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The Journal of Coldwater Fisheries Conservation www.tu.org SUMMER 2013 18 l Watersheds Mountain Trout. BY CHRISTOPHER CAMUTO 20 l Blue Lines Road Dreams. BY TOM REED 22 l Protecting the Salmon Forest An Effort to Keep Alaska’s Tongass. BY LEE ALLEN 26 l An Extraordinary Career Close to Home Steve Moore and wild Smoky Mountain trout. BY CHRISTOPHER CAMUTO 38 l Wine, Water, Fish and People Grape Creek is a California Success Story. BY DAVE STALLING 42 l TROUT Interview: John Land Le Coq BY ERIN BLOCK 46 l Voices from the River: Shenandoah Summer BY WRAY SINCLAIR 50 l Poetry: Line Dance BY GWEN LANE

s 5 l From the CEO 6 l From the Editor 7 l Our Contributors 8 l Our Readers Write 10 l Pocket Water TU’s new website; Colorado River collaboration; the artment mighty Hexagenia; three great books; a dedicated fly shop, p enhanced habitat for Maine brook trout.

De 32 l Intermezzo (A featured image in the center of each issue) 51 l Actionline Bucks County culvert survey; Restoring trout and the American Elm, N.C.’s Cataloochee Chapter welcomes veterans; TU’s Stream Champion, and more. 58 l The Art of Angling Chum Salmon. BY DAVE WHITLOCK 64 l Classics Automatic Reels. BY PAUL BRUUN

On the Cover: Rainbow trout, by Matt Guymon TIM ROMANO

Chairman of the Board National Leadership Council Jon Christiansen, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN Representatives State Council Chairs Chairman of Chair Larry Harris ARIZONA, Bob Youtz National Leadership Council ARKANSAS, Bill Thorne Larry Harris, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA Secretary CALIFORNIA, Drew Irby Mary Weiss COLORADO, Rick Matsumoto President/Chief Executive Officer ARIZONA, James Walker CONNECTICUT, Jim Glowienka Chris Wood, WASHINGTON, DC ARKANSAS, Kerri Russel GEORGIA, Mack Martin IDAHO, Chris Jones Secretary CALIFORNIA, Brian Hines COLORADO, Thomas Jones ILLINOIS, Ed Michael Mark Gates, PALO ALTO , CALIFORNIA CONNECTICUT, Jeff Yates IOWA, Brett Lorenzen KENTUCKY, Lee Squires Treasurer GEORGIA, Larry Vigil IDAHO, Carmen Northen MAINE, Bill Oleszczuk Harris Hyman IV, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ILLINOIS, Greg Prosen MASSACHUSETTS/RHODE ISLAND, Paul Knauth Interim Secretary of the IOWA, Brett Lorenzen MICHIGAN, Robb Smith MID-ATLANTIC, George Gaines National Leadership Council KENTUCKY, Dale White MAINE, David Van Burgel MINNESOTA, JP Little Mary Weiss, NEW BOSTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE MASSACHUSETTS/RHODE ISLAND, Arthur Howe OZARK (MISSOURI,) John Wenzlick Legal Advisor MICHIGAN, Pat Kochanny MONTANA, Doug Haacke NEW HAMPSHIRE, Burr Tupper David D. Armstrong, Esq., GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA MID-ATLANTIC, Bruce Eberle MINNESOTA, Steve Carlton NEW JERSEY, Rich Thomas NEW MEXICO, Arnold Atkins Trustees OZARK (MISSOURI,) Jeff Witten MONTANA, Dan Short NEW YORK, Ron Urban Kai Anderson, WASHINGTON, DC NEW HAMPSHIRE, Burr Tupper NORTH CAROLINA, Bill Mabrey Jim Asselstine, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK NEW JERSEY, David King OHIO, Tom Allen John Braico, M.D., QUEENSBURY, NEW YORK NEW MEXICO, Frank Weissbarth INDIAN NATIONS (OKLAHOMA,) Greg Mann OREGON, Tom Wolf Charlie Breithaupt, CLAYTON, GEORGIA NEW YORK, Roger Olson NORTH CAROLINA, John Kies PENNSYLVANIA, Brian Wagner Stoney Burke, KETCHUM, IDAHO OHIO, James Geary SOUTH CAROLINA, Jim Hopkins Matt Clifford, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA INDIAN NATIONS (OKLAHOMA,) Scott Hood TENNESSEE, Rick Murphree

Trout Unlimited Board of Trustees Trout Unlimited Board of Valerie Colas-Ohrstrom, NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK OREGON, Karl Mueller TEXAS, Mark Dillow UTAH, Robert Dibblee Charles Conn, KETCHUM, IDAHO PENNSYLVANIA, Monty Murty SOUTH CAROLINA, Meta Armstrong VERMONT, Clark Amadon Mike Dombeck, STEVENS POINT, WISCONSIN TENNESSEE, Richard Davis VIRGINIA, Graham Simmerman Paul Doscher, CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE TEXAS, Rafael Torres WASHINGTON, Bill Abrahamse Bill Egan, JACKSON, WYOMING UTAH, Paul Holden WEST VIRGINIA, Philip Smith WISCONSIN, Henry Koltz Wallace Henderson, NEW YORK, NEW YORK VERMONT, Raymond Obar VIRGINIA, Jack Ward WYOMING, Mike Jensen Richard Johnson, WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA WASHINGTON, Mark Taylor Howard Kern, WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CALIFORNIA WEST VIRGINIA, Chris Shockey Sharon Lance, CENTENNIAL, COLORADO WISCONSIN, Bill Heart Nancy Mackinnon, MANCHESTER CENTER, VERMONT WYOMING, Jim Broderick Mick McCorcle, FAIRVIEW, TEXAS Walt Minnick, BOISE, IDAHO Coldwater Conservation Fund Board of Directors 2012 Dan Needham, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Officers Perk Perkins Ex-Officio Ken Olivier, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Stephen Moss, Chairman Leigh Seippel Kevin Reilly, SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO Jim Asselstine Hamilton James, Vice Chairman Jeffrey Smith Jon Christiansen Thomas Stoddard, MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY James Kelley, Secretary Robert Strawbridge Larry Harris Mark Ullman Steve Strandberg, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Directors Steve Strandberg Paul Vahldiek Chris Wood Barrett Toan, SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO John Bell, Jr. Henry Wendt Dan Vermillion, LIVINGSTON, MONTANA Philip Belling Alexander Wiegers Director Emeritus John Willis, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Michael Gerber Kirk Wortman Gay Barclay Steven Gewirz Daniel Zabrowski John Howard David Groff Advisory Margaret Keller Charles Johnson Thomas Offutt, III Stephan Kiratsous John McCosker Steven Renkert Brian Kraft Whitney Tilt Thomas Stoddard Edmond Opler, Jr. Robert Teufel

Notice of Annual Meeting National Leadership Conference Friday, September 27, 2013 Trout Unlimited’s 2013 National Leadership Conference will 8:30 a.m. in Madison, Wisconsin be held September 27 and 28 in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Notice is hereby given to the members of Trout Madison Marriott West Hotel and Conference Center, 1313 John Q Unlimited, a Michigan non-profit corporation, that, Hammons Drive, Middleton, WI 53562. This will be the eleventh pursuant to the provisions of the bylaws, the 54th Annual annual meeting of the National Leadership Council. Meeting of Members will be held at the Performing Arts The local TU members will host fishing trips on September 25 on Center, 2100 Bristol Street, Middleton, WI 53562, some of the region’s finest rivers. September 26 will feature a tour of to elect trustees and to take up any other business that restoration work in Driftless area. September 28 and 29 are reserved comes properly before the meeting. Beginning August for the Annual Meeting of Members and meeting of the National 1, members can obtain the 2013 proxy at www.tu.org or Leadership Council and TU’s conservation awards ceremony. For an through the mail by calling (703) 522-0200. agenda and registration information, see www.tu.org.

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From the President SUMMER 2013 • VOLUME 55 • NUMBER 3 Chris Wood [ ] EDITOR Kirk Deeter DEPUTY EDITOR Samantha Carmichael Trout Unlimited Gravity Works Cheap and it Never Takes a Day Off 1300 North 17th Street Suite 500 Everything we do on the land, every type of development—cutting Arlington, VA 22209-3801 trees, mining, grazing, building homes—affects trout and salmon. Ph: (703) 522-0200 Some companies realize this fact, too, and try to pay it forward. Fax: (703) 284-9400 [email protected]______The support of Tiffany & Co., for example, who require the use www.tu.org of mined metal and gems for their jewelry, made possible TU’s DESIGN pioneering work to clean up abandoned hard-rock mines. Freeport- grayHouse design McMoRan, a multi-national mining company, also supports our [email protected] abandoned mine restoration work in Colorado. Mendocino Redwood, DISPLAY ADVERTISING Tim Romano Campbell Timberland, and other timber companies have helped us eliminate 750 miles of [email protected]______sediment-bleeding roads to recover imperiled coho and steelhead on California’s North Coast. (303) 495-3967

What do these companies have in common? None were required by law or regulation or TROUT UNLIMITED’S MISSION: any other reason to help Trout Unlimited. They just think it the “right thing to do.” To conserve, I thought about that as I prepared to speak to 100 or so shale-gas industry executives at protect and the fourth annual Nemacolin Energy Institute conference in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania restore North America’s is on the front edge of a shale gas boom in the country. 6,500 gas wells have been drilled coldwater fish- over the past six years and more are coming. Those wells require pads, pipelines, roads, and eries and their watersheds. other associated infrastructure. Meanwhile, 75 percent of the brook trout populations in the Commonwealth are already either extirpated or greatly reduced from past development Trout (ISSN 0041-3364) is activities. Of the 138 “intact” brook trout watersheds remaining in the Commonwealth, 113 published four times a year in will see some form of energy development. January, April, July and October Of course Trout Unlimited will continue to fight for effective regulations for enforce- by Trout Unlimited as a service to its members. Annual individual ment, water usage, stormwater runoff, water treatment, water disposal. Of course we will membership for U.S. residents continue to argue that some lands are too sensitive—too important for development. Of is $35, $40US for residents of Canada and $55US for residents course TU chapters will get engaged in protecting their homewaters. In Pennsylvania, for of all other countries. TU offers 10 example, we are training volunteers to monitor 200 stream sites for water quality to ensure different membership categories. development doesn’t compromise cold water fisheries. Join or renew online at www.tu.org. But that alone won’t cut it. Unlike in the West, where public lands allow more options TU does occasionally make its mailing list available to like-minded to protect places such as the Wyoming Range or the Rocky Mountain Front, most of the organizations. Please contact us development in the East is on private lands. Even if the energy companies followed every at the address above if you would rule on the book, we would likely see damage to coldwater fisheries—perhaps not right away like your name withheld. but in 20 years from the slow erosion and sedimentation that follows, road construction on Postmaster send address steep slopes, pipeline construction, stream-crossings, big and little storms. changes to: Trout Magazine It turns out that nearly every one of those energy executives I spoke to at Nemacolin Trout Unlimited hunts and fishes. It helps to remember that as we strive to work with energy companies to 1300 North 17th Street model better practices to cut down on forest fragmentation, development on steep slopes, Suite 500 Arlington, VA 22209-3801 road construction, and other activities that cause erosion and sedimentation, and otherwise harm fisheries and water quality. We are equal-opportunity conservationists at TU. The gas shale debate is deeply polarized in the country, but that shouldn’t stop us from working with companies who want to do the right thing and minimize or eliminate sediment and erosion impacts to fisheries. Whether energy companies do this for self-serving reasons or because it’s the right thing to do doesn’t matter to the trout population that benefits or the angler who sees her favorite stream protected.

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From the Editor [ Kirk Deeter] Covering Bases A good (and really perceptive) friend of mine called me not long after receiving the last issue of TROUT magazine to ask why, during my editorship, we had yet to put a trout image on the cover (we’ve run a bug, a salmon, an angler, and a grayling in the last year). I rubbed my chin and tried to whip up some explanation that would make me seem craftier than I really am. I couldn’t pull that off, so I admitted that I didn’t have a reason; it just happened that way. (Soon after, our team started digging for a really snappy trout image to put on the cover of this issue.) Upon further reflection, I do think it is important to drive home the point that TU is about coldwater conservation on a broad scale, and myriad species benefit from our collective efforts. Yet maybe there is a deeper subliminal message. You see, like many TU members, I’ve never thought trout fishing was about fish as much as it’s about people, places and natural details. Granted, TU founding member Art Neumann wisely said: “Take care of the fish and the fishing will take care of itself.” I wholeheartedly agree with that focus. But we believe that if we take care of the culture, the people, and the panoramic views in this magazine… well, the taking care of the fish stuff doesn’t take care of itself… but the inspiration to do so does.

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Wray Sinclair began fly fishing in middle school, and his first job in high school was at a fly shop. He says his first love is trout fishing, though he has been known to chase smallmouth bass, stripers, carp, and other species. He is involved with TU’s National Youth Leadership Council, and will begin studies at the University of Utah this fall.

Tom Reed is a lifelong outdoorsman and long-time TU employee. He

Our Contributors writes and works from his home outside Pony, Montana, where a string of saddle horses, a herd of English setters, and a quiver of fly rods keep him company. He is the author of four books. For more information, please see www.___

tomreedbooks.com.______

Christopher Camuto is the author of four books, a regular columnist for TROUT magazine, as well as the book review columnist for Gray’s Sporting Journal. He lives at “Wit’s End,” his home on Wolftree Farm in central Pennsylvania, and teaches at Bucknell University.

