April Meeting reminder

Meeting reminder for April 28th 2026, 7 pm DAR log cabin in Bethlehem.  This month we will be featuring Jonny Kaminski, a guide with Mainstream Outfitters.  Meetings are free and open to the public, light refreshments will be served.

 

Meeting reminder for February

Join us on February 24th 7pm as we welcome Rick Nyles, Owner of Sky Blue Outfitters.  Rick will be sharing his presentation “Tactical Dry Fly Fishing:Rick’s approach to Dry Fly Fishing.  Equipment Rigging, Flies, Casting and Approach.”

Rick Nyles guides full time and has been fly fishing for over forty years. Rick started guiding in 1999 (26 years, that’s a long time). Sky Blue has grown to a staff of ten (10) guides to support all aspects of fly fishing in Pennsylvania and beyond. Rick prides himself on being one of the best “Dry Fly” fishing guide you will find in Pennsylvania.  It does not matter if you are a novice or experienced fly fisherman, Rick offers guided trips that will increase your understanding and skill level when fishing for rising trout.  If you want to learn how to match the hatch, understand the feeding pattern, identifying the hatch, type of rise, when and where to cast, you have found the right guide.

As always, meetings are free and open to the public.  Light refreshments will be provided. Meetings are held at the DAR Log Cabin on 8th Ave in Bethlehem (in the Rose Garden).

November Meeting Cancelled

 Due to the proximity of the Thanksgiving Holiday, the November 25th meeting has been cancelled.  The Monocacy Chapter would like to thank all of our members and supporters for their on-going dedication to the Trout Unlimited mission.  Please enjoy your time with family and friends, maybe a little fishing, and take a moment to be thankful for the amazing cold-water resources right here in the Lehigh Valley.

October Meeting

 Just a quick reminder that our October meeting is just 5 days away.  Join us, 7pm at the DAR Log Cabin on 8th Ave in Bethlehem.  Featured presenter: Michael Lohman, CDC Caddis.

Save the Date!

 As summer winds down, it is time to start our monthly membership meetings again and the Monocacy Chapter would like invite you to join us this fall.  We are still meeting the 4th Tuesday of the month from 7-9pm at the DAR log cabin on 8th Ave, and even though a few of the program details are still being worked out, we wanted to make sure you added the fall dates to your calendar.

Fall Meeting Dates:

• September 23rd: Updates from Pa Fish Commission
• October 28th: Annual meeting and elections/ Fly Tying with Michael Lohman: Caddis and CDC Emergers. Michael has been fly fishing for over 50 yrs,  is an accomplished angler of everything from trout to tarpon, regularly does fly tying classes for Mainstream Outfitters and also a local guide with Wild East Outfitters. 
• November 25th: TBD
• December: No meeting, enjoy the Holiday!

As always, meeting are free and open to the public, we would love for you to join us and thnak you for your continued support of the Monocacy Chapter of TU.

Spring Meeting Schedule

 The Spring meeting schedule:

January 28th 7pm: Zach Rudd PFBC Waterways Conservation Officer: Updates on rules and regs.

February 25th 7pm:  Fly Tying Night

March 12th:(Save the Date!)  Fly Fishing Film Tour.  Details and ticket info to follow

April 22nd: TBD

May 27th 7pm: Fishing the evening hatch.  Meet at Illick's Mill Parking lot.

All meetings are at the DAR Log Cabin on 8th Ave and are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

October Meeting Reminder

 Just a quick reminder:

What: Monthly Meeting/ Annual Elections/ LRSA presentation

Where: DAR Log Cabin, Rose Garden Park, Bethlehem

When: October 22nd, 7pm

October Meeting Reminder

 Join us on Tuesday, October 22nd for our annual meeting.  This month we will hold our E-Board and Board of Directors elections, as well as welcome Matt MacConnell from the Lehigh River Stocking Association.  Earlier this summer, the LRSA placed a water quality probe in the Monocacy Creek, and Matt will be presenting the findings from that probe deployment.

Here is a video Matt made when he deployed the probe:

 

Meetings are held at the DAR log Cabin in the Rose Garden PArk on 8th Ave, and begin promptly at 7pm.  

Hope to see you there!

Monthly Meetings to Resume 9/24/24

Welcome backto the Monocacy Chapter Monthly meetings!  As summer comes to a close, we will resume meeting on the 4th Tuesday of the Month in the DAR Log Cabin at 7pm.  Below is the schedule to take us through 2024, with the Spring 2025 programing to be announced soon.  As always, our meetings are free and open to the public.  We hope you can join us.

If you have any questions, please reach out to monocacytu491@gmail.com.  Thanks!

9/24/24  Kristie Fach, Wildlands Conservancy: An update of stream restoration work being done in the Archibald Conservation Area, and on Bushkill Creek

10/22/24 Matt MacConnell, Lehigh River Stocking Association: Water Quality Data Collected on Monocacy Creek. 

11/26/24 Fly Tying Night: Format TBD.

The Dates for our 2025 meetings will be:

01/28/25

02/25/25

03/25/25

04/22/25

 

Other programs:  

Monocacy TU has partnered with the Monocacy Creek Watershed Association to hold a stream cleanup, October 27th 9-11:30, Meet at Illick's Mill

Fly Fishing Film Tour:  Spring 2025.  We are in the early stages of planing to bring the Fly Fishing Film Tour back to SteelStacks in 2025.  Stay Tuned!

