a flare of the older generation of fly fishermen writers such as Edward Hewitt, Roderick L. Haig-Brown and Alfred Miller. I hope you enjoy reading this early history…I certainly did.

Erik J. Heikkenen, President erik_heikkenen@cmctu.org

The following brief history was written by Dr. Carl Roberts, former President and Board

Member, Cheyenne Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited (CMCTU), in 2007 and highlights the first 3 years of CMCTU. I recently sat down with Dr. Roberts to discuss the formation and history of CMCTU. To my delight he indicated he had written a history of our Chapter. Over coffee and a hearty breakfast, Carl and I talked about Trout Unlimited and CMCTU, and their formation as conservation organizations, and as Carl stressed to me, “TU and CMCTU are not fishing clubs. Folks tend to forget that Erik. I hope that you, as President, do not forget how important TU and the Chapter are to our resources and to protecting them.” I couldn’t help but smile at Carl’s statement and replied, “Carl, if you and I were to sit here in silence, eating, not saying another word after what you have just said, I would be happy and satisfied to no end.”

What you see here are the words of Dr. Roberts. One of the footnotes in his history indicates:

“For much of the history of the first two years of the chapter’s existence I am indebted to notes supplied me by Leo Gomolchak and Charles Lemon and to personal conversations with them. Errors or serious omissions and oversights we attribute to lost records and increasingly fuzzy memories. Without a doubt we have forgotten many particulars and because of that neglected to give due credit to many members who have come and gone. We regret this. CLR”

As such, the history is straight from Leo, Charles and Carl, with a few minor editorial updates from me, mainly to our chapter membership numbers since 2007 and the number of chapters in Colorado. Dr. Roberts’ writing style is indicative of the gentleman and scholar that he is (Dr. Roberts taught at Colorado College for over 40 years!), with

President’s Piece

June 28th

Angler’s Covey Expert Guide

Roundtable

July 9th

Basic Stream-Side

Entomology Class with Robert

Younghanz

July 26th

Kray Lutz, Platte River Fly

Shop

Coming Aug or Sept

Adult Fly Fishing Day at

Catamount Institute

Quarter 2, 2011 Riffle Talk Volume 26, Issue 2

C O N S E R V E , P R O T E C T, R E S T O R E

Riffle Talk Volume 26, Issue 2

Inside this issue:

CMCTU: The Early Years 1

25th Anniversary Celebration Event

4, 10

25th Anniversary Happy Hours

5

Fly Tying Corner: The Foam Wing Emerger

6

Bear Creek Update 7

2011 Rod Raffle Winner! 9

CMCTU Awarded $3,000 Grant

10

Parent - Youth Fly Fishing Day

12

Photo by Michael Drew

Upcoming Speakers

and Events

A Brief History of The Cheyenne Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited: The Early Years

By Dr. Carl Roberts

Trout Unlimited, as a national

organization, was born on the

banks of the Au Sable River near

Grayling, Michigan on July 18,

1959—52 years ago. Sixteen

anglers, united by their love of

trout fishing and disgust with

Michigan’s fish stocking

practices, met at the home of

George Griffiths and set the

organization in motion. From the

beginning Trout Unlimited (TU)

followed the concept that if we

take care of the fish and their

habitat, the quality of the fishing

will not be an issue.

Of fundamental importance has

been TU’s development of

programs and recommendations

“based on the very best

information and thinking

available,” this according to TU’s

first President who said, “In all

matters of trout management, we

want to know that we are

substantially correct, both morally

and biologically.”

It is this philosophy that has

guided the Cheyenne Mountain

Chapter of Trout Unlimited since

its inception. Though most of its

members would probably not be

in TU were it not for their

interest in fishing for trout and

salmon, their commitment is to

the resource, to the fish and

their habitat broadly conceived.

TU is, therefore, essentially a

conservation organization not

merely a social fishing club. If

we want our (continued on p. 3)

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world to be there tomorrow, we’d best take

care of it today.

