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blog BY mikek.trout ON March 15 - 0 COMMENTS
It's Time to Raise the Inland Trout Stamp
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TAKE ACTION NOW - It's easy.   It’s Time to Increase the Wisconsin Inland Trout Stamp!       As Wisconsin anglers and conservationists, we recognize the importance of financially supporting trout stream habitat and management through the purchase of the Wisconsin Inland Trout Stamp every [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY mikek.trout ON October 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Chairs Column - The Front Door is Open
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By Scott Allen, WITU Council Chair   “Fishing is the front door to TU,” said CEO Chris Wood in his “State of TU” at the CX3 Portland, Maine event in July. I couldn’t agree more. For most of us it is fishing that landed us at the doorstep of TU, what lay across the threshold few of us held any [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY mikek.trout ON October 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Youth Camp Returns
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by Linn Beck, WITU National Leadership Council Representative   What a wonderful feeling to be able to get back on track with the Wisconsin Trout Unlimited Youth Fishing Camp. After a two-year hiatus, we were back in full swing. Everything went great, just like we were never away.   We went into [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY mikek.trout ON October 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Growing Veterans On The Fly for Tomorrow's Betterment
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By Matthew Cade, Co-Chair WITU Service Partnership We are now on the other side of the pandemic that hampered so many gatherings and functions and prevented the socialization that is needed by so many.  The Service Partnership and Veterans on the Fly (VOTF) stood vigilant during the height of the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY mikek.trout ON July 14 - 0 COMMENTS
2022 Upper Midwest 5 Rivers Club Meetup Recap
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By Linnea Turner   Fly fishing is like kayaking. Most people know of it, maybe even have done it, but do not actually know how the equipment works or how technical it can be. Both activities can be extremely simple, but there is a variety of skills and knowledge that go along with each. Fly fishing [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY mikek.trout ON July 14 - 0 COMMENTS
Kinni Dam Removal Update
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“One year from now, that dam will be out and the sediment will have been landscaped,” River Falls City Utilities Manager Kevin Westhuis told a Kinni Planning team in late May. That prediction was based on the news that a $1-million DNR Municipal Dam Grant had been awarded to the city to take out [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY mikek.trout ON July 14 - 0 COMMENTS
Trout Fishing Christmas
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Hex season is a special time of year on a trout stream. Nothing else in angling compares to the feeling you get when you’re standing on a riverbank waiting on darkness with the hope that the fading light brings forth a surge of Hexagenia mayflies. The anticipation is enough to weaken your knees. [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY mikek.trout ON May 1 - 0 COMMENTS
Embark
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Just four hundred years ago—how time flies—Etienne Brule was served paddling orders on the banks of the St. Lawrence by Samuel de Champlain with the directive of finding a route to the Orient, or to just find something and return to New France alive with his scalp attached. He is acknowledged as [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY mikek.trout ON May 1 - 0 COMMENTS
The Fishing Gene
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As I write this, my grandson Henry is 21, my son Stephen is 55 and I am 81. Together we add up to more than 150 years of fly fishing. I am sure there are other three-generation families that gather together to swap stories of rivers waded, waters rowed, fish caught, fish released and too many big- [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY mikek.trout ON May 1 - 0 COMMENTS
Important land purchase secured on Dell Creek
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Groundswell Conservancy and the DNR wildlife and fish biologists had worked for months to purchase a 40-acre inholding in the DNR's Dell Creek Hunting and Fishing Area. The 40 acres has more than 2,000 feet of double-streambank frontage and a tributary. The land has some higher spots with oaks and [ READ MORE... ]
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