Central Wisconsin Chapter of Trout Unlimited

About this Blog/Photo page
This page exist for members to tell their stories, ideas, and concerns. The topics should be related to fishing, TU, conservation, etc. Do you have a picture that would interest others? If so, send it along with at least five sentences telling the story behind the photo. Do you have comments on CWTU activities? Write them up and eMail them to me. Do you have ideas that are hard to communicate at meetings, but you would like others to hear---send them to me. Hey! Help me with this site.

Contributions should be no longer than 2/3 of one page. I will leave them on for a month or two. I am the gate keeper. If I feel the material is inappropriate it won't get posted.
John Gremmer, 920-582-7802

Jim Hauer, Green Bay, owner of Blue Sky Furled Leaders, and a friend of CWTU, is pictured holding a large Brook Trout taken last week from the Nipigon River, Canada. Jim says even though the water temperature was in the 30's and the river was too high and fast, they still got into some big Brookies.
6/18/2008

Jerry Gorman, representing TU, shows a prospective fly tier how its done at the Wisconsin Outdoor Expo in Beaver Dam. Jerry is a CWTU water monitor and is active in number of our programs. Thanks Jerry!
Submitted by Bob Haase(6/12/08)

David Seligman and I were fishing in Southwest Wisconsin during cold front
conditions. The temperature had dropped almost 20 degrees, not much of a
hatch and the fishing was slow. David had just fished a pool with no
results and I told him the fish were looking for a "sunken beetle" so I tied
one on and fished the same pool. The first cast resulted in the fish
pictured and this was followed by more fish that wanted the beetle. David
switched to the sunken beetle and we contiued to catch fish on the beetles
until a tree grabbed the last one we had.
Bob Haase, 6/9/08

Lynn Ann Sauby found this mayfly on her garage door in the center of Menasha. She and John Nebel went through books and identified it as a Stenonema/gray fox. What trout wouldn't want a bite out of this?
(photo by Lynn Ann Sauby, 6/9/08)

There is still hope!! Lousy back---knees even worse---my first steelhead--size 16 hare's ear nymph.
Tom Poullette(5/22/08)

A gravel road leads up this coulee. Gravity drags the branch down. Most of the land is owned by three families. Roger Widner did the improvements. All private property, but a knock on the door and the answer is YES.

Many trout were caught and released. Later we talked to the owners about gardening, music, bird watching, and fishing. They said, "you are welcome back anytime." Next time I will bring them some plants from our garden. The owner likes to garden! I like to fish! Life is good! (About the photo: Taken with my Pentax W30 point and shoot digital.)
John Gremmer(5/20/08)

Friday May 9th 2008 was warmer in the evening in Waushara County than promised by the weather service. The challenge of The Sand Counties' streams during these periods is what keeps drawing me back to try and find a few victories. A Brown Trout was spotted rising to emergers tight to a shaded far bank during a period of very modest and mixed hatch; in situations like this I try to delicately paint a light line on the water, with a long fine leader from far away. The trout on May 9, 2008 didn't care about any of that - he declared victory by refusing to engage with any of my attempts at deception, thus ensuring I'll be back.
Alistair Stewart(5/12/08)

I spy with my little eye something beginning with B.W.O. In the late afternoon, the riffles and back eddies of the Boulder River, around Big Timber, Montana, became baetis soup during the last week in April 2008. Browns, 'bows, cutts, and cuttbows fed heartily, and moved their appetites from adults to emergers as the afternoon progressed into early evening. My companions and I had very fine sport with numerous fish averaging 14-16", and a few of 19". There were bigger fish visible, but all were too crafty for deception by our humble fishing party. The day after this photo was taken, the lunchtime weather went from high 40's and sun to low 30's and a sideways blizzard in 20 Montana minutes.
Alistair Stewart(5/5/08)

CWTU member Robert Gill's grandchildren cleaning trout on opening day. Colin, Ethan, Grandpa others had great fishing in Oshkosh's South Park Lagoons.
Robert Gill(5/4/08)

Central Wisconsin Trout Unlimited member Dale Matheson with a 1 inch short of legal Snook. 20 knot per hour winds precluded flies--so one does what you must to catch fish when you only have one day in the everglades.
Tom Poullette(4/30/08)

Jim Murphy, CWTU member, takes time at the February 26, 2008, CWTU TroutFest, to teach a young man how to tie a fly. One of our chapter's goals is to introduce young people to trout and trout fishing.
Lynn Ann Sauby & John Nebel(4/18/08)

Every wonder where Dr. Tom Poullette disappears to in Winter: Here Tom is admiring a Black Drum that he caught in the 10,000 Island area of southern Florida. Dr. Tom was the first president of CWTU and along with Arling Erickson, one of the founding fathers.
John Gremmer(posted 3/25/08)

Bug Lab, April 24, 2007, As part of our CWTU water monitoring program we offered a chance for people to learn how to identify macroinvertebrates(bugs) from our local trout streams. It was held at Winneconne High School. I went out and gathered bugs earlier in the morning. We used books to key out and identify the bugs. It seemed like everyone enjoyed this hands on activity.
John Gremmer(posted 3/25/08)

Former CWTU grad scholarship student Julie Nieland does lamprey research: I am currently working as a research assistant in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. I have gained a lot of great fisheries experience here, including being able to help conduct mark-recapture studies of larval sea lamprey on streams throughout the Great Lakes Basin. These studies were used to estimate the number of larval sea lamprey in the streams. In the picture, I am wading a stream in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and have just netted a larval sea lamprey in a recapture event.
Julie Nieland(posted 3/25/08)

Bob Hunt Recieves the Ozzie Award at the CWTU 2007 Conservation Banquet: Bob Hunt(center) receives the Ozzie, an award for lifetime service to CWTU, the presentation was made by Dan Harmon III(right). Dr. Tom Poullette(left) was on hand to give his congratulations. Hunt, a retired WDNR Fisheries Biologist, is an avid trout fisher and cold water resources advocate.
John Gremmer(posted 3/25/08)

Dan Harmon III with Ozzie Osbourne fishing the pine river in 2006. Excellent fishing --not much catching, but a great time had by all. This may have been Ozzie's last day on the river. That's not a PILLOW in dans waders!!!
Tom Poullette(posted 3/25/08)

CWTU's Dan Colligan with large fish on the Henry's Fork. I will let the viewer guess as to the specie of fish--it was in the 21 in. range and swallowed a size 16 soft hackle--a Gene West tie. Tier--fisher and picture taker were all happy!!
Tom Poulllette(posted 3/25/08)