In its commitment to this philosophy the

Cheyenne Mountain Chapter of Trout

Unlimited (CMCTU), with it’s more than 900

members, has been and continues to be one

of the most successful among Colorado’s 22

chapters. This success is especially pleasing

and impressive because most of CMCTU’s

early members belong to two previous

chapters, one of which (the Colorado

Springs Fly Fishers) failed, and one of which

(the Pikes Pike Flyfishers) subsequently

disaffiliated with TU and remains a Fly

Fishing Federation fishing club. According to

Charles Lemon, the first President of

CMCTU, the Colorado Springs Fly Fishers

suffered its demise because of lack of

members interested in positions of

leadership and responsibility and, thus, a

sharp decline in membership. At its end,

one man was doing practically everything,

serving as President, editing the newsletter,

raising money for projects, etc. (The chapter

had done some stream clean-up work and

some fencing and willow-shoot planting at

Tomahawk SWA, the details of which are

now lost in the mists of 25 plus years.)

That CMCTU came into being to fill this

vacancy is due largely to the efforts of Leo

Gomolchak who had just become Colorado

Trout Unlimited’s Resource Director and

would later be known to Colorado Trout

Unlimited (CTU), the Colorado Division of

Wildlife and various state legislators as “Pit

Bull.” Leo the Relentless wrote letters,

called people on the phone, buttonholed

them in local tackle shops, all with an eye to

forming a new chapter. Then, early in 1986,

he mailed a questionnaire to all the local

TU-ers he could find and, probably, to others

he thought ought to be in TU—152 mailings

in all.

The questionnaire asked the recipients’

views on the formation of a new TU chapter.

On February 18, Leo reported that 46 folks

had replied: 30 favored a new chapter; 13

were opposed; 3 indicated no interest either

way. Subtraction makes clear that 106

people did not respond at all (nothing

changes), but what became CMCTU was at

least off the starting blocks. As a

consequence, on March 10, 1986, 22 right

thinking people met at McKenna’s Pub to

form a new chapter. They confirmed its

relationship with CTU, the overarching state

organization, discussed the chapter’s role in

“partnering” with the Colorado Division of

Wildlife and the U.S. Forest Service, adopted

by-laws and elected 10 of their number as

board of directors, with Charles H. Lemon,

Jr. as President of the new chapter which

they named “Front Range Anglers.” (It

turned out, however, that this name was

already registered with the state of Colorado

as the name of a Boulder fly shop, so at a

subsequent meeting “Cheyenne Mountain

Chapter” was adopted—very appropriate,

given its location.) The meeting closed with

a raffle, the first of well over 200 through

the years, which were and are intended to

provide funds to operate the chapter (TU

chapters are not allowed to charge local

dues). Raffles items for the first three years

were donated largely by chapter members

and included everything from used fly rods

and reels to belt buckles, garden-fresh

cucumbers and homemade wine.

First Conservation and Restoration

Projects

By the end of 1986, CTU had designated

CMCTU the best new chapter in the state.

Why? In spite of, or, perhaps, because of its

spirited and boisterous beginnings, the

chapter, within a 6 month period, first did a

clean-up of the South Platter River below

Spinney Mountain Reservoir and the land

through which it flowed. CTU had induced

the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) to

buy it from its owner, Bucky Hayes (people

now call this “The Dream Stream”). CMCTU

put up signs on nearby fences and helped

the CDOW take spawn from the river. In a

totally different venue, CMCTU developed a

plan, with oversight by the USFS, for the

rehabilitation of Trout Creek which runs

through the Experimental Forest north of

Woodland Park, CO, and got an initial grant

of $2,500 from the Trout and Salmon

Foundation to begin work on what became

the Trout Creek Project.

This project, designed to restore a once-

healthy brook trout stream, was to last five

years and over this period was supported by

$25,000 in competitive grants and 6,000

man- and woman-hours. I make a point of

the “woman” part of that phrase because

over the years women, though a very small

A Brief History of CMCTU: The Early Years (continued from p. 1)

Dr. Carl Roberts and Michael Dunn

together again at the 25th

Anniversary Event held at Rainbow

Falls Mountain Trout, Inc.

percentage of CMCTU’s membership, have

played a significant role in the chapter’s

success. Two especially remarkable ladies of

the angle were Susanne Truax and Margaret

Ver Hey. Not only were both reliable and

manual laborers on the Trout Creek Project,

but Susanne had been elected the chapter’s

Secretary in 1987, later serving two terms

as chapter President, and Marge Ver Hey

became Vice President for Communications

and for several years wrote much of the

copy for and edited the chapter newsletter.

