News  -  September 2008

Chapter Fly Swap

The Chapter is embarking on another year of fishing fly swapping at our monthly meetings. 
Bring in a dozen of the patterns for that month and get another dozen of the 
same flies in that month’s category tied from other Chapter members. 
Here are the categories for this year: 

October - Salmon/Steelhead
November  -  Emergers
December  -  Spinners

This is a great chance to tie up some of your favorites and trade to build your fly box. 
For more information call Ron Boutin at 453-9843.

Recently Clearwater received the letter posted below. For those of you concerned about development in the Catskills, specifically the Belleayre Mountain area you may wish to take note.

"I am sending this message to the Clearwater Chapter of TU, knowing your long interest in preserving the unspoiled nature of  the Catskill Mountains and its trout laden streams, to inform you that a large resort that has been planned for some time on Belleayre Mountain once again threatens a premier NYS fishing area ( see picture at www.belleayreresort.com  ).  After a period of long dormancy and hoped for death it has sprung back to life with the efforts of an Albany initiated series of closed door meetings to divide and conquer the opposition. There remains vigorous opposition on environmental, aesthetic and economic grounds. These are shown in the Save the Mountain web site www.savethemountain.net.  The people most opposed are the ones that live in the area that will be directly impacted . Those who enjoy fishing, hiking and natural beauty in the Catskills will probably find a huge resort complex on the top of Belleayre Mountain inappropriate also. We are looking for people to sign a petition on the web site and to write letters to the NYS DEC about the scope of review to be done in the NYS DEC State Environmental Quality Review ( SEQRA ), commonly call "seeker". The primary purpose of the scoping letter is to tell the NYS DEC what things should be looked at in the SEQRA process. If anything is left out of the scoping at the beginning of the process it is not possible to address it later.
     The article from Oneonta Star linked here will give more information about providing input to the scoping process and where to write. http://www.thedailystar.com/local/local_story_361040034.html

Thanks for your interest and please send this on to your members and others interested in preserving the Catskills that we love.