Recent TU Chapter Newsletters

Reading up Chapter Newsletters is a great way to find fly fishing information and fly tying tips and learn about what other TU Chapters are up to across Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Of course, to get the best fly fishing advice, fly fishing tips, coaching on your fly casting, etc, please come to a Chapter meeting. Click here to find Massachusetts and Rhode Island TU chapter meeting information.

TU also publishes an Angler's Guide to Trout Fishing in Massachusetts which makes a great gift!

If your chapter has a newsletter and you'd like to link to it from here, please contact the webmaster through the contact form.

Central Mass | Narragansett | Pioneer Valley | Squant-a-Tissit | Taconic | Cape Cod | Greater Boston | Nor'East

Nor'East - North Eastern Mass Chapter Newsletter

Dec 2009 - Discussion of Sea Run Trout in the Parker River

Central Mass TU Newsletter

Nov 2009 - Trout streams of Montana, including the Bighorn, Madison, Bighole and Jefferson rivers. Next meetings: Dec 10, Habitat Restoration in the Battenkill, Jan 14, 2010, Tips for Miller's River Browns and Feb 11, Bob McMenemy: “Entomology of New England Trout Streams and Corresponding Fly-Tying Patterns"

Sept 2009 - Secrets of Fishing the Farmington River - presented by Farmington Valley TU Chapter Member Frank Plona

Mar 2009 - Peter Schilling (President of MA-RI Council of TU): The Russell (MA) Biomass Power Plant and its possible effects on adjacent Westfield River.

Feb 2009 - Inspired by Todd Richards’ presentation at our January chapter meeting, along with our brethren Southeastern Mass TU’s success with their Red Brook restoration, which now has sea-run brook trout, CMTU is getting involved in stream restoration. One target on our radar screen: the Blackstone River and its tributaries. With help from several other concerned agencies, other MA-RI chapters, and spearheaded by past President Paul Bakstran, CMTU’s stream restoration efforts will begin in spring 2009.

Jan 2009 - Presentation: Todd Richards, Fisheries Biologist with the Mass Division of Fisheries and Wildlife on "Wild Trout Habitat Restoration in Hamant Brook, Sturbridge, MA.

Dec 2008 - Presentation: Dean Clark, a long time conservationist and outdoor educator/volunteer, will present the facts supporting the grass roots movement to have wild striped bass declared and managed as a gamefish. This is definitely a timely and hotly-debated topic.

Nov 2008 - Presentation "Fishing the Big Rivers of New Hampshire" by New Hampshire River Guide Service

Oct 2008 - Randy Julius, fly fisherman, licensed saltwater boat captain, artist and outdoors writer. Randy will present a slide presentation describing ten days of fly-fishing for trout, salmon and pike in the scenic wild places of Alaska.

Sept 2008 - Nationally known fly-fishing writer, editor and publisher Tom Pero speaks about exotic fishing trips and recently published books including Fly Fishing for Striped Bass by Rich Murphy of Georgetown, Massachusetts. Lefty Kreh, the guru of saltwater fly-rodding called it “the best book written on the subject to date.”

April 2008

March 2008

Narragansett TU Newsletter

Feb 2009 - Another great editorial favoring increased Class 1 (managed for purely wild fish reproduction) and Class 2 (managed for only supplemental stocking and primarily for wild fish reproduction) designations for the Wood River.

Jan 2009 - Great editorial by Burt Strom advocating special regulations favoring "Catch and Release Only" on the Wood River.

Sept 2008 - Summary: Obituary for President Lawson Cary, Updates on Breakheart Brook Restoration, and Fly of the Month "The Buzzer" midge pupa imitation used on the Wood River.

March 2008

February 2008

Pioneer Valley TU Newsletter

Dec 2009 - Join PV TU on December 8th for a special presentation on “Wet Flies – Their History, How to Tie Them, How Best to Fish Them” by renowned author and editor Gary Soucie (former editor Audubon Magazine and senior editorial staff member of National Geographic). 

