Meeting Schedule

Please let us know if you have an idea for a meeting agenda, program or other activity.

October 15, 2008 - Annual Raffle to be held. All members try to attend. There will be some great $1 raffle prizes in addition to the large raffle prizes.

September 17, 2008 - Mike Rigney of Orvis will present the Glade Creek Project. Karl Miller will update members on the Trout in the Classroom project. Update on Gathright project. Click here for more details

June 18, 2008 - Click here for full details. Mark Zimmerman, TU Trout in the Classroom presentation. Please invite and school teachers, administrators that you think might be interested in this project. Dover England and Robert Marek will have a presentation on their recent trip to Alaska.

Marvin Huffman and Bill Bainter will report on the status of the Gathright turbine project. They will also report on a recent trip to survey Cawtaba Creek. Christy Gabbard and Ned Yost of the Cawtaba Land Care will present a proposal for Cawtaba Creek. Pat Klingensmith will talk about his steelhead fishing trip. Click here for complete story and details of meeting.

April 16, 2008 - Click here for more details. Another great meeting. Please click link for full details.

March 2008 - Andre Horodysky and Dr. Robert Jenkins will present on “Roanoke Regional Trout Bugs, Natural and Tyed”.

February 20, 2008 - John Bass of Project Healing Waters and he is going to attend our Feb meeting. He will be making

a presentation about the Project Healing Waters and looking for volunteers to participate in their project. Click here for more details.

January 16, 2008 - The January meeting will be a planning meeting for the year. And we would like anyone who wants to participate to bring their vise and fly tying materials to tie a few flies. Click here for story, pictures and more details.

October 17, 2007 - Our October meeting will be our annual raffle. More details to follow.

September 19, 2007 Meeting - Our September meeting will be very informative. Gary R. Martel, Director of Fisheries for VDGIF, Bud LaRouche, of the VDGIF, and Sherry Smith Crumley, Chairman, Board of VDGIF will be our guest speakers and will discuss many upcoming changes to the fishing regulations. There will also be a guest speaker to discuss the Auxiliary Game Warden Program. Jerry Payne of Big Pine Mt. Stream Fishing will also be attending the meeting to hand out literature on his facility.

There will also be discussion on the upcoming raffle and tickets will be available at that time. George Kesler is doing an outstanding job heading this up for the chapter.

June 20, 2007 - For our June meeting, I have scheduled Brian Beers, who is the
Coldwater Hatchery Superintendent at the Paint Bank Hatchery. He will
be speaking to us about the operations at the hatchery.

May 16, 2007 - May 2007 program will be an update on the Hollins project and fly tying of a saltwater (and fresh water) fly for stripers by Jason Reed, Fishing Tech Adviser for the Orvis Distribution Center. Dover will also be tying the Roanoke rive grub. Dick Taylor will be tying a new fly that he saw on FAOL. Hopefully some of the other members will also show us one of their patterns.

April 18, 2007 - Guest speaker will be Richard Mode - Richard has been a TU member for decades, Mode founded his area's Table Rock Chapter of TU in North Carolina.

From this local start, his influence in TU grew until he became our national president and chief executive officer from 1991 to 1992. He then served as TU's chairman of the board.

Mode has been involved in environmental projects form local to nationally recognized. Recent winner of the "2007 Conservationist of the Year", an honor that netted North Carolina Wildlife Federation $60,000.

People that have worked with Richard say his strength are in organizational development.

Mode States, "It's not a matter of what you can do. True conservation achievement is a function of how many other hunters, anglers and wildlife lovers you can bring to the resource management table."

Richard's casual speaking style will bring smiles and his knowledge will help Chapter 308 understand the importance of some of the projects that the Roanoke chapter is taking on.

Don't miss the opportunity to listen and meet Richard Mode. http://www.ncwildlifefederation.org/

March 21, 2007 - Our March meeting will be devoted to a discussion of the stream renovation project at Hollins College as the topic for the night.

February 21, 2007 - Chapter Workshop. Experts Hans Loberg, David Thompson, Patrick Klingensmith and Dick Taylor will be conducting a Fly Tying Workshop.

