CONSERVATION
Grassroots Activist Network
At the center of TU’s efforts to raise the profile of coldwater
conservation is the Grassroots Activist Network – TU
members who have volunteered to contact their members of
Congress, Governors, members of state legislatures and natural
resource agencies on issues of importance to trout and salmon.
Grassroots Activists receive brief summaries or
Action Alerts
of
issues pending before government decision-makers that could
harm or help coldwater fisheries, and guidance on how to be an
effective voice for trout and salmon.
As we work to protect fish and their waters, we need your
support and involvement to carry the conservationist message.
To join the Grassroots Activist Network, please send an email
containing your mailing address
to
grassrootsactivist@tu.org
3
Volunteering – AZ Game & Fish Sport Fishing Program
Email Titus Piper (
fishedaz@earthlink.net
) with your name,
address and zip code to receive a volunteer packet from Game
and Fish. For members without email call 622-9597. After
completing the packet, go to G&F to get fingerprinted, then send
the packet to Phoenix. After a background check you will receive
a calendar of events.
MISCELLANY
SHARING YOUR FISHING WITH OPTU MEMBERS
Would you be willing to provide a fishing slideshow and
discussion at an upcoming OPTU meeting. We are looking for
speakers who have power point or slides and stories to tell.
We have the equipment or showing. If interested please
contact John Murphy at
f
murphy@pharmacy.arizona. edu
to
set up a month.
Upcoming monthly events
January – Julie Meka of Arizona Game and Fish on Apache
and Gila Trout Recovery
February – Annual banquet
March – Ernie Gradillas on steelheading in Canada
(pictures to entice you in next month’s newsletter)
A BARGAIN! -
If you are over 70, and have lived in
Arizona for 25 consecutive years, you can get a Pioneer
Fishing License - free for lifetime! Go to the Game & Fish
office at 555 N Greasewood Road. Their phone is 628-
5376.
Clay Evitts
Photos
Send in photos to the editor if you would like them in the
newsletter - preferably by e-mail. This is important if you tire
of seeing the editor’s family, friends and pets featured.
Fishing Reports
Gidday mates. John and Cullen Murphy reporting from
down under in Kiwi Land (New Zealand for those who haven’t
yet been). Work has gotten in the way of fishing a bit, but we
are some 35 browns ahead of our whole trip last year and
have four fishing days left. The weather has been better this
year with less rain, so more good opportunities. The
occasional howling wind hampered us some and we had a
near death experience crossing Lake Wakatipu near
Queenstown to fish the Lochy River. Our boat nearly flipped
over with a powerful wind gust when we headed to the river
and nearly submerged in a wave on the return. Not to
mention getting slammed by waves on the beaching. This
kind of excitement these anglers can do without. The 60 or so
mph winds created havoc with the fishing too. Wind is
common here – it hit over 100 mph last night and blew down
many trees and a few trucks.
TROUT UNLIMITED – OPTU Chapter
2007 ANNUAL BANQUET – February 24
th
Sheraton Tucson Hotel – 5:30 pm to ~ 9:30 pm
Please send me ______ tickets for the 2007 Old Pueblo
Chapter Trout Unlimited Banquet. I have enclosed $40 if
postmarked before Dec 15
th
; $50 if after Dec 15
th
and at
the door.
I can’t make it to the Banquet, but want to support the
Old Pueblo Chapter. My donation for $______ is
enclosed.
Cash Check MC VISA (please circle payment type)
Acct. # _______________________________________
Exp. Date _____/_____/_____
Name
__________________________________________
Address
________________________________________
City ___________________ St ______ Zip
On the good side, we have been sight fishing for browns
and rainbows almost every fishing day. Our skills at spotting
fish have improved drastically and those very light gray
shadows now arouse appropriate suspicion and often turn out
to be nice fish. We are having a blast sighting fish for each
other and then guiding the casts of the partner in to the fish.
Killer flies are a size 14 concoction of my Kiwi friend Simon
Chu (hare dubbing, copper wire, tungsten bead, clear brown
thorax, and a little crystal flash) and size 16 copper johns. I
did spot a worm just about Lees Ferry size the other day but
haven’t tried an SJ worm yet. Five days more work and four
days more fishing till return. Life is hard.
