This August, the Delaware River Club and friends will be hosting the 10th annual Get Trashed in the Catskills river clean-up. It’s a wonderful and FREE event and a truly grassroots effort. For those unfamiliar, the Upper Delaware system is arguably some of the best wild trout rivers in the country and located approximately 2 hours from NYC and Philadelphia, so you could imagine the angling and recreation traffic it receives. Along with visitors, there is also a fairly large population in both seasonal and year-round homes. All these people mean TRASH in and around the river, and for the past 9 years, we’ve been doing our best to combat it. The event has grown every year to now over 100 annual volunteers, and we’ve removed an insane amount of trash from all three branches of the Upper Delaware: over 1000 tires, 20 dumpsters full of trash, 20 trailers full of scrap metal, including snowblowers and leaf blowers, and countless tarps and pool covers.

The organizers and volunteers have been paying for this event out of pocket, and we try to raise funds with silent auction and bingo, but we usually don’t make up for the expenses. So we are reaching out to you, the angling public, to help fund this amazing event. Here’s what your donations will help pay for:

- Kayak rentals and drift boat shuttles for volunteers

- Feeding volunteers

- Trash removal and disposal. This is the big one. The Delaware River Club still has tractor-trailer tires from years past that cost an insane amount to dispose of. The cost to get rid of tires is not insignificant, and we’ve been eating the cost every year.

Please consider donating to Get Trashed in The Catskills. Thanks!