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FlyGals of the Collegiate Peaks Anglers 2014 Events Calendar Arkansas eAngler Put These Meeting dates and key activities on your calendar: Issue Number 37
Mar 4 Banquet meeting Solicitation information & packet pick-up March 2014 Shavano Manor 16th & J St. Salida 12-1 Upcoming Meeting
Mar 8 Gear Swap The March 12th meeting of the Community Center Collegiate Peaks Anglers will 3rd & F Street be held at the Mount Shavano 11:00-2:00 Salida Manor meeting room, 16th & J St. The meeting starts at 7:00, Mar 12 CP Anglers meeting is free and open to the public. Wednesday 7:00 Mount Shavano Social time begins at 6:30 p.m. meeting room with refreshments. 16th & J St. Salida The chapter board of directors meeting starts at 4:45 and is open to the public. Mar 21 FlyGals Bug Clinic Buena Vista---See Announcement below MARCH PROGRAM Mar 21 Colorado TU Gala 6901 Wadsworth Blvd. Leadville National Fish Hatchery - Mission, History and Arvada, CO Current Threats
Mar 25 Banquet meeting Mark R. Cole, Vice-President of the Friends of the Ticket prep Leadville National Fish Hatchery, and Ed Stege, Hatchery High Country Bank Highway 24 North. Buena Vista 12 Manager, will present a talk on the Leadville National noon Fish Hatchery, which celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. The talk will cover the hatchery's mission, April 4-6 Colorado TU spring Conference history, current operations, recreation, education, Redstone, CO. heritage tourism, the Friends group, and its economic impact. Recently the USFWS has issued a report on the April 12-13 Home & Garden Show hatchery system and the Leadville Hatchery is Chaffee County Fairgrounds threatened with potential closure. The rest of the talk will be focused on the potential closure, its effects and efforts to prevent its occurrence.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR 2014 CADDIS FESTIVAL BANQUET
Planning for the 2014 Caddis Festival in underway. The Caddis Festival is the Collegiate Peak Angler Trout Unlimited Chapter's only fund-raiser and will be held at the Chaffee County Fairgrounds on May 3, 2014. The money raised from this event supports many chapter projects, including stream restoration, educational activities, scholarships, and the Kid's Fishing Derbies in Salida and Buena Vista.
We need you and other Chapter members to help with this event. There are a number of ways you can be a part of this effort.
1. Join the Banquet Committee for planning for the Caddis Festival. 2. Consider becoming a sponsor when you receive the letter announcing the event. 3. Donate something for the silent or live auction (preparing a gourmet dinner, providing a gift certificate, donating your art or handicraft items, flies you have tied, trips you will guide). 4. Participate in the solicitation for donations or sponsorships from local businesses. 5. Order your tickets when they letter comes in the mail (you can donate your tickets if you can't attend; we can use them for VIPs and other invited guests). 6. Help with the set-up for the Caddis Festival on either or both May 2nd and 3rd at the Chaffee County Fairgrounds 7. Serve as a greeter or sell raffle tickets at the Caddis Festival.
We'd love to have you be part of this important chapter event. For more information, contact Barbara Plake (2014 Banquet Committee Chair) at 395-0478 or at [email protected]
Spring 2014 Chapter Fishing Trip River Lore
San Juan River April beckons, not far away. Just one problem, March is in the way.
