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ORVIS.COM/HELIOS-2-FLY-RODS__________________________ qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents |Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents |Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents |Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents |Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® The Journal of Coldwater Fisheries Conservation www.tu.org SPRING 2016 32 l Watersheds Spring Again: Preparing to Chance It. BY CHRISTOPHER CAMUTO 34 l Blue Lines Planning Season. BY TOM REED 36 l The Fish as Stimulus BY NICHOLAS D. MIAN, Ph.D. 38 l Mill Creek Wonders (a Michigan Miracle) BY JOHN BEBOW 46 l 12 Tips for the Trout Mentor COMPILED BY KIRK DEETER 60 l Jackson Hole One-Fly at 30 BY PAUL BRUUN 70 l Voices from the River: How Howie Hooked a Bargain. BY DOC ARDREY 74 l People in Fishing Mentors. BY GEOFF MUELLER s 6 l From the CEO 8 l From the Editor 10 l Our Contributors 13 l Our Readers Write 14 l Pocket Water TU’s Veteran’s Service Partnership; Mentor stories; Women’s float on the Green; What sent The Bug Guy epartment back to college; winning “keepemwet” photos, and D more. 58 l Intermezzo Photo by Andy Bowlin 77 l Actionline Georgia cook-off; National Park Brook Trout; Leo T. Cronin Award; Youth conservation camps and academies; Stream Champ “Lee” Orr, and more. 80 Classics l “Priests” BY PAUL BRUUN On the Cover: Red Creek, Montana. Photo by Matt Guymon. BRYAN GREGSON BRYAN qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents |Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents |Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents |Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® qM qMqM Previous Page | Contents |Zoom in | Zoom out | Front Cover | Search Issue | Next Page qMqM Qmags THE WORLD’S NEWSSTAND® Chairman of the Board National Leadership Council Jim Asselstine, TYLER HILL, PA. Representatives State Council Chairs Chairman of National Leadership Council Mick McCorcle, FAIRVIEW, TEXAS Chair ARIZONA, Steve LaFalce Mick McCorcle ARKANSAS, John Sturgis President/Chief Executive Officer CALIFORNIA, Erik Young Chris Wood, WASHINGTON, D.C. Secretary Paul Doscher COLORADO, Marshall Pendergrass Secretary CONNECTICUT, Jim Glowienka ARIZONA Nancy Mackinnon, MANCHESTER CENTER, VT. , Joe Miller GEORGIA, Carl Riggs ARKANSAS, Bill Thorne IDAHO, Ed Northen Treasurer CALIFORNIA, Brian Hines ILLINOIS, Darwin Adams Barrett Toan, SANTA FE, N.M. COLORADO, Mac Cunningham IOWA, Brett Lorenzen Secretary of the National Leadership Council CONNECTICUT, Keith Ainsworth KENTUCKY, Lee Squires GEORGIA, Mack Martin Paul Doscher, WEARE, N.H. MAINE, Kathy Scott IDAHO, Chris Jones MASSACHUSETTS/RHODE ISLAND, John Troiano Legal Advisor ILLINOIS, Gerald Sapp MICHIGAN, John Walters David D. Armstrong, Esq., GREENVILLE, S.C. IOWA, Ryan Maas MID-ATLANTIC, Don Haynes KENTUCKY, Gene Slusher Trustees MINNESOTA, JP Little MAINE, David VanBurgel MISSOURI (OZARK COUNCIL) John Wenzlick Kai Anderson, WASHINGTON, D.C. MASSACHUSETTS/RHODE ISLAND, Garry Crago MONTANA, Chris Schustrom John Braico, M.D., QUEENSBURY, N.Y. MICHIGAN, David Smith NEW HAMPSHIRE, Thomas Ives Sherry Brainerd, RANCHO SANTA FE, CALIF. MID-ATLANTIC, Noel Gollehon NEW JERSEY, Richard Thomas Charlie Breithaupt, CLAYTON, GA. MINNESOTA, John Hunt NEW MEXICO, Art Vollmer Stoney Burke, KETCHUM, IDAHO MISSOURI (OZARK COUNCIL) Jeff Witten NEW YORK, Ron Urban Valerie Colas-Ohrstrom, NEW YORK, N.Y. MONTANA, Daniel Short NORTH CAROLINA, Jim Mabrey Mike Dombeck, STEVENS POINT, WIS. NEW HAMPSHIRE, March McCubrey OHIO, Tom Allen Bill Egan, JACKSON, WYO. NEW JERSEY, David King OKLAHOMA (INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL) Scott Hood, BROKEN ARROW, OKLA. NEW MEXICO, John Lopez David Games Patsy Ishiyama, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. NEW YORK, Roger Olson OREGON, Terry Turner Richard Johnson, WILMINGTON, N.C. NORTH CAROLINA, Dale Klug PENNSYLVANIA, Charlie Charlesworth Howard Kern, WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIF. OHIO, James Geary SOUTH CAROLINA, Jim Hopkins BROOKFIELD, WIS. Henry Koltz, OKLAHOMA (INDIAN NATIONS COUNCIL) Trout Unlimited Board of TrusteesTrout Unlimited Board of TENNESSEE, Dick Geiger Walt Minnick, CHEVY CHASE, MD. Charles Kaminski TEXAS, Mark Dillow Stephen Moss, LARCHMONT, N.Y. OREGON, David Moldal UTAH, Jeff Taniguchi Dan Needham, WINNETKA, ILL. PENNSYLVANIA, Monty