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technical problems. They
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Volume 3 Issue 3
Jan. — Feb. ‘07
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“Secret” new big trout waters
PROGRAM: Feb 8th
… Tactics & Equipment
Joe Butler revels in finding
new “big trout” waters, and
travels all over the U.S. doing
it. it has been an instructor
and a guide in Colorado for
32 years. Joe teaches fly casting, fly tying clinics across
the west and also hosts fly
fishing trips throughout the
year, including every fall to
New York state tributaries of
lake Ontario known for their
giant brown trout.
He owned and operated
an all-tackle fishing store in
Westminster for 7-years and
for the past 16 distributes
fly fishing products all over
the country as “Joe Butler
flies, Inc.” He also developed his own signature
multi-system fly rod, a six
piece system with interchangeable tips for varying
conditions.
For 21 years Joe held the
fly rod brown trout world
record, a 27lb. 3oz. monster
caught on 8lb. test at Flaming Gorge. He has also held
the world record for kokanee
salmon caught on a fly.
Joe has authored two
books, Trout’s Choice and
Big Trout on Flies, and several fishing booklets. He has
been host and also guest on
numerous television programs, is a prolific writer and
a popular speaker at civic
clubs, Boy Scouts, schools
and TU programs.
Inside this issue:
Chapter Calendar
2
Traveling Fly Box
2
A Great Value
3
Meet Abby
4
Patronize Our Friends
5
Joining TU Incentives
5
Fly Tying Classes
6
Latitudes With Attitudes
7
Pre-Meeting Flies
8
Membership Application
8
Welcome! New Members
9
Chapter Officials
9
Buffalo peaks ranch river restoration
PROGRAM: Mar 8th
Sinjin Eberle is project manager for the
Buffalo Peaks habitat
restoration project on
4-miles of the Middle
Fork of the South
Platte River. When
completed, the project will form a contiguous 7-mile link of
river unbroken public fishing with the popular Tomahawk Wildlife Area river section.
Primary emphasis will be on increasing water depth during low flow periods and providing spawning structure. Stream banks
will be stabilized and re-vegetated, and the
riparian area will be fenced to protect it
from grazing cattle. Good access exists to
this stretch of the river and the project will
create quality habitat and improved angling opportunities.
CTU has obtained grant funding for this
three-year project located just southeast of
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DOW, the
PLEASE!!!
City of Aurora
landowner,
Park County
and several
other oganizations.
Sinjin also
is very active with other CTU statewide issues, serves as Secretary of the CTU Board
of Directors and is a member of the Cutthroat Chapter. Sinjin holds a B.S. Degree in
Environmental Sciences with minors in Energy and Meteorology, He works professionally for Lynx Research Consulting as a
Research Analyst.
If you do not have email
access, call (303) 841-3612
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7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪ Joe Butler
The Latest in Big Trout
“Secret” New Waters
6:30 Fly-of-the-Month Tying
▪ Jim Neiberger - Midge
Feb 10 Board Planning Meeting
Feb 21 *Chapter Board Meeting
Mar 8 7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪ Sinjin Eberle
Buffalo Peaks Ranch Update
CTU Habitat Restoration Proj.
6:30 Fly-of-the-Month Tying
▪ Bob Shaw - Bunny Leech
Mar 6
Fly Tying Class 6:30-8:30
13
Gander Mountain-Aurora
20
27
Mar 28 *Chapter Board Meeting
Apr 6
Fly Tying Class 6:30-8:30
Apr 10
Gander Mountain-Aurora
Apr 12
7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪ Bill Edrington
Arkansas River Hatches
‘How to' Fishing Strategies
Apr 21 Fishing Day Trip -Tomahawk
Apr 25 *Chapter Board Meeting
May 10 7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪Tad Howard
Colo Grand Slam Fly Fishing
Big Trout Tailwaters: the
Blue, Pan, Dream Stream &
Taylor
May 12 Fishing Day Trip – Clear Creek
May 30 *Chapter Board Meeting
Jun 9-Sat Field Trip
- Cutthroat Spawn RMNP
Date depends on the thaw
Jun 10-16 Conservation Youth Camp
Jun 14
6:30 Chapter Meeting
▪ Casting Clinic
Jun 27
*Chapter Board Meeting
Contact Cherry Creek Anglers.
(303) 841-3612
Cherry Creek Anglers — Chapter General Meetings:
UPCOMING EVENTS
Feb 8
VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3
Jul 21-Sat Field Trip - DOW Hatchery
Parvin Lake -Red Feather area
+ Picnic & Fishing
Jul 25 *Chapter Board Meeting
Aug 9
7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪Charlie Meyers-Outdoors Issues
Aug 18 Fishing Day Trip – Clear Lake
Aug 29 *Chapter Board Meeting
Sep 13 7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪Al Makkai
Green River Headwaters
Sep 26 *Chapter Board Meeting
Oct 1-7 Nat’l. Fly Fishing Competitions
Oct 11 7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪Scott Rods (Tentative)
Oct 24 *Chapter Board Meeting
Nov 8
6:30 Chapter Meeting
▪Fly Tying Clinic
Nov 28 *Chapter Board Meeting
Dec 13 7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪Pat Dorsey - Prep for Spring!
*NOTE: Chapter Board Meetings are
at 6:30PM in the Gander Mountain
“Lodge” meeting room
**Members are invited to attend
7:00pm on the second Thursday monthly at Gander Mountain Sports – Aurora,
at corner of Abilene and 14000 East Jewell Avenue in the Lodge Meeting
Room (except June, July & November). November through March, there often
is a 6:30 instructional fly tying demonstration before the General Meeting
starts.
June (Casting Clinic) and November (Fly Tying Clinic) meetings are held at a
different location that is announced with program promotions. There is no
General Meeting of the membership in July, but other activities are still often
scheduled.
W E LC O M E TO O U R N E W M E M B E R S
November:
Scott Breitinger—Aurora
Bob Wells—Aurora
John Krattenmaker—Castle Rock
Thomas Vann—Englewood
Shawn Anderson– Aurora
Jason Scott Embry—Denver
Paula Moore—Denver
Doug Schleufer—Aurora
Richard Colton—Denver
Max Schumacher—Parker
December:
William Wimett—Aurora
Eric Westerman—Englewood
Frank Justice—Aurora
Robert & Sara Howard—
Denver
Eric Oppelt—Denver
Aimee Konowal—Denver
Chris Lang—Denver
Joe Weickenand—Castle Rock
Bob Mager—Centennial
Kristoph Kinzli —Englewood
Its 2007 and the Chapter’s Traveling Fly
Box is empty, What is the Traveling Fly
Box you ask? Every month someone
takes the fly box home and puts a dozen
flies in it and brings it back to the next
monthly Chapter meeting. The box in
then given to another person to take
home, add a dozen flies and bring back to
the next meeting. The box travels to a
different person, so by December, hopefully the box contains 12 dozen flies.
Dennis Cook
303-841-3612
[email protected]
Treasurer:
Bob Kuziak
303-343-9767
[email protected]
Secretary:
Kathy Flanagan
303-341-5113
[email protected]
Membership:
Youth:
Abby Wurmnest
303-241-6552 Cell
[email protected]
Eric Kophs
303-805-2994
[email protected]
Fly Tying Clinic: Travis Barker
303-981-2590
[email protected]
Casting Clinic:
Raffles:
Bill Bird
303-690-0873
[email protected]
Web Master:
Art Bailey
303-750-8358
[email protected]
At Large:
Gene Peppin
303-699-8210
[email protected]
Vacant - Could be YOU!
