Date: 9/7/13 Time: 9:30am – 12:30pm Please join us in cleaning up the Rogue River! Volunteers will canoe, kayak, or walk along riverbanks above and below the dam cleaning up the river. A free lunch will be provided for all volunteers. The Kent Conservation District will screen drinking water well samples during lunch for nitrates. Please contact Nichol De Mol if you would like your water sampled. Meet at Richardson Sowerby Park in Rockford. This park is along the Rogue River just downstream from the Rockford Dam and is easily accessible from the White Pine State Trail or off Main...
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Michigan Fly Fishing Festival
Located at Boyne Mountain Resort, the Michigan Fly Fishing Festival is designed to showcase the best of Michigan’s fly fishing heritage and innovation. Chances to enjoy live music, good food, check out some new gear and get out during season. Above all, enjoy a good time with friends and colleagues within our industry! More details at Boyne Outfitters >> Click here to see the poster >> Saturday, July 20 10am-6pm: Michigan Fly Fishing Festival open to the public. Vendors and manufacturer representatives will be on hand and complimentary casting clinics are offered throughout the day. 12-6pm: BBQ provided by Tannery...
More eyes on Michigan groundwater withdrawals
If you follow the groundwater withdrawal issue in Michigan, there were a few articles written recently that are worth your time. Great Lakes Echo — “Michigan’s groundwater tool: Oversold, overhyped and in question” Mlive — “Destroying Michigan’s trout stream for China is considered ‘progress'” Bridge Magazine — “Canadian firm plans fracking campaign that could require 4 billion gallons of Michigan water”
Rogue River clean up day
Join Wolverine and Rockford Footwear Depot for a day of cleaning up the Rogue River on Saturday, June 8 at 9:00am! Following the clean up all volunteers are welcome to come for lunch, live music, and fishing/conservation demos. The day of the cleanup, volunteers will be assigned to a team with a project leader and be provided supplies for the day’s river clean up. Volunteers should bring comfortable shoes (that can get wet/dirty), layered clothing, bug spray, refillable water bottles. There is a need for a few volunteers to wear waders in order to get debris that is in the...
Volunteer opportunity
On Saturday, May 18th, members of the Oak Brook (Chicago) TU Chapter and the Coldwater River Watershed Council will be doing restoration work on Tyler Creek.
New fishing license required April 1
The Department of Natural Resources today reminded anglers that a new fishing license season begins Monday, April 1. All 2012 fishing licenses expire on March 31, 2013. Anglers have a choice of a variety of licenses and prices are unchanged from 2012. Fishing license options include: 24-hour license (good for all species) 72-hour license (good for all species) Restricted license (good for the entire season for all species except trout, salmon, lake sturgeon, lake herring, amphibians, reptiles or crustaceans) All-species license (good for the entire season for all species) Visit the online version of the 2013 Fishing Guide for license...
Survey to Direct Efforts of the Rogue River Watershed Council
You are part of the Rogue River watershed community! The Rogue River is an extremely important coldwater resource in southern Michigan. In angling trips alone the Rogue River brings in $485,000 per year to the local communities. We need YOUR input to help guide activities to protect and restore this valuable resource. The Rogue River Watershed Council, a group established in 2000 to protect this resource, needs your input on the roles you think the Council should play and the issues the group should tackle. Please take this short 2-minute on-line survey and help direct activities in the Rogue River...
Do you know what it means to chum for steelhead?
This is a controversial subject for some anglers, and it’s becoming an issue that may affect the quality of your fishing and the quality of our cold water fish? Basically it means tossing loose salmon eggs in the river to start a steelhead feeding frenzy so an angler improves his chance of catching a salmon. We recommend you learn about the practice and join in the conversation at https://sites.google.com/site/realsteelheadersdontchum/
Michigan hydropower success story
Here’s a quick video about some of the work Consumers Energy has done on the Croton Dam on the Muskegon River. It features local guide Kevin Feenstra. Michigan Hydropower Success Story from Andy Maser on Vimeo.
Classic Michigan Flies – 16 Legendary Patterns
Acclaimed artist, Joe Van Faasen, and Jon Osborn set out to write a book that was different than a typical fly-fishing lit piece. Rather than a “how-to” manual, Classic Michigan Flies is an illustrated look at 16 Michigan flies (including the Adams, Roberts Drake, Houghton Lake Special, and others), and the legendary men who tied them. In other words Classic Michigan Flies includes the mystery and history of Michigan Fly fishing lore in one volume. Joe and Jon are recent members of the Schrems chapter and thought perhaps their project would interest members of TU locally and nationally. They had...
Grand River Fly Tyers Celebration
The 5th annual Celebration of Fly Tying is coming back courtesy of the Grand River Fly Tyers. Saturday, February 23, 9am-4pm Knights of Columbus Hall 5830 Clyde Park Ave, Wyoming http://www.grandriverflytyers.org/
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