Newsletter of the Cohutta Chapter of Trout Unlimited February 2012
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February 2012 Newsletter of the Cohutta Chapter of Trout Unlimited I hope that you all can make it to the February Lines from the Leader meeting. Mark Scarborough from Southeastern Hello, Anglers will be doing the presentation and we will be raffling off a Full Day float trip for two with them. It was good to see all of you who made out to the January (Dane Law and Southeastern Anglers donated a ½ meeting and the Stream of the Month. We now have the day and the chapter is kicking in to make it full day.) full 2012 calendar of events and Steam of the Months. Be You do not need to be present to win – but you do to sure to check them out on our updated Web site and buy raffle tickets. ;-) update your calendars. Thanks, and I hope to see you all on the 23rd! Tony Tony Rackie [email protected] http://tucohutta.org http://tucohutta.org/calendar-of-events/ What’s Inside Once again I want to thank Jeff and Nam for the efforts to Lines from the Leader P. 1 update our Web site. Nam has been watching the traffic Calendar of Events P. 2 on it and we are getting a lot more hits and hopefully you Rabun Awards Gavin Carson P. 2 will find it a useful tool and resource – along with BTB Intern Program P. 2 increasing our visibility to those looking to get involved with Membership P. 3 GWFF Annual Fund Raiser P. 4 our chapter and to join TU. South Eastern FF Festival P. 4 Trout in the Classroom P. 5 At the last meeting we had a good number of folks sign up for our workdays and to give everyone a little more Remedy for Cabin Fever P. 5 encouragement to help out I announced our Special 2012 BTB Article P. 6 Raffle of a bamboo rod and reel. Chattooga USFS issues their "Final Decision" P. 7 GMO fish and other food P. 7 Raffle tickets will be $5 each, but for each of the chapter SPECIAL REPORT P. 7 workdays and other events that you work you will be given Kayak fishing symposium P. 8 one raffle ticket. The raffle will be held during the Smoker Georgia FF for Vets Flier P. 9 in November so we hope that everyone will get a lot of chances to win. 1 Calendar of Events rd Cohutta Chapter Meeting Feb 23 Cohutta Chapter #242 Officers Cohutta SOTM Toccoa DH Feb 25th th President Hoot on the Hooch March 10 Tony Rackie Phone 770-712-7231 nd Cohutta Chapter Meeting March 22 E-mail [email protected] rd Cohutta SOTM Nanny & Tuck March 23 Vice President Jeff Wilson Phone 770-693-0168 Email [email protected] Meetings are held at the Delkwood Grill 1 mile east of I75 on Delk Road in Marietta, the Treasure fourth Thursday of the month. Ken Dye Phone 770-973-0751 E-mail [email protected] Secretary Carolyn Wilder Phone 770-710-1166 Email [email protected]’ Rabun Chapter Awards Gavin Carson Stream of the Month Carl Kologinczak Phone 770 924-0001 The first SOTM for 2012 will be the Cohutta E-mail [email protected] Rob Hilkin Phone 770-778-2252 Chapter member Gavin Carson received the E-mail [email protected] Young of the Year Award at this year’s Rabun Fisheries Development Committee Rendezvous. The Chapter sponsored Gavin at the Jeff Wilson Phone 770-693-0168 second GA Trout Camp. Gavin became a regular E-mail [email protected] Special Projects and Conservation at our Chapter meetings and attended Chapter Diane Minick Phone 770-855-6128 outings, work projects and educational events. For E-mail [email protected] 3 years in a row, Gavin volunteered his services at Membership Committee Tony Rackie Phone 770-712-7231 GA Trout Camp as a young mentor. Email [email protected] Web site Gavin is in his second year at LSU on a Rugby Nam Bui Email [email protected] Scholarship. Every chance he gets he spends Newsletter Publisher and Editor & Fundraising Thom Underwood 404-414-1012 wetting a line. The last 2 years, Gavin spent a E-mail [email protected] week out west doing the thing he loves best Back the Brookie Program and Earth Share of Georgia catching trout. Bob Anderson E-mail [email protected] Program Committee Joe Richards Email [email protected] Congratulations Gavin! Special Projects Committee Ken Dye Email [email protected] Georgia TU 2012 Back-the-Brookie Don’t forget to visit our Web Site at Intern Program www.tucohutta.org GA TU Back-the-Brookie is accepting applications for our summer intern program. Applications are due Mar 19th for employment from mid-May to early-August. Assist GA DNR and USFS fisheries biologists and technicians with constructing trout habitat structures, sampling trout populations using backpack electrofishing, and measuring trout habitat. Other duties may include accurately recording location (GPS), assisting in the collection of DNA samples from brook trout populations, gathering water samples, writing work summaries, maintaining and repairing field equipment, and dealing with the public and co- workers in a professional manner. 