- Candlewood Valley Chapter

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Trout Lines
President’s Corner
James Belden
Happy New Year to all of our members. Looking
back 2006 was a great year and I am confident
that 2007 will be as well. I hope that I get to meet
many more people this year, both old members
and new, while we roll rocks and throw fly lines
together.
All hands on deck for the 2007 Banquet! In
order for our annual event to be a success we
need your participation. Please solicit donations
for auctions and raffles while not forgetting that
you may have a valuable talent or an item to
offer. Just contact me (my info is on the last
page) regarding anything you may have.
Donation flyers, useful for soliciting donations,
are available. We also need attendance, and that
includes members as well as non-members, so
Speakers Forum
Jerry Rekart
In January we are going to get away from the
exotic and exciting trips, leave the river
exploration till another time and revisit the
fundamentals of fly fishing.
Our January speaker is Jerry Bannock. For
the past thirty-five years Jerry has been fly
fishing the fresh and salt waters of the
Northeast and refining his skills with trips to
the major fly fishing venues of the world. He
has taught fly fishing for the past fifteen
years and operated an Orvis Endorsed Fly
Fishing School for the past nine years, and is
a licensed fly fishing guide here in
Connecticut. Jerry is an active TU member
and has held most of the positions in the
Farmington chapter and State Council TU
organizations.
Volume 12, Issue 4 Jan 2, 2007
please buy a ticket for yourself and
convince others that this is a worthy and
enjoyable event to attend. Prize and auction
items include many non-fishing, as well as
fishing related, items. Our Chapter is doing
so many good things and depends upon this
evening to remain vital.
Donation flyers are available on our
website, while flyers and tickets will be
available at meetings or directly through
me. Tickets are also available at the Valley
Angler in Danbury.
Jan. 9th Meeting
We will meet at the Miry Brook Firehouse
south of the airport in Danbury at 7:00 PM.
We should have a flytying session, coffee
and snacks at 6:30 PM with the meeting
starting at 7:30 PM.
He has several fly fishing presentations but
the one we have selected is entitled “Fly
Fishing Strategies”. This presentation will
focus on what the angler should consider
before going fishing - maps, hatch guides,
information and suggestions on reading the
water, the fish’s needs and how to locate
them, what flies to consider in different
seasons and conditions and suggestions on
how to organize fly boxes and vests.
This isn’t a boring basics lecture, not the way
Jerry does it! Join us on January 9th for an
interesting and informative presentation as
we review the fundamentals of fly fishing
with Jerry Bannock. For more info, visit our
web site at www.cvtu.org or Jerry’s site:
www.FishinTheFly.com.
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If you explore the Project Gallery, you
will find many publications that match the
CANDLEWOOD VALLEY
CHAPTER
TROUT UNLIMITED
ANNUAL BANQUET
AUCTIONS, RAFFLE PRIZES
FOOD, DRINK AND FUN FOR ALL!
FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2007
6:30pm
THE STONY HILL INN
Route 6, Bethel, CT
COST:
$35.00 PER PERSON
TICKETS AVAILABLE AT CHAPTER MEETINGS
OR THE VALLEY ANGLER
OR
CALL James Belden at (203) 426-6039
(Email – jbeldenflyfish@yahoo.com)
(TICKETS IN ADVANCE ONLY, WILL NOT BE SOLD AT THE DOOR)
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Trout Lines
Book Reviews for Winter Reading
Tony Ballato
Books every fly fisher person should
have in their library; Whether a
flyfisherman for 30 years or 3, there is
a small set of books that every angler,
especially the flyfisherman, should
have. I have an angling library of about
400 books but when I think of the
books I go to most frequently, they
tend to be the books that provide
useful information as opposed to
stories of fishing exploits. So, here's
some of my favorites, and why.
'Practical Fishing Knots" by Mark Sosin
and Lefty Kreh, provides me with all I
need in that dept; the need to know
good knots gets more important once
you venture into the Salt or any big
fish situation. This is the book I have,
but there are others. "Hatch Guide For
New England Streams" by Thomas
Ames,helps make some sense of our
area fly hatches AND ( and an
important and) provides the right
Santa caught practicing
“Catch and Eat”
imitation for the natural. For
general knowledge, I still refer to
one of the fishing encyclopedias
like McClane's or Schwiebert's.
