CALENDAR
all chapter meetings are free and open to the public
Tuesday, March 18th,
2008, 7:30 pm
-- Ken Balog, Fishing the
Mill River in Easton and Fairfield
Ken Balog, a Fairfielder and life-long fly angler (and
tyer) guides us to our underappreciated local jewel, the
Mill River.
The Mill River is a medium-sized stream with different
environments and faces. The upper Mill River, where a Class
1 Wild Trout Management Area was created a number of years
ago, is home to colorful wild native brook charr (which
were reintroduced by the Nutmeg Chapter after a major spill)
and wary, wild brown trout. The lower section cuts Fairfield
in half and has a TMA as well as a variety of fish species
such as stocked rainbows and browns, smallmouth and largemouth
bass, pickerels, and of course sunnies. Ken will reveal
the best fishing spots, best flies, and more.
Come hungry, because we have plenty of pizza to cover for
a dinner at home that you just might not have time for!
Saturday, March 29th,
2008, 6:30 pm -- 31st
Annual Fundraising Banquet!
Join us at Tashua Knolls Golf Course Restaurant, 40 Tashua
Knolls Ln., Trumbull. There'll be a delicious buffet dinner
and a door prize, auctions, raffles and more!
Please click
here and print out the form on pg 3.
This is our most important fundraiser. We need
your support to continue our conservation and education
efforts at the local (chapter), state (CT Council) and
federal (TU National) level. We are proud to be very careful
with, and open about, how the money is spent (read our
newsletter or ask a board member) -- in fact, Charity
Navigator gives TU "four stars", the highest
overall rating an organization can achieve.
The chapter is entirely run by volunteers. Your support
allows TU to have educational and conservation programs
like Trout In the Classroom, to push for innovative legislation
that protects streams from excessive water withdrawals
and development along riverbanks, to protect particularly
rich and pristine Connecticut lands where wild brook trout
still thrive and water is pure, to monitor (and if we
must, fight) development along the upper Mill River (where
wild, brown and native brook trout breed - just 60 miles
from Manhattan!) and to bring you interesting speakers
at the meetings. We also donate some of the funds to (mostly
local) conservation organizations such as land trusts,
the Saugatuck River Watershed Partnership, and educational
programs such as the Mill River Wetlands Committe's River
Lab and the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum. Your
past support has allowed us to return the Housatonic River
to natural flows, to improve fish habitat on the Saugatuck
River, and to forge conservation partnerships with the
DEP and other NGOs to do water quality testing and monitoring
and mitigate the impact of dams by installing or repairing
fish ladders. The near future will see us strengthening
these educational and conservation efforts as we expand
our Trout In the Classroom program and institute "Stream
Teams" for the Mill, Saugatuck, Aspetuck and Pequonnock
rivers.
The reservation deadline is 3/21/08. Please click
here and print out pg 3. If you've come before, you
know how fun it is, and that almost everyone walks away
with at least one prize! If you haven't come for a while,
or if it's your first time, we would like to see you;
also, our banquet has changed considerably over the past
few years and is more fun, has a wider selection of prizes...
and you won't be going home late.
Saturday and Sunday, April 12th &
13th, 2008 -- Nutmeg TU's annual Open House
and casting instruction! (more information to come)
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008,
7:30 pm -- E. Richard Nightingale,
Lines, Leaders, Terminal Tackle
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
-- New England regional meeting - Leomister,
MA (see further below)
All meetings are free and open to the public
and, unless stated otherwise, take place at the Fayerweather Yacht
Club: 51 Brewster St., Black Rock, Bridgeport. Doors open at 7:00
p.m., and meetings start at 7:30 p.m. For more information call
203-856-2004 or email prosit67@hotmail.com
Directions to the Fayerweather Yacht Club:
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south on Black Rock Turnpike
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go past Sym's and BJ's Wholesale Club,
to Fairfield Avenue
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Black Rock Tpke becomes Brewster Street
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go 0.3 miles to the flag pole. At the stop
sign by the flagpole, Brewster turns 90 degrees to the left.
Stay on Brewster Street
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go another 0.3 miles (just past "Port
5") to the Fayerweather Yacht Club (building on the
right). Park on either side of the road or in the lot in
front of the condominiums.
Trout
Unlimited - New England Regional Meeting
Saturday,
May 3rd 2008 --- 9 am - 4 pm
All TU members and state agencies are welcome
to attend |
DOYLE
CONSERVATION CENTER
464 Abbott Avenue
Leominster, MA 01453
978-840-4446 x1901 |
(Contact us if you are driving
up Friday night or are not driving back until
Sunday: a group dinner can be arranged.)
Agenda:
1. Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture (EBTJV)
___a. Nat Gillespie-
CIS and GIS. Demonstration and hands on workshop.
___b. Bryan Moore
- Funding (grants), and the new Service Learning
Program
___in the EBTJV.
2. Legislative Action - Kirt Mayland
___a. How councils
can position themselves on water policy items,
and
___other conservation
issues.
___b. What TU can
and cannot do.
___c. A dry run on
legislative action. How councils can set up the
___legislative coordinators
and key council leaders to best respond
___d. Council Legislative
Committees - coordinating and supporting Kirt's
___work.
3. Youth Education:
___a. Greg Ponte
-Youth Camps - what is needed to set one up.
___b. Bryan Moore
- Tie in with the EBTJV's new Service Learning
Program.
___c. Trout In the
Classroom
4. Strategic planning for New England - open
discussion.
· Review of NE Meetings 2004 To 2008
· Understanding each council's objective
· What does New England leadership see
the Brook Trout program looking like in the Northeast
in five years, and _building
to that vision.
___i. Laying out
the road map for a successful regional campaign.
___ii. Discussion
of key regional items; water policy and the brook
trout campaign. Overlapping the items.
___iii. CIS overlap
with Brook Trout, and other key chapter initiatives
(TIC/Youth). Plot them on the map.
___ iv. Targeting
the projects for success, and connecting the projects
and the states for recognition beyond TU. ___
__Building momentum
for brook trout.
We will keep the meeting very focused, thus allowing
more workshop and
discussion time.
Please RSVP to TU CT State
Council Chair Bill Blaufuss (prosit67@hotmail.com)
and cc to Jan Allardt (Jcfa_mayfly@hotmail.com)
(Your response gives us a head
count for lunch and beverages).
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