Now to return to Trout Creek.

Larry Sharp had been elected the second

President of CMCTU in November of 1986,

succeeding Charles Lemon, and, with the

fiercely able ramrodding support of Alan (last

name regretfully not recalled), became a

driving force behind the Trout Creek Project

as it went into full swing in 1987, in which

year CTU voted the project the Best Stream

Restoration Project in the state.

Most of the work, reclaiming 3.5 miles of

stream, was done Saturdays throughout the

following summers with always one or two

Forest Service personnel sweating alongside

about 20 CMCTU volunteers per workday.

Norman Benson, a retired biologist, wrote

the grant proposals (continued on p. 9)

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Folks, what a great day was had by all at our 25th Anniversary

Celebration! We had 139 in attendance with members enjoying a beautiful

day catching fish, along with some great food!

As Erik did at the event, he would again like to thank all the 25th

Anniversary Celebration Committee Members: Allyn Kratz, Sally Fant,

Darrell Griffin (and his wife, Debbie!) and Jeannette Laird. Hard to believe

such a small group could plan such a great event!

Allyn, the committee chairman, also sends along his personal and public

thanks to his team, “A small but mighty group of people who organized

this event!”

... at Rainbow

Falls Mountain

Trout, Inc.

25th Anniversary Celebration Event, June 4th

18 inches of rainbow fun!

The cooking crew!

Is there anything better than a day fishing with Dad?

Rainbow Falls Mountain Trout owner Richard Johnson

points out some of the lakes on the grounds.

Photo by Dave Herber

Please check out our facebook

page for more pictures!

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Second 25th Anniversary Happy Hours took place

May 19, 2011 at The Bristol Brewing Company.

Again, we had a great turn out for special Guest

Ed Engle, author, guide and master fly tier. Ed

was answering questions and signing copies of his

new book, TROUT LESSONS: Free-Wheeling

Tactics and Alternatives for the Difficult Days.

Ed is considered one of the finest South Platte fly

fishermen and an expert in tying and employing

small fly tactics. A great time was had by all!

Our next 25th Anniversary Happy Hour is

scheduled for Thursday, July 21st, 2011, 6:00 pm

at Kinfolks! More info to come at our upcoming

membership meetings!

Bristol

Brewing Co.

25th Anniversary Happy Hours

July 21st

Upcoming

Happy Hour

Sam and Jim enjoying a good laugh! Watch out for those

Cokes—we don’t want you to over-do-it there, Jim!

A great crowd turned out for some brews as well

as some “Dews” with Ed Engle!

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This very simple and quickly tied fly has been producing some amazing fishing days this year—again. You may have

seen me fishing very successfully with this fly at the 25th Anniversary Event at Rainbow Falls Mountain Trout, Inc. just a few weeks ago. At this and several previous

events held at Rainbow

Falls, I have given away dozens of these beauties

to many fly fishermen coming over to ask what I am using to pull in trout after trout when they can’t seem to get any takers at all. I first show them the one I have tied on (so they’ll

believe me) and then pull out my little Dai-Riki hook box I have filled with thirty or forty of this little gem and give them three or four. In just a few minutes, they are pulling in fish left and right, too!

As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, this is a very simple pattern to tie. I start by covering

By Jerry Griffin

the shank of the hook with thread from the eye to the bend. After tying in a few wood duck fibers for the tail, I then take the thread in close tight wraps to just past middle where I tie in a good length (4 to 6 inches) of white closed-cell foam. I tie this in with

the material hanging over the tail or vise-side of my hook and trim off the excess foam on the opposite or eye-side of the hook. I started tying this with “Larva Lace Dry” closed-cell pre-cut foam strips—they work very well, but are not always cut to the same width. I have since stared

cutting my own strips using a rotary cutter, straight

edge and self-healing cutting board. The best foam thickness to get is 1.5mm, but I have used as thick as 3mm and cut strips about 1.5mm wide—difficult, but still possible with a good sharp rotary cutter.