Questions like the proper method
for putting backing on a reel, or
what is a Bull Trout, can be found
in these tomes. If you don't want to
deal with 10 pound books then a
general fly fishing guide like Orvis
publishes, is fine.
Sooner or later, if you are serious
about flyfishing, you will, or have
already, ventured into salt water;
my favorite for saltwater fishing is
Lefty Kreh's "Fly Fishing in Salt
Water". Also, very good for our
local waters are Lou Tabory's books
on where to fish, how to fish and
especially the bait to imitate.
You need a few destination books; I
try to make a pilgrimage out West
each year, and the best books I
have found for doing detailed
planning are the Fothergill and
Sterling guides to Montana,
Colorado, Wyoming and Idaho,
together with a good road atlas and
a AAA hotel guide.
Finally, for those Winter nights in
front of the fireplace, a few plain
old "story" books; my favorites are
anything by Nick Lyons, John
Gierach,or Ernest Schweibert. The
rest of the 375 or so books are just
to fill the empty book cases!!!
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Trout Lines
DATE
Sept. 09
Sept.12
Sep18-21
Sep 22-24
Oct.10
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Oct. 25
Oct. 25
Nov. 2
Nov. 15
Nov. 14
Nov. 23
Nov. 28
Nov. 30
Dec. 1
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Dec.18
Dec.25
Jan. 9
Feb. 13
Mar. 13
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Apr.10
May. 8
May17-20
Jun. 4 - 8
Jun 15-17
July
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T-S
TBA
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TBA
TBA
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2006/2007 EVENT CALENDER
TIME
EVENT
8:30-3:00 Microinvertibrate sampling
7:00 PM CVTU Monthly Meeting
3-Sep E.Aspetuck Stream Restoration
Ausable Trip
Newtown P & R Comm.
CT TU State Council Meeteng
NW Conservation Dist. Annual Mtg.
all day Connequot State Park, LI NY Trip
PWA Board Meeting
Happy Thanksgiving
Newtown Rams Pasture Mtg.
NRCS WHIP Submitted
Natives Grant subm. to F&W Found.
Pratt Center Banquet & Auction
7:00 PM PWA Board Meeting
EAS Grant Deadline
Merry Christmas
LOCALE
Newtown Water Treatment
Miry Brook Fire House
Pratt Ctr. New Milford
INFORMATION
Hovious 203-270-1960
Capt. Bob Turley, Speaker
Peterson 203-775-0655
Whipple 203-746-5982
Mike Goodwin, Speaker
Belden 203-426-6039
Hovious 203-170-1960
Belden 203-426-6039
Whipple 203-746-5982
Hovious 203-270-1960
Mike Tougias, Speaker
Belden 203-426-6039
Belden 203-426-6039
Candlewoo Lake Inn
Peterson 203-775-0655
Hovious 203-270-1960
Frank Plona, Speaker
Belden 203-426-6039
Jerry Bannock
Dr. Marc Taylor
Bill Hyatt - CT DEP
6:30 PM CVTU Annual Banquet
Stonyhill Inn - Bethel
Belden 203-426-6039
PA
TBA
PA - Green Drake hatch
Cape Cod - Stripers
TBA
CT River headwaters
TBA
Ausable river
TBA
Connecquot River
Rocco Rosamilia Lodge
Rocco Rosamilia Lodge
TBA
Casting & tying clinic - PIZZA
Whipple 203-746-5982
Whipple 203-746-5982
Whipple 203-746-5982
Whipple 203-746-5982
Whipple 203-746-5982
Whipple 203-746-5982
Lopstick Lodge, NH
Hungry Trout
Long Island, NY
Fishing trips are dependent on membership participation. Contact Whipple as soon as you can commit!!!!
Contact Jerry Rekart with any additions or corrctions to the calendar.
