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Your new SWTU Board of Directors

A new Board was elected at the May 8, 2018 meeting. The results! Read More

No June, July or August Meetings

Per usual, we are taking the summer off and not having regular chapter meetings in June, July or August. The busy, hot, travel-filled summer months are not generally conducive to large meetings. That’s not to say there aren’t things to do! Read More

Stream Workday & Picnic — Saturday June 9, 2018

Please join us for this workday on the Sugar River … a reschedule from one that was flooded out earlier in the spring! Read More

Fryes Feeder Workday report and photos

Update from our May 12 workday courtesy Topf Wells with photos from Jim Beecher …

Busy as and efficient as beavers is the summary of our workday at Fryes Feeder. About 15-18 of us cleared, treated, and stacked willow.  We would have burned it but would have risked suffocating a trail run at Donald Park. Read More

Stream Workday — Saturday May 12, 2018

A little rain won’t slow us … this workday is ON.
We’d love for you to join our Stream Team this Saturday, May 12, 2018, as we work to improve Fryes Feeder Creek (Donald Park). See below for details! Read More

Newscasts – May 2018

This issue has lots of great information, including:

Learn more about Nohr

Our Tuesday, May 8 Chapter Meeting
Join us May 8 to hear Tim Fraley, President of the Harry and Laura Nohr Chapter of Trout Unlimited, present on some recent Nohr Chapter activities and habitat projects.  Read More

Waterhen Bloa

Fountains of Youth – Classic trout flies that have withstood the test of time … flies that remain “forever young”

by Rusty Dunn

Whenever you venture astream, you carry the accu­mulated wisdom and technological advances of gen­erations of an­gling predecessors.  Your fly rod, for ex­ample, is a mar­vel of engineering.  Read More

Update on Wis. Conservation Congress Fish and Game Hearings

We’d previously reported on the Wisconsin Conservation Congress Spring Fish and Game Hearings that were held in April. Find out the results of a key question.  Read More

Lessons and laughter at Riversmith Casting Clinic

It was cool and windy, but doughnuts and hot coffee powered a wonderful group of students and instructors through a number of interactive stations: casting, Tenkara, etymology, gear, reading the water. Many thanks to Tristan Kloss for taking the lead in organizing it. Read More