Upcoming General Meetings & Speakers
Please plan on joining us for our regularly scheduled monthly meetings featuring great speakers and terrific members!
7:30 PM, Second Thursday of each month from September – May
Chester Valley Grange
3285 Phoenixville Pike
Malvern, PA 19432
Longitude 75.5410071 West, Latitude 40.0765783 North
Click here for directions
(No meeting in March due to Trout Show)
December 12, 2019
Maya van Rossum, leader for the Delaware Riverkeeper Network since 1994, will be giving a presentation on “Hot Issues Facing the Delaware River and Its Tributaries”. Maya is a licensed attorney and has served as an adjunct professor and director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Temple’s Beasley School of Law, which she founded, since 2002. She is also the author of “The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Clean Environment”, which came out in 2017.
January 9, 2020
Dr. Erik Silldorff will be giving a presentation entitled “Experimental Return of American Eels to Control Invasive Crayfish & Restore Ecological Structure in Pickering Creek”, a collaboration among DRN, Academy of Natural Sciences, Western PA Conservancy / PA Fish & Boat Commission / PA Natural Heritage Program, USGS, and Green Valleys Watershed Association
Dr. Silldorff is the Restoration Director and senior scientist at the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. As a stream ecologist and statistician, Erik brings an ecological focus to both protection and restoration efforts throughout the Delaware River Basin, seeking to maintain ecological health where it persists and restore ecological health in degraded streams and rivers.
February 13, 2020
Fly tying. Watch some of the area’s best fly tiers at work.
March 28, 2020
40th Annual VFTU Trout Show
Lionville Middle School
550 West Uwchlan Ave, Exton, PA 19341
Featured Speaker:
Tom Gilmore
Pennsylvania Blue Ribbon Trout Streams
NOTE: no general meeting in March due to Trout Show
Upcoming Events in 2020
|
January |
Fly Fishing Show |
|
March 7 & 8 |
Fly Fishing Show |
|
March 28 |
VFTU Trout Show |
|
May 17 |
VFTU Fly Fishing School |
|
May 28—30 |
VFTU 5th Annual Little Juniata Spring Trip |
Recurring Monthly Events
1st Thursday
VFTU Board Meeting 7:30 pm One Room Schoolhouse East Bradford Municipal Complex
2nd Thursday
VFTU General Meeting 7:30 pm Chester Valley Grange September through May (except no March meeting due to Trout Show)
3rd Wednesday
Valley Creek Restoration Partnership 10:00 am – noon Tredyffrin Township Community Meeting Room
Every 2nd, 3rd & 4th Monday
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Royersford Program 6:30 -9:00 pm Royersford VFW
Every Monday
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing West Bradford Community Program 6:00 pm West Bradford Fire Hall
Every Wednesday
Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing CVAMC Program 6:00 – 8:00 pm Coatesville Veterans Administration Medical Center