Welcome to the Monthly Meeting - FEBRUARY 6th Regular meeting at The Spice of Life Events Center
Regular meetings are held the first Wednesday of each month. See details below:
Meeting begins at 6:00 PM with a mixer with cash bar, a short business meeting will follow and then the regular program will round out the evening.
As always, the meeting will be held at the Spice of Life Events Center, 5706 Arapahoe Avenue (in the Flatirons Golf Course Complex).
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| Table of Contents for Reel News
Article #1 . . . General Meeting for February 6th - At The Spice of Life Events Center! Joe Butler
Article #2 . . . A Few Outcasts by Bob Bush
Article #3 . . . CTU Youth Conservation & Fly Fishing Camp
Article #4 . . . Rogers Park Project Status
Article #5 . . . Fly of the Month by Ron Donahue
Article #7 . . . BFC Calendar for Winter/Spring 2008
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| February GENERAL MEETING — Wednesday, February 6th-Flyfishing Across the USA with Joe Butler
 Come hear Joe Butler's new presentation about fishing spots across the USA. This is a brand new presentation! Joe will talk about old favorite places as well as several new places to fish. Come see the flies and learn the tips that Joe uses to catch fish around this great country. Tying demonstration starts at 6 pm.
Joe Butler has been an instructor and has been hosting fishing trips in his home state of Colorado for the past 32 years. He also hosts fly fishing trips every fall in the state of New York to take advantage of those giant brown trout that reside in the tributaries of Lake Ontario. Joe also hosts fishing trips in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Canada. Joe teaches fly-casting, fly tying and hosts many clinics and schools across the west. Owner of Joe Butler Flies, Inc. for 16 years and distributes fly fishing products all over the country. Owned and operated Joe Butler’s All Tackle Fishing Store in Westminster, CO for 7 years. Developed the Joe Butler signature Multi-System Fly Rod. This six-piece system has interchangeable tips for varying fishing conditions.
Career Records:
Held the world record brown trout caught on a fly rod from 1977 – 1998. This 27 lb, 3 oz monster was caught at Flaming Gorge Reservoir using a fly rod with 8 lb test.
Held the world record for Kokanee Salmon caught on a fly October 30, 2000.
Caught and released a 27 lb Coho Salmon from Oak Orchard Creek, NY. The fly rod world record at the time was 21 lbs.
Joe always comes up with his "A Game" at BFC presentations. Don't miss this opportunity as he catches some big fish, year in and year out!!
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| A Few Outcasts from Bob
Just wanted to spend a couple minutes talking about a few items of interest you might want to check out while the snow is covering the ground. First, I'm looking for a couple of anglers who could shovel my driveway, oops wrong list.
Actually, I wanted to tell you about this years' Fly Fishing Film Tour that was held at the Boulder Theater in late February of 2007. This year the tour will not be coming to Boulder at all. Instead, tour stops will be in Denver, February 28th & 29th, March 13th in Ft. Collins & Grand Junction and March 26th in Colorado Springs. The tour management could not give me a reason for not stopping in Boulder as we filled the Boulder Theater last year! I guess we can make a trip up to Ft. Collins or Denver for our flyfishing film tour fix!
As you will see in another newsletter article (below), CTU and Boulder Flycasters is looking for a worthy candidate to receive a scholarship for a week at the CTU River Conservation and Fly Fishing Youth Camp being held at Peace Ranch in Basalt June 8-13, 2008. Applicants must be between the ages of 14 and 18 and must submit, to Boulder Flycasters, a completed application form by March 30, 2008. We're hoping that we will receive a number of applicants from children of our chapter members. The scholarship is worth $375.00 and comes directly from your club's treasury. Last year we did not receive any applications but we supported a deserving young angler from another chapter.
Lastly, be sure to keep your tying vise active. We've got a few more months sucking it up at home and what better way of spending some quality time away from the rigors of watching the tube than by whipping out a few dozen of your finest! And I don't mean a bottle of your finest single malt scotch, either!
Tight lines,
Bob Bush
Link to flyfishing film tour home page
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CTU Youth Conservation and Flyfishing Camp
Last year's CTU Youth Conservation and Flyfishing Camp at Peace Ranch, near Basalt, drew 21 young men and women from across Colorado, as well as one each from Maine and Texas. From June 10th through the 15th, their hands-on learning programs included measuring stream flows, conducting water quality sampling, snorkeling to observe fish species, collecting macro invertebrates, and electroshocking a small stretch of stream to sample the fish population.
Campers also took a field trip to Reudi Reservoir to learn about water operations, and really got their feet wet, planting wetlands vegetation at a restored site. Of course, they had a chance to wet a few lines, too, benefiting from expert instruction in casting and fishing tactics.
This year's conservation camp was made possible by a terrific group of volunteer flight leaders and instructors, led by Larry Quilling of Boulder Flycasters. “Fly fishers have always taken the lead in conservation efforts,” said Quilling. “We think the key to future conservation is to reach people when they're young.” Special thanks are also due to the Beattie family at Peace Ranch, who were kind enough to provide a home and hospitality for our sizeable entourage.