Let’s get back to the fly pattern.

Dub a tightly balled thorax right over where you just tied in the foam. Leave just enough room to finish off the fly by pulling the foam over the thorax tightly and securing with two wraps of thread and a whip finish—glue if desired.

The final step is to trim off the extra foam to (continued on p. 8)

The Foam Wing Emerger

Fly Tying Corner

Did you know CMCTU receives little or no funding from Trout Unlimited or Colorado Trout Unlimited to fund our education programs and restoration projects?

It's through programs like our Sustaining Membership Program, and other fundraising activities, that we are able to fulfill our

mission to conserve, protect and restore the cold-water fisheries and

their watersheds in the Pikes Peak Region. The Sustaining Membership Program offers three levels of entry into the program ranging from $50.00 to $250.00 and above.

Check out www.cmctu.org to learn more and donate to the Sustaining Membership Program. All donations are tax deductible!

Sustaining Membership

Successes!

More than a dozen new

Sustaining Members since November 2009

Exceeded our budgeted

performance goals

Over $2,300 raised since the

inception of the program

More active participation by

Sustaining Members

A model program for other

Colorado Chapters

Be a Part of the Success...

Become a Sustaining

Member TODAY!!!

Cheyenne Mountain Chapter Trout Unlimited

Cutthroat Trout: $250 and above

Rainbow Trout: $100— $249

Brown Trout: $50 — $99

The Pattern

Hook: Tiemco 2487 or Dai-Riki 135, sizes 16 - 24 Thread: 10/0 or 8/0 black or gray Tail: 4 or 5 wood duck fibers Thorax: Black or gray super-fine dubbing to match thread

Wing Case: White closed-cell foam

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Recently representing

CMCTU, Sam Humpert

and I met with

representatives of the

Colorado Springs Utilities

and the Rocky Mountain

Field Institute to discuss

the trail work taking

place on the Bear Creek

trail as part of an

attempt to protect the

threatened Greenback Cutthroat Trout that call

that small stream home.

You will recall that last year work was done on the

trail to both attempt to reduce the sedimentation

load being added to the stream from the trail as

well, in places, move the trail.

The Good is that the Colorado Springs Utilities is

funding the trail work again this year that is

required to address some areas of the trail where

the sedimentation being generated by trail-use is

high.

The trail is on Pikes Peak granite which, anyone

who has hiked on this material knows, is very

fractured and generates pea-sized granite gravel

that rolls under your feet and of course the wheels

of the both motorized and non-motorized vehicles

that travel the trail. Once this granite is disturbed

it is easily washed down the trail and into the

stream. The result is that the holding water found

in most streams for trout are filled to the brim with

By Allyn Kratz

pea sized gravel. This gravel also moves a great

deal and the action scourers the surface areas to

dislodge any vegetation that attempt to gain a

foothold in the stream. As a result, the nutrient

levels in the stream are very low.

The Bad is that the work has to be done at all.

The sediment structures placed along the trail

worked very well to collect sediment. However,

the amount of sediment generated by the trail

overwhelmed these structures so as a result they

will require maintenance after only a year. This

maintenance will be to clean out the sediment

and to build additional structures to collect it.

Both Sam and I spoke to the fact that this work

clearly was only a stop-gap measure to address

the trail and its effect on the health of the stream

and the threatened Greenbacks contained within

it. We advocated on your behalf that a better and

a long term solution really needed to be found.

We were assured by the CSU representatives that

those discussions were taking place both within

their organization as well as with the U.S. Forest

Service and with Colorado Division of Wildlife. We

want to advocate that a long (continued on p. 8)

Bear Creek Update: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Bear Creek

Page 7 A recent invertebrates sampling project

conducted by CMCTU on Bear Creek.