ENSURE A BETTER FUTURE FOR THOSE WHO SHARE YOUR PASSION KEN GABLES

Making a simple gift in your will to Trout Unlimited comes with numerous beneﬁ ts besides knowing that you are helping to protect trout, salmon, and clean water for future generations. Learn more by visiting tu.org/giftplanning or contact Anderson Smith at [email protected].______

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Our Readers Write

I am writing to express my concerns about the type (of) photograph that appeared with the article “Let ‘Em Run” in the winter issue of TROUT magazine. That photo shows someone catching a trout while fishing from the cab of a pickup truck parked on the bank of a stream. Acts such as this convey no respect for the trout resource and present an image exactly opposite from that which Trout Unlimited stands for… While I am a sup- porter of the “Greenbacks” program, I think the publication of such acts as this photograph depicts serves only to hurt the outstanding reputation and accomplishments Trout Unlimited has built up over the years. TROUT magazine is a fine publication, but there needs to be a sensitivity associated with the selection of material that might hurt the image (or give a wrong impression) about our organization. John Murphy Lakewood, Colorado

Many thanks to you for the pictures and write-ups which bring back many fond memories of my trout fishing adventures. Bill Springfield Colorado Springs ______

Thank you for sending me my Spring edition of TROUT magazine. I thor- oughly enjoyed it and found it very informative also. My only suggestion to improve the membership/readership might be to have a ½-page section with a TU member’s favorite fly they tie, to share with other members… materials, etc. and where/how used… Bruce Susinger Anchor Point, Alaska

I have been disappointed in the covers of TROUT magazine over the past several years, but the most recent cover of the under side of a gray- ______ling, appearing as the underside of the Graf- Zepplin [sic] just put me over the top. Let’s find photos that Rembrandt would appreciate, that Advertise in TROUT Gaugin would appreciate the clash of dazzling Classifieds colors that DO appear in the wild… Reach more than 135,000 anglers for just Peter H. Aschaffenburg $2.25/word ($2.05/word for members). Send text of ad and payment to: Ft. Myers, Florida TROUT Classifieds 1300 North 17th Street, Suite 500 Arlington, Virginia 22209-3801 Ads may be faxed to (703)284-9400 or Your Letters: e-mailed to [email protected]. Classifieds must be prepaid. Count Readers are invited to submit letters on anything that appears in Trout. phone number, fax number, ZIP code, We may edit submissions for clarity or length. Send letters to: street number, abbreviations and email or Our Readers Write website address as one word each. TROUT UNLIMITED • 1300 N. 17th St., Suite 500• Arlington, VA 22209-3801 Fall deadline: August 1 To request a media kit for display [email protected]______advertising, call (703)284-9422

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Pocket Water news bits and bytes

on the fly. Other groups are region- specific, like the Greater Yellowstone group, whose members share information about fly fishing in and around Yellowstone National Park. “Our new website will provide a place for people who love to fish to come together and share information, photos, video, fly patterns and stories with other anglers,” says TU’s President and CEO Chris Wood, who came up with the idea for the site several years ago. “It took us a few years to get it right, but thanks to our web team and the dozens of volunteers who helped, we think we’re on the right track.” Not only does the new website— still located at TU.org—include_____ new features that encourage interaction, it’s bolder, more colorful and more focused on the people who make TU work, whether it’s TU staffers or TU volunteers who are making a difference in their own communities. The New TU Website site features great ways to connect with TU, be it through the organization’s Some big changes are in store for who just love to fish will find the site blog, or through local chapters and I nternet users who visit Trout useful. In one place, they’ll learn state councils. Unlimited via its website. everything they need to know about And all the traditional features— In May, TU went into the technical TU’s trout and salmon conservation like being able to join TU online, or launch phase of its brand-new web- efforts, and they’ll be able to connect donate to TU through the Coldwater site, a much more interactive online experience that allows visitors to join “Our new website will provide a place for people who love to fish “groups,” add their own content and to come together and share information, photos, video, stories, become a more active player in TU’s online community. fly patterns and stories with other anglers.” — Chris Wood What’s more, it gives TU’s commu- nications team the ability to “elevate” with anglers all over the country and Conservation Fund—are easy to find content created by members—every- just talk fishing.” via the “Get Involved” tab. Other thing from blog posts, photos and even The new site, thanks to its “Go dependable features—like links to the videos—to the front page of TU.org, Fishing” feature, puts much more TU blog, the TU podcast and TU’s and share it with the world. emphasis on angling and helping library of press releases—are also easy “It’s an immersive experience,” says anglers interact with one another. For to find. Locating specific TU projects TU’s Director of Online Operations instance, one group on the new web- is easier now, too, either through Amanda Thacker-Heidtke, who helped site is focused solely on the pursuit of the site’s interactive map feature, or gather a team of consultants and tech- big brown trout—its members converse through its search feature. nical experts to create and launch the via the group, and discuss locations, “We’ve really tried to create an expe- site. “I think TU members and people tactics and tips for chasing big browns rience that our members will enjoy,

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both for its ease of use and our ability to you do that, explore a bit, and join with other members helps to engage share information our members—and some groups that interest you. Better them in protecting and restoring the anglers in general—want,” Thacker- yet, create your own group and invite rivers we love. The new website mar- Heidtke says. “I think, as more and friends to participate. Share your pas- ries the passion we share for fishing more people use the site and help us sion for fishing and help TU build an with robust conservation content and really build an interactive online com- online community that will help sup- will help to create online communities munity, people will find ways to use the port the work TU does on the ground of anglers.” site that we didn’t even think about.” all over America. —Chris Hunt is TU’s national communica- If you haven’t yet, visit TU.org “People join TU because they love tions director. and create a member account. Once to fish,” Wood says. “Their experience

On Colorado River, Rowing in the Same Direction

When TU’s Cary Denison saw the two grim-faced ranchers mented river stretches and restore habitat to help the Colorado walking toward him, he was more than a little nervous. He withstand a host of mounting pressures, from drought and knew they were checking out TU’s progress on upgrading the diversions to climate change. aging dam that they’d used for decades to divert water from the On the Gunnison, Denison worked with a local irrigation Gunnison River to their fields. ditch company and the Gunnison Gorge Anglers chapter to After introducing himself and explaining how the improve- secure funding for the Relief Ditch overhaul, which not only ments, including a new headgate and stabilized bank, would opened the river more fully to fish but removed a hazardous boost fish passage as well as water management, the run for boaters and restored riparian habitat. A similar older rancher slapped him on the back. fish and boater obstacle on the Gunnison—the “Keep up the good work,” he said. “I’ve been Hartland Dam—also got a makeover in 2012 fighting this sonofabitch for 42 years. I’m with help from TU,opening up miles of river glad to see someone is finally fixing it.” habitat for fish and enhancing angling and They went on to swap fishing stories. boating opportunities. Sportsmen, ranchers, business On the Yampa River, another Colorado owners, communities—all depend on tributary, TU biologist Brian Hodge is a healthy Colorado River. But those working with a rancher and other part- diverse water users often don’t talk to ners to improve stream habitat for a vul- each other, much less work together on nerable population of native Colorado water issues. River Cutthroat Trout on Milk Creek. That’s changing in western Colorado, Supporting these and other on-the- where TU has launched an ambitious effort ground restoration projects is a major new to address Colorado River basin problems from outreach effort—“Our Colorado River”—that the headwaters in Rocky Mountain Park to the rug- encourages West Slope water stakeholders to pro- ged canyons below Glenwood Springs. tect their common river resource. The “Our Colorado “Getting folks to work together to enhance a common river River” program was unveiled in Spring 2013 with a new web- resource is a key goal of our Colorado River basin work in 2013,” site and a “pledge” that encourages western Coloradans to says Drew Peternell, director of TU’s Colorado Water Project. embrace common water principles, such as collaboration and So far, TU has hit the ground running. In December, innovative management. Colorado TU staff—after years of dogged work—won a big vic- “Sometimes water users get siloed in our narrow spheres, tory for the Upper Colorado headwaters by securing additional and we miss the big picture,” said TU’s Richard Van Gytenbeek, protections for the Colorado River below Windy Gap, a stretch who is spearheading the effort. “TU wants to get people rowing of water beloved by generations of anglers that has been ham- in the same direction to protect this place we love—that’s what’s mered by Front Range water diversions. going to make a difference here.” Farther down in the Colorado basin, TU launched an ambi- To learn more, check out the “Our Colorado River” website tious slate of restoration projects in the Gunnison, Yampa, at www.ourcoriver.org. White, and other key tributaries. The goal: reconnect frag- —By Randy Scholfield

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Pocket Water

as well as in both the eastern and western United States. Emergences can occur as early as June and, although rarely, these bugs can still be seen hatching as late as September, depending on temperature and geographic location. Generally, the most abundant hatches occur in June, July and August just as the sun begins to set. Hexes are even known to emerge at night or at mid-day under heavy cloud cover. While night fishing during a Hex hatch may present its own set of problems, it can nonethe- less be extremely productive. Hexagenia can be found in both lakes and reservoirs, as well as in slow moving rivers with soft silty bottoms. Classified as bur- rowers, the nymphs have modified legs, tusks and gill structures that allow them to more effi- Hexagenia…the Great Midwestern Mayfly ciently burrow into the bottom By Robert “The Bug Guy” Younghanz of a river or lake, where they will create “U” shaped dwell- The mayfly genus Hexagenia is one of ings. It can take up to three years for the most remarkable and well-known Hexagenia nymphs to reach maturity, mayflies in North America. No other which is unusual given that most may- mayfly has so many common names flies complete their life cycles with in attached to it. Depending on the a year’s time. Although the duns are region, it is called the Hex, Great often thought to be exclusively yellow Lead-Winged Drake, the Big Yellow in color, they can in fact be green, Mayfly, Sandfly, the Michigan May brown are even a light black. Fly, the Michigan Spinner, Michigan The experience of fly fishing dur- Caddis (a misnomer), the Willow Fly, ing a Hexagenia hatch can be second the Fish Fly, the Burrowing Mayfly, to none. However the importance of or the Great Olive-Winged Drake. becoming a good observer and taking PHOTOS BY LUCAS CARROLL BY PHOTOS Considering that there are only seven into consideration, size, color and pro- described species in North America, file when selecting a pattern to “match these many nicknames are a tribute to the hatch” cannot be underestimated, not only its wide distribution, but also even in low light. its unmistakably large size and the shear biomass of its emergences. Robert Younghanz, a.k.a The Bug Guy, is Often considered to be a midwest- an internationally known fly-fishing Guide ern mayfly, distribution maps show and instructor. Check out Robert’s best selling Hexagenia occurring as far north as 2-DVD set: The Bug Guy: Entomology For The Canada, and as far south as Mexico, Flyfisher at www.the-bug-guy.com.

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Last Stand: Ted Turner’s Sunlit Riffles and Quest to Save a Troubled Shadowed Runs Planet River Watcher by Kent Cowgill, (Terrace Books, by Todd Wilkinson, (Lyons Press, $26.95, by Ronald Weber, (Skyhorse Publishing, $19.95, ______uwpress.wisc.edu) globepequot.com) $24.95, skyhorse.com)

Kent Cowgill earned Fly Rod & Reel Most of us know Ted Turner as the consum- I’m typically stand-offish when it comes magazine’s prestigious Traver Award for mate capitalist, yet this book reveals a far to mixing fly fishing into mystery writing, distinguished fiction in 2010, and this deeper, lasting passion as a crusader for wild but Ronald Weber spins a compelling eloquent collection of essays show- species and unspoiled places. Author Todd tale—indeed a page-turner—with- cases his talents on an even broader Wilkinson made good use of the access he out losing his footing in the stream. scale. Cowgill’s prose is engaging and was obviously afforded over many years Riverwatcher is also rich in Midwestern interesting. Perhaps more importantly, to ask hard questions, and receive candid flavors—the book is set in Michigan, it’s quite honest. His ability to relate answers, that ultimately comprise the most and Weber is a professor emeritus of places—as well as personalities—is on layered and intriguing work ever produced American Studies at the University of par with the best fishing writers in the on “eco-capitalism” and one of its heroes. Notre Dame. This is the third novel in craft, past or present. One of the most impactful quotes a series that includes Aluminum Hatch There is clearly a Midwestern flavor comes from Turner in the foreword he and Catch and Keep. throughout the book, which stands wrote himself: “Those who claim that one If you haven’t read the first two, to reason, since Cowgill resides in can’t hug a sheltering tree and simultane- and are wary about jumping into the Minnesota, and the book was pub- ously aspire to have economic prosper- third installment, don’t be. It’s easy to lished by an imprint of the University ity and strive to give all people a decent dive right in and join lead characters— of Wisconsin Press. One can almost quality of life are being disingenuous. On lottery winner and journalist Donal hear the accents in the dialogue as they my lands, I have set out to prove that the Fitzgerald and his DNR officer girlfriend read along. polemic of environment versus economy is Mercy Virdon—as they try to unravel a As someone who grew up in this a false dichotomy, that you can be a tree murder on the banks of the Borchard region and considers its angling tradi- hugger and still have your name appear River. tions sacred, I am usually very critical in Forbes.” Like any great mystery, it’s part who- of authors who attempt to write about Indeed, that’s the crux of the issue dunit and part whydunnit. It would be a them. In this case, I can only recom- facing angler-capitalists. Regardless of your solid read in the fishing cabin at night, mend. Cowgill does much more than political persuasion, reading Last Stand will even if it might leave you looking over take you fishing: He immerses you in not only give you deeper understanding of your shoulder as you wade the river in the culture. Mr. Turner, it will more importantly help you the morning. come to grips with your own motivations, and inspire thoughts on how to achieve both economic and ecologic prosperity.