CTU Conservation Camp participants are encouraged to apply what they learn; each camper helps organize a conservation or education project with their home chapter of TU. 2006 camper Elyssa Ridinger of Broomfield organized fellow students at the Peak-to-Peak Charter School to research an invasion of Eurasian milfoil in Boulder Creek and schedule a work day to remove the invasive plant.
Hayden Stone of Evergreen worked with CTU legislative liaison Jen Boulton to draft a Joint Resolution on Water Conservation, then convince the 2007 Colorado General Assembly to pass it. “It’s great to see young people learning that they can make a difference,” said CTU Executive Director David Nickum. “It's gratifying that CTU can be a part of that process.
Here is a portion of the press release from CTU's web site to help members children get involved in this camp:
Colorado Trout Unlimited Seeks Students for River Conservation and Fly Fishing Youth Camp
BOULDER, Colo. – Jan. 16, 2008 – Colorado Trout Unlimited, a nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving, protecting and restoring Colorado’s coldwater fisheries, is now accepting applications from students aged 14 to 18 for its second annual River Conservation and Fly Fishing Youth Camp. Applications are available online at www.cotrout.org (click on link below) and must be received by March 30, 2008. The camp, scheduled for June 8th – 13th at the Peace Ranch near Basalt, Colorado, is designed to educate students on the importance of coldwater conservation and provide hands-on fly-fishing instruction.
The River Conservation and Fly Fishing Youth Camp is limited to 20 qualified students who will be selected based on their qualifications and a written essay on why they would like to attend the camp.
Your Boulder Flycasters will be offering a scholarship to attend the CTU Youth camp this June! Go to our link below to download an application today! Time is running out!
click here for information CTU Youth Camp |
| Rogers Park Project Status!
 As many of you know, the BFC Board of Directors decided that the Rogers Park project would be the major focus of BFC activity for 2008. We had always planned to perform the major portion of work this year, however the Board’s decision adds even more emphasis. The project as currently planned will require $235,000. Via grants from Fishing is Fun, The Trout and Salmon Foundation, and personal donations to date, we have approximately $135,000. Since additional funding remains a significant effort, the project team has agreed to establish a sub-team to complete this effort. That team will be led by our new BFC Board Vice President, Chad Pettrone. Chad’s team will contain several project team members as well as others with fund raising skills and experience. If you would like to help with this project and are not already a member of one of these teams, please contact Roger Svendsen, Rsvend@comcast.net or 303-939-9843.
The Rogers Park committee decided at a meeting on Tuesday, January 15 that we had sufficient funds to empower Environmental Resource Consultants, ERC, to begin the Permit Process and Detailed Design tasks. The cost of these two tasks will be $18,000. ERC is the local company that is our partner in this project. Our target for doing the in-stream work is the fall of this year. Key to the success of this project will be voluntary contributions of labor and funds. Much of the labor will be in the form of re-vegetation of the modified stream banks. A better understanding of this work should be available after the detailed design is complete. Another key contribution will be for rocks. We need 480 tons of rock to be used for stream bank stabilization and stream foundation material. The Colorado Department of Transportation has agreed to gather and store as much rock as they can from slides in Boulder Canyon. So if you see piles of rock in some of the pullout areas in the canyon, you will know they are for us. You are encouraged to track project progress by monitoring the BFC website. Our meeting minutes will be posted there on a regular basis.
Report by Roger Svendsen, Co-Chairman, BFC Rogers Park Project
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FLY OF THE MONTH THE "CDC Caddis"
CDC Caddis
Tying Pattern by Ron Donahue
Recipe:
Hook: Tiemco #101 size 14
Thread: Gray, UTC 70
Body: Fine Gray Dubbing
Wing: Clumps of Natural CDC
Tying Instructions:
1. Tie in Gray thread behind eye, wind thread backword to bend of hook.
2. Tie in natural CDC clump facing rearward, repeat process three times
moving toward eye as you tie in clumps.
Add gray dubbing onto thread after each clump is tied in to cover bare thread.
3. Cut clump of natural Caribou. Place clump 1/3rd back from eye.
4. Whip finish and cement head.
5. Trim CDC to form caddis wing shape.
Fishing Suggestions:
This simple caddis pattern is an excellent floater and should be carried in your box for the Mother's Day hatch on the Arkansas.
Especially good in slack water situations.
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| BFC Calendar Events Listing for Winter, 2008
February 6th, Joe Butler - Flyfishing Across the USA
March 5th, Bill Dvorak - Fishing the Black Canyon and other local rivers & Impact of gas & oil exploration in western Colorado.
April 2nd, Evan Jones - Exploring Patagonia all the way to the horn!
May 7th, Drew Peternell - Director of Colorado Water Project, Conservation info Program.
June Picnic - Date to be determined!
Summer (July and August) - No Meetings . . . Gone Fish'n
General Meeting: Doors will open at 6:00 PM. This meeting will be held at the Spice of Life Events Center, 5706 Arapahoe Avenue (in the Flatirons Golf Course Complex).
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