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May 2006 Newsletter of the Rabun Chapter
(522) of Trout Unlimited Editor –
Doug Adams edadams1@alltel.net Visit the
Rabun TU website: http://www.rabuntu.com/ It’s May
- Gone Fishin'...be back dark-thirty! |
THE CHAPTER MEETING PLACE
“Fishing is
much more than fish. It is the great
occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.”
Herbert
Hoover (Tommy Landreth’s Birth
President)
“FORWARD
CASTING” Important Dates - See you there!
April 29
(Sat) Kids Fishing Event (KFE); 8 am, Black Rock Mountain
State Park Lake
(Rabun TU is supporting this KFE with a donation of $200)
May 6 (Sat)
Betty Creek In-Stream Clean-up: 9 am,
Driving north on US441, turn left into the first driveway past the Betty Creek
Bridge as you enter Dillard. Bring
loppers, saws, pole pruners, work gloves, waders, water bottle, etc. We will be in the creek clearing low limbs
and preparing for the 2006 GA Trout Camp.
May 16
(Tues) Family
Cookout 6 PM at Indian Lake on RGNS campus; Bring a side dish
(Directions – go north on US 441, turn left at the Rabun Gap Post Office, go ¼
mile & turn left, go ¼ mile & turn right, go to end of road)
Fishing Mentoring
of Clayton Boy Scout Troop (our guests) starts at 4 pm.
May 17-21 (Wed - Sun)
Fishing & Camping Chattooga Backcountry with Camping at Cherry Hill
C.G. (with hot shower, flush toilets & tables) Nice place, great fishing & fellowship. Location: Off SC Hwy 107, 1.5 mile south of
Burrell’s Ford Rd intersection. Contact
Charlie Breithaupt, he plans the menu and buys the grub: Ph 706 782 6954
E-mail knc615@direcway.com
May 23 (Tues) Board
of Directors meeting, Location on a stream for the Green Drake Hatch
June 3 (Sat) Kids
Fishing Event; 8 am, Tallulah River – Sponsors: USFS, GA WRD, & TU
(Rabun TU is supporting this KFE with a donation of $300)
June 7 (Wed) GA TU
Council Meeting, 6:30 PM, Bass Pro Shop, I-85 North of Atlanta
June 11 – 16 (Sun – Fri) GA
Trout Camp; RGNS; All Day & All Night; Need all the help we can
get!
June 20 (Tues) Chapter
Meeting, 6:30 PM, Clayton Presbyterian Church
Program: Mack Martin
“Alaska Fishing Trips to the Dog Salmon River”
June 29 (Tues) Board
of Directors meeting, Location TBD
FLY OF THE MONTH
by Terry Rivers

What a great fly to have in
the month of May. If the caddis aren’t
hatching and the light cahills seem to be of a darker color; if the fish are
rising and you are not getting the action you want, tie one of these on and see
if it does the trick. I have
experienced this and the results were great.
Get ready - the best months are here.
Let’s go fishing!
HOOK: Dry fly,
size 12 - 16
TAIL: Wood duck
flank feathers
BODY: Stripped
grizzly feather quill
WING: Wood duck
flank feathers
HACKLE: Dun or
grizzly
"Advanced
fly tying techniques aren't about knowing the obscure, they're about
understanding the simple."
Neil Patterson
May Hatches
The Bugs Time of
Month Time of
Day
Suggested Flies .
Cream Caddis
Early
M day to L
pm
12-14 Elk Hair Caddis
12-14 Dark Cream Caddis Pupa
Small Dun
Caddis Early L am to M
pm
16-18 Gray Elk Hair or Deer Hair Caddis
16-18 Gray Caddis Pupa
March Brown Mayfly
Early
L am to M
pm
12-14 Adams or March Brown Parachutes
(Important)
10-14 March Brown
Nymph, Dark Hare's Ear, or Pheasant Tail
Speckled Gray Caddis All Month M to L pm 12-14 Dark Elk Hair or Deer Hair
Caddis
12-14 Dun & Yel/Brn Caddis Pupa
Yellow Stonefly All Month E to L am
14-16 Yellow Stimulator or Elk Hair Caddis (Yellow)
L pm to dark 14-16 Yellow Stone
Nymph
Giant Black Stonefly All
Month E am 4–8 Black Stonefly Nymph
Light Cahill Mayfly All Month E to L pm
12-14 Light Cahill
(Very Important) 12-14 Light Cahill Nymph
Sulphur Mayfly All Month L pm to
Dark 14–18 Sulphur
Comparadun; Light Cahill; Cream Variant
(Important) 14-16 Sulphur Nymph or Emerger,
Pheasant Tail
Golden Stonefly Late E am 4-8 Golden Stonefly Nymph
Brown & Slate Drakes Late L am to L pm 10-14 Adams, Blue
Dun, or March Brown Parachutes
10-14 March Brown Nymph, Dark Hare's
Ear, or Pheasant Tail
Green Drake Mayfly Late L am to L pm 8-10 Green Drake
(Important) 8-10 Green Drake Nymph
Coffin Fly (Green Drake Spinner) L pm to an hour after
dark 8-10 Spent Wing or Parachute
Coffin Fly
(Awesome)
Midges
All Month
All
Day 18-22 Griffith's Gnat
18-22 Midge Pupa

Does anybody
know how this turned out?

Rabun County’s Fulton Lovell was the Director of the GA Game
& Fish Comissionsion and Marvin Griffin was the Governor.
The Georgia Trout Season was only 6 months long,
from April 1st through September 30th!
(Except the Chattooga River, which was open year around)
Just take a look at these telephone rates!

That is $1.05 from
Los Angeles to Klamath Falls, Ore,
Station-to-Station,
after 6 pm, plus 10% Federal excise tax!
By today's standards, that may not sound like much,
but to put this price into perspective, you have to understand that the minimum wage was 75
cents, gasoline cost around 27 cents a gallon, a bottle coke cost
a nickel, and a regular hamburger would set you back two bits.
(The following article is reprinted here from the Georgia
ForestWatch Quarterly Newsletter - Spring 2006 with
permission of Georgia ForestWatch)
By Joe Gatins : District Leader
The USDA Forest Service has
decided to open the narrow and shallow upper reaches of the Wild and Scenic
Chattooga River to test boating trials – a signal development boding ill for
the wilderness and special sensitive values of this very wild stretch of river
corridor.