Advocacy Chairman: Don Nusbaum
303-306-1543
takes the box home and brings it back to the
January meeting with a dozen flies added and
the process starts again.
Any type of fly can be added to the box, dry
flies, nymphs, streamers, pike flies, etc. This past
year, the box contained 9 dozen flies, mostly
midges. If you don’t tie flies and want to participate, you can buy a dozen flies to add to the
box.
President:
At Large:
TRAVELING FLY BOX
-by Bill Bird
CHAPTER OFFICIALS
*NOTE: Chapter Board Meetings are held
at 6:30PM in the Aurora Gander
Mountain Lodge meeting room.
** Members are invited to attend.
2007 Board Dates: Jan 3, Jan 24, Feb 21,
Mar 28, Apr 25, May 30, Jun 27, Jul 25,
Aug 29, Sep 26, Oct 24 & Nov 28.
October ‘06 Meeting
If you are interested in participating in the
Traveling Fly Box drawing, please see me, Bill
Bird, at the Chapter meeting. I will give you the
box that night or put your name on a waiting
Every person who contributes a dozen
list. If there are more than 12 participants, that’s
flies to the box gets a raffle ticket at the
OK. That means more flies for someone to win
December meeting. We will then have a Travis Barker won the 2006
drawing and the winner gets all the flies, flies at our December meeting and we can all use more flies.
Cherry Creek Cast — Editorial Policy:
HOW NEW MEMBERS BENEFIT CHERRY CREEK ANGLERS —
We want your contributions (guest features, letters-to-the-editor, photographs,
trip reports, etc.). Send them to the Editor by e-mail.
New members enrich our chapter life in many ways. They bring their interesting personalities and unique experiences
and offer to become our friends — their enthusiasm to participate in activities and events and to create fun — their talents
and skills to strengthen chapter leadership — and their fishing experience to broaden our knowledge of our pastime. We
want as many new members as possible; they are the lifeblood of a strong organization. Tell your friends about Cherry
Creek Anglers. Tell them about our rich agenda of monthly meetings, clinics, classes, fishing trips and field trips and the
invaluable service TU does for our fisheries and our individual fishing enjoyment. Encourage them to become members.
Published bi-monthly, electronically, 6 issues per year by Cherry Creek Anglers
Chapter #474 of Trout Unlimited.
Editor & Layout: Dennis Cook (303) 841-3612 [email protected]
Purpose: Chapter member communications to create interest, enthusiasm and
harmony within the membership.
All materials are subject to editing. Text and graphics can be accepted in almost
any PC-originated format. (Mac originations are sometimes a problem.)
The Editor reserves the right to determine suitability, the issue in which an article
may be published and layout placement.
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A great value!
Pre-meeting fly tying instruction
UPDATE PERSONAL
INFORMATION FOR CHAPTER
EMAILS, NEWSLETTERS, etc.
It’s Easy!
Access www.tu.org online. Log in at
bottom of the page. Enter your Member Login ID# “tu_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . Enter a Password (Same ID#, but without
the “tu” preface. The site walks firsttimers through this.)
This brings you to the “My TU” page.
The menu at the right allows you to
click on links to Edit Profile (including
email eddress), Change Chapters, Renew Membership, Contact Legislators,
etc. Your email eddress is important
for chapter communications. Thanks!
•
TU has an annual budget of
about $24MM: About 80% of this is
received from Grants funding. Typically, 48% of expenditures go to conservation, 27% to communication &
chapter-related matters, 19% to fundraising activities and only 6% to administration. By this Editor’s calculations, a regular TU $35 annual membership receives benefit of about a
$140.00 value, or approximately 4:1
leverage.
•
TU is run by a Board of Trustees
comprised of influential public business and private individuals, and a
National Leadership Council (NLC)
comprised of TU officials and grassroots chapter representatives.
$6.91mm
Communications
48%
19%
& Chapter
27%
Support
$4.05mm
6%
Administration
Fundraising
$.792mm
$2.606mm
•
The Colorado Trout Unlimited
(CTU) State Council has grassroots
representation on its Council Board by
all 20 Colorado Chapters, and each
has a vote that is proportional to its
membership roster size. A chapter
president gets one vote, plus 1 vote
additional for each 100 roster members. This highlights the chapters’
opportunity to truly affect decisions
about CTU programs and actions.
•
CTU was organized around 1980,
and David Nickum has been Executive
Director since its origin. CTU’s current
10,000+ members makes Colorado
the 3rd largest state membership after
New York #1 and Pennsylvania #2.
CTU is one of TU’s most effective State
Councils.
Steve also reviewed the constructive intention of TU’s Chapter Effectiveness Index (CEI) focus and evaluation tool that is administered by the
state councils. He pointed out that
each state council has autonomy to
establish chapter re-chartering criteria,
and emphasized that CTU’s objective
is chapter improvement, steady efforts
and “progress” — not decertification.
CTU will complete this year’s review &
recertification efforts in August. Your
Board will be cooperating in this activity.
150,000
140,000
130,000
120,000
110,000
100,000
90,000
80,000
70,000
60,000
50,000
2005
Fly pictures are not exact depictions, but rather
are downloaded from online catalogs to provide
an approximate idea of the fly’s appearance.
Conservation
The chart below indicates TU’s membership is steadily growing. There is
growing understanding of TU’s Vision
of a better life and future for our children and grandchildren. More people
are becoming increasingly concerned
about the need to protect our planet’s
finite natural resources and have come
to share TU’s Mission for conserving the
coldwater resources that happen to also
be home to those bellwether barometers of aquatic health — trout & salmon.
2003
”This is a great fly to fish in early spring in ponds or lakes.”
2005 TU Financials
2001
Step1: Slide cone on and tie on thread. Wrap back until
thread is even with the barb of the hook.
Step 2: Tie on tail right at the barb. It should be the length
of the shank.
Step 3: Strip some fur from the crosscut rabbit. Tie right in
front of the tail and wind up the shank in close turns. Tie
off and whip finish.
One of the beauties of our fishing
pastime is that when we’re standing
up to our knees in water waiting patiently(?) for the bite of maybe our
biggest fish ever, or gazing up at the
grandeur of the forest and hills — our
thoughts virtually never are about
the trials and tribulations of our everyday lives; these simply vanish! And
if we were to be asked then about
the cost of our Trout Unlimited (TU)
membership we’d scoff that it’s a pittance.
Many of us would comment that
we get great value for our annual
$35.00 and that we’d be happy to pay
even more for all that we receive in
both direct benefits and psychic payoff.
Indeed, our TU cost is a pittance!
This was demonstrated very well at a
recent Chapter Board meeting by CTU
President, Steve Craig, who gave a
presentation on the history, structure
and budget of TU. Some highlights
follow:
1999
“This fly will work well from now until about the second
week of April on the Roaring Fork and lower Colorado
Rivers around Glenwood Springs, as well as on your
favorite water.” Give it a try.
Bunny Leech
March 13th — Bob Shaw
Hook Tmc 5263 or Tmc 200R;
size 10
Thread 3/0; color to match body
Tail Rabbit Zonker strip;
- color to match body
Body Crosscut rabbit colors can be black, olive, rusty
brown or a color you would tie on a woolly bugger.
