Roll casts from the President’s desk: Eric Baumann February 2015 The Cleveland Museum of Natural History Trout Club Volume 15 Issue 2 The Angler’s Creel DINNERS (For Reservations see page 2) Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Pat Dorsey: “Fly Fishing the tail waters of Colorado” Friday, March 6, 2015 Film Festival: Get tickets soon for space is limited. . Saturday, April 25, 2015 Banquet and Benefit Upcoming Events Promoting Knowledge of cold water fisheries, fish habitat, conservation and stream ecology Outings & Classes *Fly Tying Classes Classes are going on now. Continued on page 6 February Speaker and Dinner Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Pat Dorsey will speak on: “Colorado Tailwaters” Inside see the poster for the upcoming fly fishing film festival on March 6th Sunnybrook Outing Saturday, February 21, 2015 See details on page 4 Everywhere I look I see the beauty of frozen water, soon to give way to the beauty of a fish rising. In anticipation, anglers are preparing to return to their favorite fishing spot, planning trips to faraway places, or getting ready to explore new locales. Last month, the North Coast Fly Fishers’ Northern Ohio Fly Fish- ing Expo brought together vendors, fly tyers, clubs, and connected organizations that support these activities. Coming Friday, March 6 th , at the Museum, is the Fly Fishing Film Tour 2015. Everybody is taking about this event that has sold out the last two years. “Where will it take you” in your preparations for that next fly-fishing trip? Be sure to get your tickets. See next page for locations. Bill Grake has planned a club outing to Sunnybrook Trout Club for Saturday, February 21 st . The sun will be providing 11 hours of Winter Time Blues fighting vitamin D. Add in group comradery, the reasonable price to fish the whole day at Sunnybrook Trout Club with lunch included, and you have the makings for a memorable day. Bring a camera too, fish stories just beg for proof.
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Roll casts from the President’s desk: Eric Baumann
February 2015
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History Trout Club
Volume 15 Issue 2
The Angler’s Creel
DINNERS (For Reservations see page 2)
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Pat Dorsey: “Fly Fishing the tail waters of Colorado”
Friday, March 6, 2015 Film Festival: Get tickets soon for space is limited. .
Saturday, April 25, 2015 Banquet and Benefit
Upcoming Events
Promoting Knowledge of cold water fisheries, fish habitat, conservation and stream ecology
Outings & Classes
*Fly Tying Classes Classes are going on now.
Continued on page 6
February Speaker and Dinner Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Pat Dorsey will speak on: “Colorado Tailwaters” Inside see the poster for the upcoming fly fishing film festival on March 6th
Sunnybrook Outing
Saturday, February 21, 2015
See details on page 4
Everywhere I look I see the beauty of frozen water, soon to give way to the beauty of a fish rising. In anticipation, anglers are preparing to return to their favorite fishing spot, planning trips to faraway places, or getting ready to explore new locales. Last month, the North Coast Fly Fishers’ Northern Ohio Fly Fish-ing Expo brought together vendors, fly tyers, clubs, and connected organizations that support these activities.
Coming Friday, March 6th, at the Museum, is the Fly Fishing Film Tour 2015. Everybody is taking about this event that has sold out the last two years. “Where will it take you” in your preparations for that next fly-fishing trip? Be sure to get your tickets. See next page for locations.
Bill Grake has planned a club outing to Sunnybrook Trout Club for Saturday, February 21st. The sun will be providing 11 hours of Winter Time Blues fighting vitamin D. Add in group comradery, the reasonable price to fish the whole day at Sunnybrook Trout Club with lunch included, and you have the makings for a memorable day. Bring a camera too, fish stories just beg for proof.
