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CWTU's June 20, 2009 workcrew put in a day rehabilitating the beautiful Cedar Springs Creek.
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| July 20 Picnic and Meeting: The event will take place at Scott Park, on Hwy. 21 on the east side of Omro. We will be meeting in the new pavilion. The picnic starts at 5:30 and will be followed by the meeting. Tracy Moran, Joe Sienkiewicz, and John Gremmer are hosting. Please eMail John Gremmer if you plan to attend so that we can have enough food on hand. |
The June 20 workday on Cedar Springs was a great success. The crew of 15 volunteers redid many of the old (about 40 yrs) structures, moved rocks to improve stream flow, and cleared brush. A great lunch was prepared by me and Patty Herlache. Many thanks to the following people who helped to improve a fine stream: Wes Zuege, Rich Mlodzik, Alistair Stewart, Gary Herlache, Elward Engle, Jim Williams, Scott Bahn, Tracy Moran, Jerry Strom, Dan Harmon III, Mark Green, Dick Kraus, Linn Beck and Shawn Sullivan.
The next workday will be at the same time and place on July 18. SEE YOU THERE!
Jim Humphrey
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Water monitoring the easy way! The CWTU, Waupaca River, Water Action Volunteers(WAV) Team relaxes while determining the oxygen percentage in the Waupaca River at the Nancy Rose Farm, just a few miles west of Waupaca. This team is proud of the fact that they have never missed a monitoring session. From left to right: John Crane, Bob Gayeske, Phil Peterson, and Neal Peterson(Not in the picture: Tom Young, John Gremmer, and Bob Smaglik.
Photo by John Gremmer, 6/21/09 |
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| CWTU Casting Game: Scott Grady(third from left) orchestrated the creation of a unique fly casting game that uses magnets and metal fish(produced by Tracy Moran, second from left). Grady introduced the game at the CWTU 2009 Fly Casting Clinic in Winneconne. Jerry Smet(left) and Lynn Ann Sauby(right) were among the first to try and match their casting skills to Grady's game. The game should get plenty of use at CWTU functions in the coming years. To see Lynn Ann Sauby's photos of the Casting Clinic---CLICK HERE! |
| Click Here to see 99 pictures of TroutFest '09 by photographers Milt Kinney and Joe Sienkiewwicz. Check slideshow, or one of the other three options on the bottom left of the Gallery. Didn't we have fun? |
| CWTU has donated $500 to the Oshkosh Public Library for the purchase of books related to trout, trout fishing, fly fishing, cold water ecology, fly tying, and all related subjects. These books, once purchased and shelved, will be available throughout the Winnefox Library System. To see the list of books being considered CLICK HERE! |
| Thank you, Russ and Sue Bouck for the great Casting Clinic! To see a gallery of images from the April 28, CWTU Casting Clinic CLICK HERE! |
| To see Mike Stapleton's CWTU, April, 2009, Legislative report CLICK HERE!! |
Join Fox Valley Trout Unlimited for a free program on Wisconsin Mayflies on May 21. Click Here to learn more.
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| See articles written by CWTU members in the current issue of Wisconsin Trout! |
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Congrats to all for the greatest TroutFest ever! |
Our friends at Tight Lines Fly Fishing Company have opened an online fly shop called
Tight Lines Smallmouth Fly Shop. There are some great fly tying and fish catching videos on this site. Check it out!
| Have you seen the water monitoring article that appeared in the Wisconsin Outdoor News? It is about us! Click Here to Read! |
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| Fox Valley Technical College/CWTU Introduction to Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Class participants Richard(left) and David Johnson work on building leaders during a January 09 class. The class meets eight times and includes a casting clinic and an on the stream guided morning of fly fishing. In the background are David Seligman(left) and David Wild. |
Ray White's message on plastic pollution: All our trout stream water eventually ends up in the ocean. But, look what we're doing to it? CLICK HERE to see the rest of the story.
