APWCTU Guides and Resources

Fly Fishing Guiding Services

Our chapter membership includes a number of experienced, knowledgeable fly fishing guides and outfitters serving beginners, as well as seasoned anglers:

Camp Holz Fish & Game

George Holz
1118 Woodland Valley Road, Phoencia, NY 12464
917-797-2817
campholz.fish.game@gmail.com
https://www.campholzfishandgame.com /
Licensed fly fishing and hunting guiding service

Catskill Kingfisher Guide Service

Lenny Millen
Margaretville, NY
845-586-2220
lennymillen@gmail.com
Over 30 years as licensed guide, 7 years as Joan Wulff casting instructor (on staff)

Catskill Mountain Angler

Mark Loete
P.O. 240, Chichester, NY 12416
845-688-5400
mark@catskillmountainangler.com
catskillmountainangler.com
Fly fishing guiding and instruction in the Catskill tradition.

Catskill Outfitters

Paul Schiavo
5579 Route 28, Phoenicia, NY 12464
845-688-0189
info@catskilloutfitters.com
catskilloutfitters.com

Judd Weisberg

P.O. Box 177
Lexington, NY 12452
juddweisberg@gmail.com
581-989-6583
518-965-1164 (mobile)

Jerry Bartlett Angling Collection

The Jerry Bartlett Memorial Angling Collection was founded shortly after the death of Jerry Bartlett in 1995. A well-known fly fishing guide and staunch conservationist, Jerry was president of the Catskill Chapter of Trout Unlimited.

Angler's Parlor and library — The “Angler’s Parlor” at the Phoenicia library. Photo by Carol Seitz.

The Collection is housed in a cozy reading room on the second floor of the Phoenicia, NY Library and is filled with rods and tackle, flies, historic artifacts, photos, memorabilia and a fine collection of books, which grew to become the largest circulating collection of books on fishing in the Northeast. Unlike many other “special collections,” the Jerry Bartlett Angling Collection is open to all, and anyone with a valid Mid-Hudson Library System universal borrowing card can take out a book — or a rod.

Joan Wulff at the Phoenicia Library — Fishing legend Joan Wulff was a guest speaker in 2018. Photo by Mark Loete.

Over the past two decades, the Anglers’ Parlor has hosted fly tying classes, angling and stream-related workshops, oral history events and book signings by local authors. From its inception, the Bartlett Collection has actively reached out to children in the Phoenicia School with fly tying programs, casting lessons, stream walks, macro-invertebrate workshops and support for the Trout in the Classroom Program.

The Collection’s website features a detailed hatch chart for the Esopus Creek, historical information, a number of “Sporting Legends of the Catskills” podcasts — and more.

Angling and environmental resources

Below are links to sites that may be of interest to our members. Please note that a listing below does not imply that the Ashokan-Pepacton Watershed Chapter of Trout Unlimited endorses, supports or is responsible for content on linked sites.

Hydrology and stream management

Photo at top by Jamie Kennard.