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by: chris_wood
May 21, 2018
By Chris Wood
I went to see Art Neumann a few months before he passed away. As...
Potomac River Wild Fish Challenge
Rules:
1. The person who checks off the greatest number of species from the list below by the end of the year is the winner. (In case that’s unclear, you just have to get one of each to check them off the list – the point is to get through the list as fast as you can.) In the event of a tie, the person who checked them off and posted them first is the winner.
-carp
-gar
-catfish
-largemouth bass
-smallmouth bass
-striped bass
-American shad
-hickory shad
-crappie
-snakehead
2. Boundaries of the competition will be Potomac River and its tributaries (including the canal) from Great Falls to Dogue Creek.
3. All fish must be photographed and posted on the “Potomac River Wild Fish Challenge” group on tu.org.
4. Competition is open to TU staff, trustees and distinguished alumni.
5. First person to catch every species on the list wins a fly rod.
6. Fly fishing only.
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blog BY chris_wood ON May 21 - 0 COMMENTS
Keeping up the fight for trout 
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By Chris Wood
I went to see Art Neumann a few months before he passed away. As I left, he punched me on the leg, and asked, “What are you going to do to keep up the fight for trout?” He died later that year after nearly 100 years of life and almost 75 years of advocacy on behalf of trout and salmon... [ READ MORE... ]
blog BY chris_wood ON April 3 - 24 COMMENTS
Tell your story 
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My Dad says it happened when I was about 7 years old. Some punk lifeguards and their hangers-on were tormenting a sand shark they had pulled from the surf down the Jersey shore. I marched in between the sea of tree-trunk legs and, through my tears, carried the dead fish back to the surf. My Newark-... [ READ MORE... ]
blog BY chris_wood ON December 23 - 0 COMMENTS
Making the world a better place 
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TU does more work than any other organization in the country to make fishing better. For example, in Mill Creek, a tributary to the Russian River in California, we worked for seven years with our partners to remove a dam to reopen 14 miles of critical spawning habitat for imperiled Coho salmon.... [ READ MORE... ]
blog BY chris_wood ON December 23 - 1 COMMENTS
Looking back at 2017 
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By Chris Wood
Last week, I had an hour between meetings in Carmel, California, so I called Tim Frahm, who directs our CA coastal steelhead work. He invited me to look at a project that Christy Fischer, his spouse, and he had worked on. Over chicken sandwiches they told me a riveting story about how... [ READ MORE... ]
photo BY chris_wood ON July 31 - 0 COMMENTS
2017 PRC gar 
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Keith, a shame you never posted your pics...