Film Festival by CMNH Trout Club March 6, 2015
Join the CMNH Trout Club on Friday, March 6th for the fourth annual Fly Fishing Film Festival, and help us raise conservation dollars to support cold-water fisheries here in Northeast Ohio in the proc-ess. Enjoy a break from the winter doldrums and make the trip down to the Museum with your angling friends, to view a series of inspirational short films produced by F3T on the sport of fly-fishing. Your movie ticket includes a cocktail reception and appe-tizers with local professionals in the business, as well as, a chance to win quality fly fishing equip-ment from our show sponsors. The doors for the event open at 5:00pm with light appetizers and a cash bar. During the reception there will be a gallery of local fly-fishing guides, professionals and artists displaying the latest and greatest in fly fishing innovations the industry has to offer. You will also get a chance to meet the founder of the Fly Fishing Film Festival, Chris Keig of Boulder, CO who will be our special guest on hand to discuss the creation of the tour and to emcee our event. The films will begin promptly at 7pm.
Tickets for the event are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Tickets can be purchased in advance at the Orvis Store in Woodmere, The Backpackers Shop in Sheffield, Chagrin River Outfitters in Chagrin or at the CMNH. Special thank-you to our presenting sponsors: Orvis, Cortland, The Livingston Group, Baker Hostetler, Sweet Water Brewery, Backpackers Shop and Chagrin River Outfitters.
Jan Featured Speaker: Pat Dorsey “Fishing Colorado Tailwaters” Wednesday, February 18, 2015 6:00 P.M. Cocktail Hour 7:00 P.M. Dinner 7:30 P.M. Program
February Speaker and Diner
Call Karen Menn at (216) 231-4600 Ext. 3278. The cost of the Dinner and program is $25.00 payable to: CMNHTC. Send your check to: CMNHTC, Museum Of Natural History, 1 Wade Oval, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-
1767, Or: Go to CMNH.ORG, reserve at the museum by: Friday, February 13, 2015
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Reservations for Dinner and Pat Dorsey
Pat Dorsey is the co-owner of the Blue Quill Angler in Evergreen, Colorado. He has been fishing Colo-rado’s rivers since he was a young boy learning the tricks of the trade from his father. Since 1992, Pat has been guiding Colorado’s Gold Medal waters with emphasis on pursuing selective, hard-fished tailwater trout. His expertise in tailwater fly fishing, and his enthusiastic desire to teach others gar-nered him the prestigious Orvis Guide of the Year Award in 2001. The following year, he was a featured guide in the popular book Castworks: Reflections of Fishing Guides and the American West . In addition to over 200 days per year guiding, Pat has authored four books:
A Fly Fishing Guide to the South Platte River Fly Fishing Tailwaters
Tying and Fishing Tailwater Flies: 500 Step-by-Step photos for 24 Proven Patterns
Colorado Guide Flies: Rigs, Patterns, and Advice from the State’s Best Guides (In press) Pat Dorsey is the southwest regional contributing editor of Fly Fisherman magazine, the nation’s pre-mier journal of fly fishers. He is a regular featured speaker at the Denver International Sportsman Expo. During the winter months, Pat travels the country speaking at fly-fishing clubs and trade shows, including the Midwest Fly fishing Symposium. In the realm of fly-tying, Pat is an Umpqua contract fly tier, with several innovative flies as the Mercury Midge and the Black Beauty to his credit. He also produced Nymphing Strategies DVD and appeared in the DVD,Fly Fishing Colorado. It is no surprise that Pat Dorsey is at the top of his field. He represents Simms as an Ambassador and serves on the Sage Advisory Team. He is well regarded by his peers and serves as mentor to younger guides at the Blue Quill Angler. Throughout his illustrious career, Pat Dorsey’s passion is teaching and sharing his knowledge with others. Pat Dorsey will be our featured speaker on Wednesday February 18, 2015.
A Colorado Rainbow
CMNH Trout Club Outings Update
Upcoming Outings to look forward to in 2015. * March will be a day outing on one of the east side rivers such as the Grand River. * May will be a 4 day trip to Cherokee, NC to fish for trophy Trout on the Cherokee Indian Reservation. Proba-bly a Saturday to Tuesday trip. The inset hatches are very prolific in May. Cherokee is in the Southeast corner of the Smoky Mountain National Park. There are ½ doz Trout Streams within 15 miles of Cherokee including the Cherokee Tribal waters with a Trophy Water section. Current plans are to carpool and leave at 7 am on Saturday, May16 and return on Tuesday, May 19. Cherokee is a 9 hr. trip from Cleveland. Cost and accommodations are to be announced. * Day trips to Presque Isle in Erie, Pa the last of May to the first part of June for Smallmouth Bass. An easy trip and plenty of fish. Dates depend upon how soon Lake Erie warms up. * A Cast & Blast at WR Hunt Club and Sunnybrook Trout Club. Shoot in the early PM then dinner at Sunny-brook followed by evening Trout fishing.
