Barrymore Theatre, Madison
February 24, 2022 at 7:30 PM (CST)
The 16th annual F3T is back in action with a top notch selection of films that are sure to feed your fishing addiction. The 2022 show will feature locations from Costa Rica, Maryland, Belize, Louisiana, Alabama, Australia, Colombia and beyond. Follow a legendary spear fisherman across the endless atolls of Belize, watch as a mother passes her passion for fishing down to the next generation, and explore the history of one of the most legendary tarpon fisheries in the word at Casa Mar. View a trailer of this year’s film.
SWTU will have a table at the Barrymore – please drop by and say hi!
Get your tickets at: https://www.barrymorelive.com/product/2202241.html. Note that the Barrymore may have COVID policies in place (e.g., masking, vaccinations) and to please review their website to understand them.
Posted: March 10, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
Women’s Clinic Registration: Just a few spots left!
The Women’s Intermediate Clinic is On the Water and is designed to improve any level of skills through individual and small group instruction. Both clinics will be held in Avalanche, Wisc. (near Viroqua in Wisconsin’s Driftless area). Read More
Posted: March 10, 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 or use the Contact Us page.
Newscasts – Winter 2022
Last Updated: March 11, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
This issue has lots of great information, including:
Winter 2022 Newscasts
Posted: January 27, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
A Christmas Gift for Southern Wisconsin Trout Anglers and Many More
A wonderful gift was about to disappear from me and you!
By Topf Wells
Groundswell Conservancy and the DNR wildlife and fish biologists had worked for months to purchase a 40 acre inholding in the DNR’s Dell Creek Hunting and Fishing Area. The 40 acres has over 2,000 feet of double streambank frontage and a tributary. The land has some higher spots with oaks and creek bottom. Nancy Frost, the wildlife biologist, had advocated for this purchase for years because it would offer excellent hunting and because it filled a gap in a large tract of DNR owned lands. Nate Nye, the fish biologist, had just completed an extensive survey of Dell Creek and its tributaries and knew that the creek is a good and improving trout stream. Groundswell Conservancy took the lead on this purchase, as it typically and wonderfully does to improve natural resources in a broad swath of southern Wisconsin, and had all the funding lined up. Read More
Last Updated: January 27, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
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Fun volunteer opportunity
Our SWTU Facebook page is one important way we share successes, create engagement, promote events and attract new members. An ad hoc group of our leaders have kept it going, and we are now looking for a volunteer to manage the page more directly and actively.
If you are savvy in the ways of social media and would like to help, please email president@swtu.org. It’s not much work or time. Other volunteers help provide pictures, details, etc. to spin into posts.
Art Flick’s Grey Fox Variant
Last Updated: January 27, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
by Rusty Dunn
The behaviors of trout can be infuriating at times. They might refuse your best imitations during a hatch but at the same time inhale some ugly concoction of fur and feather that looks more like a hairball than an insect. You might catch dozens of trout on a bright, sunny, lifeless afternoon, but next day – same time, same place – you get skunked when the weather is wonderfully overcast and mayflies emerge endlessly. Those objects of our attention – the ones with the pea-sized brains – are hard to understand. But who are we to second guess the mind of a trout? The best we can do is experiment with fly patterns and allow trout to tell us what they like. Such is the case with three of the unlikeliest of classic flies” the variants, spiders, and skaters. These flies may not look like any insects you’ve seen, but the angling literature is full of testimonials to their uncanny ability to enrage trout. Read More
Posted: January 26, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
Women’s Clinic Registration Now Open
The Women’s Intermediate Clinic is On the Water and is designed to improve any level of skills through individual and small group instruction. Both clinics will be held in Avalanche, Wisc. (near Viroqua in Wisconsin’s Driftless area). Read More
Posted: January 26, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
Attend the Fly Fishing Film Tour 2022
Barrymore Theatre, Madison
February 24, 2022 at 7:30 PM (CST)
The 16th annual F3T is back in action with a top notch selection of films that are sure to feed your fishing addiction. The 2022 show will feature locations from Costa Rica, Maryland, Belize, Louisiana, Alabama, Australia, Colombia and beyond. Follow a legendary spear fisherman across the endless atolls of Belize, watch as a mother passes her passion for fishing down to the next generation, and explore the history of one of the most legendary tarpon fisheries in the word at Casa Mar. View a trailer of this year’s film.
SWTU will have a table at the Barrymore – please drop by and say hi!
Get your tickets at: https://www.barrymorelive.com/product/2202241.html. Note that the Barrymore may have COVID policies in place (e.g., masking, vaccinations) and to please review their website to understand them.
Posted: January 26, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
Wisconsin Winner: TU National Teen Essay Contest
Wyatt Kauth, a high school junior from Oostburg was one of the six national winners. His essay starts, “Even before I could tie my own shoes, I loved fishing.” … and just gets better from there.
Click here to read Kyle’s essay. A final note is that Kyle is currently taking part in our virtual fly tying program. Congrats, Kyle. We wish you the best and hope to see you on the water someday.
Posted: January 26, 2022 by Drew Kasel Leave a Comment
Carp are Game Fish
That’s actually the title of a book written by a Door County guide several decades ago. Back then carp were considered “rough fish” or “bottom feeders”, and looked down upon. Not anymore. Have you noticed carp showing up in Orvis catalogs and similar publications?
My experience is that they are actually an ideal flyrod challenge, altho not easily fooled. (Perhaps you’ve heard Gary Borger say “if brown trout have an IQ of 5, carp have an IQ of 8). He would know. They are easily spooked and must be stalked quietly, with careful casting. Read More
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