This month we are having our TU monthly meeting in Murfreesboro, TN! After many comments and requests, TU is branching out to meet our Middle Tennessee members in their backyard. We look forward to seeing those TU members who travel to Nashville as well as other TU members who haven’t had the opportunity make our monthly meetings in Nashville due to time and distance. As always, the public is invited.
In addition to Steve Nix, our featured speaker for the evening, I have asked Jason Henegar, Fishery Biologist from TWRA to update those in attendance on the Status of the Elk River and TWRA plans for the Elk River in 2009. Jason has gotten off to a fast start as TWRA’s Rivers and Streams Coordinator since joining TWRA in 2008. If you have not had the opportunity to meet Jason, then please come and give him a warm welcome. I promise you his knowledge and dedication to the fishery will be readily apparent. Please come and learn more about the Elk River, one of our best kept tailwater secrets in Middle Tennessee!
Streamer Fishing Tactics
Whether you are fishing a Wooly Bugger or Clouser Minnow, conventional wisdom has always said, “…the easiest way to catch a big fish on a fly is on a streamer, a wet fly that imitates a small baitfish that larger fish feed on.” If you can cast 20 feet, you can catch fish in streams and rivers on a streamer. You can even strip line off the reel and into the water and let the flies drift in the current and catch fish. The line swims the fly, making it look like a swimming baitfish. However, are tenets really true? Well, to find out the answer to this question and how best to tie an effective streamer yourself, you’ll need to attend the November meeting of Trout Unlimited and learn from one of the best streamer fisherman in these waters, i.e., Steve Nix, local guide.
Steve Nix…Guide and Conservationist
Steve has been guiding well over ten years and is as experienced and knowledgeable a fly fisherman as I ever known. He never guesses when asked a question because he already knows the correct answer. As a FFF (Fly Fishing Federation) Certified Instructor since 2001 and graduate of Hyde Outfitters Guide School, he knows the water and above all how to read the insects in the river. He uses the information garnered to make a successful fishing trip a reality for those of us like me who are “trout knowledge challenged.” Having fished throughout the West including Montana, Alaska and Michigan for Steelhead to Salmon, he is the near perfect guide with tremendous experience on all types of waters.
Steve is a passionate and thoughtful individual who believes in not only catch and release, but restoration of the waters to better than he found them. Steve has served as Past President of the Middle Tennessee FFF chapter and is currently serves on the Cumberland TU Board with key responsibilities for our First Cast program reaching out and teaching young people not only how to fish, but conservation as well. In addition, he serves on the planning committee for TU’s Casting for Recovery (CFR) Tennessee 2 Retreat and has worked as a volunteer for the past two years with CFR.
Come Learn to Tie and Fish an Effective Streamer
If you would like to hear more about how to tie an effective streamer or to fish them better, then you’ll want to welcome Steve Nix of Fly South and Jason Henegar of TWRA at the next TU meeting, Monday Feb 16, 2008 at Logan’s Roadhouse, 740 NW Broad Street in Murfreesboro, TN 615-895-4419. Click here for a map.
Social hour and fly tying at 6 pm/dinner with presentation at 7 pm. and Chapter of Trout Unlimited can do to voice our opinion about this important conservation issue.
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