Flies will include:
Hans Loberg: "The Virginia Redneck" and wooly buggers (for beginners).
David Thompson: "Blue Wing Olive" and "Smith River Spring May Fly, (Sulfurs)", -Smith River favorites.
Dick Taylor: "4 Glass Bead Fly" nymph and "Hi Vis Foam Ant."
Pat Klingensmith: Bead head nymphs

January 17, 2007 - Guest for the January meeting were Sgt. Brian Young and Bud LaRouche of the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries; and Dr. Morgan Wilson from Hollins University .

Sgt. Young came to introduce himself to the TU Membership and to advise of any new fishing laws for this year. The only change is that boats must travel 45 mph or less during hours of darkness on Smith Mountain Lake .

Sgt. Young also fielded questions from members. One regarding single-hook lures on special regulation areas. Since the regulation says “single-point hook”, a lure with one treble hook would be illegal since it has 3 points. Also, the use of a “dropper” lure under a dry fly would also be considered two hooks and illegal from the Game Warden’s point of view, even if the hook on the dry fly is bent so that it is not useable.

To report game law violations, the VDGIF Crime Line is at (800) 237-5712 and rings into Richmond .

Dr. Wilson from Hollins told about a new course being offered at the University for Fly Fishing. The course includes study of entomology, casting, fly tying and writing.

July 22, 2006 (Saturday) - The annual July picnic will be held at Wysor Smith's. The event will last from noon until - -? Fishing, food (provided by the Chapter), and tall tales will be featured. Details, directions to Wysor's to follow.

June 21, 2006 - David Paylor, the Virginia DEQ Director will be the featured speaker.

May 17, 2006 - Dan Genest, of dominion Power will do a presentation on Back the Brookie.

April 19, 2006 - David Paylor, the Virginia DEQ Director will be unable to appear at the April 19 meeting due to an unexpected commitment. Mr. Paylor will join at a future date.

The new program for the April meeting will feature Scott Smith, a biology professional. In addition, a DGIF law enforcement representative will be available to explain Virginia fishing regulations.

March 15, 2006 - Recommendations of the officer and Advisory Board panel relating to committee implementation will be presented. This is another important meeting! The program part of the meeting will feature Sherry Crumley DGIF chairperson and Gary Martel, DGIF Director of Fisheries discussing DGIF policies and initiatives. This will be a great information session.

February 15, 2006 - Planning meeting, short presentation - Results of the survey will be presented in order to set a direction for future meetings and activities. Dover England will give a short presentation of some fishing trips he is proposing for the coming year.

January 18, 2006 - Business meeting. This meting will be devoted to planning the coming year. Please attend and bring your best ideas with you.

November 16 - Dover England will present slides and anecdotes of his September trip to Alaska. Dover promises lots of pictures of salmon, trout, halibut, bears, and maybe even a wolf or two. Don't miss this meeting!

October 19 - We are trying something new for this meeting. We will convene the meeting to Green Hill Park. After an early dinner (Pizza, beverages supplied, bring a dessert or side if you like), there will still be a little time to check out some newly stocked trout. Daylight Saving time will still be in effect, so there should be adequate time to eat and fish. As an added attraction, we plan to invite local game wardens to join us for casual discussions.

September 21 - Someone from DGIF will be available to present new fishing regulations that will take effect in 2006. We will discuss, among other things, the regulations concerning shaped Powerbait and other fish attractors. If you have some question that you would like to address to the authorities, this would be the time. Be sure to attend this meeting.

July 16 (Saturday) - Annual picnic at Wysor Smith's place. The usual food and fish combo will be the order of the day. The event will be on a Saturday to hopefully make it easier for more people to attend. For final details and directions to Wysor's click here.

June 15 - Dover England will do a talk about his 2004 Alaskan fishing trip. Dover has some great stories and some great pictures. Don't miss a fun presentation.

May 18 - No presentation - there will be a short business meeting followed by planning for meetings for the rest of the year.

April 20 - Mark Taylor from the Roanoke Times will speak about saltwater angling opportunities on the Virginia coast. Also, Bill Tanger, the Conservation Officer of the Local Float Fishermen of Virginia Chapter, will give a short presentation on the potential development at the New River Gorge. In addition, rumor has it that feathers will be flying.