Allegheny Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited

The Allegheny Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited is hosting a meeting titled “Finding Places to Fish” This is a good opportunity to find out how to locate all the “secret” trout streams as well as the famous ones.

We will be meeting at Martin Grocery Store in DuBois in the Community Room at 7 pm Wednesday March 13, 2013.  The public is welcome to attend.  For more information call George Kutskel at 371-9290.

The Allegheny Mountain Chapter will be hosting an informational session on the unassessed waters program from the PA Fish and Boat Commission.  Renae Greiner from Western PA Conservancy and Bob Weber from the PA Fish and Boat Commission will give an overview of how streams are surveyed and added to the wild trout list.  This is a great way to learn how the state list stream as wild trout and what that means for the watershed as a whole.  We will be meeting at Martin Grocery Store in DuBois in the Community Room at 7 PM Wednesday February 13, 2013.  The public is welcome to attend.  For more information call George Kutskel at 371-9290.

Hard to believe that 2012 is almost over.  Thanks for all your support over the past year.

You can check out the the 2013 meeting schedule here. And mark your calendar’s for the 2013 Annual Banquet to be held on April 7, 2013 at the Falls Creek Eagles.

Have a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year!

The Allegheny Mountain Chapter will be holding a meeting on the status of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River Wednesday November 14, 2012 at 7 pm. The meeting will be held at the DuBois Martins Grocery Store in their community room.

Rachel Kester from Trout Unlimited Eastern Abandon Mines Project will give an update on how their efforts have been improving the water of the West Branch and its tributaries and how the aquatic life has been steadily improving.

The public is welcome, this is a great chance to see how the West Branch is quickly become a great fishery. For more information call George Kutskel 814-371-9290

Please note the upcoming meetings in October:

Our next AMCTU board meeting will be held on October 3, 2012 at the First Christian Church in Big Run. The meeting will start at 7 pm.

The AMCTU October membership meeting will be held on October 10, 2012 at the Community Room in Martin’s Grocery Store, 22 Hoover Avenue, DuBois, starting at 7 pm.

Hopefully everyone had a good, fish-filled summer. But now it is time to get back to work!

Our next AMCTU board meeting is on August 1, 2012 at 7 pm at the First Christian Church in Big Run.

Attention fly fishermen and women! The Allegheny Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited will be holding a demonstration on effective nymph techniques on the Delayed Harvest Area of the Sandy Lick Creek in DuBois on Wednesday May 9, 2012 at 6 pm. We will meet on the walkway directly across from Lezzer Lumber on Shaffer Road.

Gary Kell, a master fly caster, will be showing several different techniques on using nymph patterns for trout and steelhead. Bring your fly fishing gear to receive some hands on help. This event is open to everyone and will be held rain or shine. There is no cost.

For more information please call George Kutskel at 814-371-9290 or email maksak@comcast .net.

We’re still exhausted from the Banquet, so there will be no membership meeting this month.

See you in May.