Rekart - 12-30-06
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Question: How do you organize your fly boxes? Mine are a mess. I have to look through 5
boxes to find the right size, color, pattern, and medium.
Ans:
Five Boxes !!! Wow. Maybe you can tell me how to keep it down to five boxes ????
Ans: OK, now I'm worried - I only have 4! One with nymphs and emergers, one with
bigger nymphs and streamers and one with dries only. In fact, only 3! What else is there?
Clearly I need more boxes....
Ans: I've got five boxes, though I recently went from a vest to a fanny pack/chest pack
combo and generally all the flies I need are stuck to the patch on my chest pack. Here's
how the flies in my fanny pack are organized.
1 - Small Flies. This is a box for the small dries #22+ and midge nymphs that I just
can't store anywhere else. It's a clamshell type box from Orvis.
2 - Nymphs. This holds the abundant collection of nymphs that I own. The majority
of the numphs in this box are PTs, HE, Prince, Copper Johns, and Lightning Bugs.
But I also have larger midges and a few large stoneflies as well. Also have a small
selection of wet flies.
3 - Mayfly Dries - Standard Assortment of Dries both full hackle, downwing and a
bunch of paras
4 - Caddis Dries - This is a another small clamshell box that holds several
variations and sizes of caddis.
5 - Streamer box -- One side holds buggers, the other holds classic flies (ghosts,
finns) as well as a few muddlers.
I also have an Orvis dropper box that is handy but very large. I like it a lot last
season, but find myself still tying droppers streamside.
Ans: Well, this year I set a goal of getting down to one box. I almost made it. I got a big
3-layer box (the kind with foam with slits) - the three sections are:
1. Deepest section - dry flies. Organized by size and then by color (light, medium,
dark colors). Also, some big stimulators
2. Shallowest section - nymphs. Organized by size and then by color within each
size range. Also, try to keep heaviest nymphs together. Latter third of this has
streamers.
3. Medium depth section: emergers and small flies
Also found I needed a second box with very small flies (dries, emergers, nymphs
from size 20 on down) and a third box of large streamers and ugly flies.
Maybe next year I can get down to two boxes !
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Candlewood Valley Chapter of Trout
Unlimited Awarded Meserve Foundation
Grant
Mr. Karl Epple, Chairman of the Albert W. and Helen C.
Meserve Memorial Fund, announced that the Candlewood
Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited has been awarded a $5,000
grant to implement “Trout in the Classroom” programs in five
local schools.
The Albert W. and Helen C. Meserve Memorial Fund was
established in 1978 to further the work of Mr. Meserve, a
nationally recognized arborist, and his wife Helen in the field of
environmental education.
In a “Trout in the Classroom” program a teacher sets up an
aquarium and incubates eggs in a classroom under the guidance
of the Trout in the Classroom Coordinator. The teacher and the
students accept the responsibility for daily maintenance and
observing the eggs and fry, while the coordinator is responsible
for providing equipment, assisting in the setup, obtaining
permits and coordinating the purchase of the eggs and release of
the fish. A trout in the classroom program results in an
aquarium full of trout fry that students release into an approved
stream on a class field trip.
In accepting the grant for Trout Unlimited, program
Coordinator Jerry Rekart said, “ This grant from the Meserve
Foundation will allow us to give teachers the opportunity to
involve students in a hands-on environmental project that
fosters personal responsibility and provides both extended
education and a rewarding, real life connection to the
environment.”
The five school districts implementing “Trout in the
Classroom” programs are Danbury, New Fairfield, Brookfield,
Bethel and Newtown.
More information on this national environmental education
program can be found at www.tu.org/tic.
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CANDLEWOOD VALLEY
CHAPTER
TROUT UNLIMITED
DONATIONS NEEDED!
RODS, REELS, FLYS, OUTDOOR GEAR,
ARTWORK, GIFT CERTIFICATES,
ELECTRONICS, TRIPS, BOOKS, ETC.
For Raffle Prizes and Auction Items at the
Annual CVTU Chapter Banquet
3/23/07, Stony Hill Inn, Bethel, CT
All Donations are Tax Deductible. All Funds Raised go
to support local and state TU Conservation Projects.
