Newsletter - Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited

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Guadalupe River Chapter of Trout Unlimited
Newsletter
No. 83 January 2007
GR
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GRTU
General Meeting
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Canyon
Lake Community Resource
& Recreation Center
(CRRC)
(Directions on page 3)
9 AM - Social Hour &
Lease Access
Orientation
10 AM - Business
Meeting &
Presentation
12 - Raffle & Lunch
Publication Data on Pg. 12
Alask
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at our January Meeting
At our next chapter
meeting, guide and outfitter Rus
Schwausch will tell us about
two fishing destinations-of-alifetime, located on the wild and
remote Alaska Peninsula - Alaska
Wilderness Safari and Alaska
Wilderness Outpost. For that
meeting, held at 10 AM on January
27th, we will be returning to one of
our favorite meeting venues, the
Canyon Lake Community Resource
& Recreation Center (CRRC) on
South Access Road near Canyon
Dam. (See page 3 of this newsletter
for a map and directions.)
Beginning in 1995, Rus
Schwausch spent several summers
in Alaska exploring unguided
wilderness float trips with his
buddies. They would fly with
all their equipment to the
headwaters of some remote river by
bush plane, then float and fish over
100 mile stretches for two weeks ata-time. These trips “infected” Rus
with Alaska, and headed his life in
a completely different direction.
Giving up his full time engineering
12:30 PM - Lease Access
Orientation
Wha
Whatt ’s Inside
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January Presentation
2
January Raffle
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Directions to Meeting
3
GRTU Day at Capital
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Guadalupe Bug Study
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River Cleanups
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State Record Striper
Thanks from Bill Higdon 6
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Fisheries Report
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Lease Access Report
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President’s Letter
Honorary Life Members 9
10
Board and Officers
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Century Club
11
Natl TU Rep to Visit
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Volunteers Needed
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Publication Data
Rus Schwausch operates the Alaska Wilderness Safari and Alaska
Wilderness Outpost camps.
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job, he started guiding in Alaska during the summers
while continuing engineering work as a consultant for 9
months out of the year back in Austin.
Rus has since taken over the camp where he
first started guiding, Alaska Wilderness Safari, and is
coming up on his seventh season there. His latest
project is the Alaska Wilderness Outpost, which is a
new, early season camp located in an area that he has
been testing and exploring over the last 3 years - and
with great success.
Rus is an accomplished photographer with a
cache of thousands of striking photos. His presentation
will let us glimpse the rare chance to fish No-name
Rivers enveloped by jaw-dropping scenery. Alaska
Wilderness Safari is a comfortable safari-type camp,
offering sea-run char and chrome-bright pink, chum &
silver salmon sight casting opportunities. Because of
the camp’s close proximity to the salt water, anglers
there have even successfully taken halibut on a fly.
The Safari camp is the more “sophisticated” destination
of the two, with plush amenities, gourmet food,
and helicopter fly-out fishing. There’s a lot more to do
there than just fish - incredible daily wildlife viewing,
hiking, waterfalls, tide pools, beach combing, etc.
Beautiful “leopard” rainbow trout, grayling and
powerful king salmon in a quaintly-sized stream are the
target at his second destination. The Alaska
Wilderness Outpost is a rustic tent camp for die-hard
fishermen in good physical shape, who are focused on
the quality fishing opportunities – namely big trout on
top-water mouse patterns – rather than the on the frills
of wilderness amenities.
You can see more of Rus’ expeditions at
www.epicanglingadventure.com. Come see Rus at the
January meeting for some heart-stopping photos of
heart-stopping Alaskan fish.
Rod and Boat for Raffle
At the January meeting we will award a new
Winston Boron IIx fly rod. For length and power, these
are the lightest rods ever made. We are raffling an 81/2’ 4-weight, which is a perfect rod for the Guadalupe
tailrace. This is the second generation boron/graphite
composite and sells for $595. Not only does this rod
cast for distance, but it fishes well in close. You can
still buy tickets for this great rod at the meeting.
Tickets will also be on sale for a Trout Unlimited
edition Colorado River Pontoon boat from Cabela’s.
Boasting a 400-lb. capacity, heavyduty PVC pontoons with cold- and
heat-resistant bladders and a powdercoated steel tube frame, the Colorado
River Pontoon offers reliable, stable
fishing performance on virtually any
water, from swift rivers to still lakes.
