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Recent News
Tom Rosenbauer's Stream
Reading
The guys who wrote the book came to the
Farmington River with a group of ten CVTU members to teach about
the art of stream reading. After two hours in the classroom, we
spent a couple hours on the Farmy reading water. That was capped
off by a few hours on the water fishing with Tom and the rest of
the CVTU clan. Sweet!
Check out
our pictures from the day.
George Daniels put on quite a
show!
At our last meeting, George Daniels did a
presentation on small stream fishing. Not only was the
presentation good, but he also put on a casting demonstration on
his own variations of the bow and arrow cast. Very cool stuff.
Thanks, George!
Thanks to all for a great
Youth Education Day!
Last Saturday we ran our second annual Youth
Education Day at the Pratt Nature Center in New Milford.
Thirty-eight children and their parents enjoyed a day of fly
casting, fly tying, macroinvertebrate studies and, of course,
trout. Thanks to all our volunteers and supporters of this
wonderful event.
New Feature: Ask Brook
We've added a new feature on our forums that
we'll be updating on a regular basis. We'll scour the internet
and the brains of our members for the "best" answers to
perplexing questions. The inaugural question is above.
What a weekend!
We started with our annual banquet on Friday
night. Eighty plus people came to share fishing stories, have a
nice meal, raise some money for the chapter and listen to James
Prosek speak about his travels. Fantastic! Thank you to all who
contributed and attended.
And as if that couldn't be topped we had the
Farmington River Stream walk with Jack Smola today.
Twenty
chapter members and friends got a guided tour of the major
pools, learned about technique and even got a guided tour of
Jack's fly boxes. Very cool stuff! To cap it all off, Gary Whipple
delivered a masterful lunch of
homemade chili! DO NOT MISS THESE MASTER CLASSES!
Great evening on the Bushkill
We had a very good presentation last evening
regarding fishing opportunities on the Bushkill River in
Pennsylvania. Thanks to the many members who attended. It was
one of the best turnouts that we've had this year!
Chris Elser wows the crowd
Chris provided a great presentation on his guide
service and the pursuit of big Stripers with big flies. Very
cool stuff.
February 2009 Newsletter
Check out the latest news in the
February Newsletter! Some stunning phish photos of Joe and
Gary up on the Niagara River. Also a reminder to sign up for
Trips
and Master Classes. You can find the rest of our archived
newsletters in the
Newsletter Forum.
The Fish Bugs Master Class was
Great!
If you didn't have a chance to join us for the
Fish Bugs Master Class on January 24th you missed a great chance
to learn about macroinvertebrates and the flies that mimic them.
Mike Beauchene and Jim Krul put on a great show. Thanks to all
who made the day possible and to those that attended. Photos of
the day are
over
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