Optional Small cone at the eye.
TU MISSION: TU’s mission is to conserve, protect and restore North America’s trout and salmon fisheries and their
watersheds.
1997
Caddis Midge Larve
February 14th — Jim Neiberger
Hook: Tmc 501; size 18-20
Body: Chartreuse superfloss
Ribbing: Gold wire
Bead: Spirit River micro gun metal
Step #1: Attach a bead to your hook.
Step #2: Start your thread and wind it to about ½ to ¾ the
length of the hook shank.
Step #3: Attach your gold wire, keeping it on top of the
hook shank.
Step #4: Attach the chartreuse floss by cutting a tapered
angle on the floss. this will keep excess material from
building at the end of the fly ruining the shape of your
bug.
Step #5: Wrap the floss forward creating a tapering shape
from small to large.
Step #6: wrap the wire forward creating even segmentations from the bend to the eye of the hook.
Step #7: Whip finish and head cement.
TU VISION: By the next generation, TU will ensure that robust populations of native and wild coldwater fish once
again thrive within their North American range, so that our children can enjoy healthy fisheries in their home waters.
1995
At our February 14th and March 13th chapter meetings, we will have pre-meeting fly tying instructions from two members. This is an opportunity for interested observers to learn how to tie basic flies they can fish nearby every day. Patterns are at the right.
Instructions will start at 6:30pm and last until the meeting starts. Give them a try at home if you have a chance, and then
watch the instructor, ask questions and learn some easier or more effective techniques.
1993
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There are other ways we all can increase the leverage of our donations to
help conserve, protect and restore Colorado’s cold water resources.
● Donations to your TU Cherry Creek
Anglers Chapter #474 (Chapters are not
permitted to require dues) will begin to
build a budget reserve to help finance
future conservation and youth educational projects.
● A donation to CTU’s Century Club
(minimum $100) contributes to helping
fund improvements in Colorado water
resources law, regulations, advocacy
and restoration projects. (See “Century
Club” under the heading “Join/Donate”
on the CTU www.cotrout.org website.)
Just like your TU membership dues,
your contributions are all tax deductible
to the fullest extent of the law.
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Meet Abby Wurmnest
and Lakewood
to The Vitamin
Cottage at its
corporate offices there.
She enjoys all
that she is
learning there
about nutrition, and she
also continues
to attend
higher education college
classes locally.
Rarely idle,
Abby worked
at a travel
agency while
in college. This suited her wanderlust
tendencies very nicely, as upon
graduation she immediately served a
4-month internship in Bulgaria, working for a management consulting
firm that administered psychological
and lie-detection testing services.
It developed that the student exchange service had obtained an incorrect Visa, and this necessitated
that Abby had to leave and re-enter
the country for a weekend every 30days. She
says this
was an
inconvenience she
thoroughly
enjoyed, in
that it enabled her
to also visit
Italy, Paris,
Switzerland, Serbia
and Romania. Her
favorite
memory of
this experiDecember ‘07 Meeting
ence is that
Abby is one of our chapter Board
members and diligent behind the scene
workers, as well as her more visible role
as Membership Chairman. She helps
members with renewals and other matters, and also helps relocated members
transfer-in and new prospects with their
application process.
Like a good book, there’s always a
story shuttered behind all of us, and
Abby is no exception. Behind that
friendly smile lurks a person who enjoys
new challenges and helping to make a
difference.
Abby was raised in our nation’s heartland, on an 800 acre corn and soybean
farm in western Illinois, and is a bona-fide
“small town girl” of nearby Sibley where
he graduated from the local rural jointure high school. After two years at the
Parkland Community College, she went
to the University of Illinois, Champaign
Campus. There she earned a B.A. Degree in Psychology and a Masters Degree
in Organization Development—to prepare her for a career of helping corporations develop the effectiveness of their
human resource and business practices.
Employed as the Evaluation Manager,
Abby commutes daily between Aurora
of living with a group
of 20-year olds from
numerous nations,
working through the
language barriers,
and discovering that
they all were quite
the same and shared
very similar interests
and concerns. She is
feeding her piggybank and hopes to
be able to travel in
South America sometime before too long.
Oh yes, Abby was
introduced by a
friend to Travis Barker
while in college, and
they remain inseparable.
[Coincidentally, Travis lived just 10minutes from Abby’s home, but he
attended a neighboring school
system and they had never met.]
Abby loves all outdoors activities—hiking, camping, fishing,
snowboarding, etc. and is looking
forward to starting snowshoeing.
She enjoys all the scenery as she
fishes, and the exercise she gets
walking the rivers & streams; her
preference is lake fishing where
she is challenged reading the water and with the logistics of casting.
She also enjoys her commute to
work in nice weather, and touring
the foothills aboard her Suzuki Savage motorcycle .
Abby and Travis relocated to
Colorado in the fall of 2004 for the
outdoors life. They saw a newspaper ad about a Trout Unlimited
chapter program and attended,
took fly tying classes from Frank
Prekel and rod-building from Bill
Lougthan, and were hooked!
They’ve been active ever since,
and we’re also happy to have them
as Cherry Creek Anglers members.
Lati tudes with at titudes
Indian River-Mosquito Lagoon
- by Mark Cooper
With winter upon us and a snow
season like we haven’t seen in 45 years
in Denver, my thoughts turn to a
warm-water fishing retreat. If you’re
like I am, you’re thinking, “O.K, where
can I get away quickly and get my saltwater fix and know I’ll have a pretty
good shot at catching a few different
species of fish.
The Indian River-Mosquito Lagoon
Estuary is the answer. It’s located on
the East coast of Florida near Cape Canaveral and is accessible from the little
town of Titusville. Titusville is located
about 50 miles due east of Orlando,
which offers numerous flights daily,
thanks to Disney World.
The reason the Indian RiverMosquito Lagoon area stands out is
location, species and convenient flight
connections. A dedicated angler can
pack a highly satisfying fishing experience into a long weekend. With a little
bit of online help you can check any
number of travel sites to find the right
connection to meet your needs. If
you’re good you can find a flight on
Thursday, fish Friday through Sunday
and be back in Denver, late Sunday
night.
In a short weekend you can experience exceptional salt-water fishing
without the hassle and delays of international travel. Besides, you can take
your cell phone and laptop and actually get some work done in the evening after fishing if the need suits.
You’ll have multiple shots at big redfish and speckled trout and an angling opportunity that is hard to beat.
I’ve been fishing the Indian RiverMosquito Lagoon estuary near Cape
Canaveral for years and I know you’ll
find it as absolutely amazing as I
have. In two days, under less than
optimum conditions, I’ve caught and
released more than 15 fish from 8 to
14 pounds on both fly and spinning
tackle. Convinced yet? The area is
much like the Florida Keys, with an
abundance of wildlife. It also has
something else I’d never expected:
An actual flats-like environment with
skinny water and sight fishing from
flats boats, just like the Keys.