CWTU Lawrence Creek Workcrew on August 16:
Work continued last week (8/16) on Lawrence Creek with additional pilings installed. This year, over 100 feet of Christmas trees were used to narrow the creek near the snowmobile bridge – and this area of the stream has already shown improvement with filling in of the bank and faster water flow. Also, over 500 feet of bank structures have been installed upstream of the snowmobile bridge. These will be completed with rock and other materials by the DNR to narrow the stream this winter. The last scheduled work day this year will be on Saturday, Sept. 20.
From left to right: Dick Kraus, Alistair Stewart, Scott Bundy, Dennis Krazkowski, Linn Beck, David Seligman, Dave Paynter, Scott Bahn, Kneeling, and Jim Williams
For more pictures of this day---CLICK HERE!
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CWTU grad student Nick Bach reports on Didymo(above photo) research:
I just wanted to give you an update as to what I’ve been up to lately. I returned about a week ago from South Dakota, where Dr. Pillsbury(UW-Oshkosh) and I ran a series of experiments in Rapid Creek looking at Didymo. As you can see by the pictures I’m sending, parts of the stream were covered in Didymo, but some parts were not so bad. The creek is beautiful (except the Didymo parts) and is a very popular trout fishing stream. It’s a catch and release stream that gets tourists, locals, and I even ran into a guide. While in South Dakota we talked with fisheries staff at the Cleghorn Springs State Fish Hatchery about the stream. It appears that the brown trout in the stream were most affected by the loss of large insects due to Didymo. They said that because of the loss of browns they have been stocking rainbows in the creek, which are doing well. They think it’s because rainbows diets are more diverse, but I don’t think they have pinpointed a specific reason why. The stream still has some big browns, but what I’ve heard from people, they are difficult to find. Rainbows were the most common and you could see them while walking the banks of the stream. Now that I’m back in Oshkosh I’m starting to work through my samples, which is going to take a long time and I hope to be done in December or January.
I did receive the CWTU grant money, thank you. It showed up while I was gone so I didn’t even know about it until I got back. I was also wondering what I have to do to apply for funding this year. I’m assuming some sort of a presentation at one of your meetings. Let me know what I need to do for you guys. In addition, I have more pictures from South Dakota if you’re interested.
Thank you,
Nick Bach
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| Water monitors: Click Here to see the WAV newsletter, "The Water Monitoring News." |
BIG SPRINGS DAM REMOVAL:(Read article from Chicago Tribune!)
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This is a CWTU success story as reported by CWTU's Tom Poullette. Please read it.)
As most of you remember BIG SPRINGS in Adams County is where Perrier-Nestle tried their next water grab--after the Mecan Springs. They did not win there either. In july of 2004 CWTU President John Gremmer received a message from Bill Petterson of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service asking if C.W.T.U. would like to form a partnership with the Wildlife Service and Adams County to remove a private dam on Big Springs Creek........(Click Here to see the rest of the story.)
(CLICK HERE to see Tom Poullette's photos of Big Springs Creek.)
| President Dick Kraus records water temperature below the dam at Big Springs on August 20, 2004. Read about the CWTU success story above. |
See Lawrence Creek workday photos. CLICK HERE!
See Mecan River Bio-Index slide show. I presented this at the April CWTU Water Monitoring Training Session. You will see the results of the macroinvertebrate survey we did on the Mecan River last year. Click on each slide individually or try either the carousel or slideshow at the bottom. (John Gremmer) Click Here!
Want to revisit TroutFest 08? Check out photographer Milt Kinney's great photos. Click on the thumbnails to see enlarged image. (Try all options on the bottom left.) CLICK HERE!
See 2008 CWTU water monitoring pictures: CWTU water monitors are hard at work monitoring streams in our area. CLICK HERE to see evidence. More pictures will be added as we go through the year. Water monitors can send me pictures to add to this gallery.
John Gribb on how to prevent
Lymes Disease! CLICK HERE!
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