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Appalachian Mountain Club Habitat Enhancement Project Benefitss Maine Brook Trout Trout A multi-year aaquaticquatic hhabitatabitat enenhancementhancement project ddesignedesigned anandd llakeake trouttrout,, are scatterescatteredd across AAMC’sMC’s land. Fifteen to restore streameam flflowsows anandd open up bbreedingreeding hhabitatabitat fforor were among mmoreore tthanhan 300 unsurveunsurveyedyed pondspo across the brook trout iss ununderder way in tthehe MaMaineine WooWoodsds ununderder tthehe state tthathat were recentrecentlyly tthehe susubjectbject ooff a mumulti-year survey auspices of thehe Appalachian MoMountainuntain CluClubb ((AMC)AMC) and conconductedducted by thethe Maine Department ofof InlandIn Fisheries several partneringering ggroups.roups. anandd Wildlife,Wildlife, MaineMaine Audubon,Audubon, andand TU. TheT survey was Since the effort beganbegan in 2011, six large,large, metal culvertsculverts inteintendednded to identifyidentify unsurveyedunsurveyed pondsponds thatthat contain wild that had been impeimpedingding ffishish passpassageage hhaveave beenbeen removedremoved brbrookook trouttrout in orderorder to informinform managementmanagement decisions and and more thanan 10 mimilesles ofof streamstream habitathabitat havehave beenbeen coconservationnservation pplanning,lanning, accoraccordingding to TTUU Maine Brook opened up on tthehe ororganization’sganization’s 37,037,000-00- TrTroutout Project Director JJeff Reardon. acre Katahdinn Iron WorWorksks property,property, TheThe state ofof Maine defines a wild near Greenville,lle, in MaMaine’sine’s 100100-- brookbrook trout fisheryfishery as water that has Mile Wildernessness reregion.gion. In somsomee not bbeeneen ddirectlyirectly stocstockedke in 25 years. cases, stream flflowow was restorerestoredd by TheThe rarerrarer natinativeve bbrookrook trout fishery removal of culvertsulverts andand no structuresstructures designationdesignation inindicatesdicates wwatera for which were installed in ttheirheir place.place. In others,others, culvertsculverts therethere is “no“no rrecordecord of havinghaving been ddirectly or indi- were replaced withwith woodenwooden bridgesbridges to allowallow forfor traveltravel alongalong rectrectlyly stocstockedked as a resultresult ooff a stockingstocking event ini a connecting an existing hikingking andand skiski trailtrail netwonetwork.rk. AAnothernother ffourour cucul-l- wwater,”ater,” accordingaccording to thethe Maine CouncilCouncil ofof TU.TU verts on the propertyroperty are slatedslated forfor removalremoval thisthis summer.summer. TwentTwenty-threey-three pondsponds on AAMCMC llandsands holdhold brook trout. The work is focusedfocused on thethe West BranchBranch ooff tthehe PPleasantleasant Of tthathat nunumber,mber, threethree are hhomeome to native bbrookro trout, and River watershed,ed, one ooff tthehe NortNortheast’sheast’s bbrookrook troutroutt stronstrong-g- at leastleast eigeightht contain wildwild brookbrook trout.trout. holds. AnotherAnother keykey partner in thethe organization’sorganization’s aquatic habitat “Like manyy landowners, we want to help enhance this wworkork is the Natural Resources Conservation Service, which important brookook trout fisherfishery,”y,” said AMC Maine PolicPolicyy pprovidedrovided engineeringengineering andand designdesign assistanceassistanc and match- Director Bryan Wentzell. “By working with such federal ing financial assistance. Support was also provided by the agencies as the Natural Resources Conservation Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Land for Maine’s Future, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as such conserva- Keeping Maine’s Forests, and The Nature Conservancy. tion groups as Trout Unlimited, we were able to home in AMC operates three wilderness lodges that are open to on work that would benefit the greatest amount of aquatic the public near several trout ponds. The lodges often host habitat,” he explained. fly-fishing workshops for beginning and advanced anglers. AMC’s lands also include the abutting Roach Ponds tract. AMC’s Maine Wilderness Lodges are members of TU’s Together, the parcels total 66,500 acres—about 100 square Endorsed Business Program. miles—of conservation and recreation land. Easements The habitat enhancement work is part of AMC’s Maine guarantee public access for recreation in perpetuity. Woods Initiative (www.outdoors.org/mwi) conservation More than two dozen backcountry ponds, which hold effort. such species as brook trout, landlocked salmon, splake, — By Rob Burbank

Kudos to Carolyn Thomas! Carolyn Thomas, who was featured as the “Stream Champion” in the winter 2013 issue of TROUT magazine, was one of 11 teachers in the country to receive a Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Education from the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the EPA. This is a competitive award that required essays, letters of recommendation and curriculum materials. In addition to a plaque, Carolyn will receive $2000 for professional development and $2000 to use for environmental education with her students.

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Watersheds [ by Christopher Camuto] Mountain Trout

TEN YEARS IS TOO LONG TO HAVE The mountains were there too, Smokies, and even if most of us can’t been away from The Great Smoky brooding impassively in the backcoun- name most of what we are looking at, Mountains, but even a decade’s absence try, broad-backed ridges shouldering any angler can feel the full presence doesn’t erode an angler’s connection a well-articulated array of creeks and of nature off their shoulder when with memorable trout water. The streams even dedicated local fishermen they flick a short cast through all brawl of Little River in April, the snap never get to the end of. Nothing on this sun-dappled biodiversity toward of Middle Prong, the syrupy flow of earth is infinite, but some places school a waiting trout. You can fish feeling Abrams Creek as it whispers through us on what infinity might feel like a true forest around you, a forest Cades Cove on its way toward a boister- and look like. The Smoky Mountains dense with wildlife, although much of ous fall into the Little Tennessee River— backcountry is one of those places. In that is well-hidden—grave black bear it was all there as I remembered it, vivid western North Carolina and eastern foraging in their grumpy, meditative and bright and timeless. Memories of Tennessee, preachers don’t have to look way, ruffed grouse drumming at a fishing the hidden valley of Cataloochee far to come up with an idea of heaven. distance you can never close—and Creek on foggy mornings came back Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with enough migrant and resident strong, as did days of slowly making with a half million acres of protected birdlife to leave your neck aching and my way up the long, rugged course of watersheds, restores us to an original your Peterson’s field guide worn to a Hazel Creek and of camping beside its sense of the world as vital and pristine. smoking frazzle. indecipherable chatter. Deep Creek, The great southern Appalachian If you fish for wild mountain Eagle Creek, Raven’s Fork, the Little cove forests were there also right trout in the Great Smoky Mountains, Pigeon River—strong names in the where I had left them—untouched by you fish in the company of the way quiet history of Southern Appalachian logging and development for nearly eastern forest life is supposed to be angling, names redolent of wood smoke, wildflowers, moonshine and yellow sal- You fish inside of a floral and faunal completeness lies. Rough places, hard of access, where at night there are more black bear than that makes each trout you bring to net a center, human beings in a given watershed. the focal point and culmination of a landscape “It’s an acquired taste,” Byron Begley of Little River Outfitters in more biologically replete and diverse than any Townsend, Tennessee reminded me other in North America. with an impish grin on his face. “Not everyone likes how rough it is, the ache a hundred years now and harboring and something very near to the way it in the knees,” the long-time leader pockets of old growth that would once was—sans the American chestnut of TU’s Little River chapter admits. break your heart with the towering and the blighted eastern hemlock and You don’t measure the rewards magnificence of centuries-old trees Fraser fir. You fish inside of a floral of mountain trout fishing in inches living out their mossy lives without and faunal completeness that makes or pounds. You measure them in the ecological interruption of being each trout you bring to net a center, hours you wouldn’t trade for any “harvested.” A heartening variety of the focal point and culmination of a other experience dancing dry flies oaks, hickories, tulip trees, silverbell, landscape more biologically replete on mesmerizing slicks and pools, sycamore, tupelo, locust, maple and and diverse than any other in North deep-drifting nymphs and streamers birch shelter a dense understory of America. into the hidden recesses of rushing native shrubs and heaths and a rich Forested mountains are made for water thrumming against the deep herbaceous layer of plant life. Many trout and trout for forested moun- structure of ancient mountains. biodiversity indices peak in the tains. There is something botanical

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Without trout, even these watersheds would be empty. In Great Smoky Mountains National Park—as in our other national parks—nearly a century of pursuing an uncompromised mission of environmental protection and restoration has paid off for any angler willing to hike up-mountain and spend time in the rocky flow. The uncompromised mission of the Park Service to “protect, preserve and restore” all native species within its boundaries was a profound and an enormously successful cultural and political commitment. Dreaming of good water, we see rises and the winking of nymphing fish in our sleep. When we have the privilege of fishing in unspoiled places like the Great Smoky Mountains, drifting a fly confidently into the heart of good holding water, we can make the trout in the back of our minds come right out of the rivers at our feet and confirm, with an interior whoop of joy, that things are as they should be. Leaning to release a bright trout back to the flow, we understand both the reality and the magic of nature.

Chris has reported for Trout on the Southern Appalachians since 1991.1 His second book, Another Country: and birdlike in the color and design forest species, kin to oak and hickory, Journeying Toward the Cherokee Mountains of wild trout—native brook trout mountain laurel and rhododendron, (Henry Holt, 1997) is a detailed especially—something geologic in sandstone and granite. Of course, exploration of the nature, history their stubborn strength, something the processes of evolution—especially and mythopoetic significance of the free-flowing in their shapely grace, the winnowing pressure of natural Southern Appalachians. something bearish in their outrage selection—ensure that any form of on the line. Painted trilliums, black- life and its habitat will be intimately 1 References: “Dropping Acid in the throated green warblers, wild trout— related. But the deep affinity of wild Southern Appalachians: A Wild Trout on a long day angling, they seem all of trout and forested mountain streams Resource at Risk,” Trout (Winter 1991); “Acid Rain Revisited: A Resource Still at Risk,” a piece and, as part of the biology of the seems more than literal, more than a Trout (Winter 1998); “Protect, Conserve, Southern Appalachians, they are all of mere fact of ecology. Trout belong in Restore,” Trout (Autumn 2003). a piece. Trout in such environs seem cold, rushing waters. For an angler, more terrestrial than aquatic, clearly a they are the culmination of the woods.

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Road byDreams Tom Reed [ ]

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The dreams of fishermen become reality and were marching up the river. You spit-balled it and on the road. In the awakening, you have thought of the road floated Browns to Glen and there was no hatch. The day many times, or perhaps more accurately, you have thought had evaporated and a few fish were netted and admired and about what lies at the end of the road. The waters. Kinked released, but the dream that had been your night-awakenings current and brook trout swimming there in spangled those months back became a divergent reality. glory. Rising, occasionally, floating and twisting with a Now, this evening fading to black, is a different day and minimum, flit-flying in water, soaring and stooping as if a different month and a different hatch and a different fin has become feather and fish has transformed to raptor. place. On the same river. But it is not the same river for These are the dreams that waken you and when you lie only the willows and the pines and the Doug fir have been there in tossed and knotted sheet in the darkest of hours, rooted. The water that was there two months ago has long you think of the waters and of its predators. You listen to since moved on, diverted to quench alfalfa, perhaps, or just the sounds of the night, the deep breathing of your lady, floated right on out to the Gulf. The fish have moved and tail-thump and moan-groan from the dog room. From the the bugs and, so, too, have you. You know the holes and the open window you hear the “oka-leeeeee” of a red-winged bends of the water, but everything has changed. blackbird out there in the dark cattails. A night song from The three of you talk for a time. Then stop. You drift in a sleeping bird, well before dawn peeks. Perhaps he, too, separate meanderings, listening to the road, no radio, thump, is dreaming of the days afore. thump, purr when your tires touch the edge. Rumble strips. On this morning coming, you will rise and you will sit Still lost in thought and the darkness comes on. White-tailed at your desk, but your dreams will pull you away again and deer out in hay meadows, heads down, orange-coated in again. Concentrate. Can’t. You wrestle with time now, for rich last-light. Orange and green and stunning. There is you wish the day away and yet you know when the day has nothing to say and then the light is gone and so too are the gone and the road is before, you will want time to slow, moments of silence as you turn off the interstate and pass stall out, delay, stop. You will want time to pause there like a bar. A story begins. that same brook trout on water-wind, hover and filibuster. Once, in that same pub, on a road trip in another year, Finally. Here and now the day is behind and the crescendo there had been a stop. It was an incredulous and incongruous that is packing, list-ticking, moving gear, intersection, for there amid fishermen on begins. A blur back and forth between the hunt for the hatch and the fish, were garage and house, gear room and garage, women. Half-clad . Strippers. And we’re car and refrigerator. Coolers? Check. not talking streamers. One thousand miles Five-weight? Yes. Where’s that box of north of Vegas. The place was raucous nymphs? Here. and rowdy and men scrambled for bucks The buddies show up and they’re wearing to tuck, digging down inside waders for the same iris-glint, that identical shine of crumpled singles. Your friend had spent a sleepless night tossing and thinking of far more than he’d been planning to on a the days before, the road ahead, the water weekend fishing trip. Mostly Washingtons. beyond. You jest and joke in that easy, relaxed You laugh at this story even though way that comes with the soul-centeredness of the act of hitting you’ve heard it perhaps six times, maybe more. And you the road on a fishing trip. It does not matter if you’ve known drive past the bar. Since the first recounting, you’ve stopped each other for years, or only days. The road is the common there a few times. Hopeful. But fruitless. That particular denominator, the dreams the catalyst for shared ground. hatch has never repeated itself. It is now a legend. A fable? Doors clunk. Engine cranks. Reverse. More laughter. Perhaps. No matter. Goodbyes. Get out of here already. You’re driving me mad. The road is before you and at the end of this one will Good riddance? Perhaps. Tires on highway now, beating be another story. There are fish to catch in a river of bent rhythm over concrete interstate highway slab. light and dappled pebble and perhaps an elusive hatch You have researched. Read the reports. Surfed flow stats. in a moment of time stalled out like a red-tail riding an Listened to the weather man. Still there is nothing like updraft. going and like being. A few months ago, you tried your best, planned a similar weekend with old fishing pals, chased the Tom Reed works for TU from Pony, Mont., and is the author hatch. The salmon flies. They had been at Notch Bottom of four books. Visit www.tomreedbooks.com PHOTOS BY TIM ROMANO BY PHOTOS