You’ll be amazed as you pole
across sand and grass flats into
trenches that sometimes hold the
larger fish. You’ll find redfish that
gobble up crab patterns and a Kwan
fly, which is a crab-type pattern with
a tail. When the winds and clouds
create situations that froth the waters
and blank out the sun, I don’t hesitate to grab a spinning rod with a
plastic jerk bait to blind cast to areas
that might be holding fish, and do
they ever. Big ones! If you’re heading out for redfish, brush up on your
casting. It’s essential to drop your fly
or bait within 6 inches of the target in
windy situations, or on those flat
calm blue-bird days you’ll want to
cast out in front and past then and
strip it back in front of them as they
move stealthily, through the shallows
Trout are much tougher to catch,
but the big “gator trout” are there in
numbers. This area also provides a
unique opportunity for many different varieties of fishermen. Whether
it’s spin, plug, bait or the fly, there are
opportunities for everyone including
the kids. Certain guides specialize in
using canoes or the Hells Bay boats
that practically float on air in the nomotor zones to sneak right up on top
of the fish. Wow, what an experience.
Sound like fun? You bet!
Location: 50 miles east of Orlando,
near Titusville and just north of the
John F. Kennedy Space Center at
Cape Canaveral.
Getting there: Fly to Orlando, pick up
a rental car. Head east on Highway
528, then north on Interstate 95 to
the Titusville exit, then north on U.S.1.
Lodging: An abundance of lodging,
such as Holiday Inn, Ramada, Best
Western, and Days Inn, ranging from
$69 to $95 per night.
Guides:
Rates
run
roughly
$400
for a full
day of
fishing
including
lunch
and you
can split
the
boat
with a
buddy
to keep
the cost
down. I
fish with John Turcot who is halfguide half-fish, and you can find him
at www.backcountryonfly.com . He
can be reached at 321-267-9818 or
321-544-2497.
The author, Mark Cooper, is a former
Denver Bronco and longtime friend of the
Redbone Series of Tournaments. He lives
outside Aurora, Colorado, is in the real
estate business, and is an avid traveling
saltwater fly fisherman, writer, photographer and outdoorsman. You can e-mail
him at [email protected].
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TROUT GASTRONOMY— FLY TYING CLASSES
Fish like to eat … even more constantly than do fishermen … and many
fishermen enjoy whipping together
delectable treats to tempt the appetites of their piscatorial adversaries.
Gander Mountain Sports and
Cherry Creek Anglers have joined together to bring you a full curriculum
of fly tying classes-from Beginner Basics through Intermediate. All that’s
left after that is practice, practice, practice!
Beginning Tuesday, March 6th, and
continuing every Tuesday for 6-weeks,
there will be a two-hour fly tying class
held in the Lodge meeting room here
at Ganders Aurora store. Classes will
be divided into three levels—*two for
Beginner, *two for Advanced Beginner and *two for Intermediate.
Class sessions are limited to six to
ensure a solid learning foundation.
Gander will supply the vises, materials
and tools. They will be taught by
Gander’s Chris Barry, a well known
and respected fly fisherman, and CCA
will provide an additional instructor/
coach. Each class will address increasingly advanced techniques and flies.
Flies taught at each level
include:
Beginner:
• Tools use, San Juan Worm, Caddis
Pupa, Hares Ear & Woolly Bugger
Advanced Beginner:
• Pheasant Tail, Prince Nymph, Elkhair
Caddis, Parachute Adams
Intermediate:
• Copper John, Damsel Fly Nymph &
Royal Wulff
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
REGISTRATION:
Open immediately at Gander Mountain-Aurora by phone or in person.
First come—First served!
PRICE:
Up to $20.00/level or $60 if attend all
three levels
LOCATION - TIME & DATES:
Lodge meeting room - Gander-Aurora
6:30–8:30PM ... Every Tuesday
March 6th through April 10th
Students must register and pay in
advance at Gander Mountain-Aurora,
either by phone (303) 750-0055
(credit card) or in person. You can
register/pay for one level at a time or
for all three levels simultaneously.
Important: Call now! Ensure your
slot. The six slots are expected to fill
rapidly. In the unlikelihood they do
not, we will offer them to other TU
Chapters.
If there is enough interest we can
repeat the program, and also run
other classes to tie specific other flies.
Did you know that … each new member who specifies Cherry Creek Anglers Chapter #474 on his/her application
earns $15.00 refund to our chapter to help fund our operating budget? It’s true. New member dues are just $17.50
for the first year, and $15.00 of that is refunded by TU to our chapter. Additionally, $2.50 is refunded by TU to Colorado Trout Unlimited (CTU) for its operating budget. Read on page 5 about the benefits of a TU membership — and
also about how you can earn a dozen of hand-tied flies by Gil Hassinger. FREE! Remember, #474 must be specified.
“What’s It Worth?” … a Fly SHOp REPLY
Last issue I wrote an article entitled “What’s It Worth?”
As a result of it, I received an email response from what
I think is a retired fly shop owner from Pa. It follows:
- by Gene Peppin
“Here is my $.02 worth.
It was a kinder gentler time and fly fishing was more
about personalities than egos. We dealt very little with
numbers, just memories.
The summers were spent taking care of the visiting
fly fishers and winters tying the inventory.
If you were real lucky you broke even. I did not buy a
new car and my children did not go to college. This was a
choice which I made; to live a surreal life in a world with very
few restraints.
So when you cast that new graphite rod you can thank Jim
Green, Phil Kennedy, Joe Fisher and Gary Loomis. Or when
you casting that new line thank Joan Wulff or Leone Chambers. Or when you are tying flies think of Noel Shockley,
George Grant, Franz Potts and Dan Bailey, just to name a few
fly shop employees who put their best foot forward so you
have the sport you have today.”
To answer your question, to me they are worth their weight
in gold. That is all I have to say about that.”
P l e a s e pat ro n i z e o u r f r i e n d s
Members are encouraged to patronize them and mention CCA when you do.
The more our chapter brings them business, the more generous they may feel
when we request their support of our activities with facilities, donations, etc.
•
Gander Mountain – Aurora
•
Bass Pro Shops — Stapleton
•
C.C. Filson – Cherry Creek North Shopping District
•
Denver Angler – Greenwood Village / Yosemite Street
•
Orvis – Cherry Creek
•
Orvis – Park Meadows
•
River & Stream Company – Happy Canyon Road / Castle Rock
•
Sportsman’s Warehouse – Aurora
•
Trouts Fly Fishing – Washington Park / Gaylord Street
JOIN TU — NEW INCENTIVES
By Abby Wurmnest
Membership Chairperson
Cherry Creek Anglers has teamed
up with Fly Currents, Inc., a fly fishing report service built around a
network of guides from various locations – primarily in Colorado and
across the northern Rockies. Fly
Currents is offering a free 3-month
www.flycurrents.com membership
for any new Cherry Creek Anglers
Chapter member! Fly Currents has
created a website with fly fishing
reports from your favorite locations
to eliminate hours of “surfing” for
the most current information.
Even the most seasoned anglers
can benefit from credible information on the latest fishing conditions.
Fly Currents hires guides and experts from various locations to write
accurate and detailed reports.
Whether the fishing conditions are
at their best or less than ideal, Fly
Currents’ reports will provide the
best chance for success on the water.
Check out www.flycurrents.com for
more information. Our thanks to Jin
Choi, one of the founding partners of Fly
Currents, Inc., for offering this great deal
to our members! Jin will contact you via
e-mail after you enroll with Trout Unlimited. Please make sure to provide your email address when you enroll with TU so
we can contact you!
