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 [...]

2024 OBTU HOLIDAY PARTY Buy Party Admission Tickets Now & Save OBTU will be hosting our annual holiday at a Venuti’s Italian Restaurant & Banquet Hall The 2024 event will include a full buffet dinner with a cash bar. Cost is $60.00 per person If purchased by Dec. 1, 2024. $70.00 per person if purchased after [...]

OBTU will be hosting a booth at the Tinley Park Show again this year. See the following link for 2025 Tinley Park Expo details: https://tinleyfishexpo.com/

This is the chapter's annual meeting and will include board member elections by a vote of OBTU members in attendance.   Board elections will be followed by the annual election of chapter officers to take place after the general membership meeting. Topic TBD: Summary TBD:   Speaker TBD:     This is a hybrid meeting:  [...]