The boat is complete with a padded
three-position seat, adjustable
footrests, dual-side stripping apron,
huge storage pockets, back wire
basket platform, integrated anchor
system, 7-ft. aluminum oars, threeposition oar locks and a motor mount.
The boat will be awarded at our April
meeting.
We would like to thank Mark
Shelton, the RL Winston Rod
Company, Ryan Schmidt and Cabela’s
for their generous support of GRTU.
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Directions to the Canyon Lake
CRRC Recreation Center
GRTU Makes Plans for First
Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited
Day at the Capitol
>From NORTH or SOUTH: Just North of New
Braunfels on I-35 take Exit 191, (Canyon Lake Exit),
which is FM 306 and go WEST, about 14 miles to Sattler
(Canyon Lake area). Go past the traffic light at FM
2673 in Sattler for about 2 miles, (through Canyon City)
and turn Left at the blinking caution light and small road
sign marking the South Access Rd. Follow the South
Access Road for about two miles, passing below the
dam and across the spillway. The Recreation Center
will be on your left.
By Johnny Cargill
>From the WEST: From US 281, turn EAST on FM
306, which is between Twin Sisters and Spring
Branch. Drive about 16 miles to the blinking caution
light (just before you enter the area called Canyon
City). Turn Right on South Access and follow the
directions above to the Recreation Center, which will
be on your left.
>From the EAST: From I-10, take SH 46 to I-35. Go
North on I-35 to Exit 191 (Canyon Lake Exit), which
is FM-306. Go west, (Left), on FM306, and follow
the directions for North and South above.
Of course there are other routes, just check your Texas
map for other ways that might be better for your travel,
or check our link to an online map at www.grtu.org.
Mark your calendars for an exciting new event
for the GRTU Chapter. February 6th, 2007 our fine
chapter will descend upon the State Capitol, in Austin,
to tell our story and make visits to each legislator’s
office. The event will take place from 8:00 am till
10:30 am starting in the Legislative Conference
Center located in the Capitol extension Room
E2.002
E2.002. Our Sponsor, Senator Jeff Wentworth, will
welcome us over coffee and donuts, then we will
disperse, in teams, to assigned halls or rooms throughout
the Capitol. If you know a particular legislator,
personally, we will make every attempt to allow you to
be the point person for that office.
Each team will be armed with a “talking points”
and a leave behind item so that each and every legislator
will remember our visit. The purpose in an exercise
such as this is to formally educate our legislators on the
good work that our chapter does to conserve, promote
and protect trout and their coldwater habitat for the
benefit of future generations. When it comes to the
legislative process, no one will “toot our horn” for us.
We must take it upon ourselves to tell our story. Should
a day ever come that we are seeking legislative action
it is of utmost importance that they know who we are
and what we stand for before we go
in asking for favors.
Please make plans to attend
this very important event. This is an
opportunity to get “hands on”
involvement in the business of this
chapter and have a lot of fun at the
same time. We will make sure that
you are well armed with a short
training session and a consistent
message to take to our state’s
leadership.
Should you have any
questions please call Johnny Cargill
at 512.917.1794. If you plan on
attending, we would appreciate an
RSVP to Johnny Cargill at
jdc@hillcountrytx.net . See you at
the Capitol on February 6th!
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Guad Bug Study
Update
By Alan Bray
alanbray@systemsandmaterials.com
. We will attempt a final schedule
for volunteers in mid-January.
Potential State Record
Striper Caught in
Guadalupe River
By John Erskine
Archis Grub, who some
members met at our last GRTU
meeting, is continuing his drift
studies and beginning to analyze the
results. The analysis is very time
consuming and requires hours of
separating and categorizing the
samples – often with the aid of a
microscope - down to family and
phyla for each insect type.
A cooperative development
with TPWD San Marcos (via
GRTU’s best friend Steve Magnelia)
will provide a source of data
exchange and information on the
total stocking profiles to make sure
gut sampling is done on fish that have
been resident in the river for at least
a month or more. This will also
provide Archis with detailed
historical data that TPWD keeps on
file.