Other great Cherry Creek Anglers and
Trout Unlimited Member Benefits include:
• Monthly Chapter Programs
• Annual Casting Clinic
• Annual Fly Tying Clinic
• High Country Angler magazine
• Trout magazine
• Fly Fishing Education & Knowledge
• Conservation Projects
• Full Color Trout Calendar
• TU decal & address labels
• Fishing Trips
• Bi-monthly e-Newsletter
• Tackle Retail Discounts: Gander
Mountain, Orvis—Cherry Creek &
Englewood
• Rental car & hotel discounts
• Fishing Companions
RECRUIT A NEW TU MEMBER TO
CHERRY CREEK ANGLERS!
They can join TU today for
only $17.50 for the first year.
The new member gets everything
described to the left.
It’s so easy to join – by phone, by web
or by mail. Call customer service at
800.834.2419. Go to www.tu.org/
intro or pick up an application at
Gander Mountain at E. Jewell & Abilene in Aurora, at Bass Pro Shop on
Quebec North of I-70 … or from Abby;
at 303-214-6552 if you would like an
application mailed to you or if you
have any questions. It’s also important that an email eddress is provided.
X 12 !!!
And you can win too
… with the dozen free flies incentive
hand tied by Gil Hassinger.
In whichever method is used, it’s important that our Cherry Creek Anglers
chapter name and number – 474,
appears on the application, is provided online or told to the TU phone
attendant.
VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3
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VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3
Newsletter bimonthly issues can be accessed at the Cherry Creek Anglers website
Contact Cherry Creek Anglers.
(303) 841-3612
www.cherrycreekanglers.org
TROUT GASTRONOMY— FLY TYING CLASSES
Fish like to eat … even more constantly than do fishermen … and many
fishermen enjoy whipping together
delectable treats to tempt the appetites of their piscatorial adversaries.
Gander Mountain Sports and
Cherry Creek Anglers have joined together to bring you a full curriculum
of fly tying classes-from Beginner Basics through Intermediate. All that’s
left after that is practice, practice, practice!
Beginning Tuesday, March 6th, and
continuing every Tuesday for 6-weeks,
there will be a two-hour fly tying class
held in the Lodge meeting room here
at Ganders Aurora store. Classes will
be divided into three levels—*two for
Beginner, *two for Advanced Beginner and *two for Intermediate.
Class sessions are limited to six to
ensure a solid learning foundation.
Gander will supply the vises, materials
and tools. They will be taught by
Gander’s Chris Barry, a well known
and respected fly fisherman, and CCA
will provide an additional instructor/
coach. Each class will address increasingly advanced techniques and flies.
Flies taught at each level
include:
Beginner:
• Tools use, San Juan Worm, Caddis
Pupa, Hares Ear & Woolly Bugger
Advanced Beginner:
• Pheasant Tail, Prince Nymph, Elkhair
Caddis, Parachute Adams
Intermediate:
• Copper John, Damsel Fly Nymph &
Royal Wulff
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
REGISTRATION:
Open immediately at Gander Mountain-Aurora by phone or in person.
First come—First served!
PRICE:
Up to $20.00/level or $60 if attend all
three levels
LOCATION - TIME & DATES:
Lodge meeting room - Gander-Aurora
6:30–8:30PM ... Every Tuesday
March 6th through April 10th
Students must register and pay in
advance at Gander Mountain-Aurora,
either by phone (303) 750-0055
(credit card) or in person. You can
register/pay for one level at a time or
for all three levels simultaneously.
Important: Call now! Ensure your
slot. The six slots are expected to fill
rapidly. In the unlikelihood they do
not, we will offer them to other TU
Chapters.
If there is enough interest we can
repeat the program, and also run
other classes to tie specific other flies.
Did you know that … each new member who specifies Cherry Creek Anglers Chapter #474 on his/her application
earns $15.00 refund to our chapter to help fund our operating budget? It’s true. New member dues are just $17.50
for the first year, and $15.00 of that is refunded by TU to our chapter. Additionally, $2.50 is refunded by TU to Colorado Trout Unlimited (CTU) for its operating budget. Read on page 5 about the benefits of a TU membership — and
also about how you can earn a dozen of hand-tied flies by Gil Hassinger. FREE! Remember, #474 must be specified.
“What’s It Worth?” … a Fly SHOp REPLY
Last issue I wrote an article entitled “What’s It Worth?”
As a result of it, I received an email response from what
I think is a retired fly shop owner from Pa. It follows:
- by Gene Peppin
“Here is my $.02 worth.
It was a kinder gentler time and fly fishing was more
about personalities than egos. We dealt very little with
numbers, just memories.
The summers were spent taking care of the visiting
fly fishers and winters tying the inventory.
If you were real lucky you broke even. I did not buy a
new car and my children did not go to college. This was a
choice which I made; to live a surreal life in a world with very
few restraints.
So when you cast that new graphite rod you can thank Jim
Green, Phil Kennedy, Joe Fisher and Gary Loomis. Or when
you casting that new line thank Joan Wulff or Leone Chambers. Or when you are tying flies think of Noel Shockley,
George Grant, Franz Potts and Dan Bailey, just to name a few
fly shop employees who put their best foot forward so you
have the sport you have today.”
To answer your question, to me they are worth their weight
in gold. That is all I have to say about that.”
P l e a s e pat ro n i z e o u r f r i e n d s
Members are encouraged to patronize them and mention CCA when you do.
The more our chapter brings them business, the more generous they may feel
when we request their support of our activities with facilities, donations, etc.
•
Gander Mountain – Aurora
•
Bass Pro Shops — Stapleton
•
C.C. Filson – Cherry Creek North Shopping District
•
Denver Angler – Greenwood Village / Yosemite Street
•
Orvis – Cherry Creek
•
Orvis – Park Meadows
•
River & Stream Company – Happy Canyon Road / Castle Rock
•
Sportsman’s Warehouse – Aurora
•
Trouts Fly Fishing – Washington Park / Gaylord Street
JOIN TU — NEW INCENTIVES
By Abby Wurmnest
Membership Chairperson
Cherry Creek Anglers has teamed
up with Fly Currents, Inc., a fly fishing report service built around a
network of guides from various locations – primarily in Colorado and
across the northern Rockies. Fly
Currents is offering a free 3-month
www.flycurrents.com membership
for any new Cherry Creek Anglers
Chapter member! Fly Currents has
created a website with fly fishing
reports from your favorite locations
to eliminate hours of “surfing” for
the most current information.
Even the most seasoned anglers
can benefit from credible information on the latest fishing conditions.
Fly Currents hires guides and experts from various locations to write
accurate and detailed reports.
Whether the fishing conditions are
at their best or less than ideal, Fly
Currents’ reports will provide the
best chance for success on the water.
Check out www.flycurrents.com for
more information. Our thanks to Jin
Choi, one of the founding partners of Fly
Currents, Inc., for offering this great deal
to our members! Jin will contact you via
e-mail after you enroll with Trout Unlimited. Please make sure to provide your email address when you enroll with TU so
we can contact you!
Other great Cherry Creek Anglers and
Trout Unlimited Member Benefits include:
• Monthly Chapter Programs
• Annual Casting Clinic
• Annual Fly Tying Clinic
• High Country Angler magazine
• Trout magazine
• Fly Fishing Education & Knowledge
• Conservation Projects
• Full Color Trout Calendar
• TU decal & address labels
• Fishing Trips
• Bi-monthly e-Newsletter
• Tackle Retail Discounts: Gander
Mountain, Orvis—Cherry Creek &
Englewood
• Rental car & hotel discounts
• Fishing Companions
RECRUIT A NEW TU MEMBER TO
CHERRY CREEK ANGLERS!
