Trout Leap to Freedom in Incredibe Escape
by By NICK McDERMOTT
The Daily Mail
Alresford, Hampshire, UK
Down on the fish farm, workers could not understand why the number of brown trout had suddenly taken a dive. But close observation revealed the reason - an aquatic version of the Great Escape. The resourceful fish are leaping 3ft out of the water and into an eight-inch pipe which brings fresh water into the farm near Alresford, Hampshire.
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The Rocky Mountain Grand Slam
by Grant Brown
A compromise of passions turns into a worthy quest.
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My First Colorado Trout
by Mike Miller
 My First Colorado Trout
I thought you would appreciate the attached photo of the first trout I caught in Colorado….on my 6th cast.
The head guide from North Park, took me to one of their lakes just to show me their Stillwater fishing, even though I said I was only interested in river venues. He forgot his vest but did have a rod ...
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Pollution saves fish is like man bites dog.
by Kirk Johnson, New York Times
Out of Old Mines' Muck Rises New Reclamation Model for West
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. — Pollution saves fish is like man bites dog.
But that is what happened in this mining town turned resort as contaminated water from abandoned gold mines drained into French Gulch creek beginning after World War II. The pollution created a barrier that isolated the native Colorado cutthroat trout — a threatened species — from nonnative competitors like the rainbow trout that could not fight their way through the muck. The cutthroats thrived in their accidental sanctuary above the mines, where the water was clean.
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Troubled waters: South Branch Root River
by Chris Niskanen, outdoors writer
You can fall in love on a trout stream, and you can fall in love with a trout stream, and I've done both with the South Branch Root River in the southeast blufflands of Minnesota.
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2006 Chapter Trips
The dates for the Spring Creeks trip (April 28- April 30), Wolf River Trip (May 19-May 21) and the Au Sable trip (June 14-18) are firm.
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