MWA River Watcher program announces 2013 Training Sessions- spots available

The MWA River Watcher Water Quality Monitoring Program is inviting interested citizens to sign up to monitor the river’s health for this year. No experience is necessary; you need to be 16 years of age or older, and attend the required annual field and lab training sessions.

The River Watchers monitor four stream locations, four times per year, measuring basic water chemistry and sampling aquatic creatures that live in freshwater streams. This program is a great way to learn about the river and protect it. The full training will be held on April 6^th from 9-3pm at Warren County Community College. River Watcher monitoring usually occurs in late April, July, October, and January.

Please call the Musconetcong Watershed Association at 908-537-7060 to reserve your seat and for more details. You may also email the River Watcher Coordinator at nancy@musconetcong.org.

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Coldwater Conservation School

Please consider a deserving child and pass this information on.  This is a great way to build our future New Jersey conservationists.

 

The Coldwater Conservation School is a collaborative effort between the NJ DEP Division of Fish and Wildlife and the NJ State Council of Trout Unlimited, along with its supporting chapters. The school allows students to spend four days in the heart of trout country and explore coldwater habitats through conservation-related activities.

 

The goal of the school is to foster a knowledge and appreciation of coldwater habitats using a variety of hands-on activities and interactive learning methods that teach the benefit of coldwater habitats. The Coldwater Conservation School will give students the hands-on experience and knowledge about how to care for the coldwater habitat that trout and other wildlife need for survival.

 

The School will be held for its fourth year at the NJ School of Conservation in Stokes State Forest, June 27-June 30, 2013. The cost will be $275.00 per student and includes food, lodging and equipment.

Students must be 11 - 14 years old in order to participate.

Jessica is still in need of volunteers for critical activities at this weekends open house at the Pequest Fish Hatchery. Volunteers can let Jessica know by emailing her the following:

1. Their name
2. The day (s) they can help
3. Where they plan on helping in the pond or the kiddie tank
4. The hours they plan on helping for each day.

For more information contact:

Jessica Griglak
NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife
605 Pequest Rd.
Oxford, NJ 07863
908-637-4125
Jessica.Griglak@dep.state.nj.us

It's over..but just only the beginning!

Thanks to those Chapter members of New Jersey State Council of Trout Unlimited who contributed to this special event today for two great non-profit charities. This - the first and hopefully the start of an annual event, attracted many talented fly tyers and guests. As a unified group we managed to collect & donate so many beautiful flies that will surely bring a smile to a survivors face when they catch their first trout on the fly. We all should be proud of the talent we all bought to the table to make the March Fly Tying Madness a huge success!

Just a reminder...

Win this custom engraved Rahway River Trout Unlimited Fly box filled with over 50 fly patterns donated by various celebrity fly tyer attendees from The New Jersey Fly Tying Symposium this past fall. RRTU member Greg W. personally collected these flies by walking the aisles of the show to offer a thank you gift to the chapter before heading back home out west for use in a chapter hosted charity. Now's your chance win this fly box and other great prizes by doing your part by attending The March Fly Tying Madness event. Please donate your time and fly tying skills to these important charities while supporting your local New Jersey State Council Chapter. For additional information please visit our Chapter website http://www.rr-tu.org/  or our events page http://www.meetup.com/RahwayRiverTroutUnlimited/events/96021832/

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park

This coming Wednesday, February 20th we will have our General Monthly Meeting. Dennis McCarthy the Rahway River Trout Unlimited President will host a presentation on his travels to The Great Smoky Mountains National Park & it's surrounding area's. There are over 800 miles of fishable trout streams in Great Smoky Mountains National Park alone. The Park, 500,000 acres in total, lies in both Tennessee and North Carolina. A fishing license from either State is all you need to be a legal angler in the Park. Here you will find mountain streams with populations of rainbow trout, brook trout and brown trout. Just outside the Park in the rivers exiting the Smokies you will also experience excellent smallmouth bass fishing.,

Cabin Fever Day

Join Ramesy Outdoor Paramus on Saturday, February 23rd for one of their favorite and most popular events of the year, their annual Cabin Fever Day. Ramesy Outdoor will have four speakers and local guides, outfitters, fly tiers, fishing clubs, and conservation organizations on hand.

10 AM: Rich Strolis: Connecticut Guide and Fly Tyer, Rich Strolis will introduce us to new techniques and fly patterns in his presentation, “Streamer Tactics For Trophy Trout.”

11 AM: George Daniel: George, Author of Dynamic Nymphing, is returning to present us with “Trout Lessons 2012.” Join us and learn new tactics from the 2009 US Fly Fishing Champion.

12 PM: Captain Colin Archer: Orvis Endorsed guide, Colin Archer, the “Average Angler” will join us and present “Fly Fishing The Jersey Shore: An Introduction to the Salt.”

Also In Attendance
Representatives from Orvis, Sage, Simms and other leading companies. Fly Tyers, Guides, Conservation Organizations and Fishing Clubs.