by Jordan Lindberg | May 27, 2009 | Environment, News & Updates
Trout Unlimited has launched a new Stream Explorer membership program for TU’s youth. As Trout Unlimited notes, “TU’s future conservation work will be recruiting the next generation of coldwater stewards. With each passing year, kids have less free...
by Jordan Lindberg | May 26, 2009 | Environment, News & Updates
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Great Lakes Commission have chosen six organizations to receive volunteer water quality monitoring grants as part of the Michigan Clean Water Corps program. The six organizations will share nearly $50,000...
by Jordan Lindberg | May 25, 2009 | News & Updates, Trips & Guides
The weather is finally improving and even holding a bit steady and I spent yesterday on the Manistee with Bryon, John, and Brooke. We started a bit late in the upper part of Manistee, still in canoe country, but got tired of dodging the aluminum hatch on a holiday...
by Jordan Lindberg | May 21, 2009 | Flies, People & Interviews
Dennis Potter is just as passionate about the art of teaching fly tying as he is when it comes to fly tying itself. This Michigan angler has crafted a life around the art of fly tying and his life-long efforts to master traditional and innovative fly tying are really...
by Jordan Lindberg | May 20, 2009 | Environment, News & Updates
In the ongoing battle against invasive species in the Great Lakes watershed, researchers at Michigan State University have developed a synthetic version of a sea lamprey pheromone that they are testing as a way of luring female lampreys to traps. The battle against...
by Jordan Lindberg | May 19, 2009 | Books & Video Reviews, People & Interviews
Long gone from Northern Michigan and his farm on the Leelanau County, Jim Harrison now resides in Patagonia, Arizona, and Livingston, Montana where he continues his writing life. Harrison remains, however, a favorite writer among the hook-and-bullet set of Michigan,...
by Jordan Lindberg | May 19, 2009 | News & Updates
Backcast Magazine, a new digital fly fishing periodical, is available for online subscription. This new free digital magazine will be published quarterly by Jim Stenson and Walter Hodges, and the first issue is scheduled to hit your computer screen on August 1st,...
by Jordan Lindberg | May 19, 2009 | Books & Video Reviews, News & Updates
Trout Unlimited’s 50th anniversary celebration will be hosted at the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa in Traverse City. The event is scheduled for the week of August 17th through the 24th. Events are wide-ranging and include several hosted fishing trips, guest...