Archis is looking for
volunteers for day/night drift
sampling in the 2nd week of
February – that’s the 10th and 11th
– Saturday and Sunday. It would
begin Saturday early morning (7:30
am) and run to Sunday 9 am. For
additional information email
Additional River
Clean-ups Scheduled
for February and
March
By Corby Bittner
On behalf of the chapter, I
personally would like to thank
everyone who participated in the
past river clean-ups.
Our
involvement in September with
Friends of the River enabled GRTU
to be invited as a stakeholder to the
River Advisory Board for the City
of New Braunfels. We had the
opportunity to voice our concerns
and our vision on the future of the
Guadalupe River. Once again, we
wouldn’t be where we are without
the great volunteerism in our
chapter.
Having completed chapterled river cleanups in November and
December, we have two more
planned for our winter season – one
in early February and another in late
March. Stay tuned for more details
as those days get nearer.
Hi! I’m John Erskine and
I’ve lived in Austin for about 12
years. I’ve been fishing off and on
all of my life, and have been a very
avid fly fisherman for about ten
years. It is a pretty consuming
passion, so I’ve done a lot of fishing
in that time. I really enjoy fishing for
a variety of species, in a variety of
conditions and I love to travel. In
Texas, I fish mostly for warm water
species, and especially love trying
to catch carp on a fly. I’ve been
fortunate to have the opportunity
fish all over the world from northern
Norway to Patagonia and for a wide
variety of species. Like most people,
I have other passions in addition to
fishing, like climbing and
mountaineering, and lately I am
toying with canoe and kayak racing
as well. When I’m not fishing I work
in senior management for a Korean
video game publisher, invest in real
estate, and usually have a couple of
entrepreneurial pursuits incubating
on the side. I’ve been in the GRTU
chapter for about 8 years I believe,
and joined in order to get access to
the lease program.
On December 2nd , I went
fishing with my friends Shea
McClanahan and Alan Weinberger
on the Guadalupe below the Fourth
Crossing. I’ve heard about the
stripers in the Guadalupe since the
major flood a few years ago, and
have talked about fishing for them
for some time. I’ve never caught a
striper before, but have always
wanted to! I have been trout fishing
a lot this year already, so I brought
an 8 weight and some big streamers
with me this trip with the intention
of catching a striper.
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John Erskine displays what may turn out to be a new Texas
record S
triped Bass.
Striped
We fished above the weir
for a while in the morning and caught
some very nice rainbows. The fish
were rising to the surface, and I
caught 8-10 on dries! Super fun!
After a while, I decided to rig up
the 8 weight and fish the deep holes
below the weir where the stripers
are said to hang out.
I was fishing an 8 wt rod
with a bead head black and yellow
bunny bugger with a Teeny T200
sinking line. Serious ‘dredgeomatic’
technique. I was making long
shooting casts down and across in
the slower deeper holes and got
hung up several times on the bottom.
I saw some shadowy shapes moving
deep at the tail end of the run. I
figured they were carp as I caught
a big one out of this same hole a
week earlier. I made a long cast in
that direction, let the fly sink, started
a fast strip and for a split second I
thought I was hung up again.
However, the big toilet flush in the
middle of the river let me know
something else was going on. The
fish ran a very long ways into my
backing, in fact I was worried about
running out of backing a couple of
times. He stayed very deep, and for
a while I wasn’t sure what I even
had on the line. I feared that I had
foul hooked a big carp because of
the way this fish went to the bottom
and stayed there. He was so far
away, and in deep water, that we
didn’t get a good look at him for
about 10 minutes. When I finally got
the fish close enough to us, and close
enough to the surface, there was a
moment where his huge gray striped
tail came up out of the water in slow
motion, and my heart skipped a few
beats. He took about 20 minutes to
land on 14 pound tippet and put up
quite a fight. Thanks to my friend
Shea for helping me land him,
without his help it would have taken
much longer to finish the job.
Turns out this is now a
pending state fly rod record striper
caught from the Guadalupe River
on December 2nd, 2006. Thanks to
Shea and Alan for helping me figure
out how to properly weigh and
record the fish, I didn’t know
anything about the process before
this experience. The previous state
record was 22 pounds for a striper
on a fly rod. This fish was measured
on a certified scale at 36.65 pounds,
43 inches long, and 26 inches in
girth. Normally I release my fish,
but I decided to keep this one to
apply for the state record, and the
Guadalupe trout fishermen will be
happy that he isn’t eating trout out
of this hole any more. So far this is
the biggest fish I have landed on a
fly rod. I’ve hooked bigger tarpon,
but not landed them. Until this fish,
the biggest freshwater fish I have
landed is a carp in the 20 pound
range. My incredible luck would
have it that this is my first striper,
and a potential record. I have a
feeling it won’t be my last!