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ALASKA—a land of woods and waters intertwined hand-loggers cherry-picking shoreline trees until in a symbiotic relationship that keeps both healthy. 1950 when the federal government awarded 50-year Naturalist John Muir perhaps said it best more contracts for Tongass tree harvests. than a century ago: “In wilderness lies the hope of “We were out-of-sight, out-of-mind, and nobody the world—the great, fresh, unblighted, unredeemed cared,” said former logger Johnnie Laird. “We cut wilderness”—thoughts echoed by Henry David thousands of acres so clean it looked like somebody Thoreau who acknowledged: “Wilderness is the had taken a lawnmower to the hillsides.” salvation of mankind,” and more to the point, T.S. It wasn’t until the 21st century approached before Eliot’s musings that “…a dead tree gives no shelter.” the lights lit up, the brakes went on and the U.S. Over the decades, we’ve deviated a bit from those Forest Service modified its mission from old-growth early thoughts. We cut too much of the once-towering logging harvest to watershed restoration. “Now’s our timber and realized that by so doing we by Lee Allen chance to mop up and fix what was could imperil the productive capacity damaged or destroyed earlier,” said of the land. Fortunately, we learned our lessons Forest Service engineer Bob Gubernick. especially in the country’s largest and most unique And while fix-up projects began to restore whole national woodland, southeast Alaska’s Tongass watersheds (particularly over 1,600 miles of stream National Forest. habitat on Prince of Wales Island heavily affected by At nearly 17 million acres, this is still mostly past timber extraction), the common-sense mantra primeval forest, the world’s biggest remaining intact of ”protect it rather than fix it” gathered strength. temperate rainforest hosting some of the most rare TU recognized that the Tongass is THE salmon ______ecosystems on the planet. As rich in history as it is forest, one of the few places in the world where in centuries-old spruce, hemlock and cedar trees, wild salmon and trout thrive and represent a major Teddy Roosevelt spearheaded its creation in 1907. portion of America’s seafood marketplace—a billion And its remoteness was its own protection with only dollar industry in southeast Alaska alone.

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A 2011 study into commercial/sport/ and unique resource for generations the sportfishing dreams of anglers.” personal/subsistence fishing highlighted to come,” said Mark Kaelke, himself a Not only the sportfishing crowd, the need to change the way resource former sportfishing guide. Now TU’s but the commercial fishing industry as managers look at Tongass and more southeast Alaska program director, well, according to Heather Hardcastle, fully realize its value. “It’s a huge fish Kaelke has been working on the T77 TU’s commercial outreach coordina- factory and if managed correctly as a proposal for five tor. “Commercial salmon forest, it will continue to thrive years. salmon fishermen for future generations,” said TU Alaska’s The lengthy It’s a huge fish understand their Paula Dobbyn. period of fact-finding very livelihoods Last summer was a record for salmon and data gathering factory and depend on sound fishing in the region with gross earnings has resulted in a thor- if managed fisheries manage- the highest reported since statehood. ough and thoughtful ment. T77 will give Fish and Game officials are projecting project proposal that correctly as a everyone—from that 132 million salmon will be caught is starting to garner permit holders, throughout the state with a huge portion grassroots support. salmon forest, crew members, and harvested from waters surrounding For instance, Brad it will continue processors to gear Tongass trees. And a healthy forest Elfers, owner of supply companies ensures healthy fish. Alaska Fly Fishing to thrive While some 100-foot no-harvest Goods in Juneau for future buffers currently exist on larger anad- worries about a host romous forest streams (ascending rivers of urban issues chip- generations. from the sea used for breeding pur- ping away at wild poses), “Two thirds of Tongass salmon salmon and trout and trout habitat is not Congressionally and notes: “We can’t protected at watershed scale—still open afford to wait. It’s way easier to preserve to development activities that could an intact watershed than try to fix a harm fish,” said Tim Bristol, TU’s broken one.” Alaska Program Director. “It’s time for Brad Steuart, TU member and Congress to better protect the forest’s owner of Boardwalk Lodge in Prince richest resource—wild salmon. of Wales Thorne Bay, adds: “We’re “Our concern, beyond that of the concerned the biomass can be negatively environment, revolves around a healthy affected unless we work together to fisheries industry and we have a good maintain it. We need to ensure healthy understanding of what it will take to watersheds here for future generations accomplish this.” of sport fishermen.” Enter TONGASS 77, a TU-supported That’s a thought echoed by TU’s initiative that seeks legislative protection sportfish outreach coordinator Mark for the 77 highest-value watersheds Hieronymus—“Obvious benefits are on 1.9 million acres currently open long-term, fish-first conservation. to development. TU seeks to have Currently, about 35 percent of salmonid these waters placed into a Land Use spawning/rearing habitat in Tongass Designation II classification “because is protected at the watershed scale. of their critical importance for fish and T77 would protect an additional 23 wildlife habitat and their high value to percent to ensure healthy native runs tourism and recreation,” according to for generations to come for charter, a Tongass Timber Reform Act report. guide and outfitter use as well as public “Designating the Tongass 77 as LUD II sportfishing.” areas would ensure the extraordinary Similar sentiments come from salmon/trout values of these watersheds the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska into perpetuity.” As such, LUD II where director Scott Hed says: “The designation will protect fish. program is a way to protect watersheds

Such a designation “locks-in a self- identified as having the highest values ______sustaining, economically productive for fish production which will support

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and shipyards—the confidence that “We’re ahead of the curve and our for their tangible display of support, but the region’s most valuable spawning habitat and fish populations are such that should be on the direct horizon. and rearing habitats will no longer be that conservation is still a viable approach Because of the complexities of Alaska’s threatened by development. It repre- for us,” notes Kaelke. “There are some politics where the political landscape gets sents a kind of certainty in a world of spots where restoration is called for, but explored before commitments are made, so much uncertainty.” by and large, we’re dealing with intact we anticipate an uphill battle, but we’re The 77 proposed sites cover a lot areas and I don’t know of other locations in it for the long haul.” of water from north of Skagway and that still have that luxury.” Says TU CEO Chris Wood: “We are Yakutat to south of Ketchikan and “We don’t have an artificial end date to in the pre-season and explaining the Prince of Wales, all areas important to this effort,” says Kaelke. “Audubon Alaska T77 concept to as many people in the maintaining healthy fisheries. “What and the Alaska Wilderness League are fishing world as possible. The season it really comes down to is the fact that two official partner groups already part begins in earnest and our campaign gets salmon are a major driver of regional of our collaborative effort and we’re mak- more aggressive as 2013 progresses.” economies and it’s going to continue to ing presentations to United Fishermen Further information about TU and be that way because salmon fishing in of Alaska that represents three dozen the Tongass 77 project can be found at all its forms continues to be a growth statewide groups of commercial trawlers, www.tu.org/conservation/alaska/tongass industry,” Bristol says. gillnetters and seiners. We’ve not yet asked or www.americansalmonforest.org.

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Close to Home on behalf of wild trout in his own half-million acre backyard. By Christopher Camuto 27 TROUT SUMMER 2013

native of Waynesville, Steve they tackled data collection on rough, for Great Smoky Mountains National Moore grew up fishing the high-gradient stretches of river. Park, where he wanted to be all along. sparkling trout streams Most recently, we were chomping Although through the years he consid- of the Great Smoky through some serious barbeque in ered opportunities elsewhere, neither Mountains backcountry, forested water- Townsend, Tenn. on the banks of the the mountains nor the boy were going ways in which the traditions of southern Little River while I questioned him anywhere. mountain angling were deeply rooted. on the arc of his life and career. The “Tell us what to do with our This was the world of Horace Kephart 60-something biologist was, as he has fish,” is how he remembers his blunt and of legendary anglers Mark Cathey always been, enthused about his life-long marching orders from his first Part and Jim Gasque, whose 1942 Hunting commitment to wild trout. Superintendent. Given the enormity of and Fishing in the Great Smokies remains an In 1976 Moore took a degree in biol- the resource, that was both a thrilling engaging classic. As a teenager Moore ogy from Western Carolina University, and a daunting task. was familiar with the quick snap to the a fine institution perched above the In many respects TU was coming of fly of wild rainbows on Oconaluftee, Tuckasegee River upstream of Sylva age just as Moore was getting his career Hazel and Deep Creeks. And he knew and Bryson City, the latter the capital underway. Trout fisheries management the bulldog fight of remnant wild brook of Smoky Mountain trout fishing. His on public lands had been controversial trout in the steep, rugged headwaters youthful interest in fisheries biology and, during the 1970s and 1980s with the of Smoky Mountain streams. The specifically, trout earned him a spot in growth of environmental activism. The attraction of his home mountains wasn’t the graduate program at Tennessee Tech. Southern Appalachians were blessed complicated. “I wanted to keep doing what I loved.” with millions of acres of National Forest “I never thought about it. I loved to The year he showed up to start work Land and two National Parks with fish. I loved the woods, being outside.” on his Masters degree, Great Smoky substantial wild trout backcountries— Outside in the Southern Mountains National Park had just gotten Shenandoah National Park in Virginia Appalachians was quite a world. Great funding for studying the feasibility of and Moore’s Smokies. Throughout Smoky Mountains National Park, brook trout restoration. In the Smokies, the region TU chapters were active at established in 1934, came to protect a as elsewhere, introduced rainbow trout sometimes contentious public meetings half million acres on Forest Plans, of mountain water- Wilderness Area sheds drained by “We don’t want brook trout to be a museum species. designations, as 2,115 miles of trout We want folks to be able to angle for them again.” well as at regional water as remote and management sym- rewarding as any posiums on water- you will find in eastern North America. had encroached on a good deal of native shed use, trout stream management and From his teenage years on, that broad brook trout range. Moore did the field fishing regulations. TU had created a swath of wild country so rich with work for that restoration study, wrote revitalized wild trout constituency and wildlife would be the context within his thesis on it and started work with set in place a humming feedback loop which Steve Moore thought about trout, the National Park Service the day after between TU’s national office and an watersheds and the quality of angling he took his degree in December 1979. increasingly active grassroots TU mem- experience. Forty miles from Waynesville, Moore bership well-organized in chapters and I first met Moore in 1989 when had found his life’s work. state councils from northern Virginia doing research on acid deposition for His work in the Park was inter- to north Georgia. TROUT and have crossed paths with him rupted from 1982 to 1985 for a stint Moore had a clearer path into the two or three times since then. I have as a biologist for the Florida Game future than his contemporaries in the spent time in his basement office at and Fish Commission on Florida’s St. U.S. Forest Service. Since no resource Park headquarters where like any good Johns River. Although the warm-water extraction activities (logging, mining, general he would pour over maps of the fisheries work was interesting, after three gas drilling) were allowed on National Park’s incredibly complex watersheds years Moore and his wife, Susan, were Park land, Moore did not have to and volumes of data on forest health, “missing home.” undergo the difficult (some would say water quality, and fish populations in “You know the saying, you can take impossible) calculus of “multiple use” order to explain and illustrate his work. the boy out of the mountains….” watershed management. But he did have I have spent long days with his sampling They came back to the mountains to establish the status of his wild trout crews, admiring their well-trained in 1985 when Moore was offered a populations, native and non-native, skills and problem-solving spirit as permanent position as fisheries biologist set recreational angling regulations