The self-styled “creeker” community –
those who push the extreme sport of running small, fast waterways at times of
heavy rain – is beside itself with anticipation and glee. Birders, photographers, hikers, fishermen,
even some longtime river people and many others interested in the continued
protection of this area, which had been closed to boating since Congress
established the Chattooga as a Wild and Scenic River, are uneasy, to say the
least.
The Forest Service decision announced in
a news release of February 3, will permit “restricted public boater trials” on
the stretch of river beginning at the Old Iron Bridge at Bull Pen Road and
running past Burrell’s Ford to the Russell Bridge at Route 28. This stretch of
road above Burrell’s Ford essentially bisects the Ellicott Rock Wilderness
Area. Below, the river includes the primitive Big Bend Falls area as well as
the near mythic wilds on both sides of Rock Gorge (an inventoried roadless area
under current forest plans.)
The decision, it turns out, also permits
such trials by “expert panels of researchers, boaters, anglers and other users”
in the far reach of the river stretching from Bull Pen to Grimshawes on
Whiteside Cove Road, according to John Cleeves, the principal planner for the
Forest Service project. About half of
that stretch runs through private property on both sides of the river.
The Forest Service was forced into
conducting such trials after the kayak lobby group, the American Whitewater
Association, headquartered in Cullowhee, N.C., successfully appealed the new
Sumter National Forest plan, which had continued the current prohibition on
boating these 17 miles of the Chattooga. As a result, the chief of the Forest
Service ordered that further study be made.
For background on this legal issue,
details of the Feb. 3 decision, and a lot of pro-and-con discussion of the
topic from the public see: http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/fms/forest.projects/chatt.shtml.
It is the position of Georgia ForestWatch
that the current ban has served this part of the national forests in three
states well and that no good reason exists for opening this part of the Wild
and Scenic River to further degradation and overuse.
ForestWatch also is concerned that any
successful move to open the Upper Chattooga to private kayaking inevitably
would lead to permitting for-profit classes and “creeking” by commercial
outfitters. Anyone who has experienced
the zoo atmosphere of the outfitter-friendly river downriver of Route 28 knows
what that would do to one of the few remaining stretches of territory that
provides a true experience of wilderness and solitude. Not to mention
degradation to wildlife habitat, trails and put-in and put-out locations that
would occur with a vast influx of new users.
Allowing “creekers” unfettered use of the
Upper Chattooga would lead to direct user conflicts, would exacerbate damage to
the outstanding resource values of the Wild and Scenic river corridor and the
Ellicott Rock Wilderness Area, and make it inevitably more difficult for the
Forest Service to properly manage this area in the future.
So, what’s next?
The Forest Service will spend the next
few months developing a “work program” leading to the “detailed design” of the
data collection and boater trials, after which the public will get another
chance to comment on the Forest Service efforts. This effort will entail “gathering biological, physical and
social information” about the river above Russell Bridge, and include use of
focus groups, a “comprehensive, statistically valid user survey,” and review of
existing studies and reports about similar rivers.
The boating trials will require special
use permits, Cleeves said.
What can one do about this? For starters,
file comments about the plan and the study (most easily done via the special
website) and file copies of your comments with the three forest supervisors who
are dealing with this issue, as well as your local, state and federal elected
officials. Their names and addresses appear on page 3 and page 16 of this
newsletter. http://www.gafw.org/
Be ready to attend the next public
meeting on this issue, likely to be held in the Highlands-Cashiers area of
North Carolina later in the spring. That is when the Forest Service is expected
to disclose its plans for permitting boating trials on the river. ◆
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News Release (3/21/2006) by Friends of
the Upper Chattooga
2368 Pinnacle Drive, Clayton, Georgia
30525; 706.782.6097; info@chattoogariver.org
The U.S. Forest Service should heed
the lessons it learned downstream years ago as it considers opening the
Chattooga River’s headwaters to boating, Friends of the Upper Chattooga urged
today.
That experience reveals an 800-fold
increase in boating along the lower Chattooga from 1968 to the 1990s, a 500
percent increase in the 20 years after 1976, and a host of accompanying
problems, according to the Friends, a new umbrella group recently organized to
protect the river’s headwaters.
“This kind of usage suggests the
outstandingly remarkable values of the river will be at stake if the federal
government opens the river above the Route 28 bridge,” said Buzz Williams,
spokesman for the group.
Members of the Friends of the Upper
Chattooga recently filed a detailed three-page letter to Forest Service
officials, along with accompanying affidavits from former Forest Service
rangers Max Gates and Jim Barrett, which supports the original decision to
allow boating only downstream.
The group urged the Forest Service
“to consider the mountain of evidence that lies just on the other side of the
bridge,” in a plea to get officials to preserve the “unique nature of the Upper
Chattooga, protected outstanding resource values, and the solitude experience
that users so cherish,” the letter concluded.
The Forest Service has initiated a
multi-year study of the Upper Chattooga, in response to a legal appeal filed by
a kayak lobby group and its Washington-based lawyers. The outcome of that study
could lead to lifting of the current ban on boating on the upper portions of the
river above Route 28. The Forest Service enacted that zoning measure decades
ago in efforts to balance the use of the river by competing interests, as well
as to protect the unique wilderness values of the river’s headwaters.
The Friends of the Upper Chattooga
include the Chattooga Conservancy, Georgia ForestWatch, various councils of
Trout Unlimited, the Whiteside Cove Association and several private landowners
along the upper corridor of the Chattooga, a Congressionally designated Wild
and Scenic River. Members of the group, individually and collectively, possess
decades of experience on this river.
The primary goals of the group are
to help protect the Chattooga’s wild and scenic values, to educate the public
to threats to these values and assist the Forest Service in arriving at a
reasonable decision that, above all, protects this river’s resources. The
stretch of river at issue is a haven for hikers, hunters, naturalists, bird
watchers, swimmers and trout fishermen. It includes the Ellicott Rock
Wilderness area and Rock Gorge, among the few remaining wild places in the
tri-state area that still provide high-quality solitude and wilderness
experience.
