Chapter Meetings -- When and Where?
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Upcoming Chapter Meetings
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Next Chapter Meeting
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
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Past Chapter Meetings
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2009 Annual Chapter Meeting
Date: November 10, 2009 - 7PM at Mulligan's in Manchester, VT
Minutes from Annual Meeting
High lights:
- In lieu of the scheduled presentation by Tom Rosenbauer, who was unfortunately out of commission with H1N1, we had two great presentations. Both were awesome. Thanks to both Peter/Pete for pinch-hitting!
- Peter Basta gave a presentation on steelheading in MI
- Pete Kutzer gave a photo/video slideshow on fishing locally
- Election of Chapter Officers
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President |
Mike Healy |
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Vice President |
Jeff Swedberg |
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Treasurer |
Frank Nelson |
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Seretary |
Scott McEnaney |
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| Directors |
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Kim Kolakowski (Past President) |
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Peter Basta |
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Peter Bellamy |
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David Carmona |
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Eric Rickstad |
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Alex Sienkiewicz |
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Ed Vallerie |
- We also raffled of new Orvis ZG Helios 5wt. Past chapter president Eric Rickstad was the lucky winner in this raffle drawing.
January 13 - 2008 Annual Chapter Meeting
Date: Tues January 13, 2008 @ 7pm
Location: West Mountain Inn, West Arlington, VT.
Minutes from Annual Meeting
The 2008 annual meeting featured:
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A presentation by Steve Roy of the US Forest Service, Green Mountain National Forest. Program details below:
- Chapter Officer Elections -- all positions are open. Any and all chapter members who are
interested in helping to lead our chapter are encouraged to come step up and take a leadership role!
- The nominating committee has proposed the following slate of officers:
| Executive Board |
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President |
Kim Kolakowski |
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Vice President |
Mike Healy |
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Treasurer |
Frank Nelson |
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Seretary |
Jeff Swedberg |
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| Directors |
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Kevin Andrezejewski |
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Peter Basta |
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Peter Bellamy |
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Doug Lyons |
Past President |
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Eric Rickstad |
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Ed Vallerie |
Program Details for 1/13/2009 Annual Meeting:
Steve Roy from the US Green Mtn National Forest will present the Southwestern VT TU chapter with a program highlighting the many fishing opportunities to be found in the Green Mtn National Forest.
Many of these fishing spots have had Steve's Green Mtn National Forest habitat team do extensive and expensive habitat restoration work to improve the trout per mile in those sections! Steve in his program will have the data WITH PHOTOS that shows how the efforts of the US Green Mtn National Forest staff has increased the trout numbers in those many "GEM SPOT" locations (that most of us do not even know exist)!
These "GEM SPOT" Vermont Green Mtn National Forest locations... well, some of them are a bit out of the way, and some are obvious! For many of us who have fished major rivers and streams in the area for years, this program will be a real eye opener as it will point out how much outstanding fishing places that are easy to get to, that we have missed taking advantage of...! It will be a detailed program as to how to approach looking at the National Forest's watersheds as a destination to fish at (good news for us as all of the Green Mtn National Forest fishery is located in our own backyard).
Steve is a well known, and well regarded, master at the art of Fishery Habitat Biology. He spent many years mastering the craft in the western areas of the United States, came east to Vermont, and has been in Vermont tending to the habitat needs of the Green Mtn National forest since. Steve has also helped out with planning and installation phases of many trout habitat improvement projects that have been done by TU, and other clubs/organizations in Vermont.
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 at 7pm -- Chapter meeting at the West Mountain Inn, in Arlington, VT.
Our March meeting featured special guest Ron Zawoysky, of the Clearwater TU chapter.
See below for Ron's program description.
March Speaker Bio
Ron Zawoysky has been fly fishing the Battenkill since the very early
70's. He also enjoys fly tying, fly rod building and photographing his
many on stream adventures. Ron has journeyed to Montana, Wyoming and
Alaska at least once a year for the last 25 years in pursuit of the many
species of trout. He makes his home on the banks of the Battenkill in
New York for most of the summer months and enjoys fishing the Battenkill
and the surrounding waters in Vermont and New York.
March Program Description
Ron has made three trips to the high mountain lakes of the Wind River
Range of Wyoming in search of Golden Trout. These trips have ranged
from a week to 11 days and have involved grueling hiking at high
altitude which was rewarded with excellent golden trout fishing. Ron's
program will highlight his most recent trip and feature both the fishing
and hiking experiences as well as the magnificent scenery of the Wind
River Range.
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Mark your calendars now for Tuesday March 11, 2008 at 7pm. This program
sounds like a great one. Be sure to join us and bring a friend!
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Annual Meeting - January 22nd 2008. We conducted officer elections and Jim Lepage gave a
special presentation on fishing Labrador. If you missed this one, you missed a good one!
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Sadly, we had to cancel our special presentation by legendary fly caster Bill Cairns who was
scheduled to speak at our September 2007 chapter meeting. We will reschedule Bill to join us for
a future meeting date.
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Our March chapter meeting was held 3/13/2007 at the West Mountain Inn and featured VT fishing guide
Lawton Weber, of Pleasant Valley Fly Fishing
Guides, in Underhill, VT. Lawton gave a great presentation on fishing New Zealand and his
slides offered proof positive that Lawton knows what it takes to tango with those big, beautiful
browns from New Zealand.
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Lawton knows a thing or two about Kiwi browns.
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Our February chapter meeting was held 2/13/2007 at the West Mountain Inn and we were pleased to host
Richard Lagdon, Mark Ferguson, and Ken Cox, co-authors
of "The Fishes of Vermont: a field guide to
the fish species of Vermont". They gave an interesting presentation on how the fishes that
currently inhabit the waters of Vermont actually came to reside here. Following their presentation,
they fielded questions and signed copies of their book which were available for sale. If you were unable
to attend this meeting but would like to order a copy of the book for yourself, check out the
VT Fish & Wildlife Department website.
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Our January chapter meeting was held on 1/30/2007 at the AMFF and we were pleased to host Joshua
Gorman, Watershed Coordinator, VT DEC/ANR. Josh presented an overview of his role as a watershed
coordinator and talked to us about what we can expect and look forward to as we work together on
areas of common interest -- water quality and cold-water conservation, protection & restoration.
Following Josh's presentation, we conducted some chapter business -- approving revised chapter
bylaws and electing a new slate of chapter officers and directors. Complete meeting minutes are
available below:
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Please check here for up-to-the minute details on all upcoming meetings and sepcial events. If you
would like to receive email notifications and reminders about meeting dates, special events, and an
electronic version of our chapter newsletter, "The Hatch", please
sign up here, And while you're at it, don't forget to keep your personal
contact infomation up-to-date with TU national by either logging in to the TU.org website with your TU
member number, or by contacting the TU Customer Serviuce Center at #800/834-2419.
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Minutes from past chapter meetings:
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The chapter meeting minutes are available for download
in Adobe PDF format. Most computers, whether running Windows, Mac, UNIX/Linux
or some other operating system, recognize and can display documents of this
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