalie Stauffer-Olsen, Staff Scientist, TU’s California Science Program One of the things that I have always admired most about O. mykiss is how adaptable and resilient they are. The rainbow trout, in both its resident and anadromous forms, evolved to take advantage of the most abundant habitats for their different life history stages as well as the genetic …