On Wednesday, July 20th, FVTU Service Partnership Coordinator Jim Borowski teamed with a small group of veterans from the Kalispell Vet Center for a few hours of fly fishing. The Kalispell Vet Center serves veterans throughout the Flathead Valley and their outreach program offers a wide variety of interesting...

On Saturday, May 7th, FVTU conducted its 2nd annual Fishing Access Site cleanup. This year we partnered with volunteers from the local chapter of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a grassroots advocacy group focused on national policies to address the climate movement. Rains the day before and the threat of...

Well, it’s finally coming! It’s almost time for the FVTU online MEGA-AUCTION! We are saddened that we won’t be able to get together this year for our traditional in-person fundraiser Spring Banquet. We will surely miss seeing all our great members and friends. But, in place of the banquet,...

FLATHEAD RIVER GROUP LAUNCHES WILD & SCENIC RIVER WEBINAR SERIES AHEAD OF COMPREHENSIVE RIVER MANAGEMENT PLAN   Flathead Rivers Alliance announces a two-part live webinar speaker series ahead of the anticipated spring public comment period for the Three Forks of the Flathead Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive River Management Plan. This...

It’s the FVTU Spring Online Auction! Consider this your personal invitation to participate in the first-ever Flathead Valley Chapter Trout Unlimited Online Virtual and Digital Extravaganza – May 17-22! Check out all of the great auction items May 9-16. The board has put together a great lineup of fabulous...

Don’t forget! Flathead Valley Trout Unlimited is sponsoring our first group activity in over a year, this coming Saturday, May 1. We are working with Montana FWP in co-sponsoring a cleanup day at the five Flathead River Fishing Access Sites! WE WILL MEET AT 09:30 on Saturday, May 1st...

Don’t forget, a new regulation on hooks is in effect this year for the three forks of the Flathead. Please be gentle with our native fish, there aren’t that many left. Remember to catch and release natives. Thanks – FVTU If both work similarly and one costs less than...

FWP conducts a full review of fishing regulations every four years in order to give new regulations time to work and to reduce the time that staff and the public must devote to the regulation setting process. A complete review of regulations took place in 2020. That makes 2021...

Nineteen years ago today the world was rocked by the unprecedented terrorists attacks on New York City and Washington D.C.  Nearly three thousand people lost their lives in those attacks. I was working security at the Moose Fire camp when it happened.  I can still vividly remember watching the...

The Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission will meet on Aug. 13th. Among the items to be discussed will be an update to fishing regulations. Regulations are updated on a four-year cycle with the last official update for the 2020 season. Any updates made between the four-year cycle seek to...