Coulee Region Trout Unlimited

This is a post written by Jason Freund, originally for The Scientific Fly Angler blog, which we are publishing on the Coulee Region Trout Unlimited website . Populations are incredibly complex as they are always changing - hence why we talk about population dynamics. The factors responsible for those changes are a mix of unpredictable (weather, floods, fish kills, etc.) and somewhat predictable (interactions among individuals - competition, predation, etc.). However, there ar

Mortality - the word scientists give to the deaths of individuals - is not as simple as it might first look.

A post on the history and flies of the Wolf River got me to thinking about the Driftless. As you see, the area and the trout fishing we maybe take for granted has not always been what it is now. In fact, it really was not that long ago that Driftless fisheries were mostly stocked and not self-sustaining like they are now. Today, over much of the Driftless Area, if it is a blue line on a map, it holds trout. It has not always been that way, a fact we should celebrate but also