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Purple Prince Charming Fly Tying Minnesota Trout Unlimited Non-Profit Org. Trout Stream Designation Changes Designation Stream Trout P.O. Box 845 U.S. POSTAGE Chanhassen, MN 55317-0845 PAID Tying the Purple Prince Charming Prince Purple the Tying PERMIT NO. 281 ROCHESTER, MN Youth Series: The Trout Life Cycle Life Trout The Series: Youth TroutTrout Lake for UnlimitedFishing Ice Regional Artist Profile: Jake Keeler Jake Profile: Artist Regional A Month as a Trout Bum Trout a as Month A Copyright 2019 Minnesota Trout Unlimited - No portion of this publication may be reproduced MINNESOTAwithout written permission of Minnesota Trout Unlimited. The Official Publication of Minnesota Trout Unlimited - November 2019 November - Unlimited Trout Minnesota of Publication Official The Trout Unlimited Minnesota Council Update MINNESOTA The Voice of MNTU Trout on Tap Garage Sale By Steve Carlton, Minnesota Council of TU Chair On The Cover here are 20-foot waves on Lake Over the years, fishing gear gets acquired Superior today. Some people say and much of it isn’t used as it once was. Pete Koski fishes to wild trout on a T“That’s good steelhead weather.” Looking in my garage, I’ve got plenty productive section of Hay Creek. Pho- It sounds more like a night for tying of gear that’s in good shape, that could to by Mike Riemer. steelhead flies to me. Not much time is use a good new home. I’m hoping that left to get up north. The end of the Wis- someone could get it out on the water consin season is November 15, but I’m more often, and catch a few more trout hoping to get in another few days on the than I have with it recently. If you have Bois Brule River. pre-owned trout fishing equipment you would like to part with, please plan to This winter I’m really looking forward get a table on January 25 at Able Seed- to the “Trout on Tap Winter Garage house & Brewery. Sale” that MNTU is planning this Janu- ary. A detailed ad is on page 23 of this Maybe you are just getting into fly fish- newsletter. I’ve wanted to put on one of ing and need quality gear, but don’t want work for you. We’ll also have the op- In This Issue these events for years, and I think it will to make a big investment. This event portunity for you to tie some flies, or just be a great social event and fundraiser for is for you! There will also be plenty hang out and grab a beer with friends on MNTU. of MNTU volunteers who can answer • A Month as a Trout Bum a cold winter day. questions about gear and how it might • MNTU Education Update • Youth Series: The Trout Life Cycle • Ice Fishing for Lake Trout Table of Contents • “Driving from Willow to Bee Regional Fishing Artist Profile: Jake Keelerby Ben Nelson.............page 4 Creek” by Larry Gavin Fly Tying: The Purple Prince Charming by Paul Johnson.................page 7 A Month as a Trout Bum by Mike Riemer......................................page 8 Select Poetry by Larry Gavin...............................................................page 9 MNTU Education Update by Amber Taylor.....................................page 11 Join TU Today! Will MPCA Changes Help or Hurt Trout? by John Lenczewski.....page 12 Want to subscribe to this newsletter? Youth Series: The Trout Life Cycle by Evan Griggs.......................page 13 See the back page for details or visit www.tu.org to join Trout Unlimited! Book Review by John Hunt.................................................................page 14 Ice Fishing for Lake Trout by Jason Swingen..................................page 16 Hippie Stomping Hay Creek by Mike Riemer..................................page 18 Six Rivers by Bob Wagner.....................................................................page 20 Trout Unlimited Minnesota is the of- ficial publication of Minnesota Trout Chapter News.......................................................................................page 22 Unlimited. Issues are distributed to all members of Minnesota Trout Unlim- Landscape Healing by Hannah Miller...................................................page 28 ited chapters. Subscriptions are avail- able by joining Trout Unlimited. See the back page for further details. Copyright © 2019 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 volunteer editor: Jade Thomason 2067 E. Pioneer Rd. Duluth, MN 55804 218-525-2381 [email protected] Address change? Please call 1-800-834-2419 or email [email protected] to update your contact information. Sixth-graders from Upper Mississippi Academy wade through Minnehaha Creek on the hunt for aquatic macroinvertebrates. 