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Trout Unlimited Trout Unlimited MINNESOTAThe Official Publication of Minnesota Trout Unlimited - June 2015 MNTU Photo Contest Winners! Vermillion River Update MNTU Photo Contest Winners Book Review - Sea Winter Salmon Summer Volunteer Opportunities! And Lots More! without written permisssion of Minnesota Trout Unlimited. Trout Minnesota of permisssion written without Copyright 2015 Minnsota Trout Unlimited - No Portion of this publication may be reproduced reproduced be may publication this of Portion No - Unlimited Trout Minnsota 2015 Copyright Brook Trout Biology In Southeast Minnesota ROCHESTER, MN ROCHESTER, PERMIT NO. 281 NO. PERMIT Chanhassen, MN 55317-0845 MN Chanhassen, PAID P.O. Box 845 Box P.O. U.S. POSTAGE POSTAGE U.S. Non-Profit Org. Non-Profit Minnesota Trout Unlimited Trout Minnesota Trout Unlimited Minnesota Council Update MINNESOTA The Voice of MNTU Time to Fish By JP Little, Minnesota Council Chair On The Cover elcome to the 2015 summer and spawning and generally ignoring us Minnesota Trout Unlimited humans. A few steelhead even decided A pasture in the habitat improvement statewide newsletter. Sum- that our flies were worth taking – ‘twas section of Pickwick Creek (Trout W mer has broken out all over the great a glorious day. Brook) in Winona County at first light. state of Minnesota, and ‘tis the season Photo by Bruce Adelsman, MNTU to enjoy our many, many miles of trout I would like to welcome Dean Campbell 2015 Photo Contest Winner. streams. From Southeast to Central to as the incoming President of the Twin the North Shore, we have countless op- Cities chapter, and thank Mark John- portunities to chase trout and wild steel- son for his service to the Twin Cities head. and (ongoing) participation on the State In This Issue Council. I had the distinct pleasure of fishing • Brook Trout Biology with our esteemed editor and fishing Tight Lines! guide Carl Haensel this May and it was • Summer Volunteer Opportu- a magic day on the Stewart River, north nites of Duluth. The steelhead were on the move and scattered throughout the river. • Vermillion River Update Big males were tussling with each other. Pairs of steelhead were building redds • North Shore Steelhead • New Subscribtion Opportunity • And much more! Table of Contents SE MN Brook Trout Biology...........................................page 4 Vermillion River Update................................................page 5 Photo Contest Winners................................................page 6 North Shore Steelhead.................................................page 8 Join TU Today! Book Review - Sea Winter Salmon............................page 9 Want to subscribe to this newsletter? MNTU Chapter News.....................................................page 10 See the back page for details or visit www.tu.org to join Trout Unlimted! Reeling It In....................................................................page 12 Trout Unlimited Minnesota is the of- ficial publication of Minnesota Trout Unlimited. Issues are distributed to all members of Minnesota Trout Unlim- ited chapters. Subscriptions are avail- able by joining Trout Unlimited. See the back page for further details. Copyright © 2015 Minnesota Trout Unlimited. No Portion of this publica- tion may be reproduced without writ- ten permission from Minnesota Trout Unlimited. Advertising rate sheet available on re- quest. Send all editorial and advertis- ing correspondence or other inquiries to the editor: Carl Haensel 2067 E. Pioneer Rd Duluth, MN 55804 [email protected] Send address changes to: Trout Unlimited, 1550 Wilson Boule- vard, Arlington, VA, 22209. Fires burn along hay creek as prairie is maintained and woody vegetation is kept at bay. Want to get involved? Look for volunteer opportunities to get involved with TCTU and other chapters to help out in stream restoration projects this summer on pages 10 and 11. 2 From The Executive Director Your Voice Was Heard – Anti-Trout Provisions Removed or Changed! By John Lenczewski, MNTU Executive Director e join TU for many reasons; reduced by 20% was replaced with a all sprung from our passion study of the issue. Wfor trout fishing and the plac- es trout inhabit. While we all want to The exemption of counties and town- focus on the fishing, we also know there ships from restrictions on working in are times we need to dip a finger (or trout waters at destructive times of year pen) into the troubling waters of politics and from using DNR input regarding in order to preserve the local fisheries proper culvert sizing and placement was MNTU we cherish. This spring was one such effectively limited to streams and rivers time. I want to thank to all of you who other than designated trout streams. Im- Connections responded to one of MNTU’s recent ac- pacts to trout and steelhead waters from tion alerts by e mailing