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term solution be

found sooner

rather than later.

The Ugly is that

after the trail

work was

completed last

year, some one

or ones did some

trail work of

their own. It

may have been

intended as a

good Samaritan

or it may have

been for some

other reason,

but for whatever

reason it was

performed, the

structures put

into place

resulted in the motorized vehicles going over them

to tear up additional gravel while those going

around it widened the trail—which again created

additional sedimentation that then moved into the

stream.

The work on the

trail this year

will probably

already be

completed by

the time you

read this article,

therefore we

are asking that

if you happen to

be hiking on the

Bear Creek trail

and find

someone “doing

trail work” that

you report it as

soon as possible

to the Colorado

Springs Utilities.

I would ask that

you call Mark Shea at

719-668-8028 to

report your findings.

Keep your eyes pealed for the final report on the

Greenback Cutthroat Trout genetic study your

chapter helped fund on the Bear Creek Trout. It

will be out very soon!!!

Bear Creek Update: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (continued from p. 7)

More invertebrates sampling by CMCTU on Bear Creek—an absolutely beautiful setting.

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create the foam “wing.” I usually like to trim my wings with a bit of a taper (see picture). You can leave the wing pretty long—a full hook length, if desired—and trim on-stream if you find you need a shorter wing.

I have fished this nymph

successfully as both a fully submerged trailer dragging

the bottom in tandem with a larger Copper John or a San Juan worm,

and as a full-fledged emerger floating in the surface film

just behind a parachute Adams or a dry BWO pattern. Pick your favorite color, too, as I also tie this in gray,

brown, and olive. Black and gray are my most favorite

colors in sizes 18 to 22.

Tie one of these on next time the trout are sipping the surface all

around you and can’t find anything else to work—you just might find yourself pulling

in a dozen fish in the next dozen casts!

Fly Tying Corner (continued from p. 6)

The author, Jerry Griffin, with a nice 18-inch brown taken on a Foam Wing

Emerger at Rainbow Falls.

Top view

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which garnered the $25,000 mentioned

above. This grant was supplemented by a

bequest from the widow of John T. Woods

who had been an ardent supporter of

CMCTU. A plaque embedded in a boulder

just below Manitou Lake commemorates this

gift.

All this money bought tools, e.g., log

carriers, shovels, rakes, and the like, bought

large numbers of steel posts, rolls of steel

cable, huge logs and piles of rocks, rented

back hoes and fed lunches to the work force.

(At project’s end the tools slipped slowly

away to find homes at various Forest Service

locations where today they may be

employed in fighting forest fires, digging

latrines and building parking areas in Forest

Service campgrounds.) A workday might

end with trout rising in a two-foot deep pool

that a few hours earlier had been six inches

deep and 20 feet wide. Log structures

backfilled with rock and earth had created

habitat. Made one’s day, it did.

The Trout Creek Project was essentially

completed in three years, but many

workdays for two more years were spent

improving weak spots and in trying to

prevent beavers from making the stream

beaver heaven. The beavers moved in fast.

TU volunteers tore out dam after dam and

the chapter even hired a trapper to relocate

the critters, ultimately to no avail—the

A Brief History of CMCTU: The Early Years (continued from p. 3)

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chapter could not fund this indefinitely.

The beavers won and Trout Creek is now not

the series of riffles and pools with the

occasional dam that the chapter envisioned,

but one beaver dam after another. Ah, well!

Even so it’s a marked improvement over

what it had become.

Attesting to the vibrancy and vigor of

CMCTU during its first two to three years

was the recognition it got. In addition to the

aforementioned Best New Chapter and Best

Stream Improvement awards, CMCTU was

voted Best Chapter in the State and was a

candidate for Best Chapter in the Nation, but

had to settle for a Silver Medal, Best Chapter

in the Region (nine states)—all in 1988.

Congratulations to this year's CMCTU Rod Raffle winner,

Erick Anderson (ticket #200400) ! ! !

Thank you to all who purchased raffle tickets this year.

Your generosity and willingness to help fund our habitat

conservation, restoration and education programs is

greatly appreciated.