They can join TU today for
only $17.50 for the first year.
The new member gets everything
described to the left.
It’s so easy to join – by phone, by web
or by mail. Call customer service at
800.834.2419. Go to www.tu.org/
intro or pick up an application at
Gander Mountain at E. Jewell & Abilene in Aurora, at Bass Pro Shop on
Quebec North of I-70 … or from Abby;
at 303-214-6552 if you would like an
application mailed to you or if you
have any questions. It’s also important that an email eddress is provided.
X 12 !!!
And you can win too
… with the dozen free flies incentive
hand tied by Gil Hassinger.
In whichever method is used, it’s important that our Cherry Creek Anglers
chapter name and number – 474,
appears on the application, is provided online or told to the TU phone
attendant.
VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3
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Contact Cherry Creek Anglers.
(303) 841-3612
Newsletter bimonthly issues can be accessed at the Cherry Creek Anglers website
www.cherrycreekanglers.org
Meet Abby Wurmnest
and Lakewood
to The Vitamin
Cottage at its
corporate offices there.
She enjoys all
that she is
learning there
about nutrition, and she
also continues
to attend
higher education college
classes locally.
Rarely idle,
Abby worked
at a travel
agency while
in college. This suited her wanderlust
tendencies very nicely, as upon
graduation she immediately served a
4-month internship in Bulgaria, working for a management consulting
firm that administered psychological
and lie-detection testing services.
It developed that the student exchange service had obtained an incorrect Visa, and this necessitated
that Abby had to leave and re-enter
the country for a weekend every 30days. She
says this
was an
inconvenience she
thoroughly
enjoyed, in
that it enabled her
to also visit
Italy, Paris,
Switzerland, Serbia
and Romania. Her
favorite
memory of
this experiDecember ‘07 Meeting
ence is that
Abby is one of our chapter Board
members and diligent behind the scene
workers, as well as her more visible role
as Membership Chairman. She helps
members with renewals and other matters, and also helps relocated members
transfer-in and new prospects with their
application process.
Like a good book, there’s always a
story shuttered behind all of us, and
Abby is no exception. Behind that
friendly smile lurks a person who enjoys
new challenges and helping to make a
difference.
Abby was raised in our nation’s heartland, on an 800 acre corn and soybean
farm in western Illinois, and is a bona-fide
“small town girl” of nearby Sibley where
he graduated from the local rural jointure high school. After two years at the
Parkland Community College, she went
to the University of Illinois, Champaign
Campus. There she earned a B.A. Degree in Psychology and a Masters Degree
in Organization Development—to prepare her for a career of helping corporations develop the effectiveness of their
human resource and business practices.
Employed as the Evaluation Manager,
Abby commutes daily between Aurora
of living with a group
of 20-year olds from
numerous nations,
working through the
language barriers,
and discovering that
they all were quite
the same and shared
very similar interests
and concerns. She is
feeding her piggybank and hopes to
be able to travel in
South America sometime before too long.
Oh yes, Abby was
introduced by a
friend to Travis Barker
while in college, and
they remain inseparable.
[Coincidentally, Travis lived just 10minutes from Abby’s home, but he
attended a neighboring school
system and they had never met.]
Abby loves all outdoors activities—hiking, camping, fishing,
snowboarding, etc. and is looking
forward to starting snowshoeing.
She enjoys all the scenery as she
fishes, and the exercise she gets
walking the rivers & streams; her
preference is lake fishing where
she is challenged reading the water and with the logistics of casting.
She also enjoys her commute to
work in nice weather, and touring
the foothills aboard her Suzuki Savage motorcycle .
Abby and Travis relocated to
Colorado in the fall of 2004 for the
outdoors life. They saw a newspaper ad about a Trout Unlimited
chapter program and attended,
took fly tying classes from Frank
Prekel and rod-building from Bill
Lougthan, and were hooked!
They’ve been active ever since,
and we’re also happy to have them
as Cherry Creek Anglers members.
Lati tudes with at titudes
Indian River-Mosquito Lagoon
- by Mark Cooper
With winter upon us and a snow
season like we haven’t seen in 45 years
in Denver, my thoughts turn to a
warm-water fishing retreat. If you’re
like I am, you’re thinking, “O.K, where
can I get away quickly and get my saltwater fix and know I’ll have a pretty
good shot at catching a few different
species of fish.
The Indian River-Mosquito Lagoon
Estuary is the answer. It’s located on
the East coast of Florida near Cape Canaveral and is accessible from the little
town of Titusville. Titusville is located
about 50 miles due east of Orlando,
which offers numerous flights daily,
thanks to Disney World.
The reason the Indian RiverMosquito Lagoon area stands out is
location, species and convenient flight
connections. A dedicated angler can
pack a highly satisfying fishing experience into a long weekend. With a little
bit of online help you can check any
number of travel sites to find the right
connection to meet your needs. If
you’re good you can find a flight on
Thursday, fish Friday through Sunday
and be back in Denver, late Sunday
night.
In a short weekend you can experience exceptional salt-water fishing
without the hassle and delays of international travel. Besides, you can take
your cell phone and laptop and actually get some work done in the evening after fishing if the need suits.
You’ll have multiple shots at big redfish and speckled trout and an angling opportunity that is hard to beat.
I’ve been fishing the Indian RiverMosquito Lagoon estuary near Cape
Canaveral for years and I know you’ll
find it as absolutely amazing as I
have. In two days, under less than
optimum conditions, I’ve caught and
released more than 15 fish from 8 to
14 pounds on both fly and spinning
tackle. Convinced yet? The area is
much like the Florida Keys, with an
abundance of wildlife. It also has
something else I’d never expected:
An actual flats-like environment with
skinny water and sight fishing from
flats boats, just like the Keys.
You’ll be amazed as you pole
across sand and grass flats into
trenches that sometimes hold the
larger fish. You’ll find redfish that
gobble up crab patterns and a Kwan
fly, which is a crab-type pattern with
a tail. When the winds and clouds
create situations that froth the waters
and blank out the sun, I don’t hesitate to grab a spinning rod with a
plastic jerk bait to blind cast to areas
that might be holding fish, and do
they ever. Big ones! If you’re heading out for redfish, brush up on your
casting. It’s essential to drop your fly
or bait within 6 inches of the target in
windy situations, or on those flat
calm blue-bird days you’ll want to
cast out in front and past then and
strip it back in front of them as they
move stealthily, through the shallows
Trout are much tougher to catch,
but the big “gator trout” are there in
numbers. This area also provides a
unique opportunity for many different varieties of fishermen. Whether
it’s spin, plug, bait or the fly, there are
opportunities for everyone including
the kids. Certain guides specialize in
using canoes or the Hells Bay boats
that practically float on air in the nomotor zones to sneak right up on top
of the fish. Wow, what an experience.
Sound like fun? You bet!
Location: 50 miles east of Orlando,
near Titusville and just north of the
John F. Kennedy Space Center at
Cape Canaveral.
Getting there: Fly to Orlando, pick up
a rental car. Head east on Highway
528, then north on Interstate 95 to
the Titusville exit, then north on U.S.1.
Lodging: An abundance of lodging,
such as Holiday Inn, Ramada, Best
Western, and Days Inn, ranging from
$69 to $95 per night.
