We love clean water—and we know you do too! While our chapter works hard to protect and restore local waterways, there’s always more to be done. Thankfully, other incredible organizations are making a big impact, and we’re excited to share their work.

Join us on Wednesday, February 12, as Jodi Sulpizio, Natural Resources Educator and Master Watershed Steward Coordinator, shares how the York County Master Watershed Stewards Program is educating the community and leading hands-on projects to improve our local watersheds.

This is just the beginning! We plan to explore ways to collaborate with the Stewards and amplify our collective efforts to make an even bigger difference in York County. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, connect, and be part of the solution!

Grab your vise and materials, and come show off your skills! Whether you have a go-to pattern that never fails to catch fish or you're looking to learn something new, this is the perfect chance to share and maybe pick up tips from our seasoned local fly-tiers.

Never tied a fly before? No worries—come give it a try! Fly tying kits will be provided, and friendly folks will be on hand to guide you.

Light refreshments will be available to keep you fueled as you tie. Don’t miss out— come join the fun!

All are welcome to join us for a presentation on the Famous Yellow Breeches Creek of the Cumberland Valley. Neil Sunday will be presenting "A Year On The Breeches" with hatch information, access areas, setups, water considerations and favorite flys!

Neil is native to the Cumberland Valley, PA and calls the Yellow Breeches Creek and the infamous Letort Spring Run “home.” He’s the Head Trout Guide for Relentless Fly Fishing based out of TCO Fly Shop in Boiling Springs, PA.

Throughout the year, you can find him guiding fly fishing in the Cumberland Valley and Upper Delaware River for trout - or on the Juniata or Susquehanna Rivers for Smallmouth Bass or Lake Ontario tributaries like the Salmon River for Great Lakes Steelhead.

This is also our annual meeting so we will have elections and an update on the chapter.

This one is going to be fun! We are combining an early season macroinvertebrate sampling from the creek, when the bugs should be plentiful, along with a demonstration on how to preserve them in individual glass tubes. Some of the attendees may even leave with a presevered sample!

Britton Reed of Spookintrout has been collecting and preserving macroinvertebrates for years and will share his knowledge and the do's and dont's of preservation. Preserved specimens can be used for education and reference for tying flies which Britton uses for his meticulously tied flies.

This will be our first time at the creek since installation of the streamgage so we'll offer a quick overview of what it is, what it records, and the benefit we hope it provides.

Bring a chair, family, a friend to this great event Wednesday, May 8, at 7 p.m. at the old Laughman’s Sawmill pavillion. All are welcomed!

***Moved from our normal Wednesday meeting***

Dan Collins, guide and owner of “Hardway Outdoors Guide Service” and his YouTube channel “Hardway Outdoors” will be speaking on February 13th at 7pm at the Spring Grove VFW. Dan will discuss how his love and passion for the outdoors led him down a path of fisheries biology and becoming a fishing guide and small business owner. He will talk about his college/work experience from working in the fisheries biology field in 3 states, as well as guiding in PA, Alaska, and Montana.

Dan has sold his soul to the outdoors and enjoys sharing his success and failures to teach others along the way whether through his camera lens, or on a guided fishing trip

Approaching the VFW building from the parking lot, we'll be using the Dining Room entrance at the far left (west) end of the building (up the steps or the access ramp). Please do not attempt to enter through the main members' entrance. And, please be courteous, as the VFW does not wish you to hats to be worn indoors.

ARRC’s Native Nursery Manager Shares Her Expertise on Native Plant Species and Bioengineering Materials

Liz Harden, a Native Nursery Manager at ARRC, will be presenting about recently completed projects with native plant species, common native species, trends of requests from clients for native plants, and how different species benefit the ecosystem. She will also highlight bioengineering materials and how they stabilizes newly constructed waterways. 

Join us for a presention by Britton Reed of Spookintrout as he shares his methods for collecting and preserving macroinvertebrates. Preserved specimens can be used for education and reference for tying flies which Britton uses meticulously.

We will also hold our annual elections. All officer positions - President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary - are one-year terms and are open to election. Board positions are three-year terms and there are a few positions up for election. Email codorustu@gmail.com if you are interested in being nominated for a position.

Officer Nominations:

President - Bob Daviau

Vice President - Ethan Daviau

Treasurer - Tim Throne

Secretary - Open

Nominees to the Board (four open positions for three-year terms)

Dale Selchan

Terry O’Bradovoc

Lorne Scott

Join us for a presentation by Brad Firestone about tying and fishing streamers on small creeks to large rivers and the nuances of seasonal changes. 