We would also like to thank our sponsors. Without their

donations of great gear and equipment our annual

raffles would not be possible. Please return the favor to

our sponsors and visit their fly shops for your next

purchase ... don't forget to tell them CMCTU sent you!

Have fun with your new gear Erick!

The Henry's Fork Package valued at $1,498!

Angler's Covey donated the Scott S4 9'0" 5wt fly rod.

Ghillies Fly Shop knew you would need a gear bag to

carry all your "stuff" and fly line, so they donated a

Fishpond Yellowstone Wader / Duffel Bag and a 5wt

Scientific Angler Fly Line.

The Peak Fly Shop carries a nice line of Ross Reels

and donated one of the best: a Ross Vexsis fly reel.

Sportsman's Warehouse supplied a $200 Gift Card to

purchase anything else they might need.

CMCTU Member Greg Walck also donated Trouthunter Leader and Tippet material and Rene Harrop's new

book, Learning from the Water.

Erick Anderson, pictured here with his son, Lance, won this year’s beautiful Henry’s Fork Package.

Congratulations to both of you!

2011 Rod Raffle Winner!

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AC Golden Brewing Awards Grant Money to Local

Charities

Golden, CO, June 21st -- AC Golden Brewing Company

has awarded $15,000 to four local Colorado charities

through its Colorado Native Community Reinvestment

Project. Drinkers and fans of its Colorado Native amber

lager nominated and voted for the charities. Their picks

for who receives the money: Continental Divide Trail Alli-

ance, $7,000; Ignite Adaptive Sports, $5,000; Cheyenne

Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited, $3,000; and Colo-

rado Trail Foundation, which received a supply of Colora-

do Native beer for its volunteers.

"These are all very deserving organizations," said Glenn

Knippenberg, president and co-founder of AC Golden

Brewing. "Our drinkers and fans did a great job in their

nomination of these groups and in getting out the vote.

"In a time when charitable giving is less than previous

years, we are happy to be in a position to help these or-

ganizations make up the shortfalls. We sell our beers in

Colorado only and we feel strongly about giving back to

our state to help make Colorado an even better place to

live," he said.

CMCTU Receives $3,000 Grant from AC Golden Brewing Company!

The brewery's rein-

vestment project is

funded through a 25

cent donation for

every case of Colora-

do Native sold. Colo-

rado Native is the

only lager brewed

with Rocky Mountain

water, Colorado-

grown barley from

the San Luis valley, the oldest strain of brewer's yeast in

Colorado and finished with hand-picked Colorado-grown

hops.

For more information on the winning charities, visit their

websites:

www.cdtrail.org

www.igniteadaptivesports.org

www.cmctu.org

www.coloradotrail.org

For more information on Colorado Native, visit our web-

site at www.coloradonativelager.com.

Some More 25th Anniversary Pictures! Photos by Michael Drew

Please support our Please support our Please support our

advertisers!advertisers!advertisers!

They help make They help make They help make

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We appreciate your support!!!

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On June 18th, Cheyenne Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited held its

5th Annual Parent-Youth Fly Fishing Day at Catamount Institute,

Woodland Park, CO. It was a beautiful day this year and many

participants caught their very first trout on a fly rod. Four round-robin

style training stations, staffed by chapter volunteers as well as board

members, treated young and old alike with instruction and hands-on

training in entomology, fly tying, ethics, knot tying and casting & fishing.

Again, thank you to all participants and volunteers alike. Here are a few

pictures from the day. Make sure you check out our facebook page for

lots more!

CMCTU Holds a Very Successful Parent - Youth Fly Fishing Day

Ghillies Fly Shop and CMCTU still have our special offer. If you purchase a TFO Project Healing Waters fly rod at Ghillies and donate it to CMCTU, CMCTU will then donate the rod and an additional $40 to Project Healing Waters. TFO is also a corporate supporter of Project Healing Waters.

The Fountain Creek Restoration Project is offering this

limited edition, hand signed and numbered print from

CH Rockey for a minimum donation of $75.00. All

proceeds go to support on the ground restoration

efforts on Fountain Creek in Manitou Springs.

