Chapter Meeting
The May Seth Green TU Membership Meeting has a Location Change!
We will be meeting at the Big Springs Historical Society & Museum in Caledonia NY at 7pm.
Caledonia Trout Festival
Seth Green TU will have a major presence at the Caledonia Trout Festival in 2024. Please stop by our table to introduce yourself.
Seth Green TU Annual Family Picnic
Seth Green Trout Unlimited chapter will be holding its annual June Picnic this year at Channing Philbrick Park in Penfield on Wednesday June 12 4PM till 9 PM
Come out and meet our chapter board of directors and chapter members. The event is open to chapter members & their families & friends.
Please join us for this outdoor celebration! Sign in as a Guest when ordering your tickets on Eventgroove, no password required. Get your tickets here:
https://tu.myeventscenter.com/event/Seth-Green-Trout-Unlimited-Chapter-Annual-Family-93642
Food: Join us for a Picnic style dinner starting at 6pm. Our event will be catered by Forest Hill Catering. Please be sure to order tickets for food. The Menu includes: Hotdogs, Hamburgers, Chicken & 4 side dishes. Please bring your own beverage (Beer & Wine are allowed at the park). Please bring a lawn chair. Food is FREE, and is sponsored by Seth Green Chapter TU.
Fun Activities include:
A one fly team tournament after dinner
Casting accuracy Olympics
Corn Hole game
Fishing on Irondequoit creek
Dinner is free to all, please purchase dinner tickets due by June 5th so we have a headcount for food.
Bring your favorite beverage, a chair & your fishing gear.
City of Rochester/DEC/TU Fishing Day
Join us for a FREE family fishing day. No fishing license required. Open to all ages and abilities. Youth must be accompained by an adult. Seth Green TU will be demonstrating fly casting and providing an Introduction to Fly Fishing for those interested.
Chapter Meeting
Monthly Chapter Meeting- Guest Speaker Frank Payne
Our own chapter member Frank Payne will be our guest speaker around Bamboo Fly Rod Making!
Please save the date & join us for Frank’s customer built Bamboo fly rod presentation.
F3T Film Festival
The 18th annual FLY FISHING FILM TOUR (F3T) is back on the road this year with a top notch selection of short films that are sure to get you fired up for the season ahead!
Chapter Meeting
Monthly Chapter Meeting - Guest Speaker Kyle Glenn
Join us at the Orvis Store Wednesday March 20 at 7 PM as we welcome Kyle Glenn from Trout Unlimited National Priority Waters Program. Kyle is a stream rehabilitation specialist with Tracy Brown's TU Northeast Coldwater Habitat Team. Kyle holds a Masters in Biology from Buffalo State University. He serves as the Northeastern Division Representative for the American Fisheries Society.
Kyle will be presenting TU's latest Citizen Science Initiatives and Tools. He will be breaking down ways Seth Green chapter can boost community involvement while capturing useful data to aid in prioritizing future restoration projects. He will share an assessment of the Oatka Creek Watershed and introduce the best means of collecting chapter based data.
If anyone is interested in sharing their fly tying talents, we are looking for a volunteer at 6:30pm prior to our meetings. Bounce back to this email if you are interested in tying and sharing a favorite fly pattern at a future meeting. Come early at 6:30 PM on Wednesday our Chapter President Dave Agness will tie some highly effective English Spider wet flies with some of his original designs.
Seth Green TU Gear Swap/Sale and Fly Tying Event
Seth Green TU in conjunction with the Oatka Fish & Game Club are sponsoring a Fly Tying and Gear Swap/Sale event at the Oatka Fish & Game Club. This an opportunity to bring your unwanted but useable fly fishing gear and either trade it for other fly fishing treasures or sell it. And join a great group of fly tyiers to tie or learn how to tie everything from small dry flies and terrestials to Tarpon streamers. Bring your vice and materials to tie.
Coffee, water and softdrinks will be on hand, and you are free to BYOB if you are looking for an adult beverage. A hot lunch will be served around noon for a nominal fee.
Rules if bringing gear to sell or swap: You are responsible for your gear and any transactions that take place.
Chapter Meeting
Please join us for guest speaker Mike DiSarno, Region 8 Biologist DEC. The meeting starts at 7pm. Mike will be presenting electrofishing data results from the 2023 study on Oatka Creek. Please come early @6:30pm to watch our board member, Lance Lascari tie flies. Bring your cash to enter our raffles and purchase Seth Green TU gear.
See you soon! All are welcome, bring a friend!
The meeting is at the Orivs Rochester Store, 3349 Monroe Ave, Rochester NY
Annual Holiday Gathering
Wednesday, Dec 20th
6:30pm
Pittsford Pub
60 North Main Street Pittsford, NY 14534
Chapter Meeting
Our Guest Speaker this Wednesday is Aldo Pescatore-Tardioli owner and Co-Host of the Podcast series So-Fly.