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The Latest News and
a Word of Thanks
from Bill Higdon
As most of you know, our
Vice President of Fisheries, Bill
Higdon, has had a challenging year.
Since early summer, Bill has
managed to survive a heart attack,
a cracked neck vertebra, and a
stroke. Bill’s stroke occurred in
early October, just after he had
returned from a trip to the Devil’s
River. The stroke significantly
limited his mobility on his right side,
so he spent a month in a hospital and
rehabilitation center.
Bill says he had a
challenging time in the hospital and
rehab center and could have easily
become discouraged, but the
overwhelming response of anglers,
including many of our chapter
members he didn’t even know,
helped buoy his spirits and keep his
sense of humor. Bill would like to
thank all of you who took time out
from your busy schedules to give
him a call or drop him a card. (Bill
was told that his volume of mail at
the rehab center was the largest
they had ever received for one
patient.) “Until this happened, I
didn’t know how big a family I had,”
said Bill.
Bill is now at home on the
river, just down from Little
Ponderosa Bridge, where he’s
watching us fish and working on his
rehabilitation so he can rejoin us on
the water. He set three goals for
his rehabilitation – to drive his truck,
to return to his job as a river guide,
and to ride his Harley. He’s
accomplished the first goal (so
watch out) and is working on the
second, with the help of several
therapists and the continued support
of his many friends and chapter
members. I can’t say when he will
accomplish the third, but if you hear
a Harley, it’s probably wise to give
it a wide berth, just in case.
Fisheries Report
By Bill Higdon
As I write this, in early
December, the weather is changing
and the river and lake are cooling
down, so we should have no
concerns about the water
temperature or quality as we move
into the middle of our trout season.
The flows are pretty low, which
makes it more challenging for the
fish but easier for those who fish for
them. By now, we should have over
9000 of our fished stocked, and the
state’s Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department (TPWD) should be
nearly half done with the 17,000
smaller fish they plan to stock in the
river this year.
GRTU and TPWD get our
trout from the same hatcheries in
southern Missouri, since they are
certified hatcheries producing
healthy trout of a strain that is
particularly tolerant of the wide
range of temperatures they can
experience down here in Texas. As
it turns out, they are having a multiyear drought in southwest Missouri,
just as we are here. The result is
that their hatchery capacity has
been greatly reduced and it has
been much more difficult for them
to grow their trout to the size we
are accustomed to stocking. What
we’ve been promised is that our
orders for trout will be filled, but they
will probably be a bit smaller this
year than in the recent past.
Again this year, there has
been increased enforcement of
catch and release fishing by TPWD
in the trophy trout zone, so be sure
you have a current Texas fishing
license with a freshwater stamp if
you plan to fish the river. There have
also been some concerns about
people fishing at leases without
posting their parking passes in their
windshields. Landowners will tow
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vehicles without the proper current
passes, and vehicles with no passes
could cause us to lose our leases,
so please ensure your parking tag is
easily visible when you park at a
lease.
Before closing, I’d also like
to thank Jimbo Roberts for all his
help as the acting VP of Fisheries
during my convalescence. He’s
done a great job and has even cut
into his personal fishing time to help
get this year’s season off to a great
start. Thanks, Jimbo!
We’ve had early reports
that the fishing has been good, with
catches in the dozens sometimes
reported. We’ve also heard that a
lot more of this year’s crop of trout
are feeding on top, so be sure to
bring a few dry flies along. Get out
there and fish, and I’ll see you on
the river.
Lease Access
Membership Report
By Steve Stilp
Our GRTU 2006-2007
Lease Access Program is under
way and will provide our members
a memorable time on the river.
Membership entitles you to enjoy all
of our access points to park your
car and get on the river to fish.
Many of these access points are
year round. Also, Members can
sign up children between the ages
of 10-17 at no additional cost. What
a wonderful opportunity to spend
time with your children on the river.
