January 2014 Newsletter of the Cohutta Chapter of Trout Unlimited Lines from the Leader What’s Inside Lines from the Leader P. 1 Calendar of Events P. 1 Happy New Year to everyone!! I hope everyone had a safe and pleasant Holiday. I look forward to Membership P. 2 another good year with plenty of activities for both SOTM P. 4 conservation and fishing opportunities. Our The Guides Angle P.4 conservation activities start in March with Raccon SOQUE RIVER PROPERTY P. 4 Creek again and hit a peak in the June/July months. Land near added to National Forest P. 5 Thanks to Jeff Walters who will be taking over the Speaker Info for the New Year P. 6 duties of organizing these for our chapter. Presenting Flies Behind a Midstream Rock P. 6 Final EPA Report on Bristol Bay P 7 For the SOTM Brad Wright has done a good job of Dream Trip Flier P. 9 putting together a good variety of areas for us to fish. If you will notice there are only a few that fall the weekend after our meetings so make sure you are aware of when they are if you are interested in going so you get the right information. Calendar of Events rd Cohutta Meeting January 23 th One last note on the calendar to be aware of is the SOTM DH Section… January 25 th Southeast Regional meeting which is being held at Rabun Rendezvous January 25 th the Dillard House from March to I encourage Cohutta Meeting February 27 st everyone who can to attend this to not only show SOTM ??? March 1 your support for the Georgia Council and other Meetings are held at the Delkwood Grill Georgia chapters but to meet others in the Southeast 1 mile east of I75 on Delk Road in Marietta, the as well. fourth Thursday of the month. Just a reminder that the January meeting, in addition to going over the yearly calendar is also our annual swap meet. So clean out your closets of that fishing gear you no longer use and don't limit it to just fishing gear. Any hunting and camping gear as well would make great items to swap. Can't wait to see what Sonny brings this year. Jeff 1 please review your profile at http://www.tu.org/user Cohutta Chapter #242 Officers or contact me for assistance. President Tony Rackie Jeff Wilson Phone 404-660-6692 Chapter Membership and information: Email [email protected] [email protected] Vice President Rodney Tumlin Phone 770-974-8726 A “Welcome” to the new folks to our chapter since Email [email protected] the last newsletter. We hope to meet you at one of Treasure our upcoming chapter functions. Please feel free to Kenn Walker Phone 770-377-5474 contact one of the leaders of the chapter if you have E-mail [email protected] any questions. Secretary Steve Westmoreland Phone Email [email protected] Source: Chapter 242 Roster with join date > Nov 15th, 2013 Stream of the Month Name and City Brad Wright Phone 770-235-7684 E-mail [email protected] Jon A. - Marietta, GA Newsletter Publisher and Editor/Fundraising Thomas B. - SMYRNA, GA Thom Underwood 404-414-1012 Roswell B. - MARIETTA, GA E-mail [email protected] Rich G. - Smyrna, GA John H. - ACWORTH, GA Fisheries Development Committee Nadene H. - MARIETTA, GA Jeff Walters Phone 404-557-0551 E-mail [email protected] John H. - TEMPLE, GA Special Projects and Conservation Janet H. - Villa Rica, GA Diane Minick Phone 770-876-1241 Jeff K. - CANTON, GA E-mail [email protected] Ronald L. - Marietta , GA Membership Committee Parvin L. - WOODSTOCK, GA Tony Rackie Phone 770-712-7231 Email [email protected] Bob L. - Canton, GA Web site Peter L. - CANTON, GA Tony Rackie Email [email protected] Tim L. - Kingston, GA Bruce M. - Atlanta, GA TIC & Education Spencer M. - VILLA RICA, GA John Dykes E-mail [email protected] Xavier O. - Canton, GA Don’t forget to visit our Web Site at Gene P. - Columbus, GA www.tucohutta.org James Q. - Marietta, GA Brady R. - Atlanta, GA Donald R. - Woodstock, GA ROBERT R. - SANDY SPRINGS, GA Membership: Tony S. - CARROLLTON, GA Fred S. - Atlanta, GA Phil S. - POWDER SPRINGS, GA Hello and Happy New Year. Hopefully Santa brought Ron T. - Cartersville, GA you everything on your wish list. (Rods, reels, Michael T. - Kennesaw, GA waders, boots, trips, maybe even a TU Lifetime Sheb T. - Woodstock, GA Membership) Chandler W. - POWDER SPGS, GA Reynolds W. - KENNESAW, GA I look forward to seeing you all on Thursday January rd For our current members, some items to check: 23 at our first meeting in 2014. Bring any ”stuff” you may want to trade/sell to others since the Has your membership expired or will