Meetings and Events for Summer 2014

Upcoming Schedule

June 4 – NRVTU Regular Monthly Meeting at the Montgomery County Government Center & meal at Due South.

June 13-15 – Dates for Shenandoah National Park Trip to the Rapidan River.

ONLY ONE SPOT LEFT!  Email Arnold at abgraboyes@gmail.com to reserve a spot, the cabin will sleep 6 comfortably, first come/first served, we can explore an additional cabin if this one fills up.  It will be about $50/person for the lodging for the weekend. http://rapidancamps.org/rapidan/

July 2 – NRVTU Regular Monthly Meeting at the Montgomery County Government Center & meal at Due South.  (May change venue, TBD)

July 9, 16, & 23 – Tentative dates for the second year run of our fly fishing classes.

August 6 – NRVTU Regular Monthly Meeting at the Montgomery County Government Center & meal at Due South. (May change venue, TBD)

August 16 – Motor Mile Speedway Outdoor Expo

August 17 – Date for the 3rd Annual NRVTU Banquet

Hope you can join us for some of these events, the more the merrier!

NRVTU Meeting This Wednesday, June 04

Please join us for the June chapter meeting on Wednesday, June 4th, we will meet at 6 for dinner at Due South followed by the chapter meeting at 7 at the Montgomery County Government Center.

Upcoming Meeting and Events INCLUDING BIG STONY CREEK WORKDAY

All,

This is a lengthy update, so please bear with me.  🙂

Our apologies for having to reschedule the Big Stony workday again, but the holes for the trees weren’t done and it looks like a washout anyway.  So, we hope you’ll join us next weekend for that!  We also have our regular monthly meeting this coming Wednesday, April 2nd which will include a free meal at Due South provided by NWF.  If you’re trying to decide between one or the other, pick the workday, but we hope to see you at both!

Our chapter is considering signing on to a policy letter regarding climate change, that letter can be found at this link: Policy Letter  The letter has already been signed on by TU National.  Please let me know if you have comments on this or feel strongly one way or the other.

Also, TU is actively working on a women’s initiative to increase and retain new women members.  We know women fish and care about conservation, but our membership doesn’t currently reflect that balance.  That said TU is currently offering free membership to new women members for the first year and a discounted rate for the second year of membership.  The link to this free membership offer is: https://gifts.tumembership.org/women  Not be left out, new male members can join for a discounted rate at: https://www.tumembership.org/member/intro  Please share these links to help grow our membership!  We are chapter #207.

Upcoming Schedule

April 2 – NRVTU Regular Monthly Meeting at the Montgomery County Government Center in Christiansburg, meeting at 7:00, meal at 6:00 at Due South.  This month’s meal will be free thanks to Jay Chancellor and the National Wildlife Federation, members of the local Ducks Unlimited Chapter will also be invited to this dinner for a continued discussion on climate change.

 

April 5 – The Big Stony Creek Workday has been rescheduled.  We need 20+ folks, so don’t be bashful!
Please bring gloves.  Other tools that would be helpful to bring if you have them: fence post driver, sledge hammer, fence pliers/wire cutters, and round nose shovel.  We will plant 75 trees and fence them for protection from beavers and other wildlife. We will meet at 9am at the main parking lot at Glen Alton. Click here for directions from Blacksburg.  The plan will be to work until about 1:00, have a bbq lunch, then fish the rest of the afternoon.  You are welcome to invite friends or other groups to join us for this workday!
Please RSVP by responding to this poll (http://doodle.com/6rumtddicpue43qf) so we can get a headcount for lunch.

 

April 12 – Elkhorn Creek Cleanup (with WVTU)  Click here for more information.

We will carpool up from Blacksburg.  The general plan will be to work for 1/2 day, lunch provided, then fish for 1/2 day.  We have about 5 folks signed up for this already.
Please email jwilly160@gmail.com if you’re interested in joining us for this.

April 12 – Virginia Council TU Meeting
This is being held in conjunction with the VA fly fishing and wine festival in Waynesboro.
Please let us know if you are interested in representing NRVTU at this meeting.

 

April 26 – Traliblazer Event at Camp Powhatan, Hiwassee, VA

Need 2+ volunteers to work with Boy Scouts on fly fishing, fly tying, stream ecology, etc.  We have displays and equipment to use if we can find volunteers for this opportunity.

Email Keilee Guthrie for more information, kguthrie@ussportsmen.org

April 26 – DAV/Project Healing Waters Event, Martinsville, VA  put on by Smith River TU, Arrive at 11, lunch at 12, followed by fishing with Vets
Please contact Houston at chwiedlejr@gmail.com if you are interested in volunteering for this and he will coordinate.

May 7 – NRVTU Regular Monthly Meeting at the Montgomery County Government Center & meal at Due South.

 

May 30-June 1 – Mid-Atlantic Regional TU Meeting in State College, PA

June 4 – NRVTU Regular Monthly Meeting at the Montgomery County Government Center & meal at Due South.

 

June 13-15 – Tentative dates for Shenandoah National Park Trip to the Rapidan River.

Email Arnold at abgraboyes@gmail.com to reserve a spot.

August 17 – Tentative date for the 3rd Annual NRVTU Banquet

Hope you can join us for some of these events, the more the merrier!

