Winter Trout Fishing
Is fishing in wild trout streams over the winter a good idea? Read TCO Fly Shop & Relentless Fly Fishing team member Niel Sunday’s opinion HERE.
General Information & News
On-Line Environmental News Outlet Shutting Down
As Delaware Currents shuts down, many of us who work in and care for the Delaware River Watershed feel the loss personally. For years, editor Meg McGuire and her team offered something rare: journalism that listened to the river, explained its science, held institutions accountable, and connected people to the water that sustains them. DC’s departure … Read More
PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center’s Sewage Pollution Report
PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center’s newest report, Sewage Pollution in the Philadelphia-Camden region is now available HERE. Our study shows that the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) averages dumping 12.6 billion gallons of untreated sewage and stormwater into Philadelphia’s rivers and streams each year. Other findings from our report showed that PWD’s sewer system averaged 65 sewage overflows … Read More
Valley Creek Salt Snapshot
On October 4 and 11, 2025 VFTU volunteers collected water samples at 53 sites in Valley Creek. The samples will be tested for salt content and results compiled. The data will be made available here when it becomes available.
Completion of Crabby Creek Stormwater Management Project – Phase 2
The Valley Creek Restoration Partnership (VCRP), of which the Valley Forge Chapter of Trout Unlimited is a leading member, has completed, in partnership with Tredyffrin Township, its seven-year, $715,000 effort to fund, design, and install four stormwater infiltration and capture systems in the Crabby Creek Watershed of Valley Creek. A total of four underground collection … Read More
VFTU Tax Exempt Status Reinstated
We are extremely happy to announce that we have received a determination letter from the IRS indicating that our status as a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization has been retroactively reinstated. We are again able to hold raffles and receive tax exempt donations, and so are now planning to have our fall Clean Streams raffle and … Read More
Announcing Valley Forge Trout Unlimited’s ‘Fishing with a Master’ Program
Are you new to the area or new to fly fishing? Would you like to learn some new water or gain some new fly-fishing skills? Then you may be interested in our new ‘Fly Fishing with a Master’ program. For a $200 donation, you will get to spend a half day fishing with one of the … Read More
VFTU Founding Member
Founder of Valley Forge Trout Unlimited, Owen Owens, died on Saturday, January 20, 2024. Among other things, he worked tirelessly on a number of environmental issues, including the health of the Valley Creek and West Valley Creek watersheds and the streams in them. When you walked with Owen, you were walking with one of the … Read More
Muddy Water Discharged Into Valley Creek
Valley Forge Trout Unlimited Environmental Chair Pete Goodman observed muddy water being discharged into Valley Creek on December 17. Our stream data loggers indicate that this had begun around November 27. This could not have happened at a wosre time, since the brown trout in the stream spawn from the beginning of November into the … Read More
VFTU Receives Embrace-A-Stream Grant
Trout Unlimited awarded a $3,000 EAS grant to Valley Forge Trout Unlimited for the purchase of HOBO sensors for the Valley Creek Restoration Partnership to place in Crabby Creek. These monitors do not indicate the presence of itinerant workers riding the rails from town to town, but rather measure and record stream temperatures every 15 … Read More