Nov 2009 - Stream Restoration on the Battenkill

Oct 2009 - Pat Garner speaks on his recent book: Playing With Fire: The Life and Fly Rods of Master Rod Builder EW Edwards

Sept 2009 - Fluvial Geomorphology and River Restoration in Massachusetts: Learn about Massachusetts rivers and their restoration by Ms. Beth Lambert from the River Restoration Program, Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game - also read up on cyanabacteria in Holland Pond, and zebra mussels in the Quabbin

Apr 2009 - Conservation Banquet

Mar 2009 - Guest Speaker: Jennifer McCarthy, “Salmon Aging, Migration, and Depletion”

Jan 2009 - Fly Tying Extravaganza & Buy / Swap Meeting

Dec 2008 - Read up on the Dec meeting by Guest Speaker Thomas Ames Jr, Author of Caddis Flies, A Field Guide to Eastern Species for Anglers and Other Naturalists. Ames is also author of Hatch Guide for New England Streams. Read about October's meeting featuring a talk by member Dr. Piotr Parasiewicz of the Rushing River Institute, blog.rushingrivers.org about modelling techniques for ecological river management.

Nov 2008 Atlantic Salmon Program Update: “What has Happened Since the IPN Disease Outbreak in 2007?” Guest Speaker: Mickey Novak

Oct 2008 - Guest Speaker: Piotr Parawiceicz “Stream Habitat Assessment Techniques”

Dr. Parasiewicz has developed effective management tools and modelling techniques for ecological river management, and is the developer of MesoHABSIM, a multiscale approach for instream habitat modelling. Additionally, he leads the Northeast Instream Habitat Program at Mt Holyoke College and is the director of the Rushing Rivers Institute, an Amherst based non-profit organization promoting application of cutting edge science in river management. www.RushingRivers.org

Sept 2008 - Summary: National Trout Unlimited welcomes Joe Norton as the Project Coordinator of the Upper Connecticut Home Rivers Initiative. Discussion of reauthorization of the No Child Left Inside Act of 2007 (H.R. 3036 and S. 1981) which seeks to allocate funds towards environmental education for children, environmental teacher training, and ultimately ensuring that every high school graduate is environmentally literate.

April 2008

March 2008

February 2008

January 2008


Squant-a-Tissit Trout Unlimited E-Newsletter Archive

http://www.squanatissit.org/newsletters/newsletters.htm

Taconic Trout Unlimited Backcast (some require Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Sept 2009 - Honoring creator of the Mad River Special, Charles Lahey's 100th Birthday

Sept 2008 - Taconic Board votes to support the Upper Housatonic as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) - includes letters to the EPA and MA Executive Office of Environmental Affairs.

May 2008 - Great recent write up on the Partners to Restore Yokum Brook.

Click here to read more about Yokum Brook Restoration, Beckett, MA

April 2008

March 2008

Feb 2008

Jan 2008

Cape Cod Trout Unlimited Chapter Rollcast Newsletter

Nov 2009 - Capt Ray Stachelek - RI Fly Fishing Guide

Oct 2009 - Restoration on the Battenkill

Dec 2008 - Update from Peter Motyka on the Eel River Restoration Project, Plymouth MA, and check out the free fly tying classes Jan - March 2009 at Liberty Hall. Read about breaking news about the new Fish and Fly Magazine (http://www.fishandfly.com/) created by the joining US and UK Fish and Fly brands.

http://www.fishandfly.com/

Oct 2008 - Read reviews on Rhea Topping's Double Haul DVD, Ed Jaworowski's Essential Saltwater Flies, and Aron Adams Ph.D's Fly Fisherman's Guide to Saltwater Prey, a writeup on Red Brook Family Day 2008, a new Journal of Fly Fishing Photography, Video and film: www.catchmagazine.net and more...

May 2008

April 2008

Greater Boston TU Newsletters located at the GBTU Website:

http://www.gbtu.org/newsletter/currents.html

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