Author: Susquehanna Chapter of Trout Unlimited

The public is invited to a meeting of the Trout Unlimited Susquehanna Chapter featuring local underwater and nature photographer Michael Kinney.  Mr. Kinney will use a combination of visuals, sounds and stories to take us on a journey from mountain headwaters, down through the watershed into the West Branch of the Susquehanna River and beyond. 

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, January 14th at 7:00 pm at the Covenant Central Presbyterian Church, 807 West 4^th Street in Williamsport.  Parking and entrance to the Church is at the rear of the building with access off of Campbell Street.

For more information, please see our website at https://susquehannatu.com.

The Susquehanna Chapter of Trout Unlimited is pleased to announce that it will be offering a beginners fly tying course on Tuesday evenings starting on January 20, 2026 and running through February 24, 2026. The course will be taught by Rick Kintzer. The cost will be $25 for adults and $15 for youth under 18 years of age, who must be at least 12 years old to participate and must be accompanied by a parent or responsible adult throughout each session. Tools and materials will be provided. The classes will be held weekly from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Covenant Central Presbyterian Church, 807 West 4^th Street in Williamsport (entrance and parking is at the rear of the church – enter off of Campbell Street). Registration will be limited to 15 students, so register early to secure your spot.  You can register by sending an email to susquehannatu@gmail.com or by call or text to Walt Nicholson at 570-447-3600. Please list the names of everyone you are registering, and contact information (email and phone number).                    

The Board of Directors of the Susquehanna Chapter of Trout Unlimited have released the proposed Slate of Officers and Board of Directors for the Upcoming Election.

The election will be held at our annual meeting on January 14, 2026. Nominations will be accepted from now until the election on January 14.

All individuals nominated must be a member in good standing of Trout Unlimited. Please consider nominating someone or consider yourself for any of these positions. If you have any questions, please let us know at susquehannatu@gmail.com

President (1 year term)
Stephen Martin

Vice President (1 year term)
Jim Latini

Secretary (1 year term)
Kevin McJunkin

Treasurer (1 year term)
Dave Walters

Board of Directors
Mike Di Domenico (fill unfilled term from last election – 2 years)
Mike Ditchfield (3 year term)
Dennis Dusza (3 year term)

The PA Council of Trout Unlimited, the Keystone Trails Association and the Responsible Drilling Alliance have requested DEP to hold a hearing on the Chapter 105 permit for a 3.9 mile shale gas access road and staging area proposed by PA General Energy in Gamble and Cascade Townships, Lycoming County.  

The access road will be used to develop multiple shale gas drilling well pads and other natural gas infrastructure in the Loyalsock State Forest where the project is located.

The groups say the project will have a significant impact on some of the most ecologically diverse forest lands in the Loyalsock State Forest, has the potential to degrade several Exceptional Value streams and will cut off public access to the use of popular upland hunting and primitive forest hiking areas.

The Chapter 105 permit is being reviewed by DEP’s Oil and Gas Management Program in Williamsport. Read more here.

To see the complete article, please click the link below. The article was published on the PA Environment Digest Blog on December 3, 2025

https://paenvironmentdaily.blogspot.com/2025/12/pa-trout-unlimited-keystone-trails-assn.html?m=1

The public is invited to a meeting of the Trout Unlimited Susquehanna Chapter featuring PA Fish & Boat Commission Warm Water Unit Leader Geoff Smith, Area 3 Fisheries Manager Jason Detar, and Susquehanna River Biologist Garret Kratina.  Discussion will include West Branch Susquehanna Catfish surveys, an upcoming Smallmouth Bass telemetry project, an update on Muskellunge management, local Trout related survey information around the region, and an update on the Rose Valley Lake draw-down and dam renovations.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 12th at 7:00 pm at the Lycoming College Heim Biology & Chemistry building, Room G11.  The building is located near the corner of Mulberry Street and Washington Blvd in Williamsport.

For more information, please see our website at https://susquehannatu.com.