Sign up today!
SUNNYBROOK OUTING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2015 Cabin fever is rampant this time of the year and this outing will definitely provide a cure for the wintertime blues. Meet at Sunnybrook at 10am on February 21, 2015. Catch and release fly fishing for Trout can be excellent at this time of the year. Fly fish until 12:30 and then enjoy a lunch in the clubhouse. After lunch it’s back to the stream for more fishing. Bring a supply of Lady Bug Beetles as the fish can’t resist them even at this time of the year on a sunny day. Sunnybrook Trout Club is located south of Rt. 6 at the Fremont exit of Rt. 2. It is 100 yds. south of Rt. 2 on the east side of Rt. 6 (left turn into the driveway). MEMBER COST: Catch and release Trout fishing and lunch is included for the $40.00 Fee. OUTINGS CHAIR: Bill Grake. 440 315 5670 or [email protected] RESERVATIONS: Contact Karen Menn at 216 231 4600, ext 3278. Deadline for reservations is Wednesday, Feb-ruary 18.
Bid on this Cabin at this year’s Banquet!
C. F. Walton
Fly Fishing Appalachian Tailwaters
April 21-24, 2014
Had I known when I was in the seventh grade that one day I would have a chance to fly fish several spectacular tailwater rivers created by the Tennessee Valley Authority and catch 25 to 30 rainbow and brown trout per day, I would have paid more attention to that social science class about the TVA. For those who, too, only vaguely remember the TVA, during the 1930’s to the 1950’s the TVA was a massive effort to revitalize the Tennessee Valley area. Building dams and providing electricity throughout the region were the most viable works. However, if you are a trout fisherman, flood control and year-round release of the cold water from the base of dams into the streams, creating excellent trout habitat in these tailwaters, may rival the regional development. We are going to experience two of these great fisheries—the tailwaters of the Watauga and the South Fork of the Holston Rivers, both just over the border into Eastern Tennessee.
I am getting ahead of myself. During the winter, George Klein, the leader of our loosely-formed wing shooting and fly fishing group (the Bangers and Hookers), gave me a call and suggested we schedule a road trip for April 2014, to poke around the mountain streams of North Carolina. It so happened that at an auction I had bid on and won a week’s use of a cabin, located near Boone, N.C. Through a recommendation, I made contact with a fishing guide, Matt Maness, who works from an Orvis-endorsed outfitter, Foscoe Fish-ing Company & Outfitters, also in Boone, N.C. Matt contacted another local guide, Jay Waide,2 to give a hand, in that we would add two more rods, Juerg Schmid and his wife, Kathy, both from the Akron, Ohio area.
The next morning, (Monday) we met Matt and Jay at the fly shop. They had their McKenzie-style drift boats behind their trucks. We agreed to the plan to drift the Tennessee tailwater of Watauga Lake and later in the week, the South Holston Lake tailwater. An hour later we arrived at the Watauga River, which in the native Cherokee language means “rapid moving water.” We are struck by the beauty of this river—high limestone cliffs with redbud trees and dogwoods in flower, clinging to crevices high above the water. We see ancient ce-dars on the ridge and the hillsides are filled with hardwoods, all starting to leaf out and casting a mint, lime-green hue to the hills and banks. It is absolutely beautiful on this crisp 60-degree, bright spring day. George and I are with Matt and we have two fly rods rigged. One is a 5-weight, 9-foot rod with nymphs and the other a shorter 4-weight, 7½-foot rod with a dry fly. We’re gliding with the current and Matt is coaching. He seems to know every hole and trout-holding area on the river. Both he and Jay will prove this repeatedly over the week. George finds the first fish—a nice healthy rainbow about 14- to 15-inches—on a pheasant tail nymph, over a pile of submerged rocks. Kathy and Juerg are with Jay and are casting to rising fish with success. The day is filled with fish. We have all lost count, but guess we’ve each landed 25 or 30! Most are in the 12- to 15-inch range, but several are 17 inches, with Kathy finding one measuring 19 inches. Most are rainbows, but about a quarter are browns.
