First Quarter Meetings:
January 27: Topic-Delayed Harvest in Georgia
February 24: Topic-Tackle Care with Keith Collins
March 23: Topic-Delayed Harvest in North Carolina
Supper is
served at 6:30 PM and the meeting and speaker follow directly, unless
otherwise noted. Tailwater Chapter, as always,
will be providing the supper meals. Soft drinks and dessert will be also be
served. Dinner is $5.00 per person.
From The President by Vic Aloisio
Time to lock and load!!
With the longer nights, let’s get ready for spring.
Now is the perfect time to tie flies to replace all of the ones you left
last year either at the bottom of the Hooch or in the trees at Smith Creek.
Get out your fly rods, clean the ferrules and check the eyes to be sure
they are not broken or bent. If
they are damaged you have plenty of time to fix it your self or find someone
else to do it for you. Get out the
vest, sort it out, and maybe wash
it too. No telling what you might
find in the pockets. Might find an
old sandwich from late last summer that you could donate to science.
Had a hunting buddy, who one early summer day had a very bad smell coming
from his closet.
After a short search, he found in the back of his hunting vest a very,
very dead quail. While in
your vest check out that old bottle of floatant, do an inventory of your
leaders, weights, tippets and indicators. Might be time to replace some of these
items. Work on your reels. I know I
clean my reels every 5 years if they need it or not.
I suggest you don’t follow my example.
Clean and lube your reel at least annually. Then clean or
replace the line and check your knots.
Check out your waders, float tubes and pontoon boats for leaks. Replace worn parts on them and touch up paint on the pontoon
boats. Now is the time to do all
these things so you can hit the water running this year, and prevent last minute
hassles and potential disasters.
Remember the January 27th
meeting and the February 24th meetings will still be at the damn
store. The March 23rd
meeting will be back at the
hatchery. March 6th
there will be a clean up at Settles Bridge.
April the Chapter will have a work day up on Smith Creek.
After that, May brings the kid’s fishing class.
June brings us a Kids Fishing Event and a week long Fly Fishing Camp that
we will help out with. Even with
all this there will be plenty of time to wets some lines.
As always if you can’t be
handsome at least be a fisherman.
Year-around trout streams recently stocked:
Broad River (Russell WMA-Stephens Co)
Chattahoochee River (Gwinnett)
Chattahoochee River (Helen)
Tallulah River (Rabun and Towns)
Panther Creek (Habersham and Stephens)
Warwoman Creek (Rabun)
Blue Ridge Tailwater (Fannin)
Hartwell Tailwater (Hart)
Holly Creek (Murray)
West Armuchee Creek (Walker)
Pontoon Boat Raffle Coming Up (Drawing will be in
January).
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Our next raffle will be for a Skeeter Castaway pontoon boat!
96” long, 15” diameter pontoons, powder coated steel frame, the whole
enchilada. The monies raised will
fund our mail-outs and support our cooperative efforts with other chapters and
our own projects. Tickets are ONLY $5.00 each.
If you need some additional tickets drop us an e-mail.
For more info contact Tailwater123@yahoo.ie.
GOOD INFO from NGTO
Somebody turned me on to the site below that has a
"turbidity" index
for McGinness Ferry and Paces (Mill?). This is a new
term to me but as I have read and verified through actual stream visits,
turbidity is a measure of particles in the water, or clarity. Without getting
into the
details, I have found below 20 fishable, and less than
10 (today it
was 7) as clear as you ever see the Hootch... Hope this
helps.
http://ga2.er.usgs.gov/bacteria/default.cfm
We are going to start a
contact roster for members who choose to participate. This will help those interested keep in contact with like
minded members for sharing plans and details of fishing trips and club events.
Because of legal hassles we will not use existing data (from TU), and
will include only those who want to be on it.
Likewise, only those that want to be on the list will get it.
So, if you want on it,
please send me by mail, or email me, or sign up at the meeting.
The following info is
requested:
Name, mailing address, phone
number, and email address.
Send this info to me at:
Marc Ducharme, 895 Springtime Drive, Lawrenceville, GA 30043 : or email it
to: jmarcd@charter.net. Or just signup
at the meeting .
ATTENTION
MEMBERS:
When
you receive your annual TU renewal notice, if you send me a check for the amount
specified and a copy of the notice, I can renew your membership through the
chapter and we will receive a $5.00 rebate from National.
Please
either give me the your check and notice at our monthly meeting or send them to
me at the following address: David Whitlow, 5228 Fox Hill Court, Norcross,
GA 30092.
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January
27
Tailwater Chapter Meeting at the Dam Store-DH in GA
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February
24
Tailwater Chapter Meeting at the Dam Store-Tackle Care
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February
6-8
Georgia Wildlife Fed. Fishing Show at the Atlanta Exposition Center
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February
28-29 Atlanta Fly
Fishing Festival at the Gwinnett Civic Center
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February
26-29 Spring
Fishing Classic Exposition at the Bass Pro Shop
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March
6
Settles Bridge Clean Up
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March
6
Oconee Chapter Annual Banquet-Flinchum Facility, Athens
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March
13
Foothills Chapter Banquet
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March
23
Tailwater Chapter Meeting at the Hatchery-DH in NC
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April
17
Tailwater Chapter work day
on Smith Creek
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April
27
Tailwater Chapter meeting at the Hatchery
From
GA 400: take Highway 20 East towards Buford. Turn left into the
Chattahoochee River Club Subdivision main entrance (River Club Drive). Turn
right at the 4th street (Trout Place). Go down the hill through the gate, bear
right at the headquarters building and the meeting will be in the large
maintenance building. From
I-85 from Atlanta: take I-85N to the I-985 split, drive north to the Highway
20 exit. Take this exit towards Buford. Cross Buford Highway, then Peachtree
Ind. Go about six miles and turn right into the Chattahoochee River Club
Subdivision (this is about a mile after you cross the river)
Coming south on I-85 take the Highway 20 exit towards Buford.
Directions to the Dam Store
From GA 400:
take Highway 20 East towards Buford. Turn left on Suwanee Dam Rd.
Drive to the 4-way stop on Buford Dam Rd. The Dam Store is at that
intersection.
From I-85 from
Atlanta: take
I-85N to the I-985 split, drive north to the Highway 20 exit. Take this exit
towards Buford. Cross Buford Highway, then Peachtree Ind.
Turn right on Suwanee Dam Rd. Drive
to the 4-way stop on the Buford Dam Rd. The Dam Store is at that intersection.
Your contact is Guy Firor 770.932.2031, the owner.
Tailwater
Chapter TU
895
Springtime Drive
Lawrenceville,
GA 30043