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Watch the New Video on Badger Mill Creek Restoration

Many thanks to two tremendous Dane County employees – Sara Rigleman, Park Property Planner, and Theresa Nelson, Stormwater Engineer — for an interesting and educational video on Badger Mill Creek in Verona. They provide valuable background and history… Read More

Virtually attend the Spring Wisconsin Conservation Congress

By Topf Wells Please consider participating in the Spring Wisconsin Conservation Congress hearings that begin on April 12 at 7 p.m. and stay open for 72 hours. Visit https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/about/wcc/springhearing to view the DNR information on the questions the… Read More

Wisconsin Women’s Fly Fishing Clinics Update for 2021

By Tina Murray & Team The leadership team of the WI Women’s Fly Fishing Clinics has discussed extensively which of the clinics we can offer safely given the structures of the clinics,  where we currently are now with… Read More

Bear Creek Video – Past, Present and Future

Please use this link to watch Nate Nye’s presentation on the Bear Creek trout fishery. Nate is the WI DNR fish biologist for Sauk and Richland Counties. He was the architect of the superb restoration of Bear Creek, which was… Read More

Virtual meetings

By Topf Wells Thanks, Nate – that is, Nate Nye, WI DNR fish biologist for Columbia and Sauk Counties. Almost 400 SWTU members and friends have watched Nate Nye’s presentation on the trout streams of the middle part… Read More

Wisconsin Trout Unlimited Youth Fishing Camp

August 19 – 22, 2021 Wisconsin Trout Unlimited will be holding their annual Youth Fishing Camp, Thursday, August 19 to Sunday, August 22, 2021 at Pine Lake Bible Camp in Waupaca, WI. Youth must be 12 – 16… Read More

Spring 2021 Work Days

Sugar River through Neperud property

Learn about our (fingers crossed!) plans for spring.

Stuff … So Much Stuff

Assorted fly fishing items

Our members and their families have been extremely generous over the last 15 months or so in donating items to the Chapter.  Usually their wish is for us to sell the fishing gear and use the proceeds to… Read More

Watch a new video about Columbia County creeks

SWTU members, With wind chills below zero heading our way, check out this new video. Nate Nye, the DNR fish biologist for Columbia and Sauk Counties, presents a summary of over a year of surveying and analyzing the trout streams of… Read More

Letter to DNR on Martin Branch and Otter Creek

On January 8, 2021, we joined with the TU Nohr Chapter, Badger Fly Fishers and the Wisconsin Smallmouth Alliance to send a letter to the Wisconsin DNR. The focus of the letter was to … “… respectfully request… Read More