For
further information, contact any of the below signers;
Buzz Williams,
Executive Director, Chattooga Conservancy
Alan R. Jenkins,
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, Attorneys for the Whiteside Cove Association and Rust Family
Wayne Jenkins,
Executive Director, Georgia ForestWatch
Joe Gatins,
Tallulah District Leader, Georgia ForestWatch
Butch Clay,
Advisor, Georgia ForestWatch, Author of Guide to the Chattooga 1995
Charlie Breithaupt,
Chairman, GA Council of Trout Unlimited
Tom McInnis,
Chairman, SC Council of Trout Unlimited
Art Shick,
National Leadership Council Representative, TU
Doug Adams,
Newsletter Editor for Rabun Chapter of TU & Forest Service Liaisons for GA
Council of Trout Unlimited
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Comments
From Another Backcountry Angler, not a member of Rabun TU
(10/27/2005) As a regular visitor to the Chattooga river up above the
"Iron Bridge" I was horrified to learn that the USFS was considering
opening it to boaters. My principle use
of the river is fishing, and I have had several fishing trips spoiled by
kayakers "poaching" a run though that section. Anyone familiar with that stretch of river
knows that it is rather small and that there is not enough room to "share
the water". The bottom line is
trout fishing does not screw up kayaking, but a group of boaters will "put
down" the trout for an extended length of time, turning a productive day
of fishing into a bust. It has happened
to me on several occasions. There is
plenty of water downstream of Hwy. 28 that is marginal trout water at best
where the boaters have access. Lets not
spoil this pristine and beautiful fishery with a procession of kayakers every
weekend. From: Belfield Carter III –
Atlanta, GA (reprinted with permission)
Take a few
minutes, tell the Forest Service what the Upper Chattooga means to you by sending your comments to: Project Coordinator - John
Cleeves, E-mail jcleeves@fs.fed.us USDA
Forest Service, 4931 Broad River Road, Columbia, SC 29212
For info on
the User Analysis, click on: http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/fms/forest/projects/chatt.shtml
"There
comes a time in a day's trout fishing when, standing in the ever-pushing water,
you become aware of how tired you are. The dull ache at the back of your
neck, your belt leaning heavy on your hipbones, toes cold and numb in the end
of your brogues, fingers cramped, and eyes tired. Climb out, with your legs
and feet as weighted as in a nightmare escape, and walk into the woods until
the sound of the stream becomes background. There you will find a round
carpet of pine needles, deep and sun-warmed, and a good broad trunk to ease
between your shoulder blades. Now tobacco smoke pulled deep into your
lungs, warmth coming through on your stretched-out calves, and quiet. If
you wait long enough the quiet will pass and all the woods noises, stilled by
your lumbering passage, will begin again. A chickadee will surely come close
and stand upside down on a twig for you, and you will hear delicate foot
rustlings like the fast sliver of a needle through dark cloth with the pause
for slow-drawn thread. "
Sparse Grey Hackle (Alfred
Waterbury Miller)

Atlanta Fly
Fishing School located in Cumming, GA has a new home with a completely revised
teaching program.
Make a date to visit with us in 2006 call at (404)
550-6890 or on the web at:
www.atlantaflyfishingschool.com

“I have
many loves and Fly-Fishing is one of them;
it brings
peace and harmony to my being, which I can then pass on to others. “
Sue
Kreutzer
A Letter to the Editor??? From the UK!? -
- - Yeah, Right!
Dear Editor,
You are
to be commended for your splendid newsletter which is both informative and
pleasant reading for a chap such as yourself.
Being from the UK one rarely experiences such hilarious jargon. Also being a staff writer for the Wessex
Chronicle I am able to recognize and probably better appreciate your creative
writing qualities.
I must
say that my brief stay in the States has been most enjoyable, especially the
jaunt I experienced at the “Delayed Harvest” section of your Chattooga River,
thus I feel compelled to share with you my encounter with two of your local
yokels, who seemed to be very nice…
Well, at least the lady seemed to be nice! This is what happened……
I was making my way upriver
along the trail enjoying the melodious sounds of the birds accompanied by the
rushing of the clear water over the beautiful rocks, when this scene of
serenity was rudely interrupted by the sounds of shouting, the breaking of tree
limbs and the intermittent sounds of splashing water and a person gargling. As I nervously approached the scene of the
apparent beginnings of the apocalypse, cautiously peering through the bushes, I
beheld a most gruesome scene of what I first thought must be one of your
American “backwoods baptism ceremonies”.
However, the procedure the lady minister employed seemed quite
unorthodox as she had the convert locked in a half nelson wrestling hold with
one arm, and holding his head underwater, while soundly thrashing his backside
with a large stick with her free hand.
I
immediately found out the names of these two individuals as the former sinner
gasped each time she would let him come up for a brief moment of air…”I’m sorry
Weezie!!!!” Then she would reply… “It’s
too late for that now … Yurhatte” (That is pronounced …YOU RAT!) This is a common Middle Eastern name;
therefore I assumed that this man was a former Muslim who was unfortunately
being indoctrinated into the ways of Western culture. I couldn’t be sure though, because there were too many bruises on
his pointed head to be able to make out any distinctive characteristics.
I
further surveyed the scene and quickly realized this was something more than
your common evangelical outreach to redeem those hairy legged souls lost out in
sin, as evidenced by the swath of destruction which began at a sandbar just upriver,
and continued forty yards up through the laurel bushes and then culminated back
down into the river with pieces of torn clothing and handfuls of white hair and
beard all along the way to the point of the apparent exorcism of sins I was now
witnessing.
With all the skill I could
muster to craft a southern mountain accent, I announced my presence to the
degenerates…Howdy Yallllll ~ Whatts
goin on? The lady kept saying the same
thing over and over, “He made me put it back!” However the varlet whom she had in her grip, (by the way I
believe she could have dispatched with him at any moment, but seemed intent to
prolong his agony)….seemed to have a story to tell, so I will relay that to you
here,…in his own words:
I
guess it sort of began back in ’66 when I was with Doug in Colorado. We were
about halfway from (I.D.B.I.S.*) Park to (I.D.B.I.S.*) Lake when I talked Doug
into putting a fourteen in cutthroat trout back into the creek. I waited a little while and went back and
caught it myself, and I kept it!!! Just
then I looked up and saw that Doug had seen me do this despicable act, and I
could faintly hear the words “You Bleep of a Bleep” all the way back down the
trail. I say “faintly” because the
flopping sound in my creel seemed to drown out his comments. A few years later on (I.D.B.I.S.*) Creek he
was trying to land a sixteen-inch brown trout (a cricket taker, by the way) and
I offered my services to help him by netting the fish for him. GET OUT OF THE WAY YOU BLEEP OF A
BLEEP! IF YOU MAKE ME LOSE THIS
FISH……I”LL KILL YOU!!!….he replied.