Collegiate Peaks Anglers has a tradition of doing one or more fishing trips each Could be the Lion in winter, year. These are it's wicked air open to all members and their guests. Usually we try to go somewhere within a slicing like splinters, reasonable slip sliding the banks ice free edges, driving distance, at as low cost as possible, and to places where consistent fishing giving you the jitters. is predictable. But not for long, as wands will wave, into a We also try to pick an area where activities other than fishing are readily available. spring of hope and that fish behave. At the February chapter meeting we will announce these tentative details about this year's trip: Michael C. Harrington
When: May 6-10 (4 nights - Tuesday thru Saturday) Quick Links Where: San Juan River in NW New Mexico below Navajo Dam Chapter Website The plan is to get a combination of motel/cabin lodging and also some campsites at Colorado Trout Unlimited Website Cottonwood Campground (a New Mexico State Park), which are a few miles National Trout Unlimited Website downstream from the dam and next to the river. This is about 4-5 hours from Welcome New Salida. Everyone will be responsible for obtaining their own lodging, meals and Members reservations. Listed below are the websites for two of the areas services as well as the reservation site for Cottonwood Campground. William McFadden Leadville Douglas Dolton Coaldale Abe's Motel and Fly Shop http://www.sanjuanriver.com Patrick Black-Dale Buena Vista
Fisheads San Juan River Lodge http://www.fisheadsofthesanjuan.com Board of Directors Cottonwood Campground http://newmexicostateparks. reserveamerica.com/camping/Navajo_Lake/r/campsiteCalendar.do?page= calendar&search=site&contractCode=NM&parkId=430020& topTabIndex=CampingSpot Click here for complete chapter Board member
Right now we need an idea of the number interested so, without making an ironclad information: commitment, contact Larry Payne at 719-338-8837. http://collegiatepeaksanglerstu.org/about/board-
of-directors
Newsletter Credits
Michael Harrington Editor CONTACT US
Collegiate Peaks Anglers meet every second Wednesday (except May). This is the e-Newsletter of Collegiate Peaks Anglers, The meeting place alternates between Salida and Buena Vista. a Chapter of the Nation's Leading Coldwater
Conservation Organization--Trout Unlimited Member submissions to the newsletter are needed and encouraged. Send by email or regular mail. Editor's deadline is the 23rd of the month. Questions 719-530-0691 or e-mail [email protected]. Contact us at : The Fly Gals [email protected] The Collegiate Peak Anglers Chapter of TU has an awesome group of ladies in their ranks - the FlyGals. Our Mission
FlyGals host great events like Companion Fishing, where more Trout Unlimited's mission is to conserve, protect and experienced women fly fishers are paired with more novice women restore North America's coldwater fisheries and their for a day of fly-fishing, and River Fishing, where each woman has a watersheds. "river helper" (often a member of Collegiate Peaks Anglers) to serve as a "guide" for a morning of fly fishing on the Arkansas River.water fishing. In the summer the FlyGals get together for trips from high mountain lakes fishing for native cutthroats to private water on the Arkansas.
With over 30 women currently on the roster, FlyGals is a great testament to women on the rise in fly fishing! For more information or to join the FlyGals email list, please contact Barbara Plake at [email protected]
http://www.coloradotu.org/2013/04the-flygals/.
2014 Fly Gals Bug Clinic
When: Friday March 21, 2013 Location: BuenaVista Library 131 Linderman Avenue Time: 12:00 - 4:30 Reservations: Contact Barbara Plake at 395-0478 or email [email protected] by March 15. Registration is limited.
Dan Stockton, Collegiate Peaks Anglers TU member and local fly fishing guide will lead the program. Ark Anglers will provide lunch. Dan will provide an overview of the bugs found in the Arkansas River. He'll talk about their life cycle and show us flies that can be used to imitate them for fly-fishing. This is great information for successful fly-fishing. In additional to learning a lot, it will be an opportunity for the Fly Gals to socialize.
Barbara Plake and Dominique Naccarato , 2014 Fly-Gals Co-chairs
Visit the chapter's website www.collegiatepeaksanglerstu.org for more information.
FlyGals 2014 Activities Schedule
March 8th - Collegiate Peaks Anglers chapter Gear Swap (a great chance to get slightly used fly fishing gear.) Salida Community Center 3rd & F St. 11-2:00
March 21st - Bug Clinic with Dan Stockton; noon - 4:00 BV Library, 131 Linderman Ave.
Date Pending - Casting Class with Stuart Andrews, Ark Anglers, Salida
May 3rd - Collegiate Peaks Anglers Caddis Festival. Chaffee County Fairgrounds, 5:30 - 9:00
June 14 - 15 - Fly Fishing Clinic June 14, 9 - 3; June 15, 9 - 12
July 4th - Collegiate Peaks Anglers Kids Fishing Derby Salida, 9 - noon
July 12th - Arkansas River Fishing with River Helpers; 8:30 - 2:00
August 16th - Crystal Lake fly fishing 9 - 3
August 30th - Collegiate Peaks Anglers Kids Fishing Derby BV, 9 - noon
October 18th - Wine and Cheese Social and Year-in-Review, 4:00 - 6:30.
Details for each event are on the FlyGals Facebook page: Collegiate Peaks Anglers FlyGals
Collegiate Peaks Anglers Newsletter and Website: http://collegiatepeaksanglerstu.org
Barbara Plake and Dominique Narracato, 2014 FlyGals Co-Chairs Marjie Gray and Tracy Craig, FlyGals Planning Committee
Fishing Quote
"If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago."
Zane Gray
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