Donations accepted at Chapter meetings, by any
member or
The VALLEY ANGLER (56 PADANARAM RD., DANBURY) or
call
James Belden, (203) 426-6039
(email – jbeldenflyfish@yahoo.com)
Thank you for your support!
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Editor’s Note
Tony Mortimer
You no doubt have noted the “ragged edge” quality of this newsletter. This is somewhat
due to the arrival from Santa of a new computer and my transition to it (I have left the
dark side –Windows- and transitioned to Macintosh). And partially due to holidays,
family, travel, football and basketball schedule infringement on newsletter time. I’ll
settle down to better practice for February. (and maybe be able to retrieve my fly-tying
table from the basement holiday banishment).
Items for Sale:
Bamboo Rod: 8 1/2', Jay Harvey-Jackson #7 1/4 D by Heddon,
3pc/2tips, 5wt. moderate action, green wraps with gold trim, bright
nickel silver ferrules, Heddon nickel/silver/Bakelite reel seat. Comes
with replacement bag and original paper covered aluminum rod tube.
Rod is the same quality level as a Heddon #20. Has one agate tip top,
and agate stripping guide. Very good condition $250
Call Doug at 203 775-0655 or cdflyfish@att.net
Send me an email (tony.mortimer@cvtu.org) or see me at a meeting for any items you
want to sell or swap and I’ll list them in the newsletter.
Advertisements
Salty Flies Charters (an Orvis endorsed fly fishing guide with 25 years experience
fishing Long Island Sound) has a Custom 23’ boat out of Rowayton, CT 203-561-9683
(email: captkoop@saltyflies.com)
North Coast Charters – an Orvis endorsed fly fishing guide
Fishing CT, NY a& Southern RI
Capt. Bob Turley 203-378-1160
Old Saybrook, CT www.northcoastcharters.com
English Angling Trappings at Angler’s Den
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www.Anglers-Den.com
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Our chapter meetings are held
September through May on
the second Tuesday of each
month starting around 6:30
PM for snacks and coffee
(and usually some fly tying)
with the meeting starting at
7:30. The meetings are open
to all – members and nonmembers. Come over and see
what we’re about, we’d like to
meet you.
Fund Raising Banquet Donations Needed !
Please use the copy of the “Donations
Needed” flyer on page 7 to Take to one of
your favorite local vendors and ask them to
support our work with a donation. Then,
contact James Belden (see contact info
below) and let him know what you have.
Visit our web site for copies of newsletters,
interactive member forum, trout fishing links
and much more:
http://www.cvtu.org
This newsletter is for you, our
members. Let me know how we can
improve it or make it more useful to
you. And think about dropping me a
note with some content, items for sale,
stories, etc. It makes it more
interesting to all of us !
Tony Mortimer
Tony.Mortimer@cvtu.org
Candlewood Valley Chapter Trout Unimited – Board of Directors
James Belden
203-426-6039
President
James.Belden@cvtu.org
Tony Mortimer
203-241-7716
Newsletter Editor
Tony.Mortimer@cvtu.org
Jerry Rekart
203-775-2764
Vice President
Jerry.Rekart@cvtu.org
Joe Hovious
203-270-1960
Conservation Chair
Joe.Hovious@cvtu.org
Chuck Rich
203-952-4408
Treasurer
Chuck.Rich@cvtu.org
Gary Whipple
203-146-5982
Trips Chair
Gary.Whipple@cvtu.org
Jerry Rekart
203-775-2764
Program Chair
Jerry.Rekart@cvtu.org
Doug Peterson
Grants & Gov't Affairs
Doug.Peterson@cvtu.org
Chuck Rich
203-952-4408
Membership
Chuck.Rich@cvtu.org
Jonathan Atherton
Secretary
Jonathan.Atherton@cvtu.org
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Candlewood Valley
Chapter of
Trout Unlimited
P.O. Box 3795
Danbury, Ct 06811
Email:
tony.mortimer@cvtu.org
First Class
Postage Stamp
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- Candlewood Valley Chapter

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