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May 2022 |
General MeetingThis months meeting is going to be held in person at our normal meeting location, the American Legion Hall in DunellenAn attempt will be made to present the meeting on the Zoom platform for those who cannot attend, but we have no idea of how succesful that will be. Your better off atteding in person.https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86184198571?pwd=ZnNQTkVzMkRiR3djQm1xRUYrWm8vdz09Meeting ID: 861 8419 8571
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News & Events
It was another successful year at the annual Musky Clean-up on Saturday, April 16th. As usual we took care of the Point Mountain stretch.
The New Jersey State Council of Trout Unlimited (NJSCTU) participated at the 52nd Anniversary Celebration of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) on Saturday, April 23, 2022. The complimentary space that NJDEP provided allowed a great opportunity for the NJ State Council to display information about TU and some of the organizations that we support and partner with. For instance, our table displayed TU membership brochures, TU Service Partnership information, and copies of the Council's latest newsletter "Trout Watch", with lots of Chapter and Council information and NJSCTU stickers to introduce attendees to what we do. We also supplied information about Casting for Recovery and TU's continued support of Retreats for breast cancer survivors. There was information about the New Jersey School of Conservation (NJSOC), its decades of environmental education, citizen science and service to our communities, as well as information about The Friends of NJSOC who has provided programming, upkeep and has recently worked extremely hard to revive this one-of-a-kind institution. You can see the new Council banner which we will display at all activities in which we are involved! This event gave the Council a great opportunity for us to reach out to a new demographic, discuss the conservation work that we do and invite people to join us. We are grateful to TU National, Casting for Recovery and the Friends of the NJ School of Conservation for their support of this event! 
On Saturday, April 30th we were at Rutgers day doing fly casting and some fundraising. It was our first major event in two years.
On Saturday, April 23, 2022, NJ State Council of Trout Unlimited Chair and CJTU president, Marsha Benovengo, was awarded the George P Howard Conservation Award by the NJ State Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs, at their Annual Dinner. This award was given in recognition of contributions to conservation, wise use of natural resources, involvement with TU, Casting for Recovery, the NJ School of Conservation, promoting diversity and accessibility and a love of angling. The nomination was made by Frank Virgilio, (on the right) NJSFSC member and Fish and Game Council Chairman. The NJSFSC President Wade Stein is pictured in the center along with Frank Virgilio presenting the award. "I do the work because I believe in it, because we can and should make a difference, not expecting to get an award. But, it was a wonderful surprise to have my efforts recognized at this lovely event". The Council and the Federation have had a longstanding relationship and look forward to continuing that association in the future! CJTU Trip to the Little Juniata, early JuneFor those of you who saw Bill Anderson's great presentation in March, we will be putting together a package in early June for two days fishing. and two nights lodging. Includes a stream side lunch and beverages, both days.
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$420 Total per person includes: The Nestled Inn lodge has full cooking facilities and an outside grill. https://nestledinn.wordpress.com/If interested, please get back to Nick at abouttrout@hotmail.com with your preferred dates. Help CJTU when you shop at Amazon!
https://smile.amazon.com/ch/23-7355313 Use the link above to access amazon.com and help support CJTUAmazonSmile is a simple way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. AmazonSmile is available at smile.amazon.com on your web browser and can be activated in the Amazon Shopping app for iOS and Android phones. When you shop at AmazonSmile, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added benefit that AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases to Central Jersey Trout Unlimited. More about amazon SmileFly of the MonthBill’s Hendrickson ParachuteTied by Bill Ninke
Our Spring weather has been unusually cool this year. So stream temperatures are below normal. This means the hatch of the Hendrickson mayfly hasn’t really gotten started. But it’s coming and you’ll want to be prepared with this month’s feature pattern, my version of the female. It’s been my number one producer for over twenty five years. It’s a pretty standard parachte but with a slightly different body that I stumbled into. Let me tell you the story from back in the 1990s. The female Hendrickson, commonly called just the Hendrickson, has a pinkish tan body that back then was immitated by a dubbed body of a natural fur blend. The male Hendrickson, commonly called the Red Quill, was immitated with a body of stripped quills from a Rhode Island Red rooster. The stripping was slowly done by hand. It occurred to me that I could use the Clorox process common then for stripping peacock quills to strip many quills at once. But not wanting to waste feathers from the only Rhode Island Red neck that I had if the technique didn’t work, I decided to test the Clorox process on feathers from a cheap brown Indian neck that I had. Well, the process not only removed the fibers but bleached the brown quills to a nice tan, very close to the Hendrickson dubbing I had. I also noted that the quills were short and had a significant taper from tip to base. So I tied the body of a parchute with one of these quills and was extremely pleased with the tapered segmented body that resulted. During the next Hendrickson hatch that I encountered I caught a natural and compared its body to that of my fly. It was an almost perfect match except for a more pinkish cast to the body segments and stronger olivish inter segment markings in the natural. So I then switched from the tan thread I had been using to olive thread. I then added a thin layer of the the Hendrickson dubbing normally used for the thorax to the body before wraping the bleached quill. The dubbing and thread showed through between the wrapped quill providing strong segmentation markings and gave the whole body a pinkish tan tone. This unique body construction is the reverse of the normal one where dubbing provides the base color and an overwrapped rib gives segmentation. My next comparison with a natural was spot on and I’ve tied my Hendrickson parachutes with this combined body ever since. Only update is that Superfine dubbing in Hendrickson Pink has replaced the fur blend. I’ve not seen this body elsewhere and the trout have heartily approved. You can now buy bundles of bleached brown Indian neck feather from some of the bulk feather merchants. You’ll get enough in a bundle for ten lifetimes.. But bleaching yourself is not hard. If you don’t have an old brown Indian neck stored away somwhere, they are still used and sold. As a wrap up, I eventually did use the Clorax process on a few of my Rhode Island Red neck feathers but felt the color was lightened too much. So, for a while, I laboriously hand stripped them for my Red Quill parachutes. But recently I found an Indian neck with reddish brown quills. Although I still have to hand strip these. I use them instead of Rhode Island Red quills because they produce the nice well segmented tapered body like that on my Hendrickson Parachute. Click here for the recipe! |
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