2024
Trout in the Classroom. Western Wayne High School. Education program and trout release at Varden Conservation Area.
April Banquet at Lukans. Charlie Bright Award goes to Paul Strathy.
Spring 2024 Trout Stocking
Lackawaxen River Cleanup April 14
Project Healing Waters at Zane Grey Museum April 27
Fish For Kids Program at Newfoundland Park.
Wayne County Historical Society Canal Festival
Casting For Recovery 2024 Skytop Lodge
2023
Christmas Party 2023
Spring Trout Stocking March 2023
Lackawaxen River Cleanups
Western Wayne High School Field Trip at Varden Conservation Center with Teacher Mark Nebzydoski. Students stocked trout they raised in their classroom and learned about fishing and water quality with PWTU Members and Lacawac Sanctuary Staff.
Fishing Instruction at Lacawac Sanctuary Youth Camp
Fly Fishing Instruction at Wallenpaupack Lake Estates
2022
Santa Comes to PWTU Christmas Party at Cora’s!
Fishing at Blooming Grove!
Donation Plaques
Larry Kirwan presents donation plaques to Pike County Outfitters and Silver Birch Archery. Thank you for your continued support and donations to our fundraisers!
Canal Festival
Pike Wayne Trout Unlimited participated in the Canal Festival near Hawley. Pictured is casting instruction by George Simon.
Casting for Recovery
Several members of Pike Wayne Trout Limited assisted with the Casting for Recovery Program at Skytop Lodge.
Spring Trout Stocking
Members of Pike Wayne Trout Unlimited helped with Spring and Fall Trout Stockings on the Lackawaxen River and Decker Brook.
Fishing Instruction at Lacawac Sanctuary
Members of Pike Wayne Trout Unlimited visited the Conservation Leadership Academy at Lacawac Sanctuary to teach the teenage campers how to fish in Heron Pond. Campers learned to cast, rig tackle, bait a hook, and catch and release fish!
Trout in the Classroom Western Wayne HS
PWTU supported the Trout in the Classroom Program at Western Wayne High School under the direction of teacher Dr. Mark Nebzydoski. The science students raised trout from Eggs and released them into Middle Creek near their high school at the Varden Conservation Area.
Past Activities
By Jim Furno
One of the more active Conservation groups in Pike and Wayne counties is the Pike-Wayne Trout Unlimited Club. This group is not merely a band of trout fishermen interested only in protecting trout. Pike-Wayne’s members see themselves as guardians of the area’s cold water resources. A band of hardy souls from the chapter spent several hours under the hot Sun (yes it was hot that day, April 26, 2009) engrossed in river bank erosion abatement.
Trudging along the lower Lackawaxen River, which is Pike-Wayne TU’s home water, the group planted as many as 475 tree seedlings. The project was an attempt by Pike-Wayne TU to develop ground cover along the river bank. These plants will hold the soil as they grow. They will also provide cover for the creatures of the Lackawaxen.
The varieties of seedlings planted were; Black Locust; Redpine; Blue Spruce; Elderberry Red and Common; Nannyberry; Arrowwood; Vibernium; and Red Twig Dogwood. All of these seedlings had to be planted by hard, manual labor.
Additionally the group spread out a 50 foot by 10 foot plastic sheet to kill the invasive plant known as Japanese Knotweed. This unwelcome visitor grows along many Pennsylvania rivers and streams. It displaces the native plants and grows profusely. Its roots are shallow so Knotweed provides little or no benefit to the environment. The plastic sheet super heats the ground and knotweed cannot endure the temperature created by the plastic.
John Hart, President of Pike-Wayne chapter of Trout Unlimited, obtained the plants and materials with club funds.
Gathering Materials
Superheating Knotweed
Break Time!
Hard Labor
Planting the Bank
Pike/Wayne Trout Unlimited Supports the Trout in the Classroom Program in Schools in Pike and Wayne Counties.
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