Central Wisconsin Chapter of Trout Unlimited

Welcome to the Central WI Chapter of Trout Unlimited.

Thank you for visiting the Central Wisconsin Chapter of Trout Unlimited's website. We are an active group of TU members from the central sands area of Wisconsin with over 300 members who all share in a common goal: to conserve and protect our cold water resources. Please take some time to look around our website to find out more about us by clicking on About Us, or by clicking on News to find out what we have been doing. You can also click on Activities or Calendar to find out what events are coming up. By clicking on River Keepers you can find out all about our water monitoring program and by clicking on Workdays, you can find out more about our stream restoration projects and activities. Many of our members enjoy fly fishing and fly tying and you can find out more about Fly Tying by clicking on this tab. We support fishing by all legal methods, including spin fishing and live bait fishing for trout. Our Multimedia section includes pictures and video's of some of our activities and other things you might be interested in, so you might want to check that out. Finally, our Forums allows you to provide input and to comment on what we are doing.

Please page down to see information on our monthly meetings and programs, events and activities, and other things that may be of interest to viewers of this website.

CWTU Casting/Kayak Fishing Clinic to be held May 14.

CWTU Fly Casting/Kayak Fishing Clinic on May 14

Mark down May 14 on your calendar for the 2013 Fly Casting/Kayak Fishing Clinic that will be held at Marble Park in Winneconne. Expert fly casters and kayak fishers will be on hand to demonstrate and teach. We start at around 5:30 pm and end at dark. Stay as long as you want. The activity is free for CWTU members and the public.

Bring your fly rods and safety glasses. With all the fly lines in the air, this is a necessity. No hooks are allowed, tie a small piece of yarn on the end of the tippet to simulate the fly. This is another safety feature.

Bring the kids, your friends, your significant other, and make a night of it.

If the weather is bad---downpour of rain---we will postpone to another week. Postponement news will be posted on the www.cwtu.org homepage by 12:00 noon. No posting means no postponement.

For more information on this event and other CWTU activities, go to www.cwtu.org.

John Gremmer

The below program will be of use to CWTU members and River Keepers who want to help this group make a difference in protecting our water resources in our area. The speakers sound great.

CWTU fly fishing and tying class: Jim Murphy teaches the fundamentals of a fly rod at the 2013 CWTU/FVTC Introduction To Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Class. We have 24 students in the class that meets eight times and finishes with a night of guided fishing on a local trout stream. The class is meeting from April 2 through May 21. The class has been taught for 15 years.

CWTU River Keeper Coordinator Honored

On May 5 CWTU River Keepers were honored when I received the 2013 Stream Monitoring Award In The Category Of Outstanding Volunteer from the UW-Extension and The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. I accepted this award knowing that this is a shared award. It is shared by all our volunteers who are doing such a good job of protecting and preserving our central Wisconsin waters by monitoring, watchdogging, and teaching others.

I thanked the wonderful Kris Stepenuck and her staff for making the Water Action Volunteers such a great program. I also thanked CWTU for bankrolling our activities. And finally, I thanked all our volunteers for their outstanding contributions.

I love being a River Keeper. It is great fun to go to a stream once a month and gather information that will be used in the present and future to protect it. For our Waupaca River Team, it is a nice social event too.

River Keepers is one of the great things our chapter does. If you would like to be a River Keeper---call or email me. 920-582-7802 or jgremmer@charter.net

John Gremmer

Thank you to all of you who helped make TroutFest'13 a wonderful and successful event. We all had a great time and learned something new. Please mark your calendar for Saturday, February 22, 2014 for TroutFest'14.

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CWTU Program Schedule 2012-2013

The following is a program schedule for the Central Wisconsin Chapter of Trout Unlimited for 2012-2013. All board meetings start at 6:15pm and the programs start at 7:30pm unliess otherwise stated. Meetings are held upstairs at the Fin N Feather in Winneconne unless otherwise stated. Programs are open to the public and we encourage anyone interested to attend and bring a friend.

September 9-17-2012 Program - Western Trout Fishing

October    10-06-2012 CWTU Annual Fund Raising & Awards Banquet, WWII Memorial Hall, Wautoma

November 11-13-2012   CWTU Board Meeting and River Keepers Program. Dinner at 5:30pm for those that are interested, followed by River Keepers program at 6:30pm.    Speakers will be Kris Stepencuk and Mike Miller. The board meeting will follow the program.

December 12-18-2012 Board Mtg. 6:15pm - Program at 7:30pm - Smallmouth Bass Fishing - Speaker will be DNR Fisheries Biologist Al Niebur.

January    1-08-2013 Board Mtg. 6:15pm - Program at 7:15pm - Night of the Tiny Mayflies    Speakers will be Tom Lager and Charlie Piette. Fly tiers will be tying favorite Blue Wing Olive and Trico patterns from 6:15pm to 9:15pm.
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February 2-23-2013 TroutFest'13
March 3-12-2013 Nate Sipple - Spring Steelhead 101
April 4-09-2013 Tim Landwehr - Into the Amazon
May    5-14-2013   Program - Fly Casting & Kayak Fishing Clinic, Marble Park      Winneconne, Picnic at 5:30p and Program starting at 6:00p
June     6-11-2013   Board meeting only - Summer Meal
July    7-09-2013 Board meeting only - Summer Meal
August 8-13-2013 Board meeting only - Summer Meal