it soon? January meeting is our annual “swap meet”. (If you Are you correctly assigned to our chapter? don’t have enough “stuff” bring cash to buy from (Cohutta 242) others. ;-) If you are not sure that you are correctly assigned to our chapter or to check if your membership is current 2 Current Membership Info: Cedartown, GA 1 (as of 01/10/2014) Columbus, GA 6 Dallas, GA 17 Active Members = 541 Prior Month = 543 Decatur, GA 1 New Members = 0 Douglasville, GA 14 Renewed/Contributed = 0 Soon to Expire (This Month) = 36 Eatonton, GA 2 Expired (Last Month) = 17 Ellijay, GA 1 Transferred In (30 days prior) = 0 Euharlee, GA 1 Transferred Out (30 days prior) = 0 Address Changes (30 days prior) = 0 Fairmount, GA 1 Steam Explorers (children) = 9 Fort Benning, GA 2 Source: Griffin, GA 1 https://leadersonly.tumembership.org/reports/chapter_membership_c hanges/242 Hiram, GA 3 Holly Springs, GA 1 Sign up for TU or Renew Your TU Membership. Kennesaw, GA 34 https://www.tumembership.org/member/intro Kingston, GA 3 Lithia Springs, GA 1 Please enter chapter 242 to be sure you are Marietta , GA 1 assigned to our chapter Marietta, GA 104 McDonough, GA 1 If anyone has pictures that they would like to share POWDER SPGS, GA 1 please send them to [email protected] . The link for Powder Springs, GA 19 the Chapter’s Pictures is: TU242_Pictures. Rockmart, GA 3 Rome, GA 1 We would like to have them for the newsletter and to show Roswell, GA 2 in our chapter meetings. SANDY SPRINGS, 1 GA Also – if you have any info or articles for our chapter Savannah, GA 1 newsletter please send them to [email protected]. Smyrna, GA 38 Suwanee, GA 1 Taylorsville, GA 1 TEMPLE, GA 3 Villa Rica, GA 6 You can also check out the info available from TU Waleska, GA 4 related to youth, and you may want to consider White, GA 4 giving a subscription to the TU Stream Explorers as Winston, GA 3 a gift to a friend or family member. Woodstock, GA 38 http://www.tu.org/streamexplorers We also have members of our chapter with addresses in 11 other states. Where do our members live? City and State Y Life Members: Acworth, GA 31 Alpharetta, GA 2 Our chapter now has 78 Life Members Armuchee, GA 1 Join as a TU Life Member and check out the Atlanta, GA 99 current offer for a fly rod, reel, personalized Life Austell, GA 2 Member certificate, member card, a lifetime of Avondale Estates, GA 1 Blue Ridge, GA 2 TROUT magazine and all other associated TU Bremen, GA 2 member benefits. Buchanan, GA 1 *Offer may change.. Check the TU web site for details. Canton, GA 43 Carrollton, GA 12 https://gifts.tumembership.org/member/life?ms=MWL-WFO- Cartersville, GA 8 WLIFE1031WL-H 3 SOTM – January 2014 The Guides Angle Greetings to all. With best wishes to you and yours Winter time is a great opportunity to get your fly for a Happy New Year, it is time to lay out our plans fishing equipment in working order, organize and tie for this year’s Stream of the Month (SOTM) and start flies and yes finally read all those great fishing our list of offerings needed to the weather and books. There is a book just in print called 50 Best generation gods to help us have a more successful Tailwaters to Fly Fish by Terry and Wendy Gunn. year. This book features 56 great fishing rivers across North America that are regulated by dams. Each We will have handouts of the calendar at the January River has a detailed map with access points, fly meeting as well as a soft copy available to those who selections, nearest fly shops, best restaurants and send me an email request for one. much more. Chapters are broken up into four regions; The West, The Rockies, The South and The Our January event will be at Paces Mill on the East. The Authors collaborated with local guides and Chattahoochee River just to get everybody back into fly shop owners to help write each chapter. Familiar the swing of gearing up and wade fishing in a nice rivers featured in the South include the Toccoa, location. The date is Saturday, January 25th and we Cumberland, Clinch, Watauga, South Holston, will gather at the river (sounds a bit like a church Hiwassee and many more rivers spanning the social to me) at 9 AM (earlier if you want) to get after Continent. This book is now available in most fly it. It will be a good time to leak check those waders shops. Here is an sample feature of the and make sure that those new flies you tied or Chattahoochee River chapter written by yours truly! bought attract fish and not rocks or trees.