Classic Video: Lee Wulff and Curt Gowdy Catching Huge Labrador Brook Trout

Here’s an amazing piece of television history, featuring Lee Wulff and Curt Gowdy flying into the Labrador bush in search of huge, wild brook trout. Traveling in Wulff’s famed SuperCub, with a canoe strapped to the floats, they fly over the amazing watery landscape. When they reach the Minipi watershed, they head out for. . .

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Orvis/TU 1,000 Miles: Impatient Brookies…and how you can help!


Native Brook Trout take advantage of a plastic lined diversion stream
Photo by Trout Unlimited

So how would you feel about having to wait thirty years to spawn?! Yeah, us too. But before we send you off to read about how Orvis and TU solved this frustrating situation for a bunch of. . .

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Video: “Hooké 2013 Souvenirs.” Wow.

‘Tis the season for year-end wrap-ups, and I expect we’ll see a lot more. But I doubt that many will be better than this epic mash-up from Hooké. There are tons of great fish, killer angling scenes, smiles, and beast-mode wood chopping. I want in for 2014!

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Photos of the Day: Brookies and Tigers and Catfish, Oh My!

Written by: Stu Thompson


Stu with a sweet catfish, taken on the DDH Leech.
All photos courtesy Stu Thompson

I’ve had not too bad a year. The fishing in Manitoba was unreal, as anglers were catching big browns, rainbows, brookies, tigers, and all the other types of fish we have.

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1,000 Miles Horseshoe Brook


An Impressive Before & After
Photo by TU staff

Replacement of the Horseshoe Brook culvert in Stratford, NH is part of the Orvis/TU 1,000 Miles campaign; an effort to restore and reconnect fish habitat across the country. The Brook is a tributary of Nash Stream, which was significantly impacted by a catastrophic dam break …

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