Friends, Lets get together for drinks and/or food on Thursday evening, August 28, 2024 from about 7:00 to 9:00 pm at Driftwood Grille in Oakbrook. This is an opportunity for long standing members and new members alike to see old friends, make new friends or find a fishing partner. We will sit outside weather permitting [...]
Oak Brook Trout Unlimited is now in our 20th year of offering introductory one-day youth fly fishing classes. The program is open to boys and girls 11 years and older. We provide an easy-to-understand overview to the sport of fly fishing. All fly-fishing equipment and fly-tying materials are provided by Oak Brook Chapter Trout Unlimited. [...]
OBTU 6th annual Wisconsin Driftless Area Fall Fishing Outing at Nature Nooks Retreat near Viroqua. Contact Willie Beshire for more info and to reserve a space: [email protected]
IMPORTANT: SEE BELOW NEW MEETING ROOM! MUSSEL MATTERS / URBAN STREAM RESEARCH OBTU Chapter Meeting - September 18 @ 7:00PM You are invited to a special screening of the original mini-documentary - Mussel Matters: Saving Critical Species in DuPage County. This short film highlights modern challenges within the Upper DuPage River and Salt Creek systems [...]
Fishing Outing Combined with half day OBTU entomology survey. Meet at Coldwater River on Saturday, Oct 5 in the morning. Join the Saturday 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oak Brook TU Macroinvertebrate Survey. After lunch, form into fishing teams and deploy to various access points. Fish Saturday afternoon till dinner. Option to fish Sunday morning [...]
OBTU's 6th annual fall fishing outing based in the Iowa Driftless Area based in Decorah, IA. Book your own choice of lodging (motel, lodge, airbnb, camping, etc) . Join the group dinners on Friday and Saturday evenings. Pair up with fishing colleagues to enjoy time on Iowa's best trout waters. This is a great trip [...]
SEWTU and Oakbrook, TU will return to Tichigan Creek this Saturday October 12th. This is a unique little stream that has been rediscovered by SEWTU and the DNR in the past 5 years. It is located in Western Racine County Wisconsin in the Tichigan Wildlife Area. There is a parking lot located where the stream [...]
Change of Date: The meeting date has changed to Thursday, October 24. (The original meeting was scheduled for Oct 16.) Location: Oak Brook Park District, Family Recreation Center, Canterbury Room Timing: Doors open at 6:00pm for pizza and fellowship. Chris Wood to speak via Zoom at 7:00pm. Topic: "State of Trout Unlimited" is an [...]
Come out for the Oak Brook TU 2024 Fall DuPage River Cleanup Day--9 a.m. to 12 noon! Bring your river shoes or waders and join us for a morning of removing debris and litter along the West Branch of the DuPage River from Gartner Road to 75th Street in Naperville. This event is part of [...]
NOTE: Once again we will be meeting in Oak Brook Park District Family Recreation Center Studio 'C' Topic: "Steelhead Alley" Steelhead Alley is a year round, multi-species fishery including many tributaries flowing from Ohio, Pennsylvania and upstate New York into the Great Lakes. There are reports of Ohio introducing fishable numbers of steelhead from [...]