Guides:
Rates
run
roughly
$400
for a full
day of
fishing
including
lunch
and you
can split
the
boat
with a
buddy
to keep
the cost
down. I
fish with John Turcot who is halfguide half-fish, and you can find him
at www.backcountryonfly.com . He
can be reached at 321-267-9818 or
321-544-2497.
The author, Mark Cooper, is a former
Denver Bronco and longtime friend of the
Redbone Series of Tournaments. He lives
outside Aurora, Colorado, is in the real
estate business, and is an avid traveling
saltwater fly fisherman, writer, photographer and outdoorsman. You can e-mail
him at [email protected].
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Contact Cherry Creek Anglers.
(303) 841-3612
www.cherrycreekanglers.org
A great value!
Pre-meeting fly tying instruction
UPDATE PERSONAL
INFORMATION FOR CHAPTER
EMAILS, NEWSLETTERS, etc.
It’s Easy!
Access www.tu.org online. Log in at
bottom of the page. Enter your Member Login ID# “tu_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . Enter a Password (Same ID#, but without
the “tu” preface. The site walks firsttimers through this.)
This brings you to the “My TU” page.
The menu at the right allows you to
click on links to Edit Profile (including
email eddress), Change Chapters, Renew Membership, Contact Legislators,
etc. Your email eddress is important
for chapter communications. Thanks!
•
TU has an annual budget of
about $24MM: About 80% of this is
received from Grants funding. Typically, 48% of expenditures go to conservation, 27% to communication &
chapter-related matters, 19% to fundraising activities and only 6% to administration. By this Editor’s calculations, a regular TU $35 annual membership receives benefit of about a
$140.00 value, or approximately 4:1
leverage.
•
TU is run by a Board of Trustees
comprised of influential public business and private individuals, and a
National Leadership Council (NLC)
comprised of TU officials and grassroots chapter representatives.
$6.91mm
Communications
48%
19%
& Chapter
27%
Support
$4.05mm
6%
Administration
Fundraising
$.792mm
$2.606mm
•
The Colorado Trout Unlimited
(CTU) State Council has grassroots
representation on its Council Board by
all 20 Colorado Chapters, and each
has a vote that is proportional to its
membership roster size. A chapter
president gets one vote, plus 1 vote
additional for each 100 roster members. This highlights the chapters’
opportunity to truly affect decisions
about CTU programs and actions.
•
CTU was organized around 1980,
and David Nickum has been Executive
Director since its origin. CTU’s current
10,000+ members makes Colorado
the 3rd largest state membership after
New York #1 and Pennsylvania #2.
CTU is one of TU’s most effective State
Councils.
Steve also reviewed the constructive intention of TU’s Chapter Effectiveness Index (CEI) focus and evaluation tool that is administered by the
state councils. He pointed out that
each state council has autonomy to
establish chapter re-chartering criteria,
and emphasized that CTU’s objective
is chapter improvement, steady efforts
and “progress” — not decertification.
CTU will complete this year’s review &
recertification efforts in August. Your
Board will be cooperating in this activity.
150,000
140,000
130,000
120,000
110,000
100,000
90,000
80,000
70,000
60,000
50,000
2005
Fly pictures are not exact depictions, but rather
are downloaded from online catalogs to provide
an approximate idea of the fly’s appearance.
Conservation
The chart below indicates TU’s membership is steadily growing. There is
growing understanding of TU’s Vision
of a better life and future for our children and grandchildren. More people
are becoming increasingly concerned
about the need to protect our planet’s
finite natural resources and have come
to share TU’s Mission for conserving the
coldwater resources that happen to also
be home to those bellwether barometers of aquatic health — trout & salmon.
2003
”This is a great fly to fish in early spring in ponds or lakes.”
2005 TU Financials
2001
Step1: Slide cone on and tie on thread. Wrap back until
thread is even with the barb of the hook.
Step 2: Tie on tail right at the barb. It should be the length
of the shank.
Step 3: Strip some fur from the crosscut rabbit. Tie right in
front of the tail and wind up the shank in close turns. Tie
off and whip finish.
One of the beauties of our fishing
pastime is that when we’re standing
up to our knees in water waiting patiently(?) for the bite of maybe our
biggest fish ever, or gazing up at the
grandeur of the forest and hills — our
thoughts virtually never are about
the trials and tribulations of our everyday lives; these simply vanish! And
if we were to be asked then about
the cost of our Trout Unlimited (TU)
membership we’d scoff that it’s a pittance.
Many of us would comment that
we get great value for our annual
$35.00 and that we’d be happy to pay
even more for all that we receive in
both direct benefits and psychic payoff.
Indeed, our TU cost is a pittance!
This was demonstrated very well at a
recent Chapter Board meeting by CTU
President, Steve Craig, who gave a
presentation on the history, structure
and budget of TU. Some highlights
follow:
1999
“This fly will work well from now until about the second
week of April on the Roaring Fork and lower Colorado
Rivers around Glenwood Springs, as well as on your
favorite water.” Give it a try.
Bunny Leech
March 13th — Bob Shaw
Hook Tmc 5263 or Tmc 200R;
size 10
Thread 3/0; color to match body
Tail Rabbit Zonker strip;
- color to match body
Body Crosscut rabbit colors can be black, olive, rusty
brown or a color you would tie on a woolly bugger.
Optional Small cone at the eye.
TU MISSION: TU’s mission is to conserve, protect and restore North America’s trout and salmon fisheries and their
watersheds.
1997
Caddis Midge Larve
February 14th — Jim Neiberger
Hook: Tmc 501; size 18-20
Body: Chartreuse superfloss
Ribbing: Gold wire
Bead: Spirit River micro gun metal
Step #1: Attach a bead to your hook.
Step #2: Start your thread and wind it to about ½ to ¾ the
length of the hook shank.
Step #3: Attach your gold wire, keeping it on top of the
hook shank.
Step #4: Attach the chartreuse floss by cutting a tapered
angle on the floss. this will keep excess material from
building at the end of the fly ruining the shape of your
bug.
Step #5: Wrap the floss forward creating a tapering shape
from small to large.
Step #6: wrap the wire forward creating even segmentations from the bend to the eye of the hook.
Step #7: Whip finish and head cement.
TU VISION: By the next generation, TU will ensure that robust populations of native and wild coldwater fish once
again thrive within their North American range, so that our children can enjoy healthy fisheries in their home waters.
1995
At our February 14th and March 13th chapter meetings, we will have pre-meeting fly tying instructions from two members. This is an opportunity for interested observers to learn how to tie basic flies they can fish nearby every day. Patterns are at the right.
Instructions will start at 6:30pm and last until the meeting starts. Give them a try at home if you have a chance, and then
watch the instructor, ask questions and learn some easier or more effective techniques.
1993
VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3
There are other ways we all can increase the leverage of our donations to
help conserve, protect and restore Colorado’s cold water resources.
● Donations to your TU Cherry Creek
Anglers Chapter #474 (Chapters are not
permitted to require dues) will begin to
build a budget reserve to help finance
future conservation and youth educational projects.
● A donation to CTU’s Century Club
(minimum $100) contributes to helping
fund improvements in Colorado water
resources law, regulations, advocacy
and restoration projects. (See “Century
Club” under the heading “Join/Donate”
on the CTU www.cotrout.org website.)
Just like your TU membership dues,
your contributions are all tax deductible
to the fullest extent of the law.