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compatible with a sustainable fishery, stocking records (Park waters were stocked differ, I get the impression that it took a and deal with external environmental from 1934-1975), catch rates, and regula- little time for the Supervising Fisheries threats (principally acid deposition) to tions going back to the Park’s founding. He bear to warm up to the TU bears, and his fishery. regularized the collection of stream water maybe vice versa. Moore admits to being “The Park’s mission is crystal clear….” quality and fish and insect population data a little defensive in the face of what he At this point, Steve and I were to establish reliable baselines for the Park’s thought at first was going to be interfer- driving up the Tremont Road along resource. ence and criticism. Middle Prong, a gorgeous tributary of “We needed fishery decisions to be But it turned out that the outside Little River. based on data and science. I knew that agitators from TU had invaded his “…preserve, protect, restore. That’s could settle most disagreements about domain for a different purpose. what we’ve been doing here.” And he resource use.” “What can we do to help?” Begley gestures not only at the rushing stream By this time, we were out of the vehicle recalled as their principal “demand,” but at the well-recovered and now undis- and hiking up along Lynn Camp Prong. when Steve and I met up with him turbed forest that protects it. TU came calling in 1992, in the later at his Little River Outfitters back His first seven years on the job, Moore persons of Byron Begley and Bill Guinn in Townsend. did his homework and his field work, as he of the newly formed Little River Chapter “Timing was good,” Moore remem- had been taught to do at Tennessee Tech. of TU which had a mandate to help with bers warmly. In the 1990s he had an And he trained his staff and summer the preservation and enhancement of expanding agenda for protecting the interns—often grad students like he had the Park’s trout streams. In the Smokies, resource and a tight budget. The TUers been—to do the same. He dug deep into interesting things happen when one black put together an Embrace-a-Stream grant the battered file cabinets at the Sugarlands bear comes into the territory of another. for fencing out the Cades Cove sections Park Headquarters to unearth the old Though memories of this first encounter of Abrams Creek and the reality—in

terms of dollars and manpower—of and Clinch River chapters—and con- of catchable size in sustainable numbers. TU’s interest in Park streams became tinues to the present. In fact, TU’s “We don’t want brook trout to be a apparent. fund-raising and volunteer labor became museum species. We want folks to be “They brought out the people,” an important part of Moore’s fisheries able to angle for them again.” Moore remembers, “on weekends, on management practice. Moore learned Moore clearly hasn’t forgotten that hot July days. And they were interested the art of using TU seed money to attract Waynesville, N.C. teenager who fished in the science of streams and were will- matching grant funds for projects not eagerly for brookies years ago. ing to learn to help collect data.” covered by his budget. TU’s relation- We’ve hiked up to the confluence of “Once I saw what they could do, ship with Moore’s work in the Smokies Thunderhead Prong and Lynn Camp there was never anything adversarial stands as a fine example of cooperation Prong—streams I myself first fished in the relationship,” Moore says. “I saw between environmentally aware anglers 20-years ago—near the lower end of they loved the place as much as I did. and public land managers. The words one of Moore’s most important brook We had common goals, dedication to trust, respect, friendship kept bobbing trout restoration areas. Rainbow trout the resource.” to the surface as Begley and Moore had been removed above a natural bar- TU’s involvement in the Park recollected how strongly TU became rier to their upstream migration—an increased in the 1990s—and included part of Moore’s career protecting Smoky impressive cascading waterfall over the work of the Great Smoky Mountains Mountain trout for future anglers. stream-worn Thunderhead sandstone— and native brook trout left to repopulate the protected tributaries. As a middle “As long as we protect the Smokies, we’ll be able to elevation stream system—starting at 2,250’—the upper Middle Prong drain- come up here and fish for wild trout. We’re supposed age is less susceptible to acidification to leave the resource better than we found it.” than the extreme high elevation streams previously their only enclaves. For over a decade now, Moore has “We had a common goal,” Moore con- literally been bringing brook trout cluded, “and we worked on it together. habitat down the mountains wherever You can’t put a price on what these guys he can find natural barriers up to the did here, local guys who know the rivers task, fulfilling the work he did as a grad and the mountains and the trout.” student in the 1970s. He pioneered The crown jewel of Moore’s decades- the use of antimycin, an antifungal long stewardship over the world of Smoky antibiotic, as a safe and economical Mountain trout fishing is his fulfillment means of fish removal. A winner of the of the goal of restoring brook trout Aldo Starker Leopold Medal and TU’s habitat, the subject of that grad school Trout Conservation Professional Award, research more than 45 years ago. Brook Moore beams with pride and enthusiasm trout, of course, are the native trout of as he shows me this stretch of river and the Southern Appalachians, and they talks about how he looks forward to it have faced two serious threats in the last being opened to brook trout angling in century—habitat loss from downstream the not too distant future. due to the introduction of rainbow trout “These fisheries are a renewal and habitat loss from upstream due to resource. As long as we take care of chronically high acidification levels that this place, the fish will take care of eliminated brook trout populations in themselves. As long as we protect the a number of Park streams. From 1976 Smokies, we’ll be able to come up here to 2006, the bulk of Moore’s career, and fish for wild trout. We’re supposed Park streams were closed to brook trout to leave the resource better than we fishing because of the fragile state of the found it.” remnant populations. Steve Moore, his long-time assistant Moore has worked for decades not Matt Kulp, and dozens of other profes- just to create lower elevation refuges sional and volunteer workers, many of with pH values brook trout can survive them TU members, can take pride in but healthy populations of brook trout having done that.

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Wine, Water, Fish and People In California, They Go Well Together. By Dave Stalling

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ohn Mazzera’s grandfather the farm’s existence, it wasn’t an issue. With assistance from the Russian started farming along the That was before Central California Coast River Coho Water Resources Partnership J banks of Grape Creek, coho salmon were listed as endangered and the California State Coastal high above California’s under the federal Endangered Species Conservancy, he had a pond built that Russian River, in 1948. Act and the Central California Coast fills up partly by winter rains but mostly John took over in 1960 at the age of 16. steelhead trout were listed as threatened. by pumping water from the ground, At first they grew apples, prunes and It was before state and federal agencies storing enough water to meet his needs kiwis, but grapes eventually became were required by law to figure out ways while eliminating the need for remov- more profitable. John continues to grow to keep more water in creeks for salmon ing water from the creek. The project zinfandel and merlot. and steelhead and the needs of fish often also included streambank and wetlands “In the 1950s and 1960s I used to became pitted against the needs of farm- restoration. sit beside the creek and watch steelhead ers. It was before water diversions from “I had to do it,” John says, “but I like jumping up over the waterfall,” John creeks to protect crops from spring frost it a lot better.” recalls. became front page news, and before As with most projects of such Like many farmers in the area, the such water use became a contentious, magnitude, the effort received support Mazzeras used a flashboard dam in the sometimes bitter and litigious issue. from a long list of partners, including creek to store and divert water for irriga- But John Mazzera took a different Sotoyome Resource Conservation tion and frost protection. For most of approach. District, Center for Ecosystem

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Management and Restoration, Gold that has measureable outcomes based benefit fish and people. The Russian Ridge Resource Conservation District, on the best science. River watershed was a good place to start. Occidental Arts and Ecology Center’s The project is part of a larger, col- At 110 miles long, the Russian River WATER Institute, University of laborative effort to test approaches begins in the north coastal Laughlin California Cooperative Extension/ that break through the stalemate and Range near Redwood Valley, runs California Sea Grant, National distrust that regularly characterize water south into the wine country of Sonoma Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, diversion, water rights, and streamflow County, and then makes a sharp bend California State Coastal Conservancy, in coastal streams by identifying and westward towards the Pacific where it Natural Resources Conservation developing high priority and techni- joins the ocean between Jenner and Service and their Environmental cally and socially feasible projects that Goat Rock Beach about 60 miles north Quality Assistance Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sonoma County Water Agency, and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. The coalition crafted a 10-year investment “business plan” approach

Central California Coast coho salmon were listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act and the Central California Coast steelhead trout were listed as threatened. LEFT: COREY KRUITBOSCH, ABOVE: JIM YUSKAVITCH ABOVE: COREY KRUITBOSCH, LEFT:

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of Golden Gate. The Southern Pomo Grape Creek is among several creeks dry and often enough water is drawn called it “Ashokawna,” meaning “water considered “high priority” for ongoing from the rivers during the dry season to the east” and “Bidapte,” meaning recovery efforts and low streamflow is to make it difficult, if not impossible, “big river.” Archeological evidence of considered a critical limiting factor in for growing salmon to survive. Keeping native fishing camps exist throughout the survival of salmon and steelhead water in the river is no easy task. the Russian River watershed, including in the Russian River watershed. While California’s complicated system of along the banks of Grape Creek. The typical winter rains swell up the rivers water right administration frequently river got its current name after Russian and creeks enough for salmon and steel- fails to protect water users as well as explorer Ivan Aleksandrovich Kuskov head to reach their spawning grounds salmon and steelhead, and it discourages traveled up the river in 1809 and later and return to the ocean, summers are innovative efforts to restore and protect established the Fort Ross Colony which stream flows. As a result, drew numerous settlers to the fertile the system often pits vari- soils, seals, beaver and sea otters. ous interests against each And fish. There were lots of fish. other and breeds conflict Coho salmon and steelhead were and contention. abundant. But by 2001, coho salmon A 2012 report summed had dwindled to less than four returning it up this way: “The topic spawners per year, serving as a catalyst is emotionally charged for the Russian River Coho Salmon Captive Broodstock Program—a recovery effort in which coho salmon are bred from local genetic stock and are released into the river. By 2013, an estimated 496 adult coho returned to the Russian River watershed during the rainy season.

Below: A man-made holding pond for collecting groundwater and rainfall. Right: Grape Creek. Far Right: The mouth of the Russian River. MICHAEL CARL

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and technically complex and it is not commitment and leadership, and with as an American Viticultural Area, a for the faint of heart.” Fortunately, the a lot of help from sound science, we’ve federally designated wine and grape landowners along Grape Creek are not been able to develop solutions that growing region distinguishable by faint of heart. address water and streamflow issues geographic features. That’s the same year “Grape Creek serves as a working and produce major benefits for fish Gio Martorana’s family first purchased model of how a neighborhood can and water users. In California, that’s vineyards along Grape Creek—a business come together to restore, reconnect and no small feat.” that has since grown into the Martorana sustain wild salmon, steelhead and their Much of the Russian River’s flood- Family Winery. He was nine years old watersheds,” says Mary Ann King, who plain includes vineyards, and in 1983 a at the time. heads up the Water and Wine program significant part of the Dry Creek area, “My mom and dad used to picnic up for TU in California. “Through their including Grape Creek, was approved at the end of Dry Creek,” Gio recalls.

California’s complicated system of water right administration frequently fails to protect water users as well as salmon and steelhead, and it discourages innovative efforts to restore and protect stream flows.

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“They liked it here so much they bought into his family’s land management and to prevent spring frost damage to grapes land and started growing grapes.” Gio efforts to improve the creek for salmon instead of using water drawn from remembers spending a lot of his child- and steelhead, working cooperatively the creek to spray the vines. “The fan hood days playing in the creek, catching with organizations and agencies to con- works great for frost protection,” Gio fish, and seeing crawfish and turtles. duct stream and streambank enhance- says, “and we haven’t seen any damage “There seemed to be everything,” he said, ment projects, establish fish and water in these first years of use.” “and then it all slowly but surely went monitoring projects, remove barriers The efforts are paying off. “I’ve seen away, and so I started paying more atten- that used to block fish migrations, a lot more fish these past few years,” tion to what was going on in the creek and find ways to keep more water in Gio says. “And we get a lot of people and what we could do about it.” He said the creek during critical times of year. stopping by our winery and our tasting he decided to make changes in manage- One of his efforts includes construc- room, particularly fishermen, thanking ment methods that would be “better for tion and use of a large fan (put in place us for what we do, and telling us they the creek and better for people” because with assistance from the Coho Water really appreciate it.” Gio himself is an “it’s the right thing to do.” Resources Partnership and National avid angler, and has fished in Argentina Like many of his neighbors, it’s Fish and Wildlife Foundation) that and Baja but loves searching for trout an altruistic attitude Gio has brought keeps air moving around his vineyard in the Sierra.