or calling your poorly planned culvert work, including Executive Director elected representatives. Your simple ac- impacts on spawning migrations, sum- John Lenczewski [email protected] tions succeeded in preventing three anti- mer movement to cold water refuges, Volunteers Needed trout provisions from becoming bad law. egg development, habitat, etc., are not 612-670-1629 www.mntu.org exempted. We need many volunteers to help out The provision restricting DNR’s ability with projects around the state this sum- to designate new trout streams and ap- Collectively our calls and e mails, along mer. Check out the opportunities to get Minnesota Council Chair parently barring improved trout waters with the help which MNTU enlisted involved in the chapter news section on JP Little from being designated was removed from our partners, succeeded in prevent- page 10. In particular, there are some [email protected] from the final bill. ing the destruction of countless streams great chances to get “Up North” this and wild fisheries around the state. You summer and spend time helping out on The provision gutting groundwater sus- probably did not join TU just for “fun” the Blackhoof River and on streams up TU MN Newsletter Editor tainability law and forcing DNR to per- of our action alerts, but your timely re- and down the North Shore. mit every new pumping request until sponse to them is what keeps our trout Carl Haensel [email protected] aquifers are so severely depleted that and trout streams around to enjoy. Thank See you on the water! summer base flows in trout streams are you for tolerance and swift action. 218-525-2381 Gitche Gumee Chapter Jon Aspie, President [email protected] 218-724-5014 Headwaters Chapter Bob Wagner, President [email protected] 218-586-2798 Hiawatha Chapter Phil Pankow, President [email protected] www.hiawathatu.org Mid-Minnesota Chapter A big Straight River brown trout gets ready to swim away after being caught during the hex hatch. Micah Barrett, President honorable mention 2015 contest photo by Steve Young. Look for more contest photos on page 8. [email protected] Twin Cities Chapter Editor’s Angle Dean Campbell, President [email protected] 612-564-TCTU Starting a Fishing Journal www.twincitiestu.org By Carl Haensel, Editor Waybinahbe Chapter ivers are flowing, fish are bit- While I can’t do that, my records high- Rod Prusi, President ing, and I hope that this edition light the good days, the really bad days [email protected] Rof our state publication finds you and some of the strange experiences that preparing to head outside and explore I’ve had. Maybe it was the day a bull the trout waters of Minnesota. On your charged me 5 times in a row in a cow Win-Cres Chapter way, remember to take plenty of pic- pasture, or the day I hooked the biggest Joe Lepley, President tures, make some memories, and maybe brown trout I’ve ever seen. Regardless, [email protected] just start a fishing journal. As Minnesota I’ve written it some of it down in hopes www.wincrestu.org Trout Unlimited works to protect, con- I might dig back in my notes and gain serve and enhance our trout waters, it is some small amount of wisdom - or laugh you the anglers that hold the knowledge at my earlier antics. of the state of many of our trout waters, Visit MNTU and journals are some the best records There is the also the potential of a broad- you can keep. er use in the future. I hope that MNTU Online may soon call on those of you who’ve To be perfectly honest, I’ve had a mixed taken some notes to share with us and and well surveyed waters. For the mo- record in my journal keeping. I know lead to more accurate records of what ment, head fishing, watch out for cows www.mntu.org friends of mine that can go back 20 years trout were present in what streams and and take notes! to the day and tell you just how Hay when. Some of this this data could help Creek was fishing on May 20th, 1995. us better advocate for our less well know 3 Brook Trout History, Natural History and the Genetics of Minnesota’s Native Trout in SE MN Neal Mundahl t’s hanging above the desk in my family room, a painting of two brook Itrout spawning in a boulder-strewn stream in Whitewater State Park. The picture was featured on the Minnesota State Parks annual vehicle permit many years back. I catch myself staring at it when I am supposed to be working on something else, daydreaming about streams and trout and good days outside. I daydream about taking my kids fish- ing for brook trout, using worms and a bobber to catch colorful fish from that deep pool next to the cow pasture on East Burns Valley Creek. Or casting something fuzzy and fake into that rocky channel where East Beaver Creek gush- es out of the hillside, hopeful that what we are offering is just as tempting as what the fish are catching as they slurp at the water’s surface.
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