 

Fly Tying Night Format

 Fly Tying night will consist of 3 featured fly tier's, Mike Recine, Steve Vanya and Erik Broesicke.  Each tier will be showing a different fly pattern or technique, and questions are welcome.

 SO bring your questions and save some room for Pizza and light refreshments!  We hope to see you tonight at 7PM at the DAR house.

Mike Recine

Steve Vanya

2023-2024 Public Meeting Schedule

 2023-2024 Meeting Schedule

Public Meetings held in the DAR Log Cabin, 8th Ave Bethlehem 7-9pm, unless noted

• September 26th: Streamer Fishing the Lehigh Valley: The gear, location and timing for streamer fishing our local streams presented by Erik Broesicke 
• October 24th: Annual Meeting/ Elections & TU Summer Camp Recap
• November  28th: Fly Tying Night
• January 23rd: TBD 
• February 27th: TBD 
• March 26th: TBD 
• April 23rd: Bugs and Dogs Family Picnic (Illick's Mill)
  
• May 28th: Fishing the Evening Hatch (Illick's Mill)
  

Monthly Meeting Reminder February 28th 2023

 Monthly Meeting Reminder:

Where: DAR Log Cabin 8th Ave Bethlehem

When: February 28th 2023, 7pm

What: Art Williams from the Hokendauqua Chapter presents:

"Fishing Through the Seasons" :

A slide/video presentation showing options  for fishing with different methods in places near and far.

Monthly Meeting Reminder

 

Monthly Meeting Reminder 11/22/22

 We invite you to join the Monocacy TU Chapter for our monthly meeting, Nov 22, 2022 as we welcome John Rupp from Pocono Fly Fishing.  John will be presenting his experiences fishing the Lehigh River.

Where: DAR House 8th Ave Bethlehem

When: Nov 22 2022 7pm

Monthly meetings return

 Join the Monocacy Chapter on Tuesday, September 27th as we kick off our Fall meeting schedule. Meeting starts at 7pm and will be held in the DAR House on 8th Ave.

This months topic will be a discussion of the recent stream sampling of the Saucon and Monocacy Creek Trophy Trout Sections, and the proposed rule changes.

Hope you can join us.

  

Monthly Meeting Reminder and Update

Reminder:  The Monocacy Chapter would like to remind our members that we will be returning to in person meetings Tuesday April 26th, 7pm at the DAR Log Cabin on 8th Ave.  

Update: Our scheduled presenter, Zach Rudd from the PFBC will be unable to make the meeting, and John from Pocono Fly Fishing (shop and guide service) has graciously agreed to fill in.  John will be discussing the Lehigh River Fisheries, his new shop, and may have some items for show and tell.

Hope everyone can make it!

2022 Programs

 

2022 Monocacy TU Programs

All meetings @ 7pm unless noted

Meeting location is the DAR Log Cabin on 8th Ave., Bethlehem in the Rose Garden Park

Meetings free and open to the public

April 26th: Welcome back meeting! Guest Speaker Zach Rudd PA Fish and Boat Waterways Conservation Officer

April 30th: Stream Clean up.  Meet at Burnside Plantation 9am.  Organized by Monocacy Creek Watershed Association.

May 24th:  Presentation: Fly Fishing the Delaware for Shad

June 28th: Bugs and Dogs Cookout: Pavilion @ Illicks Mill.  Join Chapter members as we cook up some dogs and then hit the stream to fish some bugs!  All are welcome.

September 27th: Summer recap

October 25th: Annual Meeting and Elections

No January Meeting, tentative plan going forward...

 Members:

 There will be NO January membership meeting.

Tentatively, we will resume meetings this Spring, hopefully March or April.  At that time, our focus will be on using outdoor venues, such as the pavilions at Illick's Mill, finding programing that is outdoor oriented (stream cleanups, plantings, on-stream demos/ instruction) or possibly returning to indoor meetings.

Thank you for your patience.

Election results..and more

Elections:

Not those!  The Monocacy Chapter typically holds it's annual meeting and elections in October, but 2020 being what it is, things were a little different this year.

Due to low turnout at the meeting (understandable), and the uncertainty about when we could reschedule for the future, those in attendance voted unanimously to postpone the election of Officers and Board of Directors until Spring 2021.

So for now we will continue with our current BOD and Officers as usual.

Meetings: 

On HOLD for now. The City of Bethlehem has temporarily closed our normal meeting place, the Daughters of the American Revolution Log Cabin.  As an alternative to that, be on the look out for online or outdoor events to fill in the schedule.  The change in weather and the flexibility of online meetings may mean programs outside the 4th Tuesday of the month we typically use. 

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to reach out monocacytu491@gmail.com. 

Fall Fly Tying, 11/26/2019

Join us on Tuesday Nov. 26th for our Fall Fly Tying Night.  This years theme will be "Your Favorite Fly, 2019".  Our panel of fly tiers will be made up of Chapter members, so if you would like to share your top pattern from 2019, please email: monocacytu491@gmail.com , and let us know what pattern you will be tying. You must provide your own tools and materials. As always, meetings are free and open to the public.  Meetings start @ 7pm in the DAR House located in the Rose Garden Park, Bethlehem PA.