Cheers,

Jason

 

Upcoming Meeting and Events

All,

We will get together at Lynn Hayes’ place in Pembroke this Sunday 1/19 from 1-4 to tie some flies and watch football.  Please email if you’re interested and we’ll get you directions.

There is still a spot or two left for the trip that Lynn is planning for Jan. 28-29. It will involve a stay overnight and fishing both days. Attendees will split the cost of the lodge ($85) in addition to a $100/ea rod fee.  Lynn has offered to cook and the fishing is great!  Please contact Lynn at lehfish@gmail.com if you’re interested or would like some more information.

Also, please join us in three weeks for our February Chapter Meeting. It will be held Wednesday, February 5th at 7pm at the Montgomery County Government Center in Christiansburg.  Please see the chapter website for directions (https://nrvtu.wordpress.com/).  We’ll have a pre-meeting meal at Due South BBQ at 6:00pm to socialize and talk fishing.  We’ll discuss some of our ongoing projects and what we have planned for the upcoming year.

Also, a reminder that we have set the spring workday on Big Stony for Saturday March 15th, so please reserve that day on your calendars.

Houston Wiedle, one of our members, has stepped up to lead our group’s outreach to local Veterans and Wounded Warriors.  If you are interested in taking a Veteran fishing or helping with Wounded Warriors/Project Healing Waters events, please contact Houston at chwiedlejr@gmail.com

Cheers,

Jason

 

November Meeting

Please join us for our next Chapter Meeting on Wednesday, November 6th at the Montgomery County Government Center in Christiansburg.  As always we’ll have a pre-meeting meal at Due South BBQ at 6:00pm to socialize and talk fishing.  At the meeting we will be discussing an official response to the call for comments on the VDGIF Trout Stocking Program, the Waypoints film screening, our Trout in the Classroom program, upcoming events, chapter fishing trips, and get updates on some other initiatives we’re working on.

Mark your Calendars:

FILM SCREENING: Please join NRVTU and the Virginia Tech and Radford Fly Fishing Clubs for the Virginia Premiere of the film Waypoints at the Squires Student Center on Friday November 8th at 6:30pm!

http://www.confluencefilms.com/tour.php

 

Next meeting: December 4th, 2013: Regular Monthly Meeting at the Montgomery County Government Center & meal at Due South

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Announcement: Trout in the Classroom Egg Pickup-Volunteer(s) Needed!

The chapter is looking for a member or two who can take some time off on a weekday to pick up brook trout eggs at the Paint Bank Hatchery and either deliver to the participating Trout in the Classroom schools or meet teachers at a central location. The hatchery can’t put an exact arrival time on the eggs, but they are expecting to have them the first week in October, as early as October 1^st, 2^nd or 3^rd. If you think you might be able to lend a hand by taking the ride to Paint Bank, please contact Wes Gwaltney (wgwaltne@vt.edu) or Angelo Biviano (abiviano@vt.edu) for more details. Thanks!

Upcoming Meeting: September 4th

Please join us for our September Chapter Meeting. It will be held Wednesday, September 4th, 7:00pm at the Montgomery County Government Center in Christiansburg.  We’ll have a pre-meeting meal at Due South BBQ at 6:00pm to socialize and talk fishing.  At the meeting we’ll be discussing the banquet and how we can improve on it next year, set dates for a chapter fishing trip or two, and get updates on some other initiatives we’re working on.

Thank-you all for your support at Riverfest 2013!

A big thanks to everyone who joined us for our 2nd Annual Banquet “Riverfest” and a special thanks to Pete Jackson and the Banquet Committee!  Though we’re not through tallying all the bills yet, we can say the the banquet was a great success! We raised a couple thousand dollars for conservation, and are looking forward to next year’s Banquet.

If you have photos of the event you would like to share please send them along to nrvtroutunlimited [at]gmail.com

NRVTU ANNUAL BANQUET

Our 2nd Annual Banquet is coming up on Sunday, August 18th at 5PM at Sinkland Farms!

Come have a great time meeting new friends with a common interest and participating in our activities with lots of chances to get Fly Fishing Rods, Reels and Gear, and wonderful gifts that will delight women and men, juniors and seniors alike. Our raffle will be full of neat items. Also featured will be unique guided trips, free lodging & food on the Holston, high quality Orvis products, pottery, jewelry, artwork, sculptures and lots more. Will Farmer will be our auctioneer. We will also have a delicious dinner offering for you and yours and plenty of refreshments. It is the social event of the year for the New River Valley Chapter so please come and enjoy the event and help support your TU Chapter and our conservation activities. Hurry, our Early Bird prize is very cool and you need to confirm by August 10th to be eligible.

If you haven’t already, please RSVP to Pete Jackson at:
highpond1@hotmail.com.

Directions to Sinkland can be found at:
www.sinklandfarms.com/contactus

August Meeting

Please join us this week for our August Chapter Meeting. It will be held Wednesday, August 7th, 7:00pm at the Montgomery County Government Center in Christiansburg, see the chapter website for directions (https://nrvtu.wordpress.com/).  We’ll have a pre-meeting meal at Due South BBQ at 6:00pm where we will discuss our upcoming banquet.  At the meeting we’ll be discussing the banquet, our conservation projects, the CRC fishing class, and get updates on TIC.