Many
years later Louise landed a beautiful fifteen-inch brook trout at the Nantahala
DH section and I convinced her to release the trout in spite of her tears! As we walked back to the truck in the
moonlight with the soothing sounds of the nice creatures blending with the
sounds of water over rocks I spoke…”You know, there ain’t no way I would have
put that fish back, iffin I had caught him!
She replied…..WHAT!!!!!!
The rest of the way to the truck the night creatures were strangely silent, and the only discernable sounds to my ears were the soft rippling waters and the roar of her grinding teeth.
Late
last fall I landed a fifteen inch brook trout just up river in this DH
section. The sounds of the nearby waterfalls
were supplemented by the sounds of the drool dripping from my gaping mouth as
my head swiveled around several times to see if anybody had seen my good
fortune. The thoughts of how this
trout’s spawning colors would be greatly enhanced by the pine paneling walls of
my living room were so loud that it made my head hurt. However, I released him and watched his
beautiful colors fade through my tears as he slowly swam away.
Today, as we began to catch fish left and right, I was gripped by fear, and realized that I was totally unprepared for the situation that I was probably going to face. It was as bad as when the algebra teacher came in and said, “Close your books, take out a pencil and about a dozen sheets of paper. I knew then, and I knew now that I was totally unprepared! My mind began to wander, and I thought about… ”If I had only become more proficient with the martial arts training,” concentrating on the defensive moves and …
It was at this point that I
interrupted his babbling creature and asked him “What the bleep are you
talking about… Unprepared for what!” He replied, …unprepared for the bloody fight that I knew would
take place if I tried to convince her to release one of these big fish when she
caught it.
I had
heard enough, so I decided to leave this mongrel to wallow in his misery, and
as I walked away he asked me “did you see those cougar tracks down the
river?” You know, I just
remembered. I’ve seen this grisly
character before. It was in upstate
Michigan several years ago on a salmon run in the PM River. He was the smart aleck ”bleep of a bleep”
that kept trying to bite the heads off those twenty-pound salmon. He also kept warning me to watch out for the
wolverines!
I really
enjoyed your beautiful Chattooga River.
Maybe someday I’ll come back there again, then maybe I won’t. How many cougars do you think there are
along THE RIVER? Hawthorne Rigsby
*(I.D.B.I.S.)
= I Don’t Believe I Said
Fishing Reports
From: Duane
Stalnaker
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:02 PM
Subject: one of those days you live for!
Today Terry (Rivers) and I went to the Upper Chattooga
backcountry. From the time we got in around 10:00 am until we quit about 5:00,
bugs were coming off and the fish were rising EVERYWHERE! The action
never stopped. Twice during the day
Terry had 2 fish on at one time. We had
so many doubles I lost count. We ended
up with about 70 to 80 fish a piece with a fat 14” brookie being my best. This wasn’t Nov. 1, but since a lot of the
fish were caught on drys, I`ll rate it
right up there with it! ◆

Brookie photo
courtesy of David Armstrong – MBTU (SC)
From: “Jeff Durniak”
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 6:15 PM
Subject: Chattooga’s cold, but fishin’s hot! Fyi. You don’t have to believe it if
you don’t want to, but there are witnesses....
I spent Saturday with two folks in
charge of Georgia TU’s Back the Brookie campaign (http://www.brookie.org/). Kevin and
Alec took time off of “specks” issues to chase the river’s rainbows and browns
with me on the Opening Day of Georgia’s trout season. Fleece-attired, we
had a great day on an unnamed section of upper river, despite a cool 45F water
temperature at the outset. Most fish were caught deep on woolly buggers,
princes, and soft hackles.
A nice hatch of mahogany mayflies
happened at midday and fish rose all around us. Alas, I did not have a
good match and we only fooled a couple fish on top. In my scorebook, it
was Risers One, Dredger Zero. Man, that hurt.
Still, despite the picky risers and
cool air temps, it was a great day on the river. Both anglers caught a
nice number of rainbows and a few browns, and enjoyed a streamside lunch on a
sun-warmed sandbar. After returning home, I checked with local
expert John Cross of Unicoi Outfitters, and he thought the flies were a #16
Quill Gordon. I said to myself. “Self, if youda paid
attention to that hatch chart in the Rabun TU newsletter, you woulda had lotsa
surface action!”

Two of the reasons Back the Brookie (BtB) is doing so well in GA: Alex Watson - BtB Conservation Chairman
& Kevin McGrath – GA BtB Chairman
That night, out of guilt and defeat, I tied up a half dozen
#16 dark Hendrickson’s (with a dark wing instead of all those light ones in my
Saturday fly box) in anticipation of a rematch that I hoped for, one day, some
day, in the future.
Early Sunday my friend called to
cancel our planned firewood hauling session for that afternoon. Hmmm,
what am I gonna do on this nice, bright afternoon that’s gonna be warmer than
yesterday?
The future is NOW. Yep, grab
flies and make haste to said river. Despite a full SC DH parking
lot, only a few folks were fishing lazily. Once nice young SC dude on his
way out said he caught only a few and showed me his “secret weapon” for the
morning (if I told you, it wouldn’t be his secret any more, would it?). I
walked up the trail and looked for action. Not much seen. Is the river
dead today? The Chattooga’s switch is one of the greatest mysteries of
the angling world. Where it is and who controls it, nobody knows.
I went upstream a quarter mile to a
favorite pool and, despite the lack of anglers, bugs and rising fish, I tied on
the Hendrickson. No dropper, no split shot, just a lonely dry on the end
of a 5X leader.
Casting without winter’s spit shot
was a small joy of its own. I aimed for the slower, shallow pockets along
the edge of the main current at the head of the pool. Bugs often get
trapped in the eddies here and give the fish a better chance to catch
them. Let’s try it right...about.... there.