2 Membership: You can also check out the info available from TU related to youth, and you may want to consider If you run into anyone interested in seeing what TU and giving a subscription to the TU Stream Explorers our chapter is all about get them a copy of our as a gift to a friend or family member. newsletter, point them to our web page, or have them http://www.tu.org/about-us/youth-education-and- contact me. outreach If you are not sure if you are correctly assigned to our A “Welcome” to the new folks to our chapter or if your membership is current please review chapter since the last newsletter. We your profile at http://www.tu.org/user or contact me for hope to meet you at one of our assistance. upcoming chapter functions. Please Tony feel free to contact one of the leaders of the chapter if you have any questions. Chapter Membership and information: [email protected] Name and City Andrew Bar - Smyrna Jake Candler - Atlanta Sign up for TU or Renew Your TU Membership. Richard Davis - Atlanta https://www.tumembership.org/member/intro Keith Denton - Dallas Please enter chapter 242 to be sure you are assigned Brandon Dillard - Acworth to our chapter George Fallon - Atlanta Curtis Hope - Kennesaw Current Membership Info: Jason Hough - Atlanta (as of 02/15/12) Michael Kish - Hiram Thomas Mew - Atlanta Active Members = 522 Prior Month = Gerald Miller - Acworth 517 Larry Myers - Atlanta New Members = 16 David Penticuff - Marietta Renewed/Contributed = 34 Jonathan Sharpe - Marietta Soon to Expire (This Month) Brian Vann - Villa Rica = 48 Reynolds Wolf - Powder Springs Expired (Last Month) = 11 Transferred In (30 days prior) = Source: Chapter 242 Roster with join date > Jan 1 17, 2012 Transferred Out (30 days prior) = 4 From My TU Address Changes (30 days prior) = 0 Source: http://www.tu.org/member- Steam Explorers (children) = services/welcome-to-my-tu 11 Source: What's New in VolOps http://leadersonly.tumembership.org/reports/chapt Online Trainings er_membership * The 4 transfer outs were from PA. Join us for our upcoming conservation and volunteer training sessions and tap into the Some items to check: expertise of our staff and volunteers. All web Has your membership expired or will it soon? conference trainings are held at 8 p.m. EST unless Are you correctly assigned to our chapter? otherwise noted. Contact Rob Keith to register. (Cohutta 242) February 22 - Training: The Public Lands Renewable Energy Development Act March 13 - TU's New Online Community March 15 - Leaders Only Tools http://www.streamexplorers.org/ April 10 - Training: Chapter and Council Fundraising 3 May 8 - Training: Aquatic Invasive Species 2012 GWFF ANNUAL FUNDRAISER June 5 - Training: How to Help Disable Anglers June 25 - Training: "Give TU A Voice" - Effective & ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARTY Grassroots Advocacy July 10 - Training: "The Fine Print" - Learn TU's You are invited to Georgia Women Fly fishers' Policies and Practices annual fundraiser! Regional Meetings Fly-fishing auctions, raffles and fun. Beer tours Whether you are new to TU or have been with us for and tastings. Wine and Food. years, TU's regional meetings are unique opportunities for volunteer leaders to experience the wide range of Tickets $25 in advance; $30 at the door. Pre-event everything TU does. With four regional meetings in the tickets may be purchased from GWFF members, works for 2012, each including fishing opportunities, at GWFF meetings or by mailing a check for a educational seminars, business meetings, and fun- ticket(s) made out to GWFF (for Annual filled evenings - there will be something for everyone! Fundraiser tickets) to Circe Tsui at 3762 Midvale We invite all members of TU to join us in the southeast Rd., Tucker, GA 30084. Requests must be post- in April, in the west in June, and in the northeast in marked no later than March 5th. Include an July. For more information on each event, please visit e0mail address for receipt verification. Tickets will tu.org/events or contact your volunteer operations staff. be held at the door the night of the event. No refunds. Other TU Important Dates South Eastern Fly-fishing Festival in April 21, 2012 - Stream Clean-Up Day Helen, Georgia April 27-29, 2012 June 23, 2012 - Stream Clean-Up Day September 2012 - Annual Meeting in NC Dear South Eastern Council FFF members and friends, From Harlin Smith addressed to TU Cohutta If you’ve been holding off sending in your Chapter: Registration Form for the upcoming South Eastern Fly-fishing Festival in Helen GA April 27-29, 2012 ..