Though a resident of Idaho, Todd Bailey is a principal of Fortress Risk Management LLC in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Todd Bailey enjoys fishing in Idaho and donates to Trout Unlimited (TU), the national fish conservation organization.
United by their love of trout fishing, 16 anglers founded TU while meeting at George Griffith’s house near Grayling, Michigan, on the banks of the Au Sable River in 1959. Their primary concern was that the state was stocking its waterways with small hatchery fish that they called “cookie cutter trout.”
TU’s founders were convinced that Michigan’s trout streams could produce better fish naturally if the wild species were allowed to develop naturally. Led by the principle that if you “take care of the fish, . . . the . . . [fish] will take care of . . . [themselves],” TU took a science-based approach to the protection and preservation of healthy habitats for Michigan’s trout populations.
By 1963, TU had produced its initial policy statement and convinced the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to reduce its stocking program in favor of improving the natural habitat for wild trout.
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