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Like John Mazzera, the Rowans and monitoring, posting YouTube also had a pond put in with assistance videos of fish spawning, bank layback from NRCS and their Environmental and road projects, riparian planting, Quality Assistance Program. Water used winery water conservation, frost fan to fill the pond comes from rainfall and installation, culvert modification groundwater. While this more reliable projects, retrofitting bridge crossings, source of water relieves Mike of some and changing water infrastructure and economic worries, he’s also enthused how diversions are managed. Some, like by the fish he often sees. “It’s common Quivira Vineyards, downstream from to see steelhead fry in the creek, and the Rowans, were so inspired by their sometimes coho,” he says. Recently he restoration efforts they created a wine watched a large female steelhead attended celebrating the work. The label reads: by a male during spawning season. “… This wine honors the commitment to Mike and his wife Mary Pat like fish restore the steelhead and salmon habitat on and fishing so much that they take their our estate. … We hope that Wine Creek will vacation each year to fish for trout in once again be home to thriving populations of and around Yellowstone National Park steelhead and coho salmon.” in Montana and Wyoming. “Trout Grape Creek is just one of 10 coastal fishing takes you to the most beautiful California watersheds that TU is work- places in the world, and you meet the ing in to test the belief that it is, indeed, possible to improve streamflows in a way that benefits fish and landowners in this collaborative manner. They span from Humboldt County to the Russian River Grape Creek is just one of 10 coastal California to the San Mateo Coast to San Luis Obispo. And TU is one of a handful watersheds that TU is working in to test the belief of organizations working with a grow- that it is, indeed, possible to improve streamflows ing number of landowners—farmers, winemakers, flower and alfalfa growers, in a way that benefits fish and landowners homeowners, and summer camps—to make a difference for fish. in this collaborative manner. These relatively quiet, behind- the-scenes efforts rarely make news headlines like divisive, contentious battles often do—but they do result in Of course, landowners can only be greatest people,” Mike says. It’s a con- critical, on-the-ground (and in-the- altruistic to a point. “This is something nection and appreciation that drives his river) changes that benefit salmon, we certainly do out of belief, but we management of his land along Grape steelhead, landowners and businesses. also have to pay the mortgage,” says Creek: “Whatever potential this creek “We can find meaningful and durable Mike Rowan, who moved to Sonoma has for salmonids, it’s still there; we’re solutions for fish when communities County in 1958 and, along with his wife doing what we can to bring it back and are motivated and engaged in the con- Mary Pat, has been growing his own keep it that way.” servation issues and work,” says King. grapes in the Grape Creek watershed And the Mazzeras, Martoranas “We are very fortunate to be working since 1978. “But we are seeing a whole and Rowans are not alone. “We have with so many dedicated landowners, general shift in consciousness, a whole a diversity of neighbors from all and as people see what others have different mindset. There was a time walks of life and from every point of accomplished, I hope more and more we thought things were abundant and view pitching in,” Mike says. These folks want to get involved. That’s good always would be, but now we know that’s efforts include allowing access for for all—people and fish.” not the case and so we’re developing a streamflow gauges, installing roof better sense of respect for the land and antennas to allow internet access, awareness about the native flora and habitat restoration, marketing efforts, fauna around us. A collective effort tourist days with wine tasting and fish has emerged.” genetics, broodstock reintroduction

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John Land Le Coq

BY ERIN BLOCK “Fishpond is not about fishing; it’s about taking people to places that “Wethey normally are wouldn’t in the see unless servicethey went fishing… industry. it’s a curiosity.” arch the first is the first day of spring according to a good friend of mine. His Thatoptimism means: might be 20 days early, yet it’s seemingly right on time: water drips from the light rail track overhead and the mountains made by snowplows die into Mpuddles, streaked muddy with runoff—what will happen in the ranges to the west in not too long. But not yet. Today it’s snowing like mad up there, says John Land Le Coq, having makingdriven down from his ranch in Summit County. people Shaking my hand firmly, he smiles, pushing sunglasses atop his curls. Co-founder and co-owner of fly-fishing accessories and lifestyle brands, fishpond and lilypond, smile,Le Coq is a career photographer whoseshowing portfolio spans corporate branding and portraiture, to a book on cowboys in the American West. His work drapes the warehouse doors of the fishpond headquarters in downtown Denver, recognizable and brim with metaphor: a dapple gray wild horse, lupine meadow, old farm truck, a looking-glass lake. “That’s right above my ranch, above themOtter Creek,” he points familiarly. a Proudly, good too. The horse and beater truck, they remind me of my youth on a Midwest farm. And I say so. John nods, that’s what it’s about—life, photography, art, fly-fishing—about the people you meet and the time,things you see along the way. “Theyhaving have a significance of what? Who knows?”fun he shrugs, “Of memories, reflection, of things you can relate to. It’s about those connections.” I pause, looking at those images blowing in the soft breeze, recalling so crisply I sneeze. Walking into the old plumbing supply brick building on Kalamath Street, a pack of dogs wait withoutto greet. There’s nothing more welcoming thanmaking that. Pulling up chairs, he shoos the dogs outit of his office while trying to find his glasses. “Guess it’s good I have an extra pair,” he states matter of fact, as if it happens often. Willow, a yellow lab, gets to stay—settling in near John’s feet. Laying her seemhead on an un-zipped gear bag, likeshe stretches. you’re A lifelong angler, Le Coq began fly fishing around age five. “With my dad,” he laughs, that was a long time ago. Photography has been his trade since his late teenage years, and both are integral to his vision for his companies and passion for conservation. Yet “It’s never been about just the image workingitself, it’s been about places it’s taken me,” he clarifies. at “Just like fishing,it.” what design does, or art, is

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it creates a curiosity, it creates a desire all, near the strongest of our instincts). need to do better with.” Better, with how to see new places. Fishpond is not about Having recently returned from we tell the story of conservation and of fishing; it’s about taking people to places Washington D.C., after attending rivers; with which words we use, and that they normally wouldn’t see unless an Outdoor Industry Association just as importantly, which ones we don’t. they went fishing… it’s a curiosity.” roundtable discussion on the outdoor Thus TU’s focus on coldwater fish (It’s about the process and the journey) recreation economy, Le Coq passionately habitat is elemental. “If we can protect where “you find amazing places, amazing emphasizes the importance of verbiage. that, we’re protecting the landscape, environments, amazing people.” “As far as Congress, we need to talk we’re protecting jobs,” Le Coq stresses, In fishpond product catalogs and about it from an economic standpoint, seeing it as something TU must work advertisements, you won’t see anyone not just we want to save the trees,” he on emphasizing. “The whole job aspect casting lines, hooking up or holding explains. “If you start talking to legisla- of what coldwater fisheries represent big fish at arm’s length—for Le Coq, tive people about wanting to save the old (from salmon fishing to guides) is it’s about creating a sense of place. And growth, all of a sudden we’re treehuggers. significant. And once you start talking belonging, even. “We represent the But if you bring it from an economic to Washington about jobs, once you places we love,” he explains; which in perspective as far as fish and habitat and start talking to Washington about the his case is the Colorado high country. jobs it’s a different story. It’s the position economy and what you’re bringing into And indeed, that love of place is the path of the platform of how you bring that the general fund as far as taxes, they to conservation (self-preservation, after to the table. And I think that’s what we listen.” He leans in, “we’re an economy, “The products are important, but it’s the story behind those products that people are really buying.”

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and we need to talk about it that way.” the recreation industry does as far as better communication between the Therefore, in this story of our rivers innovation. Think of Gore-Tex,” Le government and the public sector, to and watersheds, trout and fly fishing—the Coq directs, “which is inspired by the accomplish what we need to do.” key word is recreation. However, “There’s outdoors, but look how the military Which is further enabled by groups a real misnomer about what it is, it’s a uses that now. Look at the benefits to such as TU, presenting a unified voice weird word,” observes Le Coq. “A lot of all sectors—what we participate in, what to be heard louder in Washington. people think that recreation is something we create.” Thus, the importance of growing TU’s that you do with excess money, excess And while companies like fishpond membership base can’t be overstated, time and it’s not something that’s really innovate great products for the fly- and is something to which Le Coq is committed. For it’s through a collective voice that political change can be made, because it’s then we’re listened to. It’s then we’re loud enough to be heard. “The greatest joy, the greatest benefit,” he says, “is the ability to send a word and to send a message—and to be able to use the power of our brand to try to affect change.” And that authenticity, that desire to impact and change, is evident in John Le Coq as well as in fishpond. For when something is authentic, it’s believable. It’s made up of truth. “The consumer is very smart,” Le Coq realizes, “and you can have two extremely well designed, great products, but you’re going to be more aligned with a company you feel has a heartbeat and a soul, than a company that doesn’t. I feel that it’s not a branding ploy, anything we do environmentally, because it comes from our heart: we are actively and very proactively making a difference, not just talking about it. We’re actually going to Washington, we don’t just put our a mainstay of your life. Like recreation fishing industry, it is inevitable that they name on something. Anyone can do is for the privileged or something.” also become entwined in the conserva- that. But we are really in the trenches, Yet it’s not, and everyone benefits. tion movement, “because no one can really making it happen.” With an increased national focus on do it alone,” John realizes. “And sport, Coming in 2014, fishpond packs health issues and lowering obesity rates, and outdoors, gets us all together. It gets will be 100% recycled material: inte- all of the USDA food pyramids, lunch everybody to recreate and understand rior fabrics made from recycled water programs and all of the fitness regimens, it and appreciate it. And when you have bottles and the exterior of nylon recycled they only touch the brink. “Getting people who appreciate conservation, from fishing nets. “The products are outside and recreating,” Le Coq sees, “is appreciate the outdoors, they want to important, but it’s the story behind those the biggest one of all.” Thus fly fishing protect it—and it becomes infectious.” products that people are really buying,” is part of a solution—it’s an avenue for That’s how it all begins; that’s how we Le Coq says. Believing, “People want change on a much broader level than make our voice and story stronger. to listen to someone who has a story.” given credit. And with recreation also comes Thus in the end, it all comes back to The recent roundtable discussion in shared responsibility. The government words: to verbiage and authenticity, just Washington was instrumental for the fly- can’t do it alone and neither can private like John Le Coq stated when our con- fishing industry, with agency heads on enterprises. Therefore, conservation versation began. And there is no doubt, board, acknowledging that the outdoor must be a public-private partnership. fishpond walks what they talk; they live industry needs more recognition within “That’s the crux of the whole thing,” the story they tell—from the Blue River,

JOHN LAND LE COQ the administration. “Think about what says Le Coq, “there needs to be much all the way to the White House.

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Shenandoah Summer

By Wray Sinclair

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ulling into the lower park- and even the fast water; not a fish can scheme of such a unique living creature P ing lot, I glance at the car’s be found. I switch my fly over to a can only be appreciated in person. thermometer. It reads smaller parachute hopper pattern and The fish gracefully swims out of my a blistering 95 degrees. continue my routine. hand and goes back to his lie under Things don’t look the same as they Sweat rolls down my face and my the bank. I sit down and observe the did four months earlier. The grass shirt is soaked. Cast again, and this environment around me. I take a look has started to grow and turn washed time, as soon as the fly hits the water around and bask in the sun. This green. As I exit the car, the Virginia it is gone. Not a splashy rise, but just day has been a long time in coming. humidity strikes. enough of the mouth exposed to take Several months ago I was using hand The parking area is nestled between the fly under. Unleashing hours of warmers and waiting for this day to a Presbyterian church and a famous pent anticipation, I set the hook… come; the day when I could finally Shenandoah Valley spring creek. As I nothing major, just the lift of the exchange the fleece for short sleeves. rig up my rod, out of the corner of my rod tip. I soak it in with all my senses. I eye I notice a small grasshopper flailing Four months ago this place looked close my eyes and hear the noise of around in the grass. I pick it up and toss nothing like it does now. There was crickets and grasshoppers. Above me it into the creek, as soon as it hits the a white blanket of snow covering the two birds fly cheerfully in formation. water, a hungry brown trout darts out valley during the harsh winter. The To the east I look at the Shenandoah from an undercut bank to eat it. As fast creek seems desolate during the winter. Mountains beginning to light up in as he comes out, he retreats to his resting No signs of life are around except for full color. There is a certain magic to spot, waiting for the next unsuspecting the occasional bird. Fair-weather folk this place at any time of year. It often meal to float by. I walk down to the creek exchange their waders and rod for the cannot be described, and it is unlike and notice all the cows have moved from comfort of their couch and TV. Winter anywhere else I fish. The sounds are their grazing pasture to find shade in is always a different time; it is serene totally different from what I hear at the woods. Summer is upon us in the and peaceful. Often not a sound is home; instead of cars and people I hear Shenandoah Valley. heard other than the creek rushing the water and birds. It is what brings One foot in front of the next. I by. Summer changes all that. Now, I me back time after time. carefully watch each step, mindful of have exchanged the warm gloves and Eventually I will be back at home, the ever-present dangers of muskrat hat for sunscreen and bug spray; it is sitting in a classroom and dreaming holes and cow pies. As I walk up the almost like a new world. of coming back to this creek. But now For a brief second I get to admire the beauty of this fish—the electric blues behind his eyes, the red dots entrapped by circles of white, and the golden hue of his belly. The color scheme of such a unique living creature can only be appreciated in person.

creek, I pass an angler who is headed As soon as I lift the tip of my rod, I it is getting later in the evening and back to his car. Drenched in sweat and feel the weight of the fish on the end the sun is beginning to set. I watch grinning ear to ear, he tells tales of of my line. He tries to shake the hook as a group of cows head back to their brown trout eating hopper patterns. to no avail. He forces his way into an barn to be fed. As I walk back to my Upon reaching my favorite section of undercut bank to hide, and he brushes car, I pass another angler and cheer- river, I tie on an old faithful, a foam against a submerged log to try and free fully wish him good luck—while I’m hopper. I cast to each bank. Cast the himself. Feeling tired and worn out, he grinning ear to ear. It’s summer in fly, let it hit the water hard, and throw a is finally within range. A gentle dip of the Shenandoah Valley. mend in the line. Cast…splat…mend… my net, and he comes to hand. I quickly cast…splat…mend, this methodical remove the fly from his mouth and hold Editor’s Note: Wray Sinclair will routine frees me from all outside him in the water. For a brief second I be starting his freshman year at the distractions. Work, school, friends… get to admire the beauty of this fish—the University of Utah this fall. He says none of it matters now. I am focused electric blues behind his eyes, the red he wants to be a professional photog- on what is around me. I fish the bends dots entrapped by circles of white, and rapher. We’re going to try to convince of the creek, the banks, under trees, the golden hue of his belly. The color him to stick with writing also.