PATU Regional Vice President Jimmy O'Connor will also be stopping by and will share a couple of updates from PATU.

Great Speaker, New Location, Same Meeting Time - Codorus Trout Unlimited is proud to welcome Henry Ramsay as a special guest and presenter for our April chapter meeting. We are moving this event to York and the York County Conservation District Offices, 2401 Pleasant Valley Rd. Doors will open a little before 7 p.m. April 12 for this very special event. Mr. Ramsay is one of our state’s biggest names in the sport and will join us to share his knowledge of “Fishing the Early Season Hatches” – a perfect topic as we get into spring! You won’t want to miss this great presentation – join us and bring a friend on April 12 in York.

Note: Please be prepared to go through a metal detector to enter the building.

More on Henry Ramsay:  His flyfishing career began more than 45 years ago on a stream in central Pennsylvania and his travels have taken him to many of the best streams and rivers across his home state of Pennsylvania, New York, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and other states. Mr. Ramsay is an accomplished flyfishing writer, custom fly tier, presenter and photographer and is the author of "Matching Major Eastern Hatches, New Patterns for Selective Trout" and co-author of "Keystone Fly Fishing Guide, The Ultimate Guide to Pennsylvania’s Best Water”. He contributes to “Fly Fisherman” and “Eastern Fly Fishing” magazines and has appeared in a list of other books and publications.

Bring your vise or just your curiosity for starting to tie flies to Sign of the Horse Brewery in Hanover on TUESDAY, March 7. In fact, we’ll even have a few extra vises on hand. We’re starting to make this a tradition to replace one of our usual Wednesday chapter meetings each spring with a Tuesday evening at this fine local brewery.

This year, we’re taking a more relaxed approach but we will feature one Iron Fly style competition to watch or take part in. Otherwise, we’ll be hanging out, tying up a good time, and introducing anyone who wants to learn to this fun and addictive facet of fly fishing. Mark your calendars and plan to join us!

It hasn’t been much of a winter but all of us are still probably dreaming of another great spring of prime fly fishing. And David Bower, TCO’s Manager of its Reading location, will be joining us to cover “Fly Fishing Central PA”.

Dave has had the privilege to fish throughout the country but is rooted in his love for fishing this region. We hope you can join us for this special event.

Join us at the Troop 24 Scout House in New Freedom for an Open Fly Tying event. Bring your vise and materials and tie up some of your favorite flies or get some inspiration from other tyers. Don't have your own equipment or never tied flies before? Don't worry, we have plenty of extra vises and will have material on hand and instruction for three easy to tie, tried and true flies - woolly bugger, Walt's worm and a zebra midge. All are welcome!

Come early to the VFW, then stay for our first annual White Elephant gift exchange Dec. 14!

Our final chapter meeting of 2022 will be a celebration this coming Wednesday, Dec. 14, at the VFW Post in Spring Grove. Many of us will be there early for dinner – then at 7 p.m. we’ll start up a White Elephant gift exchange.

Bring a new fly fishing or fishing-related gift item of up to $20 in value – or some old stuff you have lying around the house of any value, like we all have around the house – to participate. Just make sure it’s wrapped too – no one should know they are grabbing your old Helios until they are surprised by it!

Or, just come for the fellowship and watch the fun as we end an outstanding year of work dedicated to Clean Water and Wild Trout.

The meeting will again be hosted at the VFW Post 5265 - 199 Veterans Way in Spring Grove at 7:00 p.m. Approaching the building from the parking lot, we'll be using the Dining Room entrance at the far left (west) end of the building (up the steps or the access ramp). Please do not attempt to enter through the main members' entrance. And, please be courteous, as the VFW does not wish you to wear hats indoors.

Our annual Election of Officers will take place at this meeting. We will elect our 2022-23 slate of chapter officers and fill open positions on our board of directors. All officers (President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer) are elected annually and we also have a few board seats coming open for three-year terms. If you or someone you know is interested in serving, you can also email nominations or your own interest in serving to codorustu@gmail.com

Current Nominations:

President - Bob Daviau

Vice President - Ethan Daviau

Treasurer - Tim Throne

Secretary - Brent Burkey

Board of Director - Brad Firestone

We’re calling this month’s program ‘What We Carry.’ Members will bring their vests, chest packs, etc. to share what gear and which accessories are their ‘must-haves’ when they hit the water. Brings yours too if you’d like to show us your setup, and we can all learn from each other.

We’ll also have a guest speaker. Rob Harvey will present about on-the-water sampling he conducts as a volunteer for Science on the Fly, a non-profit project of the Woodwell Climate Research Center and Fishpond. His work focuses on collecting long term data on the health of our watersheds – and how they are changing – through a network of citizen scientists.

