Minnesota Trout Unlimited

Protect • Reconnect • Restore • Sustain

OUR MISSION

Minnesota Trout Unlimited represents several thousand members and five chapters in Minnesota. Our mission is to conserve, protect, restore, and sustain Minnesota’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.

91 Miles of Trout Streams Restored

82 Projects

5 Chapters

WHAT WE DO

MNTU believes that a strong community of anglers, conservation organizations and businesses working together and engaging with the resource is key to maintaining the waters we care about. Together MNTU has restored over 82 miles of trout streams. Aside from habitat work, MNTU believes strongly in engaging the community through youth and adult fishing and education programs.

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Help Out Your Local Waters

MNTU carries out habitat improvement projects around the state thanks to funding from Minnesota’s Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Fund and other sources. Check out the chapter news section within our publication or contact your chapter directly to find out when the next volunteer opportunity will be taking place.

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HIGHLIGHTED PROJECTS

Hay Creek

Years of ongoing habitat work have shaped a stream that provides miles of quality public fishing opportunities close to the Twin Cities Metro area.

Straight River

A northwest MN river featuring massive brown trout, historic mayfly hatches and creative habitat work including helicopter tree drops.

Little Stewart River

A key spawning tributary for steelhead and other anadromous fish, restoration work benefits fish in the river as well as in Lake Superior.

Sucker River

Diverse habitat improvement for steelhead, brown trout and native brook trout on a Lake Superior tributary near Duluth, MN.

MNTU’s barrier removal projects also benefit aquatic invertebrates

When most trout anglers think about culvert replacements, they rightly think of trout passage to critical habitat. Undersized, perched, and crumbling culverts...

Minnesota Trout Unlimited just wrapped up its Trout in the Classroom (“TIC”) education program for the 2024-2025 school year!

There were 79 tanks in 67 schools and 2 nature centers this year. 55 of those schools and 1 of the nature...

Trees for Trout: An Update on MNTU’s Riparian Reforestation Project

If you’ve fished along a trout stream in northeast Minnesota lately, you’ve probably noticed the standing dead spruce and balsam fir, open...

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