Mayflyer Donegal Trout Unlimited February 2011 Vol. 41 # 1 which will be a swap meet at the Farm & Home FEBRUARY Center, will require some additional planning to What’s gather equipment and organize the evening. MEETING Planning for the annual banquet/fund raiser, FEBRUARY 16 Emerging scheduled for Saturday April 2, has begun in earnest. Dan Brandt, Banquet Coordinator, has made contact JEFFREY DEITRICH PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE assignments for the committee members to solicit funds and items from the community. Well over 400 STATE ibernation time! Not for DTU! Just as many contacts will be made in order to acquire the needed of us are preparing for the coming fishing OF THE donations and items for the raffles and auction Hseason by tying flies and checking gear the BROOK TROUT DTU Board is preparing for a new year of stream work and education. Continued, page 2 FARM & HOME The Trout in the Classroom program is alive and CENTER well in five Lancaster County classrooms. Brad Mc- Corner ARCADIA ROAD Clain �Warwick�, Josh Shortuse �Ephrata�, Jim Hovan Buttons are now available for fishing 7:00 PM �CV� and Eric Mast � Manheim Central� have reported Millport Conservancy in 2011. Purchase that their eggs have hatched and the fingerlings are them at a meeting for $20 or contact me doing well. In the spring the surviving fingerlings will for mailing instructions. Current mem- be released into Lititz Run, Moore’s Run or Hammer bers of Donegal TU or Millport Conser- ONTENTS Creek. To quote Jim Hovan, “This program is worth vancy only. Contact Faye Haering at C its weight in gold.” [email protected] or 285-2572. WHAT’S Tom Royer, Nursery Chair, is busy contacting Set aside Saturday, April 2 on your EMERGING......1 various sources who will supply seedlings for DTU’s calendar for our annual banquet. Volun- tree/shrub nursery. He will be purchasing approxi- teers will be needed to help throughout VOLUNTEER mately 1000 plants for 2011. In the Spring the trees Volunteer the event. Volunteers will be needed to ORNER will be potted and over the summer they will be fed help out on the committee as well and in C .........1 and watered as needed. In early Fall they will be plant- soliciting donations. Please contact Dan CHAPTER ed along Climber’s Run, Donegal Springs Creek, Lititz Brandt ([email protected] or Run and several Conowingo tributaries. 717.341.1581) if interested. PLANNER.......2 Planning for the Special Olympics Fishing Derby Save the dates: Fly On The Run, WELCOME has gotten underway. Faye Haering , Volunteer Coor- Wednesday & Thursday, May 18 & 19 dinator, has already made arrangements for a place and at Millport Conservancy on Lititz Run. NEW is awaiting confirmation from the Special Olympics Stream monitors will be needed. Help MEMBERS.......2 committee regarding the selected dates. stocking the stream the prior week will be Kevin Hirst, DTU Youth Fly Fishing Workshop needed as well. COMMITTEE Coordinator, has selected a date and is working on a Save the date: Lancaster County REPORTS........3 site for the workshop. He is organizing his support Sportsmen for Youth Field Day on Satur- team and planning the activities that the youth will day, June 4, 2011. More details next is- OFF THE HOOK engage in. He expects to have a pond where the kids sue. will be able to apply their newly acquired skills. WITH A FAYE E. HAERING, Bob Albright, Program Chair, is working on pro- DTU VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR CANNY WEE grams for the next six months. The April meeting, TROOTIE.........6 DTU OFFICERS & BOARD Chapter Planner PRESIDENT Wayne Boggs 1 Harvest Drive FEBRUARY Ephrata, PA 17522 9�: 7 pm Board Meeting Millport Conservancy 717.733.2365 (home) [email protected] 16�: 7 pm Chapter Meeting Farm & Home Center Jeff Deitrich Brook Trout Status VICE PRESIDENT Tom Hall MARCH 2649 Spring Valley Rd 9�: 7 pm Board Meeting Millport Conservancy Lancaster, PA 17601 717-898-8664 16�: 7 pm Chapter Meeting Farm & Home Center Bob Ballantyne [email protected] Preserving Cutts & SECRETARY Graying in Yellowstone Gary Roulston APRIL 1150 S Lefever Dr Lititz, PA 17543 13�: 7 pm Board Meeting Millport Conservancy [email protected] 20�: 7 pm Chapter Meeting Farm & Home Center Member Swap Meet & TREASURER Sale Tim Suloff 859 Salisbury Court Lancaster, PA 17601 293.1844 (home) Welcome New Members [email protected] BOARD Brian Cunningham Danny Smith Programs 759 Sharon Drive 8 Foxrun Terrace Bob Albright 733.9430 (home) Mt Joy, PA 17552 Lititz, PA 17543 [email protected] [email protected] Glenn Stauffer Banquet Dan Brandt Ronald Groff 31 Karen Court 664.2332 (home) 1221 Freemont Street Lititz, PA 17543 [email protected] Lancaster, PA 176�3 [email protected] Past President Ted Downs Thomas