ORVIS Season Opener Kick-Off Celebration

by Grant Brown

The Saturday before the early season opener (February 27th), Orvis will host a day of guides, food, cigars, scotch, and giveaways. From 11-3 there will be several great lakes area guides talking about the season opener for trout in Michigan and Wisconsin as well as the hot steelhead action coming up.

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March Meeting Details

Our Guest Speaker this Month is Tim Landwehr, owner and operator of Tight Lines Fly Fishing Co. in DePere Wisconsin. Tim has been a professional fly fishing guide for the majority of his adult life. He has guided some of the famous rivers of the West, but his warm water roots brought him back to his home state to open a fly shop and guide.

Tim has been featured in ESPN Outdoors, OLN, Fly Fisherman Magazine, Badger Sportsman, Eastern Fly Fishing, and has hosted the Midwest Sportsman television program. He and his guides were featured in last fall’s Guides and Destinations edition of Gray’s Sporting Journal. Tim has had the privilege to fish with some of the greats of our sport and has guided fly fishing legend, Dave Whitlock, on a number of occasions. Tim travels the Midwest to give innovative presentations on new tactics for Smallmouth Bass. His programs incorporate video and unique graphics making his talks very popular at many sport shows.The social hour and the Fishing Reports topic of the general meeting is a good way to find out member's latest exploits. A free raffle of fly-fishing and tying goodies, donated by our generous supporters, gives you a chance to go home with a little something extra.

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ASIAN CARP REGIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE MEETING

ASIAN CARP REGIONAL COORDINATING COMMITTEE TO HOLD FEB. 12 PUBLIC MEETING IN CHICAGO

Chicago (Feb. 3, 2010) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on behalf of the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, will hold a meeting in Chicago on Feb. 12 to discuss plans and get recommendations on Asian carp control efforts. The committee will answer questions and listen to comments from the public. A second meeting will be scheduled in the near future elsewhere in the Great Lakes basin.


When: 3:00 - 6:00 p.m., Friday, Feb. 12
Where: Room 331
Metcalfe Federal Building
77 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Ill.

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President’s Angle on the Fundraiser

by Grant Brown

The final tally is in and we were just shy of a $10,000 profit. That's a bit more than last year and it seems that everyone enjoyed the Erie Cafe as our new venue. There were numerous folks who made it work and the generosity was outstanding.

Thanks to all our donors, especially:

• Chicago Fly Fishing Outfitters
• Alistair Stewart
• Nohr Chapter of TU
• Chuck Hawkins
• Sean McDonald
• Marty Owens - Gerber & Brunton
• John Matenaer
• Trout & Grouse
• Patagonia Chicago
• Echo Rods - Mike Allison & Tim Rajeff
• Simms - Colleen Trayser
• Fishpond - Dave Halblom
• Jerry Darkes
• Jeff Kennedy Studio
• Tom Anderson
• Rusty Gates AuSable Lodge
• Paul Douglas Gallery Madison, WI
• Jim Tingey artwork
• Hairline Dubbing
• Robert Tomes
• Mrs. Jim Chapralis
• Whispering Pines B&B

And Chapter members, especially:

Mike Jacobs, John Uhlenhop, Jeff Goad, Doug Conover, John Crosson, Frank Aiello, John Frankot, John Weaver, Bill Wobbekind, Cliff Gately, Thomas Chmielewski, Jim Coursey, Jerry Maynard, Jeff Hoffmann, Larry Yellen, Kent Carlson, Dan Postelnick, Todd Barrett, Sue Mathewson, Marc Amstadter and Dave Meyer.

And most of all our event chair Jim Brown for putting it all together.

Happy Holidays!

GB

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4th-graders’ class pets are no longer small fry

by Tara Malone, TRIBUNE REPORTER

"Maggie Maher, 9, said she was a little sad about the sending the fish off into the wild as she wrote her poem: "Some of my friends die. But I was still a fry. I didn't want to say good-bye."

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Big Springs and Blue River Projects

Two projects our chapter has been extensively involved in are the Blue River and Big Springs Habitat Improvement projects in the Driftless area. These were done under the leadership of our good friends in the Nohr chapter.

Attached are the project reports for 2008 containing a good collection of photos.

Big Springs Project Report
Blue River Project Report

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Youth Education

by Michael Jacobs

Trout in the classroom is a new project being managed by Michael Jacobs in order to educate young students on the importance of coldwater conservation.

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EDTU Chapter Apparel

Hat, $20

Check out the newest addition to EDTU's line of apparel. Hat sells for $20.

To see the full line of apparel and for more information, click below

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