First cast: sip. Third cast:
Slurp. Seventh cast: Ka-Boom! Hooked rainbows leaping skyward –what
a sight. Hmm, mighta matched
yesterday’s bug!
And so it went. And as the
afternoon warmed, the bugs came out: those mayflies and some tiny gray
caddis. When you look upstream through a pool and see a dozen rising
fish, you know that spring has truly arrived!
Several hours, a big bunch of
rainbows, and two browns later, it was time to think about heading home.
Problem was that the fish wouldn’t let me go. It was one of those magical
afternoons when the river’s switch was in the full ON position and was stuck
there. Biggest fish was a 14-inch rainbow, but the best was a 13 incher
that took a #18 gray caddis to fool, and then tried out for the Olympic
pole vault team with six leaps skyward.
Finally, as the sun began its fall
toward the western ridgeline, I hiked out the 1.5 miles, seeing nobody, and
began to ford the river toward the SC lot. A hundred yards below me was a
stoic figure, casting gracefully to some unseen target across the river, along
the GA bank. He was immersed in his challenge and unaware of the angler
crossing above him. Once across, I walked thru the wildlife opening
and then slowly crept down thru the briars to the river’s edge.
Yes, indeed, it was the ole
Rabunite. Those critters are rarely seen on weekends, you know.
They hibernate, and only come out when all of us working people retreat to the
flatlands for our WORK week. It’s sorta like seeing a bear or a big buck:
you hear about ‘em but just don’t see ‘em.
I return the favor he’s provided me several times in the past, I gently
hinted at my presence in a fashion familiar to Rabunites: Waaah-
HOOOO!!!!!!!!!
My public service was done. It was
nice to know that his cardiovascular system was in fine working order,
undoubtedly benefiting from the exercise of that midstream vertical leap.
We laughed and walked out together while comparing notes on a fine afternoon
astream. We returned to the lot to find our cars the only ones
left. We agreed that an afternoon like that was truly special and that
its memory could last long, helping us thru many days of life’s challenges and
chores, away from angling. We were, simply, thankful. ◆
Today I received this note from
Eunice, a Georgia Woman Flyfisher, http://www.georgiaflyfishing.com/index.htm who also was fortunate enough to enjoy the
Chattooga’s riches on that day. We had met earlier and shared a few flies
between us.
“The flies did work. About 30 minutes after you left
us, the water was almost boiling with top-water action. Susan did catch
one small bow on the nymph you gave her and Robert had numerous hits on the dry
fly. They have only been fly fishing a few months but I can tell they are
going to be die-hards for it. I think I probably brought in about a
dozen. At one point I saw a large brown rolling and feeding in the middle
of the rocks and believe it or not he took the little dry on the next cast.
He was probably about 20”. All in all
we had a great time and I have got to get back up there. That’s the first
time I’ve crossed over and gone up the river.”
Eunice
Many folks that I run into tell me
that they can’t “find” time to go fishing. I think that’s very true in
today’s bustling, busy society. I can’t “find” much time to go myself;
it’s just not lying there, waiting for me to stumble across it. But I can
“make” time..... and I can hopefully get my grass cut tonight. Gotta go!
Good luck. There’s enough
hints in here to get you going. If you’re a newbie, guy or gal, there are
folks in these bass and trout and striper fishing clubs that will help you to
get started, have fun, and be successful. Take advantage of their
expertise! It is absolutely the right time of the year to wet a
line! Either find that time or make that time; you’ll be glad you
did. www.gofishgeorgia.com
From: “Monte Seehorn”
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:40 PM
Subject: Chattooga DH
Caught a beautiful 16-18
inch brown today. Monte
From: Jim Nixon
Sent: Friday, April 14,2006
Subject: Chattooga DH
Caught a beautiful 23-inch brown there late last evening on
a “Nugget” dry fly!
“Knowing a
river intimately is a very large part of the joy of fly fishing.”
From
“A River Never Sleeps” (1946) by Roderick L. Haig-Brown
TROUT FISHING IN THE
EARLY SPRING
As told by Charlie Breithaupt
This time of year I get real antsy if
there is too much going on and I can’t find time to fish. College reunions,
yard work, TU meetings…just about anything…seem to keep me out of the streams. Even going to Nashville to see Merle Haggard
came at a bad time but it was worth it. I’d be proud to be an Okie from
Muscogee.
Well, today I said I’m
going, even if the temperature has dropped 23 degrees since yesterday. I arrived at a familiar hole about
mid-afternoon only to see some angler trying to get his fly out of a tree. He
finally got it or broke it and went stomping off right through the run I
planned to fish. His blue waders
matched his blue shirt and blue cap. I
wonder where he got that outfit; bet it wasn’t Reeves Hardware in Dillard.
I sat on a rock
to study the water and let things settle down.
I had tied on a Caddis, not too dark, probably a # 14, with a Prince
nymph dropped about 18” below. I eased
into the water and made a cast to the near side of the run. A couple of casts
later a rainbow took the nymph so I knew I wouldn’t be skunked today. Several
more drifts through and around the run raised a number of fish but all rejected
the dry. I thought about the advice of
the old Rabunite…”if they reject the fly, try the same pattern, one size
smaller.”
About that time
a young angler came along. He turned
out to be a senior at Wofford College, enjoying his spring break on the
streams. I invited him to fish the
lower end of the run and suggested he lower his dropper about a foot or more.
Right away he caught a couple on the dropper so it looked like I knew what I
was talking about. As I thought about
tying on a smaller fly I drifted the same old Caddis through the run another
time or two. Suddenly, the “commode flushed.”
The youngster exclaimed “that’s a nice fish” and I replied “yeah, that’s
a good‘un.”
Somewhere in the
back of my mind I could hear a voice yelling “churnin’ butter” and, in a much
quieter tone, that same voice saying “sure hope your knots are tied
right.” The knots

Charlie B.
as “The Man in the Spotlight”
held and, four or five minutes later, the big brown slid
into my net. My rod measurement indicated the fish to be a 19-incher, not as
pretty as a wild fish but plenty good for me. As I released the fish I told him I hoped we’d meet again, perhaps
on May 15th.
Except for a great Blue Heron that flew right over my head
as he headed up river and a couple of rainbows on the dropper, the rest of the
afternoon was uneventful. I tried a
number of different flies, including a black Caddis, which is really hard to
see.
