Help Pass Senate Bill 5!
Trout Unlimited New Mexico’s top priority for the 2025 legislative session, Senate Bill 5, is almost at the finish line, and we need your help to get it over the line. SB5 will modernize and fund the Department of Game…
Truchas Chapter
Truchas Chapter of Trout Unlimited, a local membership of over 500 and the national organization of more than 300,000 members, is dedicated to conserving, protecting and restoring North America’s cold-water fisheries and their watersheds.
Trout Unlimited CEO Chris Wood to Speak at “Casting for the Future” Event – SOLD OUT
The Truchas Chapter of Trout Unlimited is pleased to present “Casting for the Future,” a special event dedicated to conservation, community, and the future of cold-water fisheries. The event, set for April 10 2025 at La Fonda’s La Terraza & Patio Garden, will feature a keynote address…
Indigenous and Hispanic Youth Fly Fishing Camp
The Indigenous and Hispanic Youth Fly Fishing Camp was first created in 2022 by Vidal Gonzales and strives to uplift Indigenous and Hispanic youth from underserved communities (specifically from local tribal, acequia, and land grant communities in Northern New Mexico).…
Meet Your Board Member — Bruce Scott
Bruce Scott has been a TU member for over 25 years and a member of the Truchas Chapter Board for 2 years. He and his wife relocated to Santa Fe in 2021 from Kansas City, Missouri to find the enchantment, historical…
Trout in the Classroom Kicks off 2025
On January 10, 11 volunteers from Truchas Chapter completed delivery of rainbow trout eggs to the remaining schools involved in this year’s Trout in the Classroom program. This adds to the 3 schools that received rainbow eggs earlier (October 2024) and 2…
2025 Truchas Scholarship
The Truchas (Santa Fe) chapter of Trout Unlimited would like to announce its plans for the 2025 Truchas Scholarship. This one-time grant of $2500 is for students pursuing a STEM major in college starting in fall 2025. This year it…
Another Successful Year of Trout in the Classroom Completed
The Truchas Chapter of Trout Unlimited partners with NM Game & Fish to set up local classrooms to hatch rainbow trout from eggs or raise Rio Grande Cutthroat fry to fingerlings. This year there were 12 participating schools in the…
Meet Your Board Member — Brian Burrell
Brian Burrell is the Truchas Chapter Treasurer and a resident of Santa Fe, NM, since 2012. Growing up in Milwaukee, WI, he started fishing for bass and walleye on Wisconsin lakes (trivia fact: Wisconsin has more lakes than its neighbor…
My River – Two Days Floating and Fishing the San Juan River
It was a beautiful late September morning, cold enough to numb the fingers managing the fly line. Gary Moran and I were in for a two-day float with our About Trout guide, James Garrettson, and had just shoved off into…
Fly Fishing the Valles Caldera National Park – San Antonio Creek
Those who only view the park from the highway or drive down to the ranger station have only seen a very small area of the park. The large meadow you see is not the full caldera, which is bounded by the far…