NYCDEP is organizing cleanups of the Rondout, Neversink, Pepacton or Cannonsville reservoirs as part of the International Beach Cleanup day on Sunday Oct 5th.
See attached flyer for details. Send an email to chapter email address catskillmountaintu@gmail.com if you you would be interested in volunteering as group from the CMTU chapter.
Ted Hoover
Meeting- The Regular Meeting for Wednesday September will be on to begin the new year. We will begin approximately at 6:30 PM. Please read carefully, that we are returning to Gander Mountain and the Lodge. Really glad to have this location back.
September meeting will begin with a tying demonstration of fall flies by chapter member Joe Apuzzi. Joe has been graceful to every fall present a fly of his choice for you. Followed by a brief business meeting. If time prevails, I may have a DVD to show as all the previous electronic equipment is still intact. This meeting will discuss the leadership and need to form an active Board to help plan the future of the chapter.
Thank you to all chapter volunteers that helped at the Ulster County Fair. Mac McDonald, Don Stauss, Russell Yess, George Fisher and Ron Urban.
Thanks again to the Federation Sportsman of Ulster County. Their trout fishing pond is one of the highlights of the week for many of the kids at the fair.
Ted Hoover
Thank you to all the volunteers that came out for the cleanup on Saturday. Special thanks to Stacie Howell from the Neversink Roundout Stream Management Program for helping us with the cleanup.
Ted
The Conservation committee has organized another stream cleanup this year.
This year our target will be the Upper Roundout Creek at pubic parking areas along Peekamoose Road between the Roundout Reservoir and Peekamoose. We are looking for volunteers to help with the cleanup and with removal of the trash we collect.
Meeting Location: Peter’s Market, 7700 Route 209, Napanoch New York. (just north of where the Roundout Creek crosses route 209)
Meeting Time 12:45PM
Date: Saturday June 7th.
Duration: 1:00PM – 4:00PM
Maps of locations and trash bags will be provided. Please bring gloves and volunteers.
Post cleanup pizza at Benny’s Pizzeria in Stone Ridge at 4:30pm for all volunteers.
Please send an email to catskillmountaintu@gmail.com if you would like to participate. We also need members with pickup trucks to help collect the bagged trash.
Ted Hoover
CMTU Secretary and Conservation Committee Chair
Meeting- The Regular Meetings for May 15th will be on Thursday to finish the year out. We will begin approximately at 6:30 PM. These meetings are scheduled and reserved at Courtyard by Marriott adjacent to Target in the Hudson Valley mall.
The May 15th meeting will begin with a tying demonstration followed by a brief meeting and then a presentation by Region 3 DEC on the Esopus Creek updates. Mike Flaherty and Bob Angyl will probably be the presenters. It’s our annual meeting to hear and discuss current status and work being examined on the Esopus Creek. Please make an effort to attend this meeting and share pro and con personal experiences fishing these waters in the watershed. Your feedback helps them in their evaluations and to also look at the future of this once pristine water we fish.
Meeting- Our regular meeting will begin at 7 PM. Our speaker had to cancel out so we are without anyone at this time. BUT, I urge you to attend as we do have business of the chapter to discuss. Officer positions need filling; we need to enlist several folks for Board positions so the chapter can plan the future. Certainly important on the list is discussion of the 50th banquet restaurant to hold our event. A couple places have been reviewed and of course there is Stonehedge that we have participated at in the past few years.
I may have a Mary Dette DVD to bring along. If you haven’t seen this incredible lady tye as she was taught by her parents, Walt and Winnie, it is something worth while to see.
Meeting- The Regular Meeting will begin at 6:30 PM. Orvis guide, Ray Otullich, from Stone Ridge will present a pre meeting talk and demonstration of striper flies and how to fish them on the Hudson River. Following his talk we will hold a brief business meeting and then have a power point presentation by our guest speaker. Ray Ottulich, a New York native, has been fishing since he was 12. Living for 24 years in Montana, he was senior guide at Dave Blackburn’s Kootenai Angler situated on the blue-ribbon Kootenai River in northwest Montana. He helped to pioneer float fishing on British Columbia’s Elk River and guided trips on the Flathead, Clark Fork, and Big Hole Rivers. He has written for Fly Fishing the West, the, and the outdoors column for the New York Times. He served on the Montana Fish Wildlife and Park’s Kootenai River Management Committee, and as Kid’s Day Fishing Program Fly-Fishing Instructor, and was president of the American Fishery Societies award-winning Kootenai Fly Fishers FFF. Ray’s clients include Sports Illustrated former editor, Nick Nicholas; Fly Fisherman magazine’s former western editor, Dave Engerbretson; author Peter Kaminsky; film director Fred Schepisi; and actors Aidan Quinn and Liam Neeson. This will be an excellent program by a friend and local guide. Look forward to your attendance.
Pre Meeting– Tying demonstration by chapter member Joe Apuzzi. Joe is an excellent tyer and member of the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild following Catskill traditions. He will demonstrate a few Bead Head Bloody Mary nymphs. These are considered a searching pattern nymph and very successful when others fail and at this time of year. Come out at 6:15 PM to observe and ask questions for Joe.
Meeting- The Regular Meeting will begin at 7:00 PM. We will have a brief business meeting early so we can have enough time for our guest speaker Andrew Meyer. Andrew is the Shoreline Conservation Specialist for the NYS DEC’s Hudson River Estuary Program, in partnership with the New York State Water Resource Institute at Cornell University. He works on aquatic connectivity in the tributaries to the Hudson River, watershed outreach, and open space projects relating to the many communities of the Hudson River Estuary. Andrew grew up in Orange County and has a Master’s degree from the University of Colorado. His powerpoint presentation will focus on two projects they have going to identify important dams and culverts, preventing migration for spawning, and try and get them out of our streams. Please attend to hear this and we’ll learn how we may be of help in our fishing experiences to identify other problem culverts.
Ron Urban, President
Catskill Mts. Trout Unlimited
Thank You to all the volunteers that helped us at the Ulster County fair over the weekend !
And thank you to the Federated Sportsman of Ulster County that allowed us to share their booth with us as we helped them and many kids that stopped by to fish in their popular trout fishing pond.