I wonder if they make that fly in another
color……….. ◆
“O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is
it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?”
Izaak Walton
“ Catching trout is like catching a bad cold, it’s hard
to get over. But then who wants to get
over catching trout ?”
Jimmy D Moore
What’s
New?
GA – House Bill 1211 (3/31/06) On the last night
of the 2006 session, HB 1211 was adopted naming the Southern Appalachian Brook
Trout (SABT) the State Cold Water Game Fish. This
designation recognizes the SABT’s legacy as Georgia’s native cold-water fish
and important place in our heritage. SABT are genetically different from
other brook trout. As the only native salmonid in the southern
Appalachians, they have both ecological and recreational
importance. Because they are a unique component of the region’s
wild trout resources, maintaining and enhancing SABT populations are primary
management concerns. Thank you for
contacting your legislators in support of the bill. http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2005_06/search/hb1211.htm
GA – Senate Bill 510 (3/31/06) threatening stream
buffers and water quality in Georgia, failed on the last night of the
session. Rabun’s Rep Charles Jenkins
voted “Yea”. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
reported: The so-called “stream buffer” bill failed that would have
allowed landowners to build on 2 acre home sites with septic tanks within 25 to
50 feet of a lake or stream used to supply drinking water. Rep. Chuck Martin (R-Alpharetta) tried to
help the floundering bill with amendments that he said could resolve most
objections. But the House killed his amendments, which Minority Leader DuBose
Porter (D-Dublin) said were like putting “perfume on the pig.” “It still smells,” Porter said. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/sum/sb510.htm
Chattooga River Chapter of TU was awarded a $6,250 Embrace-A-Stream (EAS) grant (3/12/06) by TU’s national office. The Greenville News (SC) reported: The grant will fund a project to restore Southern Appalachian Brook Trout (SABT) in a small stream in the Sumter NF. “This EAS grant will provide yet another example of the successful reintroduction of SABT,” said Dave Van Lear, longtime member and past president of the Chattooga River Chapter. “We hope to build upon these successes to educate the public and build a constituency in support of brook trout restoration.” Over the past several decades, brook trout populations have declined in the mountains of SC, with numbers declining by 70 percent in the Sumter NF. Competition from non-native trout is the primary cause of the decline. The EAS grant will support the removal of non-native trout and the reintroduction of brook trout in selected streams. TU chapters in SC hope to eventually restore brook trout populations to their native range throughout the Upstate mountains. The grant will support this goal in partnership with the SC DNR, the USFS and the SC Wildlife Federation, among others. http://www.tu.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=7dJEKTNuFmG&b=346361&ct=2071853
Sheila Humphrey was recognized with two awards. (3/24/06)
The GA DNR WRD announced Sheila, the wildlife interpretive specialist at
Smithgall Woods Regional Education Center (SWREC), received the “Outstanding
Service in Environmental Education Award” for her work at Smithgall Woods and
the education program at the recent Environmental Education Alliance of GA
Conference. She also was recognized by
the Foothills Chapter of TU for work done with the Soque River Outdoor Classroom
in Habersham County. SWREC
offers a diverse assortment of innovative, environmental education programming
for students of all ages. This center
was established in 1997 as an outdoor classroom from which students and
teachers alike have learned to evaluate environmental impacts and to make sound
ecological decisions. Since its
inception, SWREC has reached over 34,000 students (including 48 young GA Trout
Campers). The education program at Smithgall is funded through the support of
the WRD Nongame Wildlife and Natural Heritage Section (Wildlife Conservation
Fund), the Smithgall Foundation, Pioneer RESA, Trout Unlimited (including $1500
from Rabun TU again this year) and program fees. During the fall and spring semesters of the last fiscal year,
12,901 students participated in over 550 separate SWREC educational programs. For more information on the programs available
at SWREC, visit www.georgiawildlife.com
, select “General Information,” “Wildlife Education Centers,” then “Smithgall”
or call (706) 878-3087.

Sheila with her Environmental
Education Award
Rep. Norwood Calls on Administration to Drop Sale of North
Georgia Forestlands from Budget (4/6/2006) National Forest lands
in North Georgia should not be sold to help balance the federal budget,
according to U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA9). The Administration Budget
Proposal includes the proposed sale of National Forest lands in Georgia and
other states. “There is plenty of room
to look for savings elsewhere in the budget rather than permanently eliminating
National Park or National Forest lands,” says Norwood. “These are natural
resources that can never be replaced once they are gone, and my constituents
are overwhelmingly opposed to any sale.” http://www.house.gov/norwood/
USFS – Increases Efforts to Curtail Hemlock Decline (3/24/2006)
In
early March, the USDA Forest Service began releasing predatory beetles in
several locations on the Chattahoochee National Forest in Towns and Union
Counties. This is part of an ongoing effort to save some of Georgia’s hemlocks
from the hemlock woolly adelgid, an alien pest native to Japan that was
accidentally introduced into the US in the 1920’s. “The adelgid has no known
natural enemies in this country, and if left unchecked, has the potential to
kill off most of the native hemlocks in the Southern Appalachians,” said Alan
Polk, District Ranger for the Brasstown Ranger District. “It was first detected
in Georgia in 2002 in Rabun County and is quickly spreading west and south
across the Chattahoochee National Forest.” http://www.fs.fed.us/conf/press/20060327-bt-hwa-trtmnt.htm
GA DNR – More Predatory Beetles to Combat Spread of Hemlock
Pests (4/17/2006) North Georgia’s majestic hemlock trees are under
attack from a tiny insect with a voracious appetite, and their best defense
could prove to be a predatory beetle that feeds on the pests. The Georgia
Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is helping to fund the development of a
beetle lab at the University of Georgia as part of a long-term effort to stop
the spread of the hemlock woolly adelgid. Other partners in the project
include the U.S. Forest Service, Georgia Forestry Commission, U.S. Department
of Agriculture – Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Georgia Forest
Watch, Georgia Wildlife Federation, Georgia Power Company and the Lumpkin
Coalition. http://www.georgiawildlife.com/
Historic Sale of Southeastern Forestland (3/28/2006) – International Paper,
The Nature Conservancy and The Conservation Fund have reached an agreement to
protect 218,000 acres of forestlands across 10 states in the single largest
private land conservation sale in the history of the South, and one of the
largest in the nation. In Georgia, the agreement will span three
counties and encompass 24,120 acres in the Altamaha
River watershed, making this project the largest land conservation
agreement ever completed in Georgia. Recognizing that maintaining healthy and
productive forests in the South provides shared conservation, economic and
recreational benefits, The Nature Conservancy will work with public and private
partners who have common interests in the Altamaha
River watershed to protect these forested lands. “Particularly in Georgia,
the agreement follows in The Nature Conservancy’s hallmark approach to
conservation – innovative, partner-oriented, science-based conservation,” said
Tavia McCuean, vice president and state director for The Nature Conservancy in
Georgia.