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Visit website for details
7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪ Joe Butler
The Latest in Big Trout
“Secret” New Waters
6:30 Fly-of-the-Month Tying
▪ Jim Neiberger - Midge
Feb 10 Board Planning Meeting
Feb 21 *Chapter Board Meeting
Mar 8 7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪ Sinjin Eberle
Buffalo Peaks Ranch Update
CTU Habitat Restoration Proj.
6:30 Fly-of-the-Month Tying
▪ Bob Shaw - Bunny Leech
Mar 6
Fly Tying Class 6:30-8:30
13
Gander Mountain-Aurora
20
27
Mar 28 *Chapter Board Meeting
Apr 6
Fly Tying Class 6:30-8:30
Apr 10
Gander Mountain-Aurora
Apr 12
7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪ Bill Edrington
Arkansas River Hatches
‘How to' Fishing Strategies
Apr 21 Fishing Day Trip -Tomahawk
Apr 25 *Chapter Board Meeting
May 10 7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪Tad Howard
Colo Grand Slam Fly Fishing
Big Trout Tailwaters: the
Blue, Pan, Dream Stream &
Taylor
May 12 Fishing Day Trip – Clear Creek
May 30 *Chapter Board Meeting
Jun 9-Sat Field Trip
- Cutthroat Spawn RMNP
Date depends on the thaw
Jun 10-16 Conservation Youth Camp
Jun 14
6:30 Chapter Meeting
▪ Casting Clinic
Jun 27
*Chapter Board Meeting
Contact Cherry Creek Anglers.
(303) 841-3612
Cherry Creek Anglers — Chapter General Meetings:
UPCOMING EVENTS
Feb 8
VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3
Jul 21-Sat Field Trip - DOW Hatchery
Parvin Lake -Red Feather area
+ Picnic & Fishing
Jul 25 *Chapter Board Meeting
Aug 9
7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪Charlie Meyers-Outdoors Issues
Aug 18 Fishing Day Trip – Clear Lake
Aug 29 *Chapter Board Meeting
Sep 13 7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪Al Makkai
Green River Headwaters
Sep 26 *Chapter Board Meeting
Oct 1-7 Nat’l. Fly Fishing Competitions
Oct 11 7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪Scott Rods (Tentative)
Oct 24 *Chapter Board Meeting
Nov 8
6:30 Chapter Meeting
▪Fly Tying Clinic
Nov 28 *Chapter Board Meeting
Dec 13 7:00 Chapter Meeting
▪Pat Dorsey - Prep for Spring!
*NOTE: Chapter Board Meetings are
at 6:30PM in the Gander Mountain
“Lodge” meeting room
**Members are invited to attend
7:00pm on the second Thursday monthly at Gander Mountain Sports – Aurora,
at corner of Abilene and 14000 East Jewell Avenue in the Lodge Meeting
Room (except June, July & November). November through March, there often
is a 6:30 instructional fly tying demonstration before the General Meeting
starts.
June (Casting Clinic) and November (Fly Tying Clinic) meetings are held at a
different location that is announced with program promotions. There is no
General Meeting of the membership in July, but other activities are still often
scheduled.
W E LC O M E TO O U R N E W M E M B E R S
November:
Scott Breitinger—Aurora
Bob Wells—Aurora
John Krattenmaker—Castle Rock
Thomas Vann—Englewood
Shawn Anderson– Aurora
Jason Scott Embry—Denver
Paula Moore—Denver
Doug Schleufer—Aurora
Richard Colton—Denver
Max Schumacher—Parker
December:
William Wimett—Aurora
Eric Westerman—Englewood
Frank Justice—Aurora
Robert & Sara Howard—
Denver
Eric Oppelt—Denver
Aimee Konowal—Denver
Chris Lang—Denver
Joe Weickenand—Castle Rock
Bob Mager—Centennial
Kristoph Kinzli —Englewood
Its 2007 and the Chapter’s Traveling Fly
Box is empty, What is the Traveling Fly
Box you ask? Every month someone
takes the fly box home and puts a dozen
flies in it and brings it back to the next
monthly Chapter meeting. The box in
then given to another person to take
home, add a dozen flies and bring back to
the next meeting. The box travels to a
different person, so by December, hopefully the box contains 12 dozen flies.
Dennis Cook
303-841-3612
[email protected]
Treasurer:
Bob Kuziak
303-343-9767
[email protected]
Secretary:
Kathy Flanagan
303-341-5113
[email protected]
Membership:
Youth:
Abby Wurmnest
303-241-6552 Cell
[email protected]
Eric Kophs
303-805-2994
[email protected]
Fly Tying Clinic: Travis Barker
303-981-2590
[email protected]
Casting Clinic:
Raffles:
Bill Bird
303-690-0873
[email protected]
Web Master:
Art Bailey
303-750-8358
[email protected]
At Large:
Gene Peppin
303-699-8210
[email protected]
Vacant - Could be YOU!
Advocacy Chairman: Don Nusbaum
303-306-1543
takes the box home and brings it back to the
January meeting with a dozen flies added and
the process starts again.
Any type of fly can be added to the box, dry
flies, nymphs, streamers, pike flies, etc. This past
year, the box contained 9 dozen flies, mostly
midges. If you don’t tie flies and want to participate, you can buy a dozen flies to add to the
box.
President:
At Large:
TRAVELING FLY BOX
-by Bill Bird
CHAPTER OFFICIALS
*NOTE: Chapter Board Meetings are held
at 6:30PM in the Aurora Gander
Mountain Lodge meeting room.
** Members are invited to attend.
2007 Board Dates: Jan 3, Jan 24, Feb 21,
Mar 28, Apr 25, May 30, Jun 27, Jul 25,
Aug 29, Sep 26, Oct 24 & Nov 28.
October ‘06 Meeting
If you are interested in participating in the
Traveling Fly Box drawing, please see me, Bill
Bird, at the Chapter meeting. I will give you the
box that night or put your name on a waiting
Every person who contributes a dozen
list. If there are more than 12 participants, that’s
flies to the box gets a raffle ticket at the
OK. That means more flies for someone to win
December meeting. We will then have a Travis Barker won the 2006
drawing and the winner gets all the flies, flies at our December meeting and we can all use more flies.
Cherry Creek Cast — Editorial Policy:
HOW NEW MEMBERS BENEFIT CHERRY CREEK ANGLERS —
We want your contributions (guest features, letters-to-the-editor, photographs,
trip reports, etc.). Send them to the Editor by e-mail.
New members enrich our chapter life in many ways. They bring their interesting personalities and unique experiences
and offer to become our friends — their enthusiasm to participate in activities and events and to create fun — their talents
and skills to strengthen chapter leadership — and their fishing experience to broaden our knowledge of our pastime. We
want as many new members as possible; they are the lifeblood of a strong organization. Tell your friends about Cherry
Creek Anglers. Tell them about our rich agenda of monthly meetings, clinics, classes, fishing trips and field trips and the
invaluable service TU does for our fisheries and our individual fishing enjoyment. Encourage them to become members.
Published bi-monthly, electronically, 6 issues per year by Cherry Creek Anglers
Chapter #474 of Trout Unlimited.
Editor & Layout: Dennis Cook (303) 841-3612 [email protected]
Purpose: Chapter member communications to create interest, enthusiasm and
harmony within the membership.
All materials are subject to editing. Text and graphics can be accepted in almost
any PC-originated format. (Mac originations are sometimes a problem.)
The Editor reserves the right to determine suitability, the issue in which an article
may be published and layout placement.