{"id":1809,"date":"2016-09-15T01:49:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T01:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2016-09-15T01:49:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T01:49:51","slug":"september-meeting-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=1809","title":{"rendered":"September Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

P r e s i d e n t \u2019 s C o r n e r<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

I think I\u2019ve fished our tailwaters more this summer than I have collectively over the past decade.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always wanted to fish tailwaters in the past, but for a variety of reasons it just didn\u2019t happen all that often.\u00a0 Last spring, Bill ad I hit the caddis hatch on the Holston.\u00a0 This summer, I have fished the South Holston and the Caney Fork, mostly the Caney.\u00a0 The Caney seems to be loaded with fish, and some big fish.\u00a0 While I haven\u2019t caught any of the huge fish yet, I\u2019ve seen them.\u00a0 I watched one very large brown open his mouth and eat my #22 midge pattern.\u00a0 I waited a split second, lifted the rod tip to set the hook and immediately felt\u2026. nothing.\u00a0 Somehow that small hook didn\u2019t find its mark.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it wasn\u2019t operator error!! But despite missing that large fish, it was a good day of fishing.\u00a0 I learned a new stretch of the Caney and caught a bunch of browns, rainbows and even a brookie.\u00a0 On another earlier trip to the Caney, John and I had to opportunity to wade fish in the middle section.\u00a0 There was a nice long riffle.\u00a0 A #16 soft hackle pattern was the ticket to fooling a lot of 12\u201d-14\u201d rainbows that fought hard.\u00a0 Upstream of the riffle, a small pod of 14\u201d-16\u201d fish were schooled up in a small slick less than a foot deep actively feeding.\u00a0 I switched a small #18 pheasant tail.\u00a0 After catching and releasing 4-5 fish, the pod of fish decided they weren\u2019t hungry anymore.\u00a0 All in all, a good day of fishing.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m currently gearing up for a trip out west to fish the Smith and Missouri Rivers.\u00a0 Fishing out west is always a fun experience.\u00a0 The scenery is so different and beautiful.\u00a0 The possibility of big trout and fishing with friends is always one of life\u2019s good moments.<\/p>\n

Last month, we awarded the 2015 Eddy George Award to Steve Van Vleet for his outstanding volunteer contributions.\u00a0 With the award comes a custom made fly rod to be built by Steve Moore.\u00a0 Congratulations and thank you to Steve for all his efforts to help the Park.<\/p>\n

Also, many thanks to Charity Rutter for a great program last month on fishing and enjoying the great outdoors in Yellowstone and the Rockies.<\/p>\n

I am hoping for cooler temperatures and some rain so you\u2019ll have the opportunity to get back into the Park this fall.\u00a0 Be safe.<\/p>\n

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

P r e s i d e n t \u2019 s C o r n e r Newsletter Mike Bryant (mjbryant1954@hotmail.com) I think I\u2019ve fished our tailwaters more this summer than I have collectively over the past decade.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always … 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-1809","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\/1809","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=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1809\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}