Donate to Help Support the Georgia TU Project on the Chattahoochee River

1 week, November 4th-10th. For every $1 you donate, Orvis and Trout Unlimited will match that at 50%. Go Here: Support the Local TU Project on the Chattahoochee River Regardless if you float, fish, or recreate on the Chattahoochee, it’s where Metro Atlanta gets 75% of it’s drinking water. This is your opportunity to give […]

Embrace-a-Stream Grant Announced

The Chattahoochee River Wild Trout Improvement Project was selected as a 2019 Embrace-a-Stream Grant recipient (one of 29 across the country). EAS is a matching grant program administered by Trout Unlimited that awards funds to TU chapters and councils for coldwater fisheries conservation. In partnership with the Chattahoochee River National Recreational Area, the Georgia Department […]

Georgia Chapter Scores Big at National Meeting

The Upper Chattahoochee Chapter of Trout Unlimited was awarded the Gold Trout Award at the 2019 annual meeting of Trout Unlimited in Rogers, Ark. The Gold Trout Award, TU’s highest award for chapters, recognizes the top chapter across the United States (out of 386) that took initiative and thoughtful approaches over the year to building […]

Dream Trip Winners Announced

Dream Trip 2020 Amended Rules Congratulations to all the 2019 Dream Trip prize winners! 2019 Dream Trip Winners for all Prizes (1)

Seehorn Inducted Into Hall of Fame

Legends of the Fly Hall of Fame

Monte Seehorn was recently inducted into the “Legends of the Fly” Hall of Fame during the Atlanta Fly Fishing Show. Seehorn is a lifelong fly fisherman and a former U.S. Forest Service coldwater fisheries director. He owns and operates a business that improves trout fishing in privately owned waters such as Dukes Creek and the […]

2019 Rabun Rendezvous Scheduled

The Rabun Chapter of Trout Unlimited proudly presents a celebration of rivers, streams, trout and trout fishing Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Dillard House Conference Center. Doors open at 3 p.m. The cost is $35 for adults and $25 for children 15 years and younger paid at the door. The event features entertainment by the […]

Dream Trip – Fly Fishing for Two

The Grand Prize is five days hosted fishing and six nights lodging in Idaho July 21-26, 2019 (plus other goodies too). Fish with John McGarity and stay in his fabulous log cabin. Receive $500 in travel expenses. Runner-up prizes include fly rods, fly boxes, a half-day guided fishing trip, a half-day float trip and many […]

Learn More About GA TU

Representatives from the Georgia Council of Trout Unlimited discuss the group’s many conservation and educational programs on the Atlanta Real Estate Forum. https://www.atlantarealestateforum.com/preserving-and-protecting-the-hooch-with-trout-unlimited/

Tallulah River Kids Fishing Rodeo

The Tallulah River Kids Fishing Rodeo, sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service and supported by the Rabun and Savannah River Chapters of Trout Unlimited,  drew approximately 140 kids for a day of fishing and hot dogs. Most kids with fish headed straight to the cleaning table where members of the Savannah River Chapter cleaned over […]

Annual Georgia Trout Camp

Ben-Ostaszewski

Twenty-four boys and girls ages 12-15 from across Georgia recently participated in the 15th Annual Georgia Trout Camp, sponsored by Georgia Trout Unlimited. The camp, which is the second largest and the third oldest trout camp in the United States, took place at the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School in Clayton, GA. Kids learned and practiced the […]