As you are aware, we have
had a very unusual dry summer
which has reduced the flows on the
river. We especially need your help
this year in joining our “Lease
Access Program” so we have
available funds to restock the river.
We have now stocked the
river and plan several more
stockings. As a member via e-mail
you will be advised of the stockings
and be invited to help. Also, please
feel free to invite family and friends
to join us and be introduced to our
program.
Go to our web site:
WWW.GRTU.ORG
<http://
www.grtu.org/> and click on
membership for further details. Our
site is active for membership sign
up and we now accept credit cards.
You are able to sign up online. We
will be holding a lease orientation
class prior to and after our next
General Membership Meeting on
Saturday January 26, 2007. We also
have orientation classes on an
ongoing basis. Go to our website
and check out the details. Please
contact me if you have any
questions: Steve.Stilp@grtu.org.
We are looking forward to seeing
you on the river.
President’s Letter: A
Time for Thanks and
New Beginnings
By Mick McCorcle
As I write this penultimate
president’s letter, Thanksgiving has
just passed. As you read it, a new
year will have just begun. So it’s
both a time for looking back and
looking forward, both personally and
as a chapter. I’ll soon pass my third
anniversary as GRTU’s president
and will be moving on to other
responsibilities, yet to be determined,
after April’s chapter elections. As
a chapter, we are fast approaching
the 40th anniversary of our founding.
Personally, it’s been one of
the most rewarding periods of my
life, at times challenging and
frustrating, but also enriched by the
many fine people who have worked
alongside me as stewards of the
Guadalupe River and its trout fishery.
Thinking back to that shocking week
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in late February of 2004, when I was informed I had
just become GRTU’s President, I remember feeling
both panic and excitement. Panic because I’d failed
to obtain and read a copy of the chapter’s by-laws that
clearly state that the Vice President of Chapter Affairs
– a position I had held for less than a month – succeeds
to the presidency in the case of a vacancy. (Lesson
learned: always read the by-laws, just like you read the
fine print on a new contract.) Excitement because I’d
recently left a TU chapter near Chicago where I had
been president, but due to a family job move had been
unable to fulfill my term, so I was excited to be given
another chance to serve TU, this time with what is
undoubtedly the most unique chapter in the land.
What made that quick transition possible was
a number of experienced, supportive people, willing to
put up with my late night e-mails and constant questions
and requests for advice. I relied heavily on the counsel
of past presidents like Jeff Schmitt, Alan Bray, and Billy
Trimble and on the ongoing allegiance and hard work
of folks like Bob Tuttle, David Schroeder, Jimbo Roberts
and Karen Gebhardt. I quickly found I could also rely
on that silent majority on the Board, gentlemen like
Hylmar Karbach, Oscar Dupre and Doug Kierklewski,
who avoided the limelight but would work long hours
at chapter meetings or show up at Landa Park on those
bitterly cold days in January to teach kids to fly cast at
Troutfest. More recently, we’ve been blessed with
the leadership and dedicated service of directors and
officers like Bill Higdon, Steve Stilp, Greg Neubauer,
Bob Runion, Ron McAlpin, MJ Nalley, Johnny Cargill
and Phil Dopson and the emerging contributions of
Dennis Sheppard, Corby Bittner, Joe Filer and Randy
Bland.
Our chapter has also accomplished a lot in the
last few years. At our meetings, I am always heartened
by the presence of charter members and former chapter
leaders like Doc Johnson, Irving O’Neal, Jim Vynalek,
Bill West, Rupert Gresham, Bob Story, Bob Newman
and others, but also humbled when I realize all the hard
work required over many decades to bring our chapter
to the point it is today – the largest Trout Unlimited
chapter in the world.
In 2004, Trout Unlimited asked chapter
members across the US to go to the TU website and
vote for their favorite trout streams. Shortly thereafter,
I received a call from John Ross, author of Trout
Unlimited’s Guide to America’s 100 Best Trout
Streams, informing me that the Guadalupe River had
been the top vote-getter of their survey. John
subsequently visited us here in Texas, fished the river,
and included it in the revised edition of his book. Later
that year, Trout Unlimited’s National Leadership Council
voted unanimously to include Texas on the Council,
ending years of “stepchild” status for our chapter.
