General Chapter Meeting Information
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. Some of our virtual meetings have been recorded and are available for viewing on YouTube by clicking on the Theme title.
Our Meetings are currently hybrid (in person and virtual).
Virtual Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88049850362?pwd=6K4wk631ibjO4cfAW6ehIHlM11TQa4.1
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Theme
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Speaker
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Meeting Date
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| “Sweetgrass Rods” | Speaker: Glenn Brackett | November 19, 2025 |
| “Rising to the Occasion: Mastering Dry Flies and Emergers” Passcode: ci@6pd76 | Speaker: Tim Cammisa | October 15, 2025 |
| “Fishing Trips and Fish Stories” Passcode: qc?17w4R | Speaker: PPTU Members | September 17, 2025 |
| “Fly Fishing for Smallmouth” | Speaker: William Heresniak | May 21, 2025 |
| “2024 Trout Population Surveys for the Catoctin Streams” Passcode: jjU5?axt PDF Presentation | Speaker: Michael Kashiwagi | April 16, 2025 |
| “Maryland Fly Fishing Trail” Passcode: M9&mgH8u | Speaker: Rich Batiuk | March 19, 2025 |
| “Fishing The Gunpowder River” | Speaker: Rich Dennison | February 19, 2025 |
| “Fly Tying Extravaganza 2025” (IN PERSON ONLY) | PPTU Members and Guests | January 15, 2025 |
Time: Meeting 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Third Wednesday except December, June, July and August
New Meeting Place (starting September 18, 2024):
Laurel VFD meeting hall
7588 Van Dusen Rd.
Laurel, MD 20707
- Details
“Sweetgrass Rods”
Guest Speakers: Glenn Brackett
Nov 19th, 2025
Our November speaker will be Glenn Brackett, Founder and Master Craftsman at Sweetgrass Rods.
Glenn learned the craft of bamboo rod building working at the Winston Rod Company. In the mid-1970s, Glenn and Tom Morgan moved the Winston Rod company from San Francisco to Twin Bridges, Montana. They believed that this location, a junction of great trout streams, would inspire the intangible perfection they sought in a rod truly built for fly anglers. Eventually, Glenn moved on from Winston and started Sweetgrass Rods – first in Twin Bridges and then in Butte, Montana.
With 45 years of triumph and tears at the rod bench, Glenn Brackett has been defined by his love of building bamboo fly rods. An inspiration in the shop as< well as throughout the local community, Glenn will often say that his most sacred duty is to preserve the legacy of fly fishing by teaching others the many lessons of building cane rods.
The meeting will be hybrid with Glenn presenting via Zoom from Montana.
– Scott Cernich