Next Chapter Meeting: Sept 15, 2010

Fall's Best Trout Fishing by Jay Sheppard

From September through the end of the year there are an abundance of trout fishing opportunities in our region. Jay Sheppard will explore many fall tactics and review where and when some of the better fall fishing will likely be the most exciting. Trout are preparing for spawning (browns and brookies), and all are loading up on fat reserves for the upcoming winter when food becomes less abundant and water temperatures may hover nearer freezing. Handouts will be provided on lists of flies and other important information useful in trout fishing in the coming months. Jay has been fishing for over 60 years, starting in Ohio and living in Alaska, Oregon, and California before moving to Maryland in 1972. He has been active in the Potomac- Patuxent Chapter and the MAC for more than 30 years and currently serves as MAC Vice Chair for Resources. Jay writes a column about Tackle and Tactic Tips for the PPTU Conservationist. He is a retired biologist for the US Fish & Wildlife Service and lives in Laurel.

- by Nick Weber

Early Meeting Segments Begin at 7 pm

Tying Bench

This month will find one of our favorite tiers back at the Tying Bench. Jim Greco, master tier, will be at the Tying Bench to share his expertise and wisdom about tying and fly fishing. Jim will share one of his favorite patterns, the latex caddis pupa which he has found to work well on fall trout as well as year round. Jim says that pattern that has caught some really big fish for him. He uses it as a searching pattern and likes to fish it off a dropper in skinny water or with a strike indicator in deeper, faster water. Stop by the “Bench” in the Early Segment and see why and how Jim likes this great pattern for fall trout and use this as an opportunity to see Jim work his magic with bobbin, hook and hackle and a few other goodies to craft a first rate fare for our finicky fall trout.

Angler’s Corner

Come by the Anglers Corner and check with Dennis Covert to learn all you need for the fall trip to the Savage and North Branch on September 25 – 27. You may also hear some tales from the recent outing to the Yellow Breeches or even Yellowstone. It should not take much convincing why you really should consider these fishing experiences with some of our fellow fishers. Have an idea for an outing, share it with Dennis Covert, outings chair, (denniscovert@hotmail.com). See http://www.pptu.org/outings/outings.shtml for more outing listings.

General Chapter Meeting Info

A featured part of almost every month's membership meeting is the guest speaker program.  The Board of Directors spends a lot of time planning and arranging for the featured speakers.  We begin by designing a general theme for each month's program and then follow up by identifying and booking potential speakers. 

The recent Program Themes were:

Theme	Speaker	Meeting Date
Salmon River Steelhead	Larry Coburn	September 16, 2009
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel Stripers in December	Captain Michael Critzer	October 21, 2009
'Ask the Fly Fisher' Forum and Fundraiser	Panel of PPTU Members	November 18, 2009
Annual Fly Tying Demonstrations	PPTU Members	January 20, 2010
Tips, Techniques, and Tactics to Become a Better Angler	William Heresniak	February 17, 2010
Potomac Shad Fishing: The Rite of Spring	Mark Binsted	March 17, 2010
Spring Creek Round Up	Mike Heck	April 21, 2010
Maryland Wild Trout Streams - The Ones We Don't Talk About	Tom Starrs	May 19, 2010
Fall's Best Trout Fishing	Jay Sheppard	Sept 15, 2010
The Best of the Chesapeake	Kevin Josenhans	Oct 20, 2010
Fall Fundraiser		Nov 17, 2010

Time: 7:00 PM, Third Wednesday except December, June, July and August

Place: Margaret Schweinhaut Senior Center, 1000 Forest Glen Road, Silver Spring, Maryland

Directions: From Capitol Beltway -- North on Georgia Avenue (Rte. 97). First right onto Forest Glen Road. Pass Holy Cross Hospital and go across Sligo Creek Parkway. The Center is on the right, approximately one quarter mile.

The 2009 Annual Fundraiser

List of Corporate and Individual Sponsors of PPTU’s Conservation and Education Fundraising Event November 2009

West Branch Angler’s Resort, Deposit, New York	Norm Norlander of Nor-Vise
Clyde E. Witt of Riverlight Flies (wearable art) Cleveland, Ohio	King’s Contrivance Liquor & Smoke Shop
Vintage Cellars of Clarksville	Fortune Star of Jessup
Bare Bones of Ellicott City	Great Feathers Fly Shop of Sparks
Backwater Angler, Monkton	Orvis Shop, Bethesda
Pizza Hut of Central Maryland	Bass Pro Shops
Chapala’s of Burtonsville	Olde Hickory Grill of Burtonsville
Pepino’s Kitchen of Burtonsville

The annual fundraising event could not have happened or been a success without the help of many PPTU Chapter members and friends; who are too numerous to mention individually. The following PPTU Chapter members contributed items to our fundraising event:

Steve Bell	Bob Dietz	Charlie Gelso
Jim Greene	Jim Grecco & the Rod Building Class	Pam Grecco
Cathy Nutter	Robert Simpson	Walt Sheppard
Carl Smolka	Larry Vawter	Nick Weber

AND all those individuals who helped organize, set up, run the flea market and clean up after!

Bruce Eberle
Fundraising Chair