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2013 Great Lakes Council Fly Fishing
School and Conclave

GREAT
LAKES COUNCIL
FLY
FISHING SCHOOL & CONCLAVE
JUNE
14-16, 2013
R.A.
MacMullen Conference Center, Roscommon, Michigan
Don’t miss
attending the GLC’s Fly Fishing School & Conclave held at the
R.A. MacMullen Conference Center on North Higgins Lake.. For
aspiring fly anglers or those who have already discovered the joys
of the sport, this event is not to be missed. Learn and
sharpen your fly fishing and fly tying skills during the day and
then spend your evenings casting to hungry trout sipping Mayflies on
the pristine waters of the Au Sable and Manistee Rivers.
Educational
programs, classes and workshops will be offered Friday afternoon and
all day Saturday. The simultaneous schedule will contain
programs for the beginner, intermediate and advanced angler.
There will be a on-stream school for beginners, a on-stream workshop
on streamer fishing and fly tying workshops on Friday afternoon,
Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon. Oscar Feilu will be
tying Saturday morning and Dennis Potter, Friday afternoon and
Saturday afternoon.
Certification
as a FFF Casting Instructor will also be available. Other
classes will include casting, entomology, and more.
Plan now to
attend. Lodging and meals are available on-site or camp next
door at the North Higgins Lake State Park. Details and
registration materials will be on the GLC Website at www.fffglc.org by the end of February
or call Jim Schramm at 231-740-7278 .
MAYAGl JANA STALKERS
Pirate's Well,
Mayaguana,
Commonwealth of the Bahamas in USA
22442 Pointe Drive
St. Clair Shores,
MI48081
Tel:
586-218-4433 Fax:
586-218-4434
Email: bn1fsh2@gmail.com
2013 FFF BONEFISH PRIMER

"These flats are so bright Stevie Wonder
could spot bonefish here!" was one remark heard
last fall as the initial group of FFF Great Lakes Council
members descended upon tiny Mayaguana in the
deep southeastern Bahamas. Their goal was to
learn all the aspects of bonefish stalking - wading, snap casting, bonefish behavior, and tidal effect.
All came back filled with the knowledge and
confidence to continue their pursuit of the greatest game fish for fly anglers ..... the
bonefish!
This year's Bonefish Primer is set for
four week this fall. ...one week each month beginning in September. Cost is
again 1595.00 which includes 6-1/2 days of
instructional fishing on the flats, 7 nights lodging (double
occupancy), all meals, transportation to/from
fishing areas and use of canoes and related
equipment.
Maximum five (5) anglers per week.
Primier Weeks for
2013
September 6 - 13
October 7 - 14
November 4 - 11
December 4-11 |
2012 GLC events and council
information brochure
about the GLC can be found by following the link at the end of
this item. In a large nutshell, it's our 2012 brochure, and you can
e-mail it to friends and fellow FFF members. When people ask you
what we do, it's all there.
GLC
Brochure
The GLC Needs You!
The Great Lakes Council is making an effort to get contributions
from the membership to support various of our activities. You can
help. There’s something for everybody to give to, so please follow
these links to a list of good causes, and a donation form.
Project Description
Donation
Form
GLC Speakers List
Speakers List
FFF-GLC Endorses 70 Degree
Pledge
 It’s a common sense
proposal that should save significant numbers of trout from an
avoidable death, and it doesn’t cost a dime to implement.
At their June conclave, the
executive council of the FFF-GLC voted to endorse the 70 Degree
Pledge and post an information link to it on the organization’s
website.
The Au Sable Big Water
Preservation Association (ASBWPA), a grassroots organization formed
to protect Michigan’s Au Sable River below Mio Dam, known as the Big
Water, developed the pledge. Trout, coldwater fish, are very
susceptible to the deleterious effects of warm water
temperatures. They thrive in temperatures from 55 to 65
degrees, but above that range these fish begin to lose
vitality. Threats to their survival are augmented when they
are hooked and then released. While any released fish has a better
chance at life than if it is kept, at water temperatures of 70
degrees or above there may be little difference in life
expectancy. Fish with already overheated metabolisms are
physically exhausted from being caught and find little relief when
released into water with low levels of oxygen.
“They can’t recover
the oxygen needed to resolve the debt incurred from being caught,”
said Thomas Buhr, President of the ASBWPA and a new member of the
FFF-GLC board. “Warm water means less oxygen as well as a
physiology in a trout that demands even more of it. We lose
thousands of fish each summer because of this.”
The Au Sable River
below Mio Dam has long had problems with high water temperatures in
the summer months. Unknowing Anglers can kill trout during
times of sustain temperatures of 70 degrees or above. Buhr’s
ASBWPA was formed, in part, because of this issue.
“I killed a bunch
myself because I didn’t know any better,” Buhr said. “Now I’m
trying to make up for it.”
The pledge is
simple: do not try catch and release fishing on the Big Water on any
day where the morning water temperature is 70 degrees or
greater. Folks are encouraged to pursue warm-water species
such as smallmouth bass or seek cooler environs for
trout.
These 70 Degree
alerts often last for weeks. The longest stretch this summer
was 29 days. In 2011, there was a four-day period where the
water temperature stayed above 75 degrees, killing many trout
outright.
The Au Sable is not
the only river afflicted with this problem. It is very common
on tail-water systems. It is recommended to check USGS gauges,
if possible, for the river one intends to fish.
(The website
address is www.70degreepledge.org.
A copy of the ASBWPA’s 2011 Summer Water Temperature Study can be
obtained by sending your name and address to tom@asbwpa.org.)
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