Through Jeff Schmitt’s fine efforts as our first
National Leadership Council Representative, Texas has
finally been well-represented at the national level. One
of Jeff’s first accomplishments was to obtain for Texas
the “council portion” of per diem member rebate from
TU, which has allowed us to offset some of the printing
and postage costs associated with staying in touch with
our membership across the state through our
newsletters. Jeff was also instrumental in founding
our Coldwater Outreach Conservation Fund, an effort
that has already borne fruit in restoration efforts on
Trout Run Creek in SE Minnesota and has the potential
to allow our chapter members to choose other stream
restoration projects which they feel are worthy of our
assistance.
More recently, we’ve had a Conservation
Committee form under the leadership of Chris Lambert,
Jeff Schmitt, and Greg Neubauer and organize a number
of useful projects. We now have regular river cleanups
associated with our stockings and additional cleanups
co-sponsored with other organizations (thanks, Corby
Bittner). We are funding a “bug study” of the river in
cooperation with Texas State, San Marcos, the Texas
River Systems Institute, and Texas Parks and Wildlife,
with Alan Bray as our study liaison. David Schroeder
continues his efforts to maintain a real time water
temperature monitor, and Jimbo Roberts and Gary Cobb
have helped us kick off an ongoing effort to test the
water quality along the river.
For the future, we have much to look forward
to. First, there’s the pilot run of “Trout in the Classroom”
at Hoffman Lane Elementary School in Sattler, thanks
to the hard work and guidance of Education Committee
Chair Karen Gebhardt and the technical assistance of
VP of Chapter Affairs (and aquarium wizard) Ron
McAlpin. Shortly thereafter, we’ll have our first “GRTU
Day at the Capitol” under the leadership of Johnny
Cargill (see an article about that on page 3 of this
newsletter.) We will continue our trout stockings and
river cleanups, with a full scale cleanup scheduled for
the last Saturday in March. About then, we should
begin to get back some of the findings from the bug
study.
In the longer term future, there are a number
of possibilities we can pursue. There appears to be
growing support to make the Guadalupe River a more
hospitable place for trout. This could include streamside
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re-vegetation in cooperation with landowners, in-stream
structure work (like wing dams), and even the possibility
of moving the upper limit of the trophy trout zone closer
to the dam. All of these would require lots of
coordination with other organizations and hard work,
but given our history as a chapter, neither of those
challenges has kept us from accomplishing good things
for the trout and the river in the past, and shouldn’t be
obstacles for the future.
Please note: This will be the last issue of
this newsletter edited by the very accomplished
Patrick Amick, who has labored behind the scenes
to make this such a fine publication. I am sure I am
joined by the Board and the rest of the chapter in
thanking Patrick for his dedicated service and for
the extremely professional newsletters he has
produced for us during the last three years. So,
thanks, Patrick, and best of luck with your upcoming
graduate studies!
If you are interested in replacing Patrick as
our newsletter editor, please contact me at
Mick.McCorcle@grtu.org.
The Guadalupe River
Chapter of
Trout Unlimited
Honorary Life Members
The following distinguished members of GRTU have been designated, some posthumously, as Honorary Life
Members of the Chapter for their exceptional contributions to our work. This honor is reserved for commendatory
recognition of individuals whose personal service contributions to the Chapter are deemed to have had outstanding
impact in advancing Chapter and TU objectives.
Clement W Bird
Bill Cobb
Dick Finta
Howard Itten
William A. (Bill) Johnson
James W Keeton
Chad Oliver
Irving O’Neal
William C. (Bill) Pabst
J. Bill Parvin
Basden L. (Bud) Priddy, MD
Glenn Richardson
David Schroeder
Mrs. Hazel Schubauer
Lt. Col. Paul A. Schubauer (Ret.)
Marian Tilson
R.E. (Bob) Tuttle
Jim Vynalek
William G. (Bill) West
T.B. (Tom) Whitehouse
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The Guadalupe River Chapter of Trout Unlimited
Guadalupe River Chapter of Trout
Unlimited (GRTU)
General Meeting - January 27, 2007
at the Canyon Lake Community Resource & Recreation Center (CRRC)
Lease Access Orientation & Social Hour Begin at 9 AM
Business Meeting and Presentation Begin at 10 AM
Lunch and Raffle to Follow
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The Guadalupe River Chapter of Trout Unlimited
Honors Our
Century Club Members
The following have contributed $100 or more for GRTU programs, including the Guadalupe River Legal Defense
Fund, in addition to their supporting membership donations and lease access fees. Please note: This list is only
current as of press time; we apologize to members added after that date.