Matt Maness & Jay Waide, Professional Orvis Guides of Foscoe Fishing Company & Outfitters Boone, NC. Wesbsite: www.foscoefishing.com
Kathy, Jay and Juerg
On Tuesday, we again meet Matt and Jay in town and head back to Tennessee to fish the tail-water of the South Holston River, which was formed from the dammed reservoir. We all catch fish—maybe a dozen each. These are mostly rainbows with some browns. The most beautiful was a strain of rainbows introduced by the TVA from the Mount Shasta region of California. These “Shastas” have a red splash around the gills and bright yellow, dime-sized spots on the belly over a white/silver background—really pretty fish. On Wednesday, we’re back to the Watauga River near Elizabethon, Tennessee. Juerg, Jay and I are floating together. Kathy and George are with Matt. We start with dry caddis patterns. As the sun warms the river, the caddis start to emerge and the fish begin to rise.
On Thursday morning, we head home, Over the nine-hour drive, we visually retreat from spring. The trees become less and less green. Clearly Boone, North Carolina is three weeks ahead of Akron, Ohio. When we arrive home, we hardly have leaves on the trees! What a window of great weather we had, for tornadoes rolled through North Carolina the next day. We really had a grand trip! Fishing Eastern Tennessee exceeded all of our expectations and the timing could not have been bet-ter.
Matt, Jay, Charlie & George
Advisory
Past Presidents
Officers Presidents letters cont.
Banquet
Eric Baumann, Jim DeCocker, Doug Henry, Phil Murphy
Membership / Film Festival
Amos Crowley, Don Kuzma, Doug Henry, Woods King, Grace Smith
John Bergfeld, Amos Crow-ley, Grace Smith, Rick God-dard, Ray Rackley, Greg Voss
Sibley Hoobler
Joseph Gladysz
Peter Wellman
John Wheeler
Norm Hyams
Robert Colson
Evan Morse
Dennis Gant
Ted Schurdell
Jake Ragan
Ham Biggar
Mark Sudduth
Austin Morrow
Matt VanDeMotter
Peter Krembs
Jock Thompson
George Klein
Andy Kirkpatrick
Phil Murphy
The Angler’s Creel newslet-ter is published for mem-bers of The Trout Club of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
George Klein, Co-editor;
Jock Thompson, Co-editor
Karen Menn, Coordinating Liaison
Committees
President’s letter cont, from page 1,
2015 Adventure Fly Fishing:
July 19th – 25th.
Stonefly Inn: Twin Bridges, MT
Experience fantastic fly fishing in a prisine setting
during prime dry fly time. Centrally located at the
confluence of the Big Hole, Ruby, and Beaverhead
Rivers that form the Jefferson your toughest
decision will be which blue ribbon trout streams to
fish during your stay.
Trip includes 6 nights lodging, 5 days guided
fishing, and meals. Does not include gratuity for
guides or airfare. Cost: $3558.00
Please contact Dan or Pete at shop to sign up or to
help answer any questions. 50% deposit required
at sign up please.
440 247 7110
Trip host Dan Pribanic
www.chagrinriveroutfitters.com
http://www.thestoneflyinn.com
Bill is also coordinating a 4 day, 3 night trip to Chero-kee, North Carolina. Last I talked with Bill, he was still wondering why he didn’t spend a few more days there while checking things out. “It was beautiful!” Bill said, with a look of longing in his eyes.
The Trout Club Banquet planned for Saturday, Aril 25th, 2015, is coming together. If you have a donation that that you would like to provide, please get in con-tact with George Klein. Fine wine, season tickets for the arts, fine dining, chef lead cooking classes, guided fishing trips, getaways, along with your own ideas make great donations. Please consider giving so we can continue our proud tradition to promote knowl-edge of cold-water fisheries, fish habitat, conservation and stream ecology in the community.