The FCRP is also offering the Acoustic Restoration CD

which comes with a free beverage of your choice at

Kin-Folk for a minimum donation of $10.00. This is a

compilation of music from local musicians. As with the

original print above, all proceeds go to the FCRP

restoration projects.

Please visit www.restorefountaincreek.org for donation

details or contact Terry Deaton at 719-322-4494.

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CMCTU is celebrating its 25th Anniversary this year!

Keep your eyes and ears open for some exciting

celebration notifications and activities

throughout 2011 !!!

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Mission Statement:

The Cheyenne Mountain Chapter of Trout

Unlimited strives to conserve, protect and

restore cold-water fisheries, resources and

their watersheds.

To achieve these goals and to participate in

this mission, Members:

1. Support and promote fisheries and water-

resource policies that further these goals.

2. Work actively on conservation projects,

volunteering labor and expertise, often in

cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service and

Colorado Wildlife and conservation agencies.

3. Seek to influence the decisions of such

agencies as well as those of wildlife

commissioners, legislative committees and

elected officials in general.

4. Foster ethical and sensible conservation

practices among users of the cold-water

resource.

5. Attend the regular membership meetings

of the Cheyenne Mountain Chapter of Trout

Unlimited.

6. Elect to the Chapter’s Board of Directors

members who will provide direction and

strong leadership.

7. Contribute financially to build and maintain

the Chapter’s fiscal stability.

Advertising Rates:

TU Members: Advertise your used fishing

equipment or other items in these pages; up to

five lines, $5.00/issue ( $1/additional line).

Commercial Rates:

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Deadline: for contributions and change of ads

is the first of the month of the current

newsletter printing.

Riffle talk is distributed in March, June,

September and December.

Riffle Talk is a non-profit publication of the

Cheyenne Mountain Chapter of Trout

Unlimited, www.cmctu.org.

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Published by:

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of Trout Unlimited

2010 — 2011 Board of Directors

President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erik Heikkenen

Past President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Hunter

Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bruce Hutchison

Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allyn Kratz

VP Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Terry Deaton

VP Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sally Fant

VP Communications . . . . . . . . . . . Jerry Griffin

VP Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Humpert

VP Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vacant

VP Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bruce Carter

VP Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vacant

VP Publicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vacant

Director At Large . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vacant

Director At Large . . . . . . . . . . . Sherryl Walck

Director At Large . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Williams

Director At Large . . . . . . . . . . . . . Don Logelin

Webmaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jerry Griffin

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jokes, etc. All materials are subject to editing. We prefer text submissions in MS Word format on a CD or DVD

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they can be printed as-is. The fastest way to contact the editor is by e-mail to jerry.griffin@cmctu.org. You can

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Riffle Talk

Cheyenne Mountain Chapter, Trout Unlimited

P.O. Box 458

Colorado Spring, CO 80901

Riffle Talk Volume 26, Issue 2

Cheyenne Mountain Chapter

Trout Unlimited

P.O. Box 458

Colorado Springs, Co 80901

Published Quarterly in March, June, September and December

If your membership has expired,

you can renew your membership at:

WWW.TU.ORG

We appreciate your support!!!

FYI: CMCTU RIFFLE TALK NEWSLETTERS AND NEWSCARDS WILL ONLY BE

AVAILABLE ON OUR WWW.CMCTU.ORG WEBSITE. PAPER COPIES ARE NO LONGER

PRINTED.

Who are We:

For over 40 years, Trout Unlimited has been America’s leading trout and salmon

conservation organization, dedicated to conserving, protecting and restoring cold-

water fisheries and their watersheds. Whether we are planning and building stream

improvement projects, working with government to protect our rivers and streams,

or teaching young people the importance of protecting wild fish and their habitat, TU

members are actively engaged in preserving our vital natural resources.

Your next Riffle Talk newsletter will come out September 2011

CMCTU Membership Meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of each month, January

through October, in the Colorado Division of Wildlife conference room, located at:

Colorado Division of Wildlife

4255 Sinton Road

Colorado Springs, CO 80907

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