Welcome to the Marinette County TU Chapter website.

 

Within the boundaries of Marinette County are 191 rivers and streams, (totaling 614 miles) classified as trout waters, the most of any county in Wisconsin.  Fifty-two streams or stream sections are designated as Outstanding Resource Waters and an additional 109 streams or stream reaches are designated as Exceptional Resource Waters. These are also more than any other county the state. 

 

Because of a core of dedicated members and volunteers, our chapter has been providing manpower and funds to help maintain or improve the area cold-water resources since 1983. We have also helped to obtain easements and provide additional public access to several area trout streams. Unlike many organizations, nearly all of our monies are used on projects here in Northeast Wisconsin.

A winter fishing program is offered at no cost for people of all ages to promote trout fishing, fly tying and casting. In the summer, the chapter supports youth fishing days in both Marinette and Peshtigo along with scholarships for an environmental workshop at UW-Stevens Point.

I hope you can attend a meeting, come to our annual banquet in April or simply spend some time fishing or relaxing in Marinette County!

 

 

Believes that trout fishing isn't just fishing for trout.

It's fishing for sport rather than for food where the true enjoyment of the sport lies in the challenge, the love and the battle of wits, not necessarily the the full creel.

It's the feeling of satisfaction that comes from limiting your kill instead of killing your limit.

It's communing with nature where the chief reward is a refreshed body and a contented soul, where a license is a permit to use- not abuse, to enjoy- not destroy our trout waters. 

It's subscribing to the  proposition that what's good for trout is good for trout fishermen and that managing trout for the trout rather than for the  trout fishermen is fundamental to the solution of  our trout problems. 

It's appreciating our trout, respecting fellow anglers and giving serious thought to tomorrow. 

Written  by Art Neumann and E. Sutton