American Fisheries Society Colorado State University

LAST MEETING THIS SCHOOL YEAR! Pizza 🍕 party 🎉 on Thursday!!! We should also have some games 👀 see you at 5:30!! 🐟🐟🐟🐟

Reliving the College Lake Derby this past weekend!!! Our “winning catch” was a 38” Northern Pike!!! 🎣😱❄️

*❗️The snow didn’t do us any favors this weekend and we unfortunately don’t have record of our big winners’ names! If you were one of the winners, please reach out to us❗️

* We also want to thank our sponsors for making this weekend possible! A big thanks to you!

THANK YOU to all who came to our derby this weekend! And a special thank you to our volunteers! It was a cold one for sure, but still fun. 🥶🐟
Send us more photos if you have any!!

MEETING THURSDAY!!! 🤌🏼🐟🤨
Last meeting before our end of the year pizza party!!! See you there!!!

🚨 FISHING DERBY TICKET SALES TOMORROW 🚨
Due to potential weather, keep an eye out for ticket sales INSIDE the Wagar building tomorrow. We will be selling tickets from 10:30am-12pm. See you tomorrow!! 🎣

🚨🚨 The moment you’ve all been waiting for 🚨🚨
THE ADULT FISHING DERBY 🐟

Join us APRIL 20th at College Lake for a day full of big fish (and awards for contests)!!!

Reminders:
* Tickets are required!!! And you can purchase these Saturday April 6th, starting at 10:30am outside of Wagar (CSU Campus)!!!
* $30 per ticket.
* 3 tickets TOTAL per person. This is especially if you are buying for a group!
* Artificial lures and flies ONLY! No live bait.
* No watercraft (boats, kayaks, canoes, etc.) allowed on the lake.
* Catch and release only.
* Just a heads up: MANDATORY on-site decontamination of waders/ boots both before and after fishing.

Email [email protected] with questions! 🐟🐟🐟

Shark Week Watch Party Tomorrow! 🦈
Come hang out with us before spring break!! We will have pizza 🍕 and drinks 🥤!!! See you soon! 🐟
We also love the meme content you all have been DMing us! Keep em coming!

We had a great time at the American Fisheries Society conference in Laramie this week!!! Even though there was limited hotel sleeping space… some of the students in the CSU AFS Student Chapter also got to present!! Go team!!! 🐟

Happy Valentine’s Day from the CSU AFS fish crew! 🐟
We hope you’re having a great day and here are some memes to commemorate the holiday 🤷‍♀️😂

Howdy fish folk!!! 🤠🐟 We hope you had an amazing fall break this past week!!!! We can’t wait to see y’all at our next meeting THIS THURSDAY at 5:30pm. CPW Biologist Tyler Swarr will be giving a talk on the state hiring process for fisheries careers!!! As always, we will have FREE PIZZA 🍕!! See you soon! 🐟🐟🐟🐟

We’ll have a River Monsters Watch party THIS THURSDAY at 5:30pm in 133 Wagar!! We will have FREE pizza!! 🍕 Come join us before heading out for fall break!! 🐟 🐟 🐟

Meeting Thursday (11/2)!!! We’ll be touring the USGS COOP Unit in the Zoology building! Meet us in 133 Wagar at 5:30pm and we’ll walk over together. Can’t wait to see y’all!! 🐟🐟🐟

We had a successful day full of fish at the annual kids derby at College Lake today!!! Thank you all for coming out. Thank you also to our volunteers and to our sponsors!!! 🎣

Howdy fish folk!!!! We have a meeting at 5:30PM THURSDAY in 133 Wagar. We’ll have free pizza and drinks as always! Bring your friends… even if they don’t like fish… we can convince them otherwise 🤷‍♀️🐟

Meeting THIS THURSDAY at Colorado Youth Outdoors (5:30PM). Free pizza and drinks will be provided. Check your emails for carpooling or let us know if you can drive/ need a ride Thursday! A group will meet outside of Wagar at 5PM to coordinate rides. Bring a friend and we hope to see you there!! 🐟 🍕

Hi fish folk!!
Saturday, October 21st, we will be having our annual kids fishing derby at College Lake! Check in and ticket sales begin at 6:00AM for $15 per child fishing! It’ll be a fun time with some prize giveaways from our sponsors at the end! Hope to see y’all there!!!

Email us ([email protected]) or DM us with questions!

Howdy Fish Folk,

Join us this Thursday (9/21) at 5:30pm for our second AFS meeting of the semester! We will meet in 133 Wagar and walk over to the LSC pond!!! Hope to see you there!!! 🐟

Come check out our new AFS board in Wagar!!! 😎🐟

🐟 Howdy Fish Folk,

We’ve missed you over the summer! Join us this Thursday (9/7) at 5:30pm for our first AFS meeting of the semester! A guest talk will be given by fish pathologist, Dr. John Drennan.

We will have FREE PIZZA and DRINKS!!! Bring your friends and we’re excited to see you!

Join us this Thursday for the CSU AFS subunit end of semester party!

Check out the CSU Fly Fishing Club’s event this Saturday!

Derby Tickets are sold out!! Thank you to everyone who came by.

Reminder that TODAY until 2:00p in front of the Wagar building @ CSU near the oval, tickets will be sold for the Spring derby! Tickets are $30 dollars a piece.

Join us this Thursday for a presentation on Tribal Biology Practices by an aquatic biologist for the Jicarilla Apache Nation!

Howdy Anglers,

Reminder that this Saturday, April 8th, tickets for the derby will be sold at the Wagar Building on CSU's campus. We will be selling tickets from 10 AM until 2 PM, they will be sold for $30 each and it is first come first serve with a total of 100 tickets to be sold. Here is the location we will be set up at:

Wagar Building · 901 Amy Van Dyken Way #999, Fort Collins, CO 80521 School

Join us this Thursday at 5:30p for a presentation by Ashley Ficke, President of CO/WY AFS, on her job as a GEIConsultant. We will be in Wagar 133.

Hi Anglers,
We're so excited to announce that we will be holding our bi-annual fishing derby on Saturday, April 22nd from 7am to 12pm! We will be holding it at College lake on the foothills campus (3105 Rampart Rd.). The derby will run rain or shine so make sure you come prepared for the elements in case they decide to dump some rain or snow on us. This communication is to announce that tickets for the derby will be sold on April 8th, from 10am to 2pm on the northeast side of the Wagar Building on campus (corner closest to the oval). Each ticket is $30. Ticket sales are first come first serve and any person who is fishing must be present to sign a liability waiver NO EXCEPTIONS. As always, there will be prizes awarded coming from our awesome sponsors and a raffle at the end of the derby.

The annual AFS Adult Derby is coming up fast!! Email [email protected] with any questions!

RMFTU is holding a trout expo tomorrow! Join us tomorrow to network, watch renowned fly tying artists, and learn about cold-water conservation volunteer opportunities!

The 2023 Evan Lefort Memorial Derby details will be posted tomorrow!!