Troutu celebrated its first anniversary on November 9, 2009. We started the Troutu website for the purpose of promoting catch and release trout fishing as a family sport. Our mission is to efficiently provide useful, relevant information and products to trout fishermen with all levels of experience; and our moto is "Spend a few minutes on the net, and put more trout in your net". Our goal is to be the premier "go to" site for all levels of trout anglers.
Our staff grew by Professor Dan Farnsworth a Minnesota native who brings cold weather experience to the University and by Associate Professor Tom Rosenbauer who is Director of Marketing for Orvis Rod and Reels, and Brant Oswald who is a professional guide and writer as well as Director of Orvis West Coast Fly Fishing School.
For consulting, we are pleased to have Jim Casada who is the author of the award-winning books, "Modern Fly Fishing" and "Fly Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: An Insider’s Guide to a Pursuit of Passion". Jim has over 50 years of trout fishing in the SmokyMountainsNational Park and he mixes humor, history and trout fishing into his writings.
We also have the entomology and fly fishing expertise of world famous fly fisherman James Marsh who has over 15 fly fishing DVDs available on our site. We are pleased to announce that we will soon be offering his line of Perfect Flies, flies so realistic; you can not distinguish them from the real alive insect!
During the past year, we have added hundreds of pages as well as several products to the site; and since November 2008, when we received our first visitor, we have been overwhelmed with almost 15,000 visits to the site.
However, we still have much to do and the site will continue to improve so stop by often and do not hesitate to give us your comments.