In-person Chapter Meetings are on pause until October. The location and basic sequence of presentations in this article still stand, but we will NOT meet in September.
By the time we meet, Dan Ole will have finalized his analysis of Black Earth Creek and its tributaries and his recommendations for improving the fishery. He and his team conducted on-stream surveys for a full season as part of that work. He’ll also have some preliminary results from his work this season on the Sugar River watershed, which includes the Sugar, Mt. Vernon, the West Branch, Story, and several other trout streams.
Strike out to our new meeting location
The bar where we’d formally met is going to be razed for a new $40 million development. And so the members of your board hit the town and spared no effort in exploring potential venues. In the end, they pinned their hopes on a west side location with easy access to the beltline, lots of parking, a nice banquet room, AV options and a tasty bar/menu – all at a very fair price. With the bowling puns exhausted, we’ll just come right out and say it … we’ll meet at Schwoegler’s Lanes, 444 Grand Canyon Dr., Madison, WI 53719.
No requirement to rent shoes … Dan’s presentations starts at 7 p.m. but please show up any time after 6 on September 14 for dinner and conversation.
We look forward to seeing everyone! And, of course … this is the plan today, but the Board will keep an eye on the pandemic and adjust if needed.
Looking ahead to our October meeting
The Tuesday, October 12 meeting will feature either Dan (topic listed above) or three fabulous folks who work every day to protect our nearby streams and rivers. Jim Amrhein, Kim Kuber, and Camille Bruhn are DNR water quality biologists working in different watersheds in the southwest part of the state, including many that are home to our favorite trout streams.
More to come on the content of the meeting but they’ll discuss what water quality biologists do, how they work with DNR fish biologists, and what cool stuff they discovered in their summer of field work. Water quality biologists survey a huge variety of streams and rivers and are often the first to notice what might be going wrong or right on our waters.
Jim, for example, documented the Sugar River transitioning to more of a coldwater fishery capable of sustaining trout. I don’t think we’d have the trout water on the Sugar we have in Dane County without Jim’s work. SWTU has worked with Kim when she worked on the fisheries team. Sh e was part of the crew working on landowner outreach with us in the trout streams around Blanchardville. Camille works on some of the trout and smallmouth bass streams in need of some help in Lafayette and Grant Counties.
I’ll never forget the time I stumbled on Jim and his team surveying an Iowa County stream I had no idea held trout. Boy, did it! I’ll also never forget the 15 inch brown I caught there a couple of weeks later. – Topf Wells
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Last Updated: September 7, 2021 by Drew Kasel
In-person Chapter Meetings are on pause until October. The location and basic sequence of presentations in this article still stand, but we will NOT meet in September.
By the time we meet, Dan Ole will have finalized his analysis of Black Earth Creek and its tributaries and his recommendations for improving the fishery. He and his team conducted on-stream surveys for a full season as part of that work. He’ll also have some preliminary results from his work this season on the Sugar River watershed, which includes the Sugar, Mt. Vernon, the West Branch, Story, and several other trout streams.
Strike out to our new meeting location
The bar where we’d formally met is going to be razed for a new $40 million development. And so the members of your board hit the town and spared no effort in exploring potential venues. In the end, they pinned their hopes on a west side location with easy access to the beltline, lots of parking, a nice banquet room, AV options and a tasty bar/menu – all at a very fair price. With the bowling puns exhausted, we’ll just come right out and say it … we’ll meet at Schwoegler’s Lanes, 444 Grand Canyon Dr., Madison, WI 53719.
No requirement to rent shoes … Dan’s presentations starts at 7 p.m. but please show up any time after 6 on September 14 for dinner and conversation.
We look forward to seeing everyone! And, of course … this is the plan today, but the Board will keep an eye on the pandemic and adjust if needed.
Looking ahead to our October meeting
The Tuesday, October 12 meeting will feature either Dan (topic listed above) or three fabulous folks who work every day to protect our nearby streams and rivers. Jim Amrhein, Kim Kuber, and Camille Bruhn are DNR water quality biologists working in different watersheds in the southwest part of the state, including many that are home to our favorite trout streams.
More to come on the content of the meeting but they’ll discuss what water quality biologists do, how they work with DNR fish biologists, and what cool stuff they discovered in their summer of field work. Water quality biologists survey a huge variety of streams and rivers and are often the first to notice what might be going wrong or right on our waters.
Jim, for example, documented the Sugar River transitioning to more of a coldwater fishery capable of sustaining trout. I don’t think we’d have the trout water on the Sugar we have in Dane County without Jim’s work. SWTU has worked with Kim when she worked on the fisheries team. Sh e was part of the crew working on landowner outreach with us in the trout streams around Blanchardville. Camille works on some of the trout and smallmouth bass streams in need of some help in Lafayette and Grant Counties.
I’ll never forget the time I stumbled on Jim and his team surveying an Iowa County stream I had no idea held trout. Boy, did it! I’ll also never forget the 15 inch brown I caught there a couple of weeks later. – Topf Wells
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