Summer meetings
will by at the Wood River Check Station, beginning May 27th at 7:00.
As a special treat Bob Greco will be discussing early season fly
patterns useful for the Wood River. Come and enjoy the evening.
TU
Narragansett Fishing Reports
We now have a blog for fishing reports
and summer announcements by John McCall and Dave Porecca.
Due to a death among the women
involved, the June 6th Breast Cancer Program has been cancelled.
We hope to reschedule for the fall.
The Narragansett
Chapter, #225, of Trout Unlimited is dedicated to extending the national
purpose of TU to Rhode Island trout streams. As applied to Rhode
Island, this mission is to conserve the native wild brook trout and
the waters it inhabits. To help achieve our mission. . . continue
with mission projects, events
Our members—from throughout
Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts—love the Wood River and
other beautiful trout streams in our region. In addition to activities
described above, we conduct fly tying classes, casting and fly fishing
instruction in local schools, and outreach programs such as our fly
casting and fly tying classes for women cancer survivors. Our
Trout Unlimited Chapter is anxious to attract new young members. We
are drafting a program to teach fly fishing and fly tying to prospective
members in exchange for their joining our Chapter.
The Narragansett Chapter of
TU meets the last Wednesday of each month, with streamside meetings
in the summer at the Check Station on the Wood River. Meetings give
members an opportunity to discuss conservation projects socialize,
and see prersentations by experts and local members. When TU members
are not volunteering, you can often find them fly fishing on the Wood
River and other local waterways.
Read about the Ongoing
Stream Continuity Project.Volunteers needed. Contact.
Long
Cast Newsletter
Monthly Announcements
Monthly
meetings beginning September at the last Wednesday of the Month
at Regan
building at
the Slater State Hospital
In Memory of Lawson Cary
Our Chapter President
and long time all around
leader had been in declining health. He persevered
with his admirable work until, literally, his heart
gave out.
Lawson had a clear vision of where he wanted our
Chapter to put its environmental efforts. Among
his accomplish- ments has been the raising of
awareness of the Wood River system as a special
watershed. He influenced DEM practices on the
river, supervised habitat restoration along it and, in the process,
left it a better place.
Lawson loved the wild native brook trout. He fished for them from
the time he was a boy. There are trails to streams that were originally
blazed by Lawson’s early traipses through the woods. It was his
purpose to see the Wood system be made more hospitable to its natives.
Lawson spearheaded the TU Chapter’s
participation in the Stream Continuity Project. This
is an ongoing data collection effort which will establish a repository
of information, pictures, and comments on nearly every stream intersection
with road or path, and every stream culvert, in the state. Already
this data is being used in habitat restoration. We expect that down
the road it will lead to the opening of many miles of stream to improved
fish and creature migration.
