We are still looking for volunteer at the Ulster County fair this year . Let me know if you are available for a few hours on Saturday August 3rd OR Sunday August 4th. Email email: catskillmountaintu@gmail.com
Ted
2013 Ulster County Fair July 30th through August 4th
Our chapter will have a booth at the Ulster County Fair this year and we need your help. The fair is a great opportunity to spread the word about TU and our mission. It’s a chance to raise awareness of conservation issues and local streams, promote the work of TU and its local chapters, increase awareness of the chapter—and to grow membership.
The conservation committee has made arrangements with the Federated Sportsman of Ulster County to share part of their booth with a Trout Unlimited table at the Ulster County Fair this year. We are looking for volunteers to help staff the table from Friday August 2nd through Sunday August 4th. More days are possible if we get a lot of interest.
Here is a sample of some of the things we plan to have at the table
– Brochures about Trout Unlimited and local chapter activities
– Sample copies Stream Explorers ( http://www.streamexplorers.org/) a youth oriented TU site and newsletter
– Information on Trout in the Classroom
– TU Membership forms
– Raffle of a copy of “Trout Fishing in the Catskills” by Ed Van Putt
– Information highlighting local advocacy issues. (Invasive species, water quality, Fracing, etc…)
– Signup sheet for future Chapter fly fishing and fly tying classes
In addition, we will be helping the Federated Sportsmen with their annual trout fishing pond (800 gallon tank) helping kids learn to enjoy fishing.
Please send an email to Ted Hoover catskillmountaintu@gmail.com if you would like to volunteer and let me know what time slots you may be able to cover at the Fair.
Friday August 2nd
10:00am – 2:00pm
2:00pm – 6:00pm
6:00pm – 10:00pm
Saturday August 3rd
10:00am – 2:00pm
2:00pm – 6:00pm
6:00pm – 10:00pm
Sunday August 4th
10:00am – 2:00pm
2:00pm – 6:00pm
6:00pm – 8pm
The Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program (AWSMP) in cooperation with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) will be hosting our 2nd Annual “Family Fun & Fish Day” at Kenneth Wilson State Park located at 859 Wittenberg Road in Mount Tremper, NY. The event will be held on Saturday, June 8 from 11:00am to 1:30pm.
To register see: http://www.ashokanstreams.org/
Meeting- The Regular Meeting will begin at 6:45 PM. We will begin our meeting early so we can have enough time for our guest speaker and presentation. Eduardo Barrueto from Coyhaique, Chilean Patagonia has a fly fishing operation in Coyhaique area of Chile, and this year he is supporting Trout Unlimited by donating trips for the Annual Auctions in Washington DC, San Francisco, and New York. He has been talking and working with Sarah Davis, the National Events Manager of TU.
He has also been working before with Native Fish Society, Water Watch Oregon and Wild Fish Conservancy from Washington. In Chile he works actively and supports Patagonia Sin Represas, trying to stop the Dam´s menace in Patagonia.
He is looking forward to speaking and presenting a program to a group of the Catskill Mountains Chapter of TU about Patagonia, and the wonderful Dry Fly fishing in Coyhaique area. As previously mentioned, I have looked for engaging presentations to enlighten and bring different presentations of interest. I hope you can find the time for one more meeting this year before we break for summer. Let’s make sure we have a good turn out with an interest to see his presentation. He is the owner of Magic Waters Patagonia and you can see more at either: www.magicwaterspatagonia.com or www.chilepatagoniaflyfishing.com .
On Saturday May 4th we held our Stream Clean up event. This years target was the Esopus Creek tributaries, (Beaver Kill, Stony Clove, Woodland Valley, Peck Hollow, Broadstreet Hollow)
Thank you to chapter members, Ted Hoover, Jim Littlefoot, Ted Skarr, and Mac McDonald who came out to volunteer and help collect a pickup truck load of trash at selected stream access locations.
4th Annual ASHOKAN WATERSHED CONFERENCE
“Designing Resilient Watershed Communities”
Saturday April 27, 2013 9:00am—3:00pm
For registration information See www.ashokanstreams.org
Stream Cleanup 2013
We have organized another stream cleanup this year.
This year our target will be the Esopus Creek tributaries, (Beaver Kill, Stony Clove, Woodland Valley, Peck Hollow, Broadstreet Hollow) We are looking for volunteers to help with the cleanup and with removal of the trash we collect.
Meeting location: Pull off between Emerson Resort and Spa, and Catskill Mountain Railroad on route 28 at 9:00 AM
When: Saturday May 4th .
Time: 9:00AM – 12:00PM
Maps of locations and trash bags will be provided. Please bring gloves and volunteers.
Post cleanup pizza at Brio’s Pizzeria and Restaurant in Phoenicia at 12:00 for all volunteers followed by some afternoon fishing.
Please send an email to Ted Hoover thoover@hvc.rr.com if you would like to participate. We also need members with pickup trucks to help collect the bagged trash.
Meeting- The Regular Meeting will begin at 6:45 PM. We will begin our meeting early so we can have enough time for our guest speaker and presentation of our annual scholarship to a student at UCCC in Water Management/Science classes. After a brief business meeting we will have a presentation of the recipient of this year’s Art Flick Scholarship Award. This year’s recipient is Kieran Pierce and he loves fishing, is very interested in conservation, and is certainly in need of economic assistance to further his studies. After the Regular Meeting, we have Mike Flaherty from Region 3 DEC and Bob Angyal to discuss the studies of last year and what we can expect from this year on the Esopus Creek.
Meeting- The Regular Meeting will begin at 7:00 PM. Before the meeting a tying demonstration will begin at 6:15 PM if someone would like to volunteer to do a couple flies. This is always an attraction to members to learn and ask questions. Please get back to Ron Urban so he can let others know about a tying demonstration. After a brief business meeting we will have a very interesting presentation on our watersheds around the Esopus Creek. Nicole McShane from the Catskill Center for Conservation will do a short presentation on the Catskill Center’s current work to protect riparian buffers in the West of Hudson watershed and the positive impacts that protection could have on fishing and recreation in the region. She will also have the Executive Director, Alan White, joining her so I hope we can have a good turn out for their time to come and present to us. It may coincide with our Conservation Committee and their vision for work in the future. Friends and public always invited.
Meeting- The Regular Business Meeting will begin approximately at 7:15 PM. A tying demonstration will begin approximately at 6:15 PM by our guest speaker. He will demonstrate and tie caddis nymphs that are useful on the Housatonic River. After his presentation and then a brief business meeting we will have a raffle of several items. One being a book entitled “About Trout” by Dr. Robert Behnke. Please make an effort to support these speakers by attending the meeting.
Guest Speaker Bio: Adam Franceschinni, a year-round professional guide and head guide for Housatonic River Outfitters, will provide a presentation on fishing the Housatonic River. He is a field tester for Orvis and has fished the American west, the Amazon, and in Alaska where he guides at Tickchik Narrows Lodge in the Bristol Bay area during summers. Adam began guiding on the famed rivers of western Montana, where he quickly learned how to navigate a drift boat on big water. Since then, he has guided on the San Juan, where the well-known Baetis hatches helped him refine his sight nymphing skills, and the Amazon basin of Brazil, where he chased peacock bass on the fly. Over the past five years he has used his boat handling skills, as well as his excellent indicator nymphing techniques, to help him catch some of Alaska’s massive leopard rainbow trout. In 2010, Adam was named Head Guide at Housatonic River Outfitters. Growing up just 15 miles from the Housatonic, Adam has fished much of the local waters. Guiding wading trips, drift boat trips, and instructing classes, Adam has made a home, once again guiding on the water he where learned to fish.