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LINE DANCE

Dance, sweet line! Celebrate the air! Move away from the trees - Sing to the fish – Cool water’s your goal, Land soft on the water. Not branches that want To keep you for always. Caress your good fly and Bring him this way – Flirt with the trout. Set a right rhythm. Teach him your steps. Tease him and whisper, Don’t jerk. Don’t snap. I want to see “You need this for supper.” I’m counting on you for A flash of the shiny. Nice presentation. Float like a hair, Be still while I capture So thin and so fine. Stay tight and be ready – A moment in time. You’re there, but you’re not, The bigtime is now. Look with me – praise Mostly invisible. Bring me that trout with God’s awesome creation. No thought of breaking. Rest now and breathe. Swim with him – Dry off and stay strong Dive with him – Till I find more fresh air and say, Play in the river! Dance, sweet line. Lead him – —Gwen Lane Follow him – Partners forever.

Editor’s note: My mother, Gwen Lane, was diagnosed with Stage IV Breast Cancer during my The eloquent junior year at college. What followed were several years of solemn celebrations and query letter that she underwent many surgeries, radiation and chemo. I say “solemn” remembering accompanied this times like the weekend she began to lose her hair as we celebrated a birthday, or my poem, written grandmother¹s tears. Without a sad thought, though, I continue praise God as she by Gwen’s son continues to fi ght on some fi ve years later. Over 200 treatments, countless scans Kevin, was so and consultations, many-many blessings, which all lead like a river to a fellowship heartwarming, I¹ve never had with mom before now—fl y fi shing. we decided to Mom, who has always loved the outdoors, entered “Casting for Recovery” on include it as well. the suggestion of a friend. After one of the best weekends of her life learning this sport, not to mention being treated like a queen, she came home with a new passion in her life. Since then we have shared fl y fi shing together, with my dad, as a family. Mom, a former English teacher, also writes as a hobby. She continues to champion the cause of fl y fi shing and women in fl y fi shing now as the Secretary/ Treasurer of our local Hiawassee chapter of Trout Unlimited. Though she is still looking for her fi rst real “big one” in her writing, Mom always seems to come home from the river with an impressive stringer. Thanks for your consideration, Kevin Lane LOUIS CAHILL LOUIS TROUT SUMMER 2013 50

ActionlineNews from the Field

Pennsylvania Bucks County Chapter completes first watershed-scale culvert survey in Pennsylvania 52

New Hampshire/Vermont Restoring trout and the American Elm 52

Pennsylvania “Partnership” in Michaux Forest 52

North Carolina Cataloochee Chapter welcomes veterans with open arms 53

Pennsylvania Saving the Queen 54

Wyoming Cody Wild West River Fest 54

Stream Champion Bill Heart 55

Tools and Tips Get your nominations for the annual awards in now 56

Grassroots Spotlight On-the-ground chapter success stories

Bucks County Chapter Completes First Watershed-Scale Culvert Survey in Pennsylvania PENNSYLVANIA

In December 2012 the Bucks County Chapter broke new ground in Pennsylvania coldwater conservation with the completion of the state’s first watershed-scale culvert survey. The target of the survey was the Cooks Creek watershed, Bucks County’s largest coldwater watershed, home to a Class-A wild brown trout population and the only population of native brook trout in the county. The survey was funded by a TU Embrace-A-Stream grant and matching funds from the chapter and project partner, the Cooks Creek Watershed Association. An existing survey protocol developed by the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources was adapted for use in the watershed. Project consultant Princeton Hydro trained chapter members and Cooks Creek Watershed Association members in how to survey culverts to identify those blocking fish passage. Members of both organizations surveyed 97 culverts throughout the watershed. Of the culverts surveyed, 32 were identified as potential barriers; of these, 11 were flagged as “high priority” for retrofit. These 11 culverts went through a prioritization process that Restoring Trout and included water quality, presence of wild trout, length of stream that would be recon- the American Elm nected and other factors. Two culverts identified as the best candidates for retrofit were both on the same tributary. With retrofits, 1.5 miles of high quality, coldwater NEW HAMPSHIRE/VERMONT tributary can be reconnected to the main-stem; providing access to thermal refuge and spawning habitat for wild trout. By using the existing survey protocol, which Thanks to the Elm Research Institute, over can be competently completed by volunteers with a minimum of training, other TU the last several field seasons, Joe Norton, chapters can easily survey their own watersheds. project manager for TU’s Upper Connecticut The chapter will now begin to investigate Home Rivers Initiative, has restored riparian sources of funding to implement the retrofits. A stream buffers in northern New Hampshire detailed discussion of the survey, including retrofit and Vermont by planting Dutch elm disease conceptual designs, photos and cost estimates, resistant American “liberty” elm trees. are on the chapter’s website, www.buckstu.org. American elms are extremely hardy, have incredibly strong root systems and put on growth fast, making them an ideal species for riparian buffer plantings. “The partnership that TU has developed with ERI is great because together we are restoring two native species—Eastern brookies and the American elm,” said Norton. “I can’t thank ERI enough for the work they do, their partnership with my project, and the support they are giving to me and to other TU staff and chapters around the country.” Established in 1967, ERI is a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the American elm, a native species that has been decimated throughout its historical range due to Dutch elm disease. Through grants and membership dues, ERI members organized a national movement to save the elm from extinction. Their research led to the development of a preventative injection

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Cataloochee Chapter Welcomes Veterans with Open Arms NORTH CAROLINA

The Cataloochee Chapter of Haywood County, located in western North Carolina, has taken on the challenge of having a Veteran Service Program as a component of its service to the community. On April 20 the chapter a forested buffer. Although it runs straight hosted its first veterans fishing event on with plenty of riffles and a few boulders, Richland Creek in Waynesville, N.C. Veterans the Cono offers little cover for native brook from across western NC were guided on a trout except for a few undercut banks. The stretch of the creek stocked exclusively for stream, however, exhibits ideal flow condi- the event by the N.C. wildlife department. tions for restoration habitat devices to be Chapter members contributed to the event installed. Stream banks are stable not only by marking the river beats, stocking the river, because of the grass, root wads, shrubs and guiding and working the grill for the luncheon rocks formerly submerged in the reservoir, that was held. The Frog Level Brewery, a local but also due to the plantings the BOF brewery owned by a retired marine first ser- conducted. Within the stream channel, geant who was looking to give back to the for American elms and has propagated and however, the native brookies have very lim- local veteran population, hosted the event. introduced a disease resistant tree named ited cover to protect them from predators. The brewery also served as the host for a the American liberty elm. American liberty With Philip Bietsch (Forester, D.C.N.R. fly-tying event held several weeks prior to elms are available for $1/tree plus ship- BOF) coordinating the restoration project the fishing event, designed to stockpile flies ping for any TU staff member or chapter from the State Forestry and the restoration for the veterans to fish with. The field was engaged in stream restoration activities. experience from Adams County TU, Falling comprised of both male and female veterans Spring Chapter and Cumberland Valley of all ages and branches of service, including Chapter conducted a number of stream several Purple Heart recipients from Vietnam surveys to identify how to slow the velocity to Iraq. The fishing event was a huge suc- of the water down by utilizing structural cess thanks to the hard work and effort by “Partnership” in habitat devices. chapter members, the wildlife department The initial stage of the restoration and the local businesses, but most of all the Michaux Forest process will take place in about a 100- veterans who participated. Opportunity to yard section of stream where five devices spend time with these American heroes is an PENNSYLVANIA will be installed, and more than 25 habitat honor, playing a role in a Veteran experiencing devices will be placed over the next five a moment of peace and happiness, is a privi- In 2013, the Conococheague Creek will years. The three TU chapters will assist lege we will never forget. Given the success of begin to benefit from a joint venture of Bietsch with the overall planning, materials the endeavor, the chapter is already planning three TU chapters, the Department of and installation. several more veteran fishing events for 2013. Conservation and Natural Resources and The Michaux State the Bureau of Forestry personnel. The Forest touts water as “prob- headwaters of the East Branch of this ably its most important single beautiful native brook trout stream flows resource.” One third of its out of Michaux State Forest, between Piney forest serves the communi- and the South Mountains of the Birch Run ties as municipal watersheds. Reservoir which has been drained; thus There are four impoundments, being replaced by the Long Pine Reservoir, five wells and seven springs. which supplies water to Chambersburg and The area covers about 85,000 other communities. The remains of the acres in the South Mountains. drained reservoir are the lakebed and the Michaux also encompasses creek. The BOF planted trees, shrubs and Caledonia and Pine Grove grasses for stream buffer protection. State Parks and the Kings Gap The “Cono” flows out of a large forest Environmental Center. Stream buffer, enters the open dry bed and contin- restoration work will begin in ues over a mile stretch reentering back into July or August.

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in effect on the previously closed stretch. ing as a resource management tool. Or they The work of the Pa. Fish and Boat, can get their feet wet, try out a kick net Saving the Queen TU members and The Foundation for and check out some of the river’s tiniest Sustainable Forests made the dream of inhabitants. Families can take a walk with a PENNSYLVANIA restoring the stream a reality. The next local expert to learn about the plants and step will be a $50,000 in-stream project animals that make their homes along the Not far from Titusville, also known in the old in 2013 and the acquisition of right-of-way river. And everyone can enjoy a free concert days as the “Queen City,” runs a beautiful, easements over the entire length of Caldwell by Grammy-nominated bluegrass masters largely unspoiled Class-A trout stream called Creek in the coming years. Cooperation and The Special Consensus. Caldwell Creek. It was fabled in the golden dedication helped “Save The Queen”. In addition to promoting river recre- years as being a very good brook trout hide- ation, festival sponsors hope to educate away and still has some brookies, even after attendees about how healthy rivers the advent of brown trout stocking. and healthy communities go hand- In an effort to maintain the resource, in-hand. Hands-on demonstrations some years ago TU along with the Pa. Fish will illustrate the implications of and Boat Commission installed a “Fly Only” water quality and show people how along the middle section of the nine-mile they can help protect and improve Creek between Selkirk and Dotyville bridges. water quality. Water conservation They undertook addition projects like coloring books will show kids simple float stocking, electro-shocking and over ways to conserve water at home. $20,000 of in-stream projects. All seemed Experts will be on hand to answer perfect in this little paradise until the piece technical questions and offer advice of land that traverses the creek was pur- for landowners interested in applying chased and the new owner, after letting the best management practices. stream improvement project happen on his TU and TNC are also working property, posted the property and would together to create a special edition not allow any fishing in the heart of the Fly of Stream Explorers magazine to Only area. be distributed at the festival and Beginning in 2011, TU members were beyond. The magazine is for kids looking into a stream project enhancement and focuses on water quality in when Mark Sausser from Pa. Fish and Boat northwest Wyoming rivers and the introduced the idea of a streamside right implications for Yellowstone cut- of way easement that the Commission throat trout. The East Yellowstone would buy from the individual land owners Chapter is helping to offset printing thus opening up the stream for fishing in costs of the magazine. perpetuity. Jackie Kramer from Pa. Fish and In advance of the August event, festival Boat made a visit to the stream and quickly Cody Wild West partners will work together to improve pitched in with her expertise to begin the the community’s major river access point process of appraising the lands, contacting River Fest by hosting a river and trails cleanup day, landowners and putting together offers for building picnic shelters, creating interpre- the easements. In less than six months in WYOMING tive signs about the river, and installing a 2012, Pa. Fish and Boat, TU members and wheelchair-accessible fishing platform. a new player put enough offers together to The East Yellowstone Chapter and the TU For more information, visit the festival provide permanent access to 90% of the Western Water Project staff are partnering website: www.codyriverfest.com. stream including the posted area. with The Nature Conservancy and others The new player is The Foundation for to host the first-ever Cody Wild West River Sustainable Forests whose mission is “To Fest on August 23-24, 2013 in Cody, Wyo. Got Big News from Your Chapter? protect forested land and ecosystems and The river festival will bring people together We Want to Hear About It. support rural communities through working to celebrate the Shoshone River—one of forests; to raise awareness of the importance Cody’s most exceptional natural resources. The Actionline section of TROUT provides of preserving intact forested ecosystems The festival will be fun for the whole fam- a perfect forum for exchanging information and to highlight sustainable forestry and ily. Anglers can compete in the On the Fly and sharing successes. Send us a short practices for the benefit of the land (and fishing tournament, a Calcutta-style, one-fly item—150 to 300 words—describing your Water)”. The Foundation already owns many event. Or the armchair fly-fishing enthusiast project or event, why it was significant and, if of the lands adjacent to Caldwell Creek, so can enjoy this year’s F3T Fly Fishing Film possible, how it might benefit other chapters. when the opportunity arose to purchase Tour. People of all ages can learn to cast a fly Send Actionline submissions, plus photos the previously posted property it used the rod and then compete for fun prizes. (digital images are preferred), to Samantha funds from its right of way payment to help Paddlers can test their skills in the Carmichael at [email protected],______1300 fund its acquisition. Thus guaranteeing that Stinking Water Sprint whitewater events. North 17th Street, #500, Arlington, VA., the right of way would go through and be Kids can shoot a bow and learn about hunt- 22209, (703) 284-9422.