To date in Georgia, The Nature
Conservancy has helped to protect more than 241,000 acres across the state.
http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/georgia/press/press2341.html
Back the
Brookie (BtB) Update for GA (4/23/2006) The BTB leaders
met with the USFS on 4/19. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss
potential project work in the Chattahoochee NF. GA TU/Back-the-Brookie
representatives stressed the amount of brook trout work there is to do and that
TU wants to partner with the Forest Service as a contributor of both labor and
other resources from the grants TU has received. http://www.brookie.org/
Rabun TU Sponsors 2 Summer Interns with GA WRD (4/25/2006)
The Chapter BOD voted to fund 2 summer interns to work 160 hours this summer on
trout streams in NE GA under the supervision of GA WRD Cold Water Fisheries
Biologist Lee Keefer. The interns will
be college students that will work the rest of their time on brook trout
streams with funding from Back the Brookie (BtB) grants.
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R L Winston
Custom Fly Rod Raffle
BIIx, 4
piece, 4 wt., 9’ graphite fly rod
Drawing
September 19, 2006 at the Chapter Meeting
Tickets are
$3 each or 4 for $10
Contact Ray
Kearns for Tickets
706 782 9913 raykearns@alltel.net
Our good
friend Mack Martin of North Georgia Custom Rods has donated this fly rod to
Rabun TU.
http://www.mackmartin.com/CustomRods.htm
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Letters
to the Editor
(4/5/2006) How can I purchase a CD by your Bluegrass Band
that performed during the meeting (The Rendezvous) at Dillard that I attended?
They were great.
Hannibal Bolton – US Fish and Wildlife Service
Editor’s notes: The Foxfire Boys
is the name of the band and we agree; they are great. For bookings and CDs, contact Tom Nixon foxfireboys@alltel.net . Hannibal, your Foxfire Boys CDs are on the
way to you, compliments of Rabun TU in appreciation of your program
presentation at the 2006 Rabun Rendezvous.
(4/18/2006) I don't know who to thank but,
either the FS or the NC F&G, (or it could be a TU chapter) are
dropping BIG trees into to the headwaters of the Nantahala. There will
be some great native trout habitat in the years to come. I had
some nice rises up there Sunday on the old faithful Adams and a light
yellow bodied parachute tied by a friend of mine here in Franklin that he calls
The By-God-If-You-Can't-Catch-Um-On-This-You-Just-Need-To-Go-To-The-House
Fly...Unfortunately my trigger ain't quiet what it used to be, and that's
OK, but I missed far more natives than I caught. It was worth the
trip even if one did nothing but sit on a rock and look at God's wonderfuls.
Please pass along: My
son-in-law, Michael, is a guide and chef now guiding float trips in a Starr
Inflatable in WNC and Eastern TN. He provides a shownuff gourmet
lunch, bottle of wine, and a day trip for $400 seat. There are two
fishing seats. One may contact him thru my office in Franklin @ 828 524-3321
Quis Custodiet Ipsos
Custodes?. (Who is guarding the guards?)...
John Haralson (Harry) "Banjer" Duncan
April 1 (Sat) Oconee River TU Chapter Banquet was
attended by Prez Terry and Past Prez Ray.
Bar-B-Que, bluegrass, silent auction, bucket raffles, good fellowship
and fun! Rabun TU donated a framed
brown trout print by Tom Landreth.
April 7 (Fri) Mentoring: Charlie B submitted the
following report, “A group of eleven students, along with two faculty
instructors, from The Westminster Schools in Atlanta hiked and camped for three
days near the Chattooga River. Through previous arrangements four
Rabunites, Doug, Terry, Kathy and Charlie met the group to add a unique
experience to their wilderness outing (a requirement for all ninth grade
students). After hearing from Doug about the history of the river and its early
people, the kids got a very brief verbal lesson in fly-fishing. Following that a little time was spent
finding bugs in the river and then a chance to fish. As always the fishing was
good but the catching wasn't. However, the kids (four girls and seven boys)
were enthusiastic and seemed to enjoy an activity most had never experienced.
Who knows...the next Lefty Kreh or Wanda Taylor may have been in that group.”
April 8 (Sat) Trout Day – Reeves Hardware, Dillard with 13
Rabunites participating. Fly tying
demos, fishing videos, fishing stories (“By Golly, - - you don’t have to believe ‘em - - if
you don’t want to!”), hamburger & hotdog grilling. A fun time and some new members joined to
boot.
April 11 (Tues) USFS Meeting – 5-year Planning for Forest
Health Projects Five TU folks attended. Our concern is to see that none of the planned projects will
impact water quality (raising water temperature &/or cause siltation). The FS officials present assured us that
water quality will always be a top priority and no projects will adversely
impact water quality.
April 18 (Tues) Chapter Meeting was
attended by 32 folks (maybe the most ever for a “regular” Chapter
meeting). Roy Lovell, County Marshall,
and his 4 deputy marshals presented the program titled Erosion Control &
Sedimentation Laws and Enforcement. With the use of a PowerPoint presentation they explained the laws
and the jurisdiction of the County Marshall’s office. They explained the buffer requirements for “trout” waters (50’)
and “state” waters (25‘ on lakes and non-trout streams). They discussed what activities could and
could not be performed in a buffer.
They explained who and what activities require an approved erosion and
sedimentation plan and who is exempt. They were able to answer the questions and show slides of
“good” and “bad” examples of erosion control. They said they need us, the
concerned citizens, to report water pollution problems to their office (and
anonymous reports are fine). If they
determine the problem is not within their jurisdiction, they will see to it
that the proper authorities are notified (GA EPD, GA Forestry, Rabun Co Health
Dept, USFS, Municipal Government, GA Power Co, etc). When in doubt – report it to the Marshall’s Office: 706
782 7579 Emergency situation: 911
The meeting raffle raised $70 and there were 11 buckets with
some really neat items, including a Patsy Lewis print titled Chattahoochee
Trout Flies, 3 fly selections, strike indicators, and a fishing cap with a
tether (won by Travis – who just may need a tether). A BIG “thank you” goes to all the Rabunites that donated the
items.