Hector Allende
Scott Anderson
David Baird
Dr. Jan Birchall
Andre Boutte
Duane Brandt
Alan Bray
Sam Castleberry
Mark Cavender
Dr. Thomas Coopwood
Mike Dooley
Phil Dopson
Frank Estes
Karen Gebhardt
Mark Ingram
Ralph Jenkins
Hylmar Karbach
Ralph Lehr
Lloyd Mathews
Mark McCollum
Mick McCorcle
James Mclver
Doug Ming
Jo Murry
Dennis Naidus
Greg Neubauer
TU National Representative to Join
Us for the January Chapter
Meeting
Our special guest for the January chapter
meeting will be David Rogers, a Texas native who is
currently the Director of Volunteer Operations for Trout
Unlimited’s national organization. David will provide
a brief overview of TU National’s current activities
and priorities and will meet with our board and interested
chapter members for a leadership development session
during his visit. We also plan to get Dave on the river
to sample our Guadalupe River trout fishing.
Dave attended Harvard University, where he
majored in “football and flyfishing” (his words). After
college, he obtained an MBA, worked as an investment
banker, and spent six years as a back country guide in
the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana. At TU, David
and his organization are the primary liaisons between
TU and the organization’s chapters and members. We
are excited about having Dave join us for our meeting
and know you will enjoy getting to know him and learning
more about TU’s plans for the future.
Andy Niland
Douglas Ragsdale
James Roberts
Bob Runion
Jeff Schmitt
Roy Schwitters
Stephen Stilp
Kim Stoddard
James Timms
Rafael Torres
Douglas Wage
Jeff Wooley
Annual Elections Scheduled for
April – Volunteers Needed
Our chapter will elect a new slate of officers
and directors in April, so it’s time to begin planning for
a transition in leadership. If you are interested in joining
the board or one of our chapter’s committees, please
let us know by going to our chapter website,
www.grtu.org, and clicking on the “Volunteer” tab and
filling out the volunteer sheet at the bottom of that page,
or by sending your contact information directly to our
President at Mick.McCorcle@grtu.org.
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Guadalupe River
Chapter of Trout
Unlimited
PO Box 536
Austin, TX 78767
NON-PROFIT ORG.
U.S. POSTAGE PAID
AUSTIN, TX 78767
PERMIT NO. 1627
GRTU Newsletter
Publication dates: January, April, and October to over
4,800 Trout Unlimited members in Texas.
Contacts
Mick McCorcle
McCorcle, President, 1810 Cordillera Trace, Boerne,
TX 78006, (830) 230-5507, Mick.McCorcle@grtu.com; or
Randy Bland, Advertising Manager, 19618 Encino Knoll,
San Antonio, TX 78259, (210) 481-2477,
Randy.Bland@grtu.org
Advertising Rates
Ad sizes: Business card size, 1/4, 1/2 and full page. Rates:
Business card- $75 for 1 issue, $125 for 2 issues, $175 for
3 issues; 1/4 page- $90 for 1 issue, $140 for 2 issues, $200
for 3 issues; 1/2 page- $150 for 1 issue, $250 for 2 issues,
$375 for 3 issues; full page- $275 for 1 issue, $450 for 2
issues, $625 for 3 issues. Ad Copy: Camera-ready black
and white. Ad copy deadlines: January artwork due December 1; April artwork due March 1; October artwork
due September 1. Payment: Due with artwork. Make
checks payable to Guadalupe River Chapter, TU. Mail to
GRTU c/o Phil Dopson, Chapter Treasurer, at PO Box
536, Austin, TX 78767.
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With regard to your membership, change of
address, not recieving Trout magazine, or other
matters, write, phone, or E-mail:
Trout Unlimited
1300 North 17th St., Suite 500
Arlington, VA 22209-3800
Phone: (703) 522-0200
Fax: (703) 284-9400
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Membership Phone: 1-800-834-2419
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