Holben Phillip Watt 393.6645 (home) 2518 New Street 381 State Street [email protected] Membership East Petersburg, PA 1752- New Holland, PA 17557 Kevin Fausey [email protected] [email protected] 626.4003 [email protected] Emma Newhauser Karl Yoder Volunteers 8 Kimberton Apartments 7 Oak Lane Faye Haering 285.2572 (home) Lancaster, PA 17�22 Strasburg, PA 17579 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] At-Large Kevin Hirst Roy Yoder 717.821.5263 341 West Lemon Street [email protected] Conservation Bob Kutz President, continued events. The committee has decided the format, events, floor plan and event 940.1541 (home) sequence for the evening. [email protected] Newsletter Bob Kutz, Conservation Chair, is working with PA Fish & Boat, Mark Mark McMaster 755.0805 (home) Metzler �Wild Resources�, US Fish & Wildlife Services, PA Dept. of Environ- markmcmaster mental Protection, Lancaster County Conservation District and county farmers @sprintmail.com to identify projects for DTU for 2011. So far two projects in the Conowingo Communications Glen Mattox Watershed have been identified. They are the Daniel Schmucker farm and 293.9838 Tanglewood Golf Course. Another possible project is several stretches on the [email protected] upper Donegal Springs Creek. We need to begin the paperwork and permit Glen Nephin applications now so that the projects will be completed by Fall. 717.626.7593 As I look outside the snow is falling at the rate of about an inch per hour but [email protected] Nursery the planning will go on. Don’t forget to mark your calendar for the banquet on Tom Royer Saturday April 2 at the Host Resort on Route 30 East. Hope to see you at the 733.6687 (home) next chapter meeting. [email protected] Education WAYNE BOGGS vacant “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish At Large Greg Wilson they are after” by Henry David Thoreau 627.0419 (home) [email protected] Committee Reports PROGRAMS Back again from last year are our Theme Baskets. Extra large baskets filled full of items that have to do FEBRUARY 16 with the theme on the basket. This will be a silent Jeffrey Deitrich, from Penn State University will present a program on "State of the Brook bid. You will use your bid number to bid on the Trout: Are Wild Brook Trout Enhancement Regulations Working?" basket or baskets you would like to have and write in MARCH 16 the amount you would be willing to pay for that Bob Ballantyne, freelance outdoor writer for over 30 years has fished for a quarter century basket. The same as the silent auction, the starting in Yellowstone National Park. He will present a special program on how biologists with the bid will be established with reasonable increments. National Park Service have embarked on an ambitious effort to preserve genetically pure strains of several species of native fish in selected park waters, These include two subspecies Here is a short list of some of the items we have of Cutthroat Trout & Arctic Grayling. so far: Bid on Baskets with over 200 dollars worth of items in each one; CFR Rod and Reel; Buy tickets APRIL 20 and put them in the Bucket you would like to win; At the April DTU chapter meeting, we will be featuring a Swap Meet & Sale. Vocal Auction Items such as Eagles Tickets, Fishing Here’s your chance to clean out any unwanted fishing tackle & gear for cash Trips, Vacation Condo Packages, Gas Grills, Ladies’ or trade. Attendees will be able to buy, sell & trade both new & used fishing Jewelry, Dinners and Shows, Furniture, Rods and tackle and gear among themselves immediately following the business portion of Reels; Over 100 Silent Auction items such as Hand- the meeting. tied flies, Prints, Dishes, Books, Life-Vests, more Jewelry, Rods, Reels; Door Prizes all night long. Everything for sale or trade will be brought by individuals on the night of the meeting. The rest of the evening will be filled with plenty of entertainment. This year again we brought in two The Swap Meet & Sale is designed to provide a forum for chapter members gentlemen playing acoustical guitars throughout the to buy, sell & trade THEIR OWN unwanted tackle & gear. The success of this evening with music from the 60’s to the 90’s. Along event will require everyone to gather together your unwanted items and bring with all the vocal auctions, silent auctions and the them with you to the meeting. The meeting room will have plenty of tables for many raffles through out the room; we will be everyone to display their items. PLEASE BE SURE TO IDENTIFY ITEMS WITH YOUR drawing the winners for the $1000 Super Fund NAME AND ASKING PRICE. ticket at the end of the evening. These are the tickets Start gathering your stuff and get ready for a fun night of bartering & you will have received with your registration form.