{"id":1797,"date":"2016-08-21T01:51:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T01:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2016-08-21T01:51:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T01:51:06","slug":"august-meeting-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"August Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

President\u2019s Corner<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Mike Bryant (mjbryant1954@hotmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n

July ended up being a great month of fishing for me. John Reinhardt and I fished in central Colorado for a week in mid-July. The trip was great. Lots of browns, cutt\u2019s, cuttbows, rainbows, and some brookies caught on six different streams. Beautiful country along with fishing, beer, food, and friendship made for a memorable trip. Probably the biggest surprise of the trip was the midge fishing. On at least four four different streams, we encountered trout sipping small midge emergers or adults on the surface. Fortunately I did have some size #22 adult midge patterns and small BWO\u2019s that fooled multiple fish. The fish were picky. There were times when the fish wouldn\u2019t eat an adult midge pattern with a white wing, but readily ate the same pattern with a gray \/ dun wing. What a challenge and great time.<\/p>\n

Closer to home, fishing in the Park continues to be good, despite the hot weather and at times, low water levels. Bill and I fished part of the West Prong one day. We caught a bunch of rainbows on both Stimulators and the classic Green Weenie. It\u2019s an absolutely beautiful stretch of water that reminds me of Greenbrier but with rainbows instead of brookies. Later in the week, Bill and I fished the South Holston as well. Again, a great day of fishing with many browns and rainbows brought to hand. Despite the direr reports on this year\u2019s sulfur hatch, we lucked into a sporadic hatch that gave us the opportunity to dry fly fish for the majority of the trip.<\/p>\n

<\/a> I\u2019m gearing up for a trip to Yellowstone \/ Missouri River in October. Midges and BWO\u2019s will likely be the insects to imitate, so I\u2019m busy tying a multitude of midge larva, pupa, emerger and adult midge patterns. Of course, I know whatever I tie will be the wrong, size, shape or color . I can\u2019t wait.<\/p>\n

When not fishing, I was able to help with the Anthony Creek restoration efforts this month. The work of eliminating rainbow trout is labor intensive. But when the restoration is complete, Anthony Creek will be a beautiful small stream that should be perfect using a short rod chasing beautiful brookies. I\u2019m so thankful for the incredible efforts of the Park service and our volunteers to protect, restore, and preserve our natural resources. Many thanks to all of you have had the opportunity to help with your time, talents and money. It\u2019s truly appreciated. Be sure to check out the update included in this issue.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to Mike McKinsey for yet another great meal at July\u2019s outdoor meeting. A crowd of more than thirty folks from our Little River Chapter and the Great Smoky Mountain Chapter showed up at River John\u2019s for a great meal and fellowship on a great July evening.<\/p>\n

Finally, as summer moves into fall we will be adding three new schools to our local Trout-in-the Classroom program \u2013 Lonsdale Elementary, Heritage Middle School and Tate School of Discovery. This puts our local TIC programs at eleven.<\/p>\n

Monthy Meeting \u2013 Thursday, August 25<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll be back at Calhoun\u2019s for the August meeting. Ian and Charity Rutter (R & R Fly Fishing) will be presenting a program on fishing in the northern Rockies and Yellowstone. Ian and Charity always provide excellent programs, so this is one you do not want to miss.<\/p>\n

Be safe and stay cool. I hope to see you on the stream and at our August meeting.<\/p>\n

Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President\u2019s Corner Mike Bryant (mjbryant1954@hotmail.com) Newsletter July ended up being a great month of fishing for me. John Reinhardt and I fished in central Colorado for a week in mid-July. The trip was great. Lots of browns, cutt\u2019s, cuttbows, rainbows, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}