2 From The Executive Director Brook Trout Resilience By John Lenczewski, MNTU Executive Director or the past year, Minnesota TU and brown trout were begun to provide has been working closely with fishable populations. Since then, land Fthe land protection community use has improved and most trout stock- to combine habitat restoration with tar- ing has ceased as wild, self-sustaining geted land protection. This is targeted trout populations have flourished. Given in a small group of southeast Minnesota the historic stream degradation, years of watersheds which hold remnant popu- stockings of eastern-origin brook trout, lations of native brook trout unique to and abundant brown trout populations, it southeast MN. had been assumed, as late as the 1990s, MNTU that Minnesota’s native brook trout were Connections Prior to European settlement, native extinct. southeast MN have persisted in a small brook trout inhabited all of the current number of streams. The resilience of Executive Director coldwater trout streams in southeast MN, This assumption began to crumble fol- these truly native populations in the face John Lenczewski and almost certainly additional streams lowing genetic research on brook trout of genetic swamping by eastern hatchery [email protected] which have not recovered from degrada- in the late 1990s, funded in part by an plants is amazing. 612-670-1629 tion in the 1800s and early 1900s. Over Embrace-A-Stream grant from Trout www.mntu.org thousands of years, brook trout evolved Unlimited. Primarily aimed at “coaster” The trend of increasing spring flows in at the edge of their species range in the brook trout in Lake Superior, we pushed southeast MN has created conditions unique conditions found in this corner to include samples from southeast MN. favorable to preserving and expanding MN Council of TU Chair of the state. During the mid-1800s, log- Genetic testing methods were more lim- the range and resilience of these native Steve Carlton ging and intense agriculture degraded ited then and could only hint at native populations. Targeted work with our [email protected] trout streams and, by the late 1800s, it brook trout resilience. Recent genetic partners at the Minnesota Land Trust, was presumed that most native brook research by the MNDNR and University The Nature Conservancy, and Trust for trout populations had been wiped out. of Minnesota has revealed that remnant Public Land Work with allow us to do TU MN Editor Stockings of eastern strain brook trout populations of brook trout unique to just that. Jade Thomason [email protected] TU MN Advertisement Manager Carl Haensel [email protected] TU MN Communications Coordinator Dan Callahan [email protected] Gitche Gumee Chapter Brent Notbohm, President [email protected] Headwaters Chapter Bob Wagner, President A heritage-strain brook trout from southeast Minnesota. [email protected] 218-586-2798 Editor’s Angle Hiawatha Chapter Phil Pankow, President Design Your Own Volunteer Experience [email protected] www.hiawathatu.org By Jade Thomason, Editor had the recent joy this fall of hav- for MNTU. He explored many habitat- Mid-Minnesota Chapter ing a trout stream photo assignment improved sections of Minnesota trout Micah Barrett, President I in southeast Minnesota. In two days waters and shot photos of the habitat my husband and I photographed 15 trout sites and the fishing available. His back- waters and it was a splendid task to be ground as a photographer and his pas- Twin Cities Chapter required to do. Much of the streams sion for fly fishing were well suited for Janine Kohn, President we could only fish for a few moments, this unique volunteer task. Check out [email protected] but the value and diversity of each was Mike’s two articles on pages 8 and 18 of 612-564-TCTU quickly apparent. Many of these wa- this newsletter. At the end of the month www.twincitiestu.org ters have also had habitat improved by he also hosted a successful stream clean- MNTU in the past, and it was eye-open- up along Amity Creek in Duluth. A huge ing to see so many years of effort paying thanks is due to Mike for his effort this Win-Cres Chapter off in a myriad of ways. Needless to say, September and his initiative in reaching Dr. Chuck Shepard, President it was difficult to peel ourselves away out to MNTU. [email protected] from rising and eager trout to move on www.wincrestu.org to the next watershed. We will be back Do you have free time you would be to visit the trout in these streams as soon interested in volunteering for MNTU? organization and there will always be as we can. Contact your local chapter president, room for your particular skill set. I also Northern MN Vice Chair, Carl Haensel, would be interested in hearing about Mike Riemer spent much more time or MNTU’s executive director, John how you got involved with MNTU this www.mntu.org than us in September out photograph- Lenczewski for ideas on how you can season. Contact me if you would be in- ing Minnesota trout streams. Mike con- get involved.
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