TU Nebraska Chapter 710

July Meeting program for Tuesday July 27th 2010

After several months of informative conservation oriented programs we're doing something different this month. We're combining two fishing related interests -- tying flies and swapping gear. A number of our member are accomplished fly tiers. So those of us with fly-tying interests are bringing our vises and our yarn and fur and feathers to tie flies. If all goes well, some of us will demonstrate techniques and patterns to the rest of us, and we'll all learn from that. If you don't have anything to demonstrate but have an interest bring whatever fly-tying materials you've got and look, listen and learn. At the same time we'll have a small swap meet. Most of us have excess fishing gear an paraphernalia that might be of more use in another home. Bring that gear to trade or sell to the pre-meeting program and folks who are interested will make you an offer to help you clean house. Between the two activities we hope to keep all who attend entertained prior to the 7:30 launch of the main membership meeting. The pre-meeting program begins at 6:30 followed by a membership meeting at 7:30 in the lower conference room of the Papio-Missouri River NRD Building. Please join us for another interesting program.

Saturday July 24th: 6TH ANNUAL BIG LIPS TOURNEY -- Catching Carp at Doc's pond in Weeping Water Nebraska.

Tuesday July 27: Fly tying and fishing stuff swap. Members with excess gear can bring it to sell or trade and some of us will tie flies.

Tuesday August 24: Mark Pegg, fisheries ecologist and associate professor in the School of Natural Resources at UNL gives us some background on assessing river restoration efforts and forces making restoration necessary.

Our Mission

The Nebraska Chapter of TU was established in the mid-1990’s as a part of the fight to preserve the Verdigre Creek, the only coldwater stream in Eastern Nebraska. Since then we have grown to several hundred members and have become quite active as evidenced by our many projects. Our mission is to support the work of Trout Unlimited on a local basis.

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For more than 40 years, TU has played the leading role in protecting one of America’s last great national treasures: our nation’s trout and salmon fisheries. By combining “on the ground” restoration projects, a cutting-edge scientific research and effective advocacy on behalf of our coldwater fisheries, TU has been an effective steward for trout and salmon nationwide.

Through over 450 chapters nationwide, TU organizes grassroots stream restoration projects, conservation programs and youth education events.

TU’s national fundraising initiatives such as the Coldwater Conservation Fund and the Embrace-A-Stream program provide hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for groundbreaking scientific research and local in-stream restoration projects across the country.

TU also works at the state and federal level, providing a voice for fish and coldwater resources, strengthening existing protections and challenging new threats to trout and salmon.

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