The “Fly Fishing Film Tour” is coming back to Grand Rapids. Buy your tickets at the door for $15, or save $2 and buy them in advance from Kevin at The Hex Shop or Glen at Great Lakes Fly Fishing. This year’s show is nearly 2 hours long with more films and less trailers. Howard Myerson has a good review here. When/where: 7 p.m. March 26 at Wealthy Theatre, 1130 Wealthy St. SE, Grand Rapids (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
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Volunteers needed for Project Healing Waters
Project Healing Waters is a national organization dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled active military service personnel and veterans through fly fishing and fly tying education and outings. Project Healing Waters would like to establish this program in the Grand Rapids area, through one or more of the Veterans Affairs facilities. Nationally Trout Unlimited is very active with this program and Schrems West Michigan Trout Unlimited has been approached and asked to be the leader in establishing and conducting this program locally. We are asking anyone interested in being a volunteer for this project to contact us...
Asian Carp Town Hall Meeting
Monday, February 22nd at 10:00 A.M.
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum Auditorium
Rep. Vern Ehlers and AG Mike Cox will host. Discussions to center on the current developments in the fight to stop Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.
If you plan to attend, please call the AF office at 517-373-8060
February seminar to feature Dick Walle
Schrems West Michigan Trout Unlimited is excited to host renowned fisherman and fly tier Dick Walle. Join us at Watermark Country Club to see Dick present soft hackle tying and fishing techniques. Dick has been fly fishing since age five and has tied at major expositions throughout the Midwest. He is a member of several conservation groups and a founder of Reeling for Healing, a group providing fly fishing retreats for breast cancer survivors. Dick and his wife Judy reside in Toledo, OH and have a cottage on the Holy Waters of the Au Sable. Seating is limited. Please RSVP by Feb. 20! Location: Watermark Country...
Rogue River Home Rivers Initiative
What is a Home Rivers Initiative? Well, it is a collaborative multi-year major watershed restoration effort. What does that mean? It means that Trout Unlimited National, (the folks you send your $35 to every year) plan to hire a full time project manager/coordinator to indentify, prioritize, and implement restoration efforts on our Rogue River for a minimum of three years. It means you are going to be reading about the Rogue River in the national publication TROUT that you receive quarterly, and that a whole lot of effort is going to be placed on making the Rogue a better coldwater...
MDNRE wants your comments on CAFOs
Tom Quail, the MCTU Conservation Chair, sent out a message last week and we think it’s worth passing along because it is so timely and so close to home. The MDNRE is taking your public comments until February 16 on CAFO discharge permits. Your messages will help safeguard coldwater fisheries from large-scale animal waste producing operations. Additionally, our chapter has been following this issue closely and put together info on why CAFOs are so important here in West Michigan. Here’s Tom’s email …
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are large-scale industrial feeding operations that house large numbers of animals in confined enclosures. These facilities create significant quantities of waste material that are usually land applied. In recent years, Schrems West Michigan TU and Michigan TU has become increasingly concerned about the damage that can occur as a result of the misapplication of manure within watersheds supporting coldwater fisheries. Within our Chapter, this concern became tragically evident in late July, 2006 when a large amount of fecal material contaminated Tyler Creek near Freeport, Michigan (just south of Grand Rapids), resulting in a total loss...
Geographic coverage of SWMTU
Here’s a map showing the geographic boundaries of the Schrems West Michigan Trout Unlimited chapter. This was updated February 2011 to reflect added geography from the Muskegon River chapter.
Asian carp townhall meeting Feb 22
More details to come … Townhall Meeting with Rep. Vern Ehlers Feb 22nd, 10:00-11:00 – Gerald Ford Museum Auditorium, Grand Rapids
Fed plan for Asian carp doesn’t shut locks
By JOHN FLESHER, AP Environmental Writer The strategy released by the Obama administration this week agrees only to conduct a long-range study of that idea, which could take years. The government also refuses to shut down two navigational locks on Chicago waterways that could provide an easy pathway for the carp into the lakes, although it promises to consider opening them less often. More on woodtv.com >>
Gov. says federal plan falls short
From the press office of Governor Granholm … Governor grateful for Obama administration efforts, but restates call for closing locks LANSING – Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today said that a proposal unveiled by the White House falls short of protecting the Great Lakes from the threat posed by Asian carp and continued her call for the locks in Illinois to be closed to protect the ecosystem and the $9 billion boating and $7 billion sport and commercial fishing industries that support the regional economy.
U.S. to spend $78 million to halt Asian Carp
From the Chicago Breaking News Center WASHINGTON — After a White House meeting christened the “carp summit,” federal and state officials today announced a multi-pronged attack with a $78.5 million price tag to prevent Asian carp, an invasive species, from establishing populations in Lake Michigan. Nancy Sutley, the president’s top environmental adviser, led the meeting at the request of the governors of Michigan and Wisconsin, who were on hand. Gov. Pat Quinn of Illinois was scheduled to attend, but cancelled his travel plans because of the winter weather and planned to take part by teleconference, said Marlena Jentz, a spokeswoman....
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