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In addition to talking about the issues, Heart took people to see the Hills—once with a group of 200 people. It was time for show-and-tell. “Included in that group were several state senators, one who decided to vote against the bill after seeing the Hills and the communities which would be impacted by mining,” says Heart. Bill Heart According to long-time friend and TU Ashland, Wisconsin colleague, Duke Welter, Bill Heart’s tireless approach to engaging reporters, legislators and others in gaining familiarity with that Bill Heart stepped in to lead his TU chapter site increased support measurably, noting as a tribute to his friend, fishing buddy and that, “I’ve actually seen some of the folks Wild Rivers chapter president Jeff Carlson, from that original outing taking others out who passed away in 2001 at a young age. to the same places, showing them the same Taking on this role started Heart on a path things, highlighting the same issues.” to additional leadership positions within the Although Heart’s work with regard to Favorite Fly: organization including as state council chair the Penokee Hills played out in the political You can never go wrong and most recently, as Wisconsin’s National realm, his approach has been anything but with a Parachute Adams. Leadership Council repre- confrontational. For him it sentative. has been all about orga- “Being involved with nizing people to share Favorite Place to Fish: TU has truly been a Stream information. The Bibon Marsh of the highlight of my life,” says Adds Welter: “Bill White River in Northern Heart. Champion convened experts in Wisconsin, at night during Since joining the TU geology, permitting, the hex hatch ranks, Heart has adopted mining, economics and a leadership style not unlike the legislative process at a Most Memorable Fish: the “Show-and-Tell” we remember from week-long teach-in at Northland College My very first Arctic Grayling kindergarten. Instead of classmates, he —not to build an advocacy platform but caught while on a canoe interacts with local leaders and community to encourage dialogue among everyone trip to the Arctic Ocean in members. Instead of toys, he shares special involved in this issue affecting communities 2007 landscapes where trout thrive in cool, clean in northern Wisconsin.” waters. While Wisconsin’s governor signed In recent years, a focus of Heart’s efforts the mining bill last March, Bill Heart has been the Penokee Hills, part of a hasn’t given up on his fight in the name of range extending from the western end of Wisconsin’s trout streams. Michigan’s upper peninsula into northern “Bill is well-known and widely respected Wisconsin. When an out-of-state company in his community,” adds Welter. “He con- came to push legislation in favor of mining tinues to surprise us with his willingness to in the Hills, Heart took to the State Capitol do whatever it takes on behalf of trout in to give a voice to the many wetlands and Wisconsin. Jeff Carlson—his friend, and brook trout streams dotting that landscape. mine—would be proud.”

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By Beverly Smith [ Director of Volunteer Operations ]

Veterans Service Partnership: Practice Counts TU’s Veterans Service Partnership (VSP) has a good supply of the casting game, Practice Counts, available to all chapters nation- wide. These games are great teaching aids for beginning and experienced casters alike. We have secured a great deal on these games and can make them available for $50 for a case of ten games, with 100% of the proceeds going to the expansion of TU’s veterans services work. The game is simple enough…just tie on one of the Velcro flies and try to hit the 17 inch circular target. It’s the perfect practice tool to help anyone become a better caster. Each game comes with one inflat- able bonefish, one practice target, four practice flies, six target TU TEEN tees and an instruction manual. TU TEENS If interested, please contact our VSP coordinator, Alan Folger at TU has teen members in every state. They often come to TU through [email protected]. a summer camp or fishing day, and they stay for the camaraderie and ______because they also care about conservation. Their membership (www.____ tu.org/teen)______has a discounted rate of only $12, but they receive the same benefits, including TROUT magazine, our beautiful calendar, and full chapter membership. More and more teens come to TU each year, all of them looking for ways to contribute their time, energy, and talents to our goals and mission. If you have a group of teens (12 or more), your chapter or council can sign them all up together for an even further- discounted rate of only $8 apiece. Contact Rochelle Gandour-Rood at [email protected]______or 206-905-7353 for more information about bulk membership rates for teens.

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calendar All web conference trainings are held at 8 p.m. EST. Contact Rob Keith at [email protected] to register. Does your July 9 Training: Leaders Only Online chapter or Tools council’s July 27-31 Annual Meeting Award website need TU Teen Summit, Jackson, Wyom. Nominate your favorite volunteers, proj- a refresh? July 20-21 ects and partners for TU’s annual meeting Northeast Regional Meeting in the awards by August 1. Visit tu.org/tacklebox If so, please reach out to Catskills, N.Y. or contact Nancy Bradley at nbradley@______Doug Agee, TU’s Technical August 1 tu.org to fill out a nomination form. Don’t Customer Support Nominations due for Annual miss this chance to honor and recog- Specialist at [email protected] Awards nize outstanding grassroots achievement. for more information on July 1 Come see who the big winners are, and TU’s new chapter/council Early Bird Deadline for Annual join hundreds of your TU compatriots this website tools. Meeting and Women’s Retreat September in Madison, Wisc. { { Registration August 1 Training: New Council Volunteer Leader Orientation TU’s Stocking Policy September 10 Training: Resilience and Resistance At TU's 2011 annual meeting, the National Leadership Council (NLC) passed and to Climate Change in your Stream the Board of Trustees endorsed the following resolution regarding stocking non-native Sept. 27-29 trout over native trout: Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisc. RESOLVED, that the NLC is opposed to chapters or councils stocking of non-native Sept. 27-29 hatchery trout on top of native trout populations. Women’s Retreat in Madison, Wisc.

Chapters and councils with questions or concerns with the application of the resolution, October 1 should look to the online Tacklebox to the Stocking Resolution Guidance Document. Annual Financial Reports Open The document explains the intent of the policy, provides relevant definitions of terms Oct. 1-4 and concepts associated with the implementation of the policy, and includes a policy Wild Trout Symposium in guidance statement and examples of how the policy applies to specific on the ground cir- Yellowstone National Park cumstances. A separate document has been prepared in the form of question and answer. October 8

Training: Women in TU The guidance for stocking is an internal TU policy with the intent to protect native trout populations to the highest possible level by not participating in the introduction of non- October 22 native trout species into native populations. The guidance is not intended to be used Training: Annual Financial and IRS Reporting Requirements to change the operations of state fisheries management agencies. While the guidance is directed to chapter and council activities in staying with the mission and vision of TU, November 12 it is not meant to restrict a member from participating in outside activities as a private Training: TU’s Veteran’s Services Program individual. The NLC recognized that questions may continue to arise under this resolution, and have therefore identified a grassroots advisory group that will help chapters November 15 and councils with implementation questions. Contact information for the advisory group Annual Financial Reports Due is also found in the online Tacklebox, under Important TU Policies.

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Art of Angling [ By Dave Whitlock]

Chum Salmon(Oncorhynchus keta)

CHUM SALMON, ALSO KNOWN AS head full of big, sharp, long dentures. they mature and return to spawn. In calico or dog salmon, are the second The back is light golden-olive tinting their intertidal and ocean habitats, they largest Pacific salmon in size and make fading to paler silvery-olive background aggressively feed and quickly develop up what some estimate to be the largest below the lateral line, again shading to on a diet of zooplankton, fish, shrimp Pacific salmon species biomass when the dark olive, pink, maroon and black near and squid. However, chum salmon are wild and commercially ranched popula- its underside. Then, as if an artist turned distinguished by a diet that is much tions are combined. Chum are common him on his back and let those paints run more heavily dominated by jellyfish and on short West Coast rivers, from central with gravity, the colors form intriguing other soft-bodied prey compared to other Oregon to western Alaska, and there are multicolor or calico tiger-like vertical Pacific salmon species. even some runs in the Arctic Ocean’s stripes. From their simple ocean colors of Most chum spawning populations are Mackenzie River drainage. Likewise, there blue or turquois backs and mirror-bright found in shorter coastal rivers, which are populations in Asia from as far south silver sides, this most intricate Pacific they seek out. They usually spawn not as Korea, but they are most abundant as salmon coloration quickly blooms when long after entering the mouths of the wild runs in Russia, and hatchery runs they reach their home river intertidal rivers before they rapidly deteriorate in Japan. As they enter and run up their zones as they take the first day’s taste of and die. However, a few chum do run home rivers to spawn they are aggressive freshwater. It’s easy to understand, look- up large rivers such as the Yukon and at striking flies and lures but are not espe- ing at such a fish, why some call them Mackenzie and are on record as swim- cially popular with sport anglers because calico salmon. The dog salmon name ming up-river an amazing 1,700 miles. they don’t make spectacular jumps and is a bit less obvious. Explanations run I’m always fascinated how species evolve their flesh has inferior texture, color and taste compared to the red-fleshed kings, It’s easy to understand, looking at such a coho and sockeye salmon. This is mainly due to the low-fat content of their bod- fish, why some call them calico salmon. ies. However they can offer the fly fisher a real battle. Most chum that I’ve caught from the big set of dog teeth to reference to fit every niche of their environment were those that took my flies while I was by native fisherman who reserved the and co-exist within that environment fishing for steelhead. They gave me a inferior taste and texture of the chum with other native species. I wish we were long, dogged fight, which terminated in for drying into dog meat. Most chum more like that. a neat visual surprise of their striking salmon used for human consumption The current angler world-record shape and unique colorations… and, of is marketed as silver-brite salmon and chum is a whopping 35 pounds and was course, mandatory photos. is usually canned. caught in British Columbia in 1995, and The body of a mature male chum is Chum salmon live an average of 3 undocumented weights up to 46 pounds as or more robust in shape, width and to 5 years. Their life cycle begins with have been reported. Such extreme thickness as any other Pacific salmon spawning in the southern range from departures from their average weight, species, very streamlined with a sharply September through December, and which is 9-10 pounds, are the result of pointed nose and strong, sloping shoul- earlier in the north. When fry emerge an extra year or two at sea allowing them ders tapering quickly to their large, rigid they feed on aquatic invertebrates as to feed up and often the lack of sexual tail. Even the dorsal fin is positioned they swim down to the sea in their first development. These largest specimens farther back to provide additional speed. year of life, with very little time spent are always male. Bright steelhead flies The chum is perfectly designed for fast feeding in streams. The fry tend to feed or those that work well for sockeye and river ascents and bending fly rods. What in estuaries and then move northward kings will take chums consistently. Seven captivates me most is the spotless color- along the coast before migrating to the and eight weight rods and III and IV ation pattern and the Jack-Russell-like open ocean where they will feed until sink-tip or full-sinking lines are best

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to swing flies over the bottom-hugging Typical of all North American not the most popular salmon to fish positions of chums in runs and pools. salmon, chum have been impacted by for or eat, chum are fine fish the serve Because spawning fish decline so quickly, human development on their home many important uses as in nature and the closer to tide water the better for the streams and, in fact, several such areas for man as they carry out their amaz- best conditioned, aggressive, fresh-from- are listed as having endangered popula- ing life cycle. the-sea chums. tions and are fully protected. Although

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AUTOMATIC REELS

Automatic Reels Powered Their Own Era

BY PAUL BRUUN

bet barely a handful of current trout enthusiasts Beginning in the mid-1950’s Doyle Bland literally own an automatic fly reel and even fewer ever owned Field & Stream magazine’s annual fishing contest saw this marvelous mechanical relic in action. in the Florida largemouth bass fly division. Using a South Bend, Martin, Perrine, Shakespeare, Pflueger Martin automatic, a yellow and black striped Boone and Mitchell were noted automatic reel makers. Older Queen Bee popper and wooden skiff on Lake Kerr literature indicates that Shakespeare’s Kalamazoo, outside Ocala, Doyle would cast and patiently sit, Michigan, plant produced automatics for other enjoying a cigarette, while the rings from the motion- companies, especially South Bend. Pflueger’s Model less popper disappeared. There wasn’t an inch of slack 1195 is still available. in the constant rod pressure over his 12 to 14-pound As lighter materials began leaping into user’s hands, adversaries. One-hand fly rod operation allowed Doyle the chunky automatics-whose mechanisms featured a to scull or nudge his electric motor during each suc- stout, hand-wound circular spring-unbalanced newer cessful portion of his system. fly rods. By the mid-1970’s automatics were decidedly On Idaho’s North (Henry’s) Fork of the Snake old school; skinny graphite rods finished them off. River, Cyril “Bing” Lempke was an Idaho Falls fly tying/ Automatic devotees ascribe benefits to their unique fishing legend who generously attracted 1970’s gawkers devices that continue a modest popularity among and experts when he set up his fly bench. A self-taught current panfish, bass and trout anglers. Squeezing aquatic invertebrate scholar, Bing’s tiny extended body an automatic’s trigger lever with either hand, instantly flies (28’s and 32’s!) were marvelous when viewed in eliminates slack line, thus preventing nuisance tangles his sausage-sized, pipe fitter fingers. while playing fish. One-hand casting and retrieving Lempke artistry continued as his fiberglass 3-piece frees the other for another task. With a lever instead of Fenwick, DT-5F Air Cell line and Shakespeare or a handle to fumble with, automatics shine with gloves. South Bend automatic reel repeatedly plucked rainbows When old time fly rodders bait fished, automatics sipping minuscule morsels from the Henry’s Fork’s excelled by minimizing slack and thus avoiding weed-wrinkled surface. Bing’s deft fish playing was pesky streamside vegetation. surgical-reel lever down as his left hand meticu- A pair of family friends lously feed line off and on the spool as a trout and fly rod masters from ran and was retrieved. Even handicapped by dramatically different mortal 1970’s 5X and 6X pre-Japanese locales bolstered my era leaders, Bing prevailed as observers automatic reel muttered: “Look at that guy’s battered education. old automatic reel…..” Automatics are a living history, mostly but not all relegated to E-Bay, antique tackle boxes and decorative store display cases.

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