Lake Champlain Trout Unlimited

05/11/2026

Should be a great time!

Join us for a FREE special screening of award-winning documentary The Fish Thief.

The movie examines the damages of sea lamprey on fish populations in the Great Lakes and the extraordinary efforts of scientists, policymakers, and conservationists to find a solution.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Lake Champlain sea lamprey control experts from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the Lake Champlain Basin Program and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission.

FREE PARKING available on campus in Lot 02-Hawkins and Lot 03-AuSable only. Cars parked in other campus parking areas will be ticketed.

More information at lcbp.org/events.

04/19/2026

🎣 Casting Competition – This Saturday!

Come show off your skills (or just come cheer!) at our Cardinal Casting Classic competition this Saturday, April 25, behind Memorial Hall on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus.

he fun runs from 12–5pm and it's FREE!

We'll have divisions for all skill levels and rod weights:
🎣 4/5/6 weight
🎣 7/8/9 weight
🎣 10+ weight
🎣 2-hand rods
🎣 Relay (3-person teams)

Planning to compete? Sign up by 11am on Saturday (one hour before the event starts) ---> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1BHIIqGNQ8bIr-Lv0RDIC6fdsvjIJnQ4HgzzEXGcMNr8/viewform?ts=69b16fce&edit_requested=true

We hope to see you there. Come say hi! 🌊

04/04/2026

Citizen science underway! 🤓

Today, Lake Champlain TU members gathered to learn how to build stream data-logging devices—and build them we did!

We were recently awarded an Embrace A Stream grant from Trout Unlimited to monitor depth and temperature in several North Country streams using HOBO data loggers.

Today was our first step: learning the setup and assembling the equipment.

In a few weeks, we’ll be deploying them in the water. More updates to come!

03/18/2026

One of our favorite events of the year! 💧🌊💦 Swing by our table to say hello and tie a fly.

🌟📅Mark your calendar for this year's World Water Day celebration on March 21st. Organized by Lake Champlain Basin Program and hosted at Champlain Centre Mall in Plattsburgh, this free event is always full of excellent water-related information and activities. We'll be there and would love to see you. 🥳

Lake Champlain Basin Program

03/18/2026

What an incredible afternoon! 🎬🐟

On March 7th, over 60 community members packed into Hudson Hall at SUNY Plattsburgh for the Scale of Change Film Tour — one of just two U.S. stops on this international conservation film series.

And wow, did our North Country community show up.

We screened four powerful short films from Hooké, taking us from the Delay River to the Canadian wilderness to the Swedish backcountry — all telling stories of wild fish, wild rivers, and the people who love them. Between films, we held a raffle packed with fly fishing books, art prints, hand-tied salmon flies, and more.

The highlight of the afternoon? Bill Bullock, Vice President with the Atlantic Salmon Federation, joined us to open the program and share what's at stake for wild Atlantic salmon — and what restoration efforts are making possible.

Our chapter came in committed to donating $1,000 to ASF. But our attendees? They matched our energy and then some. Together, we raised $1,160 for the Atlantic Salmon Federation — handed directly to Bill Bullock at the close of the event. 💚

A huge thank you to everyone who attended, donated, and helped make this happen. Events like this remind us why this work matters — and that our community cares deeply about the Saranac River, wild fish, and the future of our local waterways.

More to come on the local dam removal conversation. Stay tuned. 🎣

02/23/2026

Last week to send in your letter of interest for a FREE week at camp this summer.

Full details here: https://lakechamplaintu.org/events/dec-summer-camp-scholarships-2026/

Stay safe and warm this weekend! We'll be thinking of songs around the campfire, s'mores, and sunny days filled with laughter. 🌞🌈

Looking for something to do while the winter winds blow? Login to our registration site and complete the online forms ahead of registration opening 3/22.
👇 Link in comments! 👇

02/13/2026

While the book was about quiet, the conversation was anything but. 🤫

Awesome evening at The Corner Stone Bookshop diving into themes from local SUNY professor Stephen Kurczy’s book, The Quiet Zone.

Stay tuned for an announcement on our next book club and meeting. Have a book in mind you want to read? Share it in the comments. 👇 📕 🐛

02/10/2026

Awesome event and initiative from Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation!!👏

We're very excited to offer a way for community members to volunteer to help anglers in their communities make the switch to lead-free tackle!

We are recruiting volunteers to train as Tackle Box Ambassadors! Ambassadors will learn how to talk about the impacts of lead on wildlife and learn strategies for connecting with anglers in their communities to offer tackle box inventories, identifying lead tackle, offering to remove it for recycling, and providing some lead-free tackle as alternatives. Anglers who turn in lead tackle will also receive vouchers to get $10 more of free lead-free tackle from Adirondack tackle shops.

Anyone interested in becoming a Tackle Box Ambassador can join the first training, taking place on Sat. March 21 from 11 am - 1 pm at the Saranac Lake Free Library. It's free to register, and participants will receive lunch, a free t-shirt, and all the materials they will need to offer tackle box inventories in their communities.

Register here: https://www.adkloon.org/adkloonblog-1/2026/1/28/become-a-tackle-box-ambassador-the-loon-center-to-offer-trainings

Learn more: https://www.adkloon.org/adkloonblog-1/tackle-box-ambassador

Have questions? Email us at lboget (@) adkloon .org.

11/08/2025

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11/05/2025

SUNY Plattsburgh's Trout Unlimited 5Rivers club is hosting a free film screening of the 2025 Fly Fishing Film Tour on Thursday, November 6th at 5:00pm ET.

Swing by Room 108 in Ward Hall on SUNY's campus (34 Draper St.) for an evening of short films.

More details and upcoming events on our website: https://lakechamplaintu.org/events/.

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