Join us for an update on what is going on in the chapter, talk trout and conversation, and of course, for our special onstream, and in this case, in-stream presentation, What Lives in the Water?

We will be breaking out the seine net and collecting bugs that live in the Codorus during our upcoming Aug. 10 chapter meeting.

This is a great opportunity to bring your kids and we’ll have a great setup to show them – and you – all the little trout snack-sized bugs that live their lives under the water.

Bring a chair, family, and scientific curiosity to this great event Wednesday, Aug. 10, at 7 p.m. at Laughman’s Sawmill pavilion. All are welcomed

Check back soon for the details of our June meeting program.

Codorus TU returns to the Sawmill for our monthly meetings starting this Wednesday

May is upon us and it’s time for our most plentiful mayfly hatch on Codorus – the Sulphur.

Join us streamside at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, as several of our regulars show you their favorite Sulphur mayfly patterns to use on our stream, from bottom-dredging nymphs to dry flies. 

And it’s not always the classic dry fly that works best during a hatch, so we'll also have a tight-line demo right on the stream. 

Please note that this is a TUESDAY date - not our usual Wednesday and note the new, one-time location as well.

This will be an open fly tying night - bring your tying stuff if you want to, or just watch and learn while enjoying a cold one. To make it even more interesting, we have some “Iron Fly” competitions planned during the evening, when participants will be challenged to create flies from limited materials and time. (think TV’s Iron Chef competitions, adapted to fly tying). Should be a fun evening!

Our March meeting will feature a presentation by Board member Dale Selchan on patterns and tactics for midge fishing. Learn all about this specialized niche of fly fishing that can be a game changer on those days when the trout are playing hard-to-get.

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE TO THIS MEETING. We’ve moved this meeting online out of concern for the health of our members. We hope to resume in-person meetings as soon as possible.

Members: Check your February newsletter for a link to the meeting. If you don’t have the link and wish to attend, please drop us an e-mail and we’ll see that you get one.

This month’s meeting will feature a ‘Meet the staff’ session where you can present your questions to Codorus TU’s leadership. Got a fishing question? Wanna know what flies we like? Need to know where you can and can’t park on the Codorus? Curious about our chapter’s work? This is your chance to ask - bring your questions and pick our brains a little. Should be an informative session!

Our regular monthly meeting for January has been cancelled. Our decision was based on the recent local spike in COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant. With an abundance of caution for the safety of our members, our officers and board unanimously voted that an in-person event wasn't advisable at this time.

We hope to resume our regular schedule of events as soon as possible. Please watch our website and social media for further updates.

Featuring: The Ring-necked Pheasant, From Field to Vise
by Ethan Daviau, Codorus TU Board of Directors

Ethan will be presenting a “Field to Vise” discussion featuring Ring-necked Pheasant.  The presentation will include a brief history of pheasant hunting in PA, current Pennsylvania pheasant seasons and regulations, and feathers that can be used for tying. Ethan will also provide examples of various fly patterns that can be tied using pheasant feathers.  Members are encouraged to bring their own flies, tied with pheasant feathers, to add to the discussion. Tried and true or experimental patterns are welcomed all the same.  We hope to see you there! 

Please enter the VFW using the door at the west end of the building (the door with the access ramp). Please do NOT use the main entrance -thtat’s for members only. Thank you.

Feature Presentation - The New Zealand Strike Indicator System: delicate presentations for low, clear water and finicky trout - presented by Chapter officers Tim Throne and Brent Burkey.

We’ve certanly had our share of low, clear water in our area over the past couple of seasons. Presenting subsurface flies, getting a proper drift and detecting subtle strikes without spooking trout can be a real challenge under those tough conditions. Join us at our November meeting to learn a great technique for doing just that. Tim and Brent are both seasoned, experienced anglers and we’re sure you’ll gain some valuable insight from this timely discussion.

Location to be determined. Members- please watch for your October newsletter for details.

Please note: ANNUAL ELECTION OF OFFICERS will be held at this meeting.

Please bring a folding chair - no seating is available at this meeting location.

We ask that you have a mask with you at this meeting and, even though we’ll be outdoors, we will be observing social distancing. There’s no seating available at the site, so we ask that you bring your own folding chair.

In the event of inclement weather, this meeting will be held on Zoom (a link will be provided in our July newsletter).

We ask that you have a mask with you at this meeting and, even though we’ll be outdoors, we will be observing social distancing. There’s no seating available at the site, so we ask that you bring your own folding chair.

In the event of inclement weather, this meeting will be held on Zoom (a link will be provided to members via e-mail.