October Meeting & Elections
James L. Markham, senior aquatic biologist with the DEC, will be presenting on the steelhead in Lake Erie. His presentation will be a general overview of everything steelhead on Lake Erie, including stocking, strains, management, research, and the fishery, mainly focused on NY tribs.
Year-Round Angling Opportunities of The Salmon River Fishery and The Douglaston Salmon Run Experience
The presentation will focus on the angling opportunities that can be found during specific time frames of the year in an effort to pair the angler with their desired experience. We'll review the general angling techniques that are effective during each time frame and including a History of Douglaston Salmon Run and the experience it offers to anglers.
Stream Cleanup - Channing Philbrick Park
As part of Orvis' on-going commitment to giving back to nature, join the Rochester store as we participate in National Cleanup Day. We will meet at Channing Philbrick Park on Irondequoit Creek for a stream clean-up event.
Jesse Vadala - Trout Unlimited Engagement Coordinator (Eastern Conservation)
Youth & Diversity Engagement Opportunities within TU community
2023 Fly Fishing Film Festival
The Seth Green Chapter of Trout Unlimited is proud to host the 2023 International Fly Fishing Film Festival in Rochester, NY on March 25, 2023 at The Little Theatre featuring 10 short and feature -length films.
Rick Kustich - Great Lakes Steelhead Fishing
Join Orvis Rochester & Canandaigua Lake Trout Unlimited as we host local guide Rick Kustisch. Rick will be discussing the pursuit of steelhead in the Great Lakes Region.
Tom Rosenbauer - Taking Your Trout Fishing to the Next Level
Instead of our regular January meeting, we have partnered with Orvis Rochester to bring Tom Rosenbauer to Rochester, NY. Tom Rosenbauer has been a fly fisher for fifty years and was a commercial fly tier by age fourteen. A native of Rochester, NY, Tom grew up fishing Oatka and Spring Creek.
Holiday Gathering
Location TBD! In years past we’ve used Chen Garden. They are under new management, so we are looking for a new location. Please let us know if you have any ideas.
Oatka Creek Water Quality Bug Count
On November 26th we will be assessing Oatka Creek water quality by counting the prevalence of different types of bugs (known as macroinvertebrates) that live in the stream. A few weeks ago we placed packs of leaves into riffles, which create colonies of macroinvertebrates that trout feed on. We will remove those packs, pull out the bugs, sort them by type, count them, and put them back into the stream.
George Daniel Event
We're very excited to announce that we are co-sponsoring an event with Orvis on November 12, 2022. George Daniels will be joining us to speak about European Nymphing.
TU Meeting: Casting for Recovery
Lisa Abel
NYTU Youth Camp Presentation: Kiley Duvall & Micah Pollock
Summer Picnic
This is a TU Picnic that you will not want to miss. Dale Lagon and his family have graciously offered to smoke rib and various other BBQ goodies.
Seth Green Chapter Board of Director’s Meeting - June 2022
Monthly Board meetings are held at Pittsford Community Center
Cal Curtice, A Simple Approach to Flies
UPDATE - NEW SPEAKER
Cal Curtice
A Simple Approach to Flies
Followed by Pizza and Fly Tying
Due to circumstances beyond our control, Steve Hurst will be unable to join us on Wednesday night. We hope to see him at our picnic in June. In light of this unexpected change, Cal Curtice has stepped up to deliver a presentation entitled "A Simple Approach to Flies" that he developed for the Fly Fisher's Workshop.
You are invited to stay after the presentation to tie flies and enjoy pizza. Please bring your fly-tying equipment and materials if you wish to participate.
Thank you for your understanding and we hope to see many of you tonight!
Seth Green Chapter Board of Director’s Meeting - May 2022
Monthly Board meetings are held at Pittsford Community Center
Freddie Gluck presents “A Paradise Lost”
Seth Green TU welcomes filmmaker Freddie Gluck. Freddie, for the first time, will present “A Paradise Lost”. “A Paradise Lost” is a short film that documents the Oatka Creek habitat restoration project. Freddie will share the process of making the film and discuss how the story was shared through interviews and video.
2022 Fly Fishing Film Tour
The Seth Green Chapter of Trout Unlimited will be hosting the F3T Fly Fishing Film Tour at the Little Theater on Saturday, April 9th, 2022 at 4pm.
Chapter president, Kyle Poag, said “After missing the 2020 and 2021 events, we’re very excited to be back with a full, in-person event that includes an amazing lineup of fly-fishing films along with a ton of really great raffle items.”
Seth Green TU Beer Launch Party!
Join us at Heroes Brewing Tap Room on Atlantic Avenue. We'll be there from 6-9pm on April 7th. Drop-in any time, grab a cold brew, and talk fly fishing and conservation!
Chris Murphy, President of Trout Power (Zoom)
Chris Murphy, President of Trout Power will be our guest speaker. Trout power seeks “to identify, map, monitor and advocate for protection of wild and genetically unique brook trout populations in the Adirondacks and wherever they are found throughout New York.”