Trout in the Classroom

These students are connecting physically, emotionally and academically through caring for and learning from a living natural resource (trout). We believe students are the key to the future sustainability of our natural resources.

Youth Fly Fishing Program

Our chapter teaches 4th Grade students the art of fly fishing. We do this by teaching fly tying, casting, and how to tie proper knots. The class ends by taking the students to the river to go fishing.

Trout in the Classroom offers students of all ages a chance to raise trout in a classroom setting and then release them into a nearby stream or river. Caring for the fish fosters a conservation ethic in the students, and the act of walking to a streambank and directly releasing the fingerlings into the water makes a concrete connection between caring for the fish and caring for the water.

Because TIC brings nature into the classroom, it allows students to develop a personal bond and sense of conservation ethics that are at the core of TU’s mission. Young anglers better understand the value of their local fisheries when they have seen the trout life cycle up close and personal in this way.