We’ll see you at Schwoegler’s
By Topf Wells
Please join us on Tuesday, August 9. We’ll meet again in Schwoegler’s community room on the southern end of the building near the pro shop.
We’ll hear from Kailee Berge, our first SWTU/DNR/UW MADISON ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM intern. She has spent an incredibly busy summer volunteering for SWTU workdays, helping 6(!) DNR fish and water quality biologists with stream surveys, and searching for rare, native fish with John Lyons, the UW Curator of Fishes, across Wisconsin. What a summer!
Kailee will report on these grand adventures, wonderful fish, interesting streams and plenty of learning at our August 9 membership meeting. This will be a fun and lively presentation. The meeting starts with dinner and drinks at 5:30. Kailee’s presentation will begin about 7. Reviews on the room at Schwoegler’s and the food and beverage service have been excellent. Read More
Last Updated: August 5, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
What a summer! A Special Guest at our August 9 Meeting
We’ll see you at Schwoegler’s
By Topf Wells
We’ll hear from Kailee Berge, our first SWTU/DNR/UW MADISON ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM intern. She has spent an incredibly busy summer volunteering for SWTU workdays, helping 6(!) DNR fish and water quality biologists with stream surveys, and searching for rare, native fish with John Lyons, the UW Curator of Fishes, across Wisconsin. What a summer!
Kailee will report on these grand adventures, wonderful fish, interesting streams and plenty of learning at our August 9 membership meeting. This will be a fun and lively presentation. The meeting starts with dinner and drinks at 5:30. Kailee’s presentation will begin about 7. Reviews on the room at Schwoegler’s and the food and beverage service have been excellent. Read More
Continued Success for the Women’s Fly Fishing Clinics
Posted: August 4, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
By Henry Nehls-Lowe
This July, the Wisconsin Women’s Fly Fishing Clinics were again a resounding success with over 40 total participants in the “By Women for Women Beginner Fly Fishing Clinic” and the “On the Water Skills Intermediate Clinic”. These clinics could not happen without the many volunteers (leaders, kitchen team, instructors, river buddies, guides) who are key for improving participant’s knowledge and putting them on solid fishing opportunities.
Since 2009, SWTU’s Women’s Clinics have attracted national attention as an effective model for engaging and instructing women in fly fishing. Over 400 women from across the Midwest have increased their fly-fishing knowledge and skills via this incredibly popular program. Special shoutout to Tina Murray, Women’s/ Diversity Initiative Chair, for her invaluable leadership, without which the Women’s Clinics would not happen.
Photos include a group photo of the women who stepped up this year to help run the clinics and keep it sustainable, stream ecology instruction and casting clinic. Read More
Crowe Beetle
Last Updated: August 4, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
by Rusty Dunn
A mid-summer day in the late 1940s begins like many others in Pennsylvania’s fertile Cumberland Valley. A young Vince Marinaro fishes the crystalline waters of Letort Spring Run. The day is brilliantly sunny, and as the heat builds, so does Marinaro’s frustration. Insects are seemingly nonexistent, yet many fine trout rise steadily in the creek’s weedy channels. The riseforms are slow and deliberate, leaving only the faintest hint of a ring. Read More
Last Updated: August 4, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
A Celebration of Dan Wisniewski’s Life
Hosted by Fran DeGraf, his beloved wife
A Heroic Workday – Crew Takes on Wild Parsnip
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By Jim Hess, SWTU Conservation Chair
I want to give a special shout out to the following volunteers that showed up for a mid-summer special workday to battle out of control wild parsnip and other invasives in our prairie planting at the Basco Wildlife Unit: Mark Maffitt, Bob Harrison, Jim O’Brien, Jim Hill, Bob Brewer, Kieth Katers, Carl Fernandez, and Jim Beecher. The weather forecast was warm and humid, but luckily it stayed cloudy all morning, making the conditions a little more tolerant. Read More
Posted: August 3, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
Learn what your Board’s been up to
Minutes from SWTU Board of Director meetings can be viewed in this Google Drive. If you have questions on what you read in them, reach out to one of the Board members listed on the last page of each newsletter. (Note that you may need to click the “Last Modified” header at the top to sort the list with the latest minutes at the top.)
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Don’t Get Ticked
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New Members – August 2022
We’re pleased to announce the addition of the following new members to our ranks! Read More
Last Updated: August 4, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
SWTU Boosts Local Stream Restorations
By Topf Wells
When Jim Hess and I visited the DNR restoration on Hefty Creek last year we were dismayed with the equipment the DNR crew had to use. They had lost days with broken equipment and faced days awaiting repairs.
SWTU had the chance to help this summer. We received notification from the DNR that a bookkeeping error of 7 or so years ago had resulted in an SWTU donation for the Neperud restoration not being used. The project was completed but with a different source. SWTU had about $11,000 in funds remaining in that account. The Board had to decide on a good use for it.
The DNR Southern District fish folks requested that we consider donating an equipment trailer for the use of the restoration crew. In a special meeting the Board met with Dan Oele, the fish biologist, and Scott Harpold and Vince Schmitz, the biologists and mainstays on the restoration team. The conversation and questions were detailed and thorough. The Board concluded that the DNR badly needed this trailer and had no chance of obtaining it in the foreseeable future. We donated the funds for the purchase of that trailer.
It’s been ordered and should arrive in time for the crew to use it on the Black Earth Creek project. It will haul other equipment and some of the material for trout habitat. It will be a big help for DNR stream restorations in this area for many years.
Newscasts – July 2022
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