April 20 – 22 (Thurs – Sat) Camping, Fishing & In-Stream
Work Day (Sat Morn) Charlie
reported: “Nine Rabunites and one Cohuttarite (Boones Farm
Vigil) camped in the rain, wind, thunder and lightning but enjoyed a fire under
the tarp and some decent food. Most will be dried out in a week or two. There
was some fishing on the DH and in the "local streams"...all caught a
few. Kidd and Hudgins went around the bend and slayed 'em. On Saturday the USFS
guys showed up right on time. Mike Brod, the "new guy", jumped right
in as we pinned four big logs against the bank to create cover and slow
erosion. A good section of trout habitat was created using trees that were
already down and either in the stream or close by. A good day's work!!
Rabunites...Nixon, Terry R, Ray K, Jimmy W, Jim K, Clay H, Kathy, Charlie,
Frank (Where's Frank) and Larry (B.F.) Vigil.
USFS...Mike Brod, David Vinson and Wes (I think...don't know last
name) They all worked hard! Kelly
and Greg also made cameo visits to the camp.”
April 22 (Sat) High Country Boil – Thanks
from the Blue Ridge TU Gang John Pool
sez: “When the
Blue Ridge TU Chapter held our High Country Boil in April, we were pleased when
Kathy & Charlie
Breithaupt pulled up. And we were surprised when Charlie presented us with a
gift from the Rabun TU Chapter to include in our fundraiser -- a print by our
favorite artist Tom Landreth. The print was successfully auctioned and the
proceeds will help us greatly with a project we have in the works. We really
appreciate the Rabunites thinking of their TU brethren from the poor side of
the mountain.” And Charlie
sez: “The
"Boil" was superb and plenty of it. The "Tom Landreth painting" netted $200 in a live
auction” http://blueridgemountaintuonline.com/
April 25 (Tues) Board of Directors meeting was held in
the Chattooga DH parking lot. We
discussed the following: Selection of a program speaker for the 2007 Rabun
Rendezvous; Black Rock S.P. Kids Fishing Event on 4/29; Betty Creek clean up on
5/6 for Trout Camp; Family cookout at Indian Lake on 5/16; Chapter camping
& fishing outing on 5/17 – 5/21; Program meeting by Mack Martin on 6/20;
The fly rod raffle ticket sales; Rabun TU sponsoring interns to work with GA
WRD biologist Lee Keefer on NE GA trout streams; Greeting new members &
visitors at Chapter meetings; “Thank You” gifts for program presenters, and
Having a future Chapter meeting program presented by GA EPD about their
“Adopt-A-Stream” program.
"Of
all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy." William Sherwood Fox
MEMBERSHIP
UPDATE
A Big
Rabunite welcome to 5 new members this month: Hal Howard, 68 Rabbit
Run Lane, Rabun Gap, GA 30568; Terrell Dodgins, 921 S.
Tryphosa Road, Otto, NC 28763-9467; and Billy Cook, (transfer) 25 Fuller
Road, Locust Grove, GA 30248; Edwin W. Clark, 65 Ocmulgee Way,
Rabun Gap, GA 30568; and Cecil Greene, 7313 Laketree Drive, Raleigh, NC 27615
Thanks for
re-upping: Lewis Reeves III, Greg Roane, Eugene Roberts, Perry Thompson,
Russell Johnson, and Dave Schmidt,
It is time
to renew your membership: Hal Northrop, M. Pierce, Andy Gaston, and David
Bentley
We extend
our best wishes for a speedy recovery to Charter Member & Rabunite Director
Tom Landreth who is undergoing radiation treatment. We want to see you back in THE RIVER real soon.
Rabun
TU Officers & Directors
President - Terry Rivers, PO Box 371, Clayton, GA
30525 Ph 706 782
7419 E-mail
tlr1121@alltel.net
Vice President - Jimmy Whiten Ph 706 886
6546 E-mail jimmywhiten@alltel.net
Treasurer (w/Newsletter & Meeting Raffles) - Doug
Adams Ph
706 746 2158 E-mail
edadams1@alltel.net
Secretary - Tom Matthews Ph 706 782
0369 E-mail
tmatt@hemc.net
Past President (w/Membership) - Ray Kearns Ph 706 782 9913 E-mail
raykearns@alltel.net
Director (w/Programs) - Bill Kelly Ph
706 746 2104 E-mail
bkjk1@alltel.net
Director (w/Website) - Kathy Breithaupt Ph 706 782 6954 E-mail knc615@direcway.com
Director (w/Campouts & USFS Work-outings) - Charlie
Breithaupt Ph 706 782 6954 E-mail knc615@direcway.com
Director (w/Publicity, Letters, & Hospitality) - Tom
Landreth Ph 706 746
2295 E-mail
landreth@alltel.net
Director – Larry Walker Ph 706 244
4345 E-mail
amosndixie@alltel.net
Director – Lea Richmond Ph 706 782
6898 E-mail
learichmond@alltel.net

News
from the President...... Terry Rivers
Hi Folks,
Well some of the
best fishing has been happening this month with the low water and high
temperatures.
Was hoping for
rain and it came at the campout at Double Bit.
But beside the wet times we had a great turnout and the fishing was
good. We had a great work project,
pining several logs along the banks that were washing. We had 12 to show from our Chapter and 3
from the USFS including Mike Brod who replaced Andy Gaston. During the workday he mentioned several
times that he was amazed at the work that was done that day.
I want to
personally thank the Rabun County Marshall’s personnel for a great program they
put on for us. Also the local groups that attended and their input.
For the month
of May we have another campout with no workday - just fishing and
socializing. So, I would love to see a
great turnout for this event. It will
be at Cherry Hill Campground with all the facilities so come and join.
Again I want to
thank everybody that showed up for the workday and the new friends that were
made. Hope to see ya’ll on THE RIVER.
Have a great day -
Hope you catch a lot of fish!
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