The public is invited to a meeting of the Trout Unlimited Susquehanna Chapter featuring Brian Cooper, Project Manager for Trout Unlimited’s PA AMD Program, as well as Tom Clark, Project Manager for the AMD Program at Kleinfelder Engineering in State College.  AMD is one of the two leading causes of stream impairment in PA, with over 5,500 miles of AMD-impaired waterways in the State.  Mr. Cooper will discuss TU managed passive treatment systems in Two-Mile Creek (Kettle Creek Watershed), Potts Run (Clearfield Creek Watershed), as well as work being done to restore Beech Creek, a large, cold-water watershed in Centre and Clinton counties.  He will also touch on recovery of the West Branch Susquehanna River, as well as TU’s AMD Technical Assistance Program that provides free biological, chemical, and engineering support to conservation districts, nonprofits and government entities to address AMD impairment.  Mr. Clark will discuss the re-design of two passive treatment systems currently treating AMD discharges into the headwaters of Loyalsock Creek and how these new systems will treat a much higher percentage of each discharge, as well as limit thermal pollution of the treated water that flows into Loyalsock Creek.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 8^th at 7:00 pm at the Covenant Central Presbyterian Church, 807 W. 4^th Street, in Williamsport.  Parking and entrance to the Church is at the rear of the building with access off of Campbell Street.

Want to learn about our TU chapter activities and conservation project updates, perhaps try out fly casting as a firsttimer or sharpen your skills under the instruction of experienced fly fishers? How about just talk fishing and the
outdoors with a bunch of like-minded individuals? The public is invited to a picnic and outdoor meeting of the Susquehanna Chapter of Trout Unlimited to be held at Trout Run Park on Wednesday, September 10th. Several fly rod and reel outfits will be available for those to try out who do not have one. You may also want to check out the fishing platform adjacent to the park on Lycoming Creek constructed by our members, as well as some of the habitat structures placed along the stream to create fish habitat and control bank erosion.
Meet, greet and picnic will begin at 5:30 PM at the Trout Run Park Pavilion, with hotdogs, corn-on-the-cob and drinks provided, followed by the demos. Participants are encouraged to bring a dessert or side dish to share, but if you can’t, please come anyway. Trout Run Park is located just south of the village of Trout Run and can be accessed from the old Rt 15 highway. A map and directions on how to get there from Williamsport can be found on the link to Google Maps at https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3815903,-77.0550486,15z?entry=ttu, or Trout Run
Park – Google Maps

We hope your are enjoying the summer months and staying cool at the same time. We have had some weird weather but hopefully that is behind us. As always, we hope that you and your family / friends are able to get outside and enjoy everything that Mother Nature has to offer. Whether a vacation, picnic, fishing, boating or just sitting in your yard, enjoy this time because cold weather will be upon us before you know it.

The public is invited to a meeting of the Trout Unlimited Susquehanna Chapter featuring Matthew Wilson, Director of the Freshwater Institute at Susquehanna University.  Prior to modern settlement, the Appalachian lowlands of the Susquehanna watershed were wet and swampy.  Beavers were very abundant, creating a complex network of ponds and braided channels, keeping cool groundwater at the surface and stream temperatures low.  This was the perfect habitat for the equally abundant Brook Trout.  As the land was settled, unregulated fur trapping virtually eliminated the beavers and clearcut logging created simplified, straightened streams with a reduced capacity to hold water during storms and supplement stream flows during droughts.  Using 15 years of data from Loyalsock, Pine and Kettle Creeks, Mr. Wilson will discuss ways that we can identify conservation priorities for native Brook Trout and how beavers can potentially be part of the solution to enhance watershed connectivity and mitigate the challenges of warming streams, acidic rainfall, more frequent flooding events and periods of drought.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 9^th at 7:00 pm at the Covenant Central Presbyterian Church, 807 W. 4^th Street, in Williamsport.  Parking and entrance to the Church is at the rear of the building with access off of Campbell Street. For more information, please see our website at https://susquehannatu.com.