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Our Feet In The Stream (FITS) Work Gang will be gathering to rake known spawning areas on the Letort Spring Run. This is important work that helps ensure a success spawning season for the infamous wild brown trout that the Letort is known for. FITS work party dates: 9/19, 9/27, [...]

Join CVTU for its monthly membership meeting, to be held at Mt. Zion Crossroads Church on September 20 at 7 pm. Speakers will be Scott Cox and Jeff Hartranft from the PA Department of Environmental Protection's Bureau of Waterways Engineering and Wetlands. Mt. Zion Crossroads Church is located at 420 [...]

A big THANK YOU to Smoked Trout for catering the CVTU family picnic! They do a wonderful job!!! Congratulations to Ken Okorn and Jen Reilly on their wins in the casting contest!

Cumberland Valley Trout Unlimited (CVTU) is pleased to announce that a stream improvement project on the Barnitz Church property along the Yellow Breeches Creek west of Mount Holly Springs will commence in June 2023. The project has been planned for several years, and CVTU, working in partnership or in collaboration [...]

CVTU is proud to announce that Thomas E. Baltz is the recipient of the 2023 Orvis Lifetime Achievement Award. Tom's accolades are many, and well deserved. Some of his other awards include: Limestoner Award – For his leadership in conservation & chapter functions Rising Trout Award For his works in [...]

Congratulations to the 2023 CVTU award winners! Order of the Quill - Biff Healy; Charles K. Fox Rising Trout - Ross Purnell, Publisher/Editor of Fly Fisherman magazine; Limestoner - John Leonard

In 2019 CVTU was awarded a grant from the Pennsylvania Coldwater Heritage Partnership to develop a Coldwater Conservation Plan for the Letort Spring Run from Route 34 to Interstate 81.  Many of our long-time members and anglers on this section of the Letort had expressed concerns that attention needed to [...]

Cumberland Valley Trout Unlimited received a grant to create a Coldwater Conservation Plan for the upper portion of the Letort Spring Run. The grant was awarded by the Pennsylvania Coldwater Heritage Partnership, a collaborative effort between PA Fish & Boat Commission, PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Foundation for [...]

The monthly CVTU membership meeting will be held on June 23rd and not on the 16th. This month’s meeting will take place on Messiah University’s campus just across the covered bridge. CVTU’s Rivers Camp will be going on that week. Come join us, bring your kids and grand kids, so [...]