CATSKILL MOUNTAINS TROUT UNLIMITED

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.

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/