Murty VERMONT, Clark Amadon Ken Olivier, SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. SOUTH CAROLINA, Malcolm Leaphart VIRGINIA, Kevin Daniels Daniel Plummer, EAST BRANCH, N.Y. TENNESSEE, Steve Brown WASHINGTON, Rosendo Guerrero Kevin Reilly, SANTA FE, N.M. TEXAS, Rafael Torres WEST VIRGINIA, Lee Orr Thomas Stoddard, LONDON, ENGLAND UTAH, Kelly Marquart WISCONSIN, Linn Beck LYNNWOOD, WASH. Mark Taylor, VERMONT, Jared Carpenter WILMINGTON, N.C. WYOMING, Calvin Hazlewood Raiford Trask, VIRGINIA, Graham Simmerman LIVINGSTON, MONT. Dan Vermillion, WASHINGTON, Tim Gavin SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. Jim Walker, WEST VIRGINIA, Derek Edwards BOZEMAN, MONT. K.C. Walsh, WISCONSIN, Kim McCarthy CHICAGO, ILL. John Willis, WYOMING, Jim Broderick Coldwater Conservation Fund Board of Directors 2016 Chair R. Scott Blackley, LEESBURG, VA. Edmond Opler, WILSON, WYO. Kirk Wortman, STAMFORD, CONN. Matthew Fremont-Smith, NEW YORK, N.Y. Stewart Parker, SEATTLE, WASH. Mark Gates, PALO ALTO , CALIF. Margaret Taylor, SHERIDAN, WYO. Executive Committee Steven B. Gewirz, WASHINGTON, D.C. Steven Renehan, SUMMIT, N.J. Douglas Biederbeck, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. James Jackson, HOUSTON, TEXAS Leigh Seippel, COLD SPRING, N.Y. Phillip Belling, NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. James Kelley, ATLANTA, GA. Robert Strawbridge, WILSON, WYO. Stephan Kiratsous, NEW YORK, N.Y. Cam MacMillan, BOULDER, COLO. Daniel Zabrowski, POCONO PINES, PA. Jeffery Morgan, DARIEN, CONN. Ivan Marcotte, CHARLOTTE, N.C. Stephen J. Zoukis, SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. Directors Jeffery Marshall, SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. Gregory McCrickard, TOWNSON, MD. Bruce Allbright, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLO. Stephen Moss, LARCHMONT, N.Y. John Bell, TRYON, N.C. Ken Olivier, SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. 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The first, an electric typewriter with a card from Dad: “for the Erin Block next great American novel.” I never wrote the novel, but did type every Trout Unlimited 1777 North Kent Street paper in college on that beast until I did my thesis on a Macintosh plus. Suite 100 The second present was a Green Mountain Orvis starter fly rod. I still Arlington, VA 22209 Ph: (703) 522-0200 have that rod. I broke the tip and replaced the lead guide with a spinning Fax: (703) 284-9400 guide, but it still fishes. A few years ago, my youngest son, Henry Trace, [email protected]_______ got his first fish on a fly with it. But the truth is I was more of a spin fisherman when I got www.tu.org to college. My friend (and TU life member) Rick Brown and I would occasionally take a day DESIGN grayHouse design for fishing—as in literally fishing for 24 hours straight. Bass in Otter Creek, trout from the [email protected]______________ New Haven, sheepshead from Lake Champlain, it didn’t matter. Sure we should have been DISPLAY ADVERTISING in school, but we learned more those days than our friends who went to class. Tim Romano Eventually, I broke out that Green Mountain rod because the parents and therapist of my [email protected] little brother from the Big Brother program thought fly fishing would be therapeutic for him. (303) 495-3967 Clearly, they forgot what it was like to be a 10-year-old boy, and did not know of the Gordian TROUT UNLIMITED’S MISSION: knots that two new anglers can create together. We would travel to the river, cast for five min- To conserve, utes, create an impossible snarl, and then turn over rocks and look for frogs for a few hours. protect and restore North I caught my first trout on the New Haven River in Vermont. With my fly line wrapped America’s around my legs as I tried to untangle a nasty knot, a trout ate my Zug-bug, and I had to coldwater fish- eries and their lasso the poor fish in. It was not until my friend, Bill Sargent, who worked at Middlebury watersheds. College, took me under his wing, that I actually began to intentionally catch a few fish. Bill would pull me aside and suggest I fish below thus-and-such falls. He and his spouse, TROUT (ISSN 0041-3364) is Tiffany, would invite me to their home for venison stew, and on the way out, he would published four times a year in January, April, July and October hand me a passel of flies that he tied and thought would work.