Meeting Minutes

Minutes from February meeting. (click here)

http://lectu.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/LECTU-Minutes-2012-12-12.pdf

Meeting Attendees
Brandon Rasler, Lee Troyer, Mike Beachy, Court Walker, Leonard Gustin, Don Fiwek, Tom Cripe, Tim Magnuson

Meeting Minutes
The minutes from the October meeting were approved.

Fishing Reports
Mike Beachy – 11/2 – 3 browns, 11/4 – 11 browns, 11/9 – 9 browns.
Two of the browns were about 4” long indicating natural reproduction. Mike also spotted a large brown on a redd.

Treasurer’s Report
Don reported a balance of $9,963.62

My Healthy Stream Book
We received the books (My Healthy Stream) from TU. Each member in attendance received one and we will also give one to each Little Elkhart property owner along the C & R stretch. These will be delivered with the Christmas hams.

Indiana on the Fly
Mike reported that we are registered for the event, which is January 5th. Mike will update our display board and get Adopt-A-Trout tickets printed.

Everett Drake Letter
Mike will send a letter and LECTU decal to the TU members that we picked up with the disbanding of the Everett Drake TU Chapter in Indiana.

Communications
We will prepare a fall/winter newsletter that will be published by mid-December. Brandon has agreed to write a guest article.

Annual Spring Outing
• Reservations for Riverbend Park have been made.
• The Gaming Commission application has been sent in for our raffle.
• A number of possibilities were discussed for a featured speaker.
• Charlie Ray will again bring his casting process.
• The Adopt-A-Trout prize has been ordered.
• Mike also ordered 50 dozen trout flies from Spirit River for $150.
• Bob Hagin will again be in charge of raffle and auction donation procurement.

Catskill Fly Fishing Museum
Mike received a book (Beyond Catch and Release) from the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum along with a donation request for some of their programs. After discussion, it was decided to decline as they are so far outside our geographic area.

Middlebury Parks Erosion Project
The Middlebury Parks Dept has identified some erosion issues on the Little Elkhart in Riverbend Park on the West bank. Dave Arrington already has grant money on a matching funds basis for this type of project. LECTU donated labor for the project can be used to offset the matching funds portion. Using Joe Mitchell’s expertise was discussed. Since this is the Parks Dept project, Mike will pass on all this information to them and let them know that we will support the project with our volunteer labor.

Brown Trout Stocking
Mike asked for a volunteer to take over the stocking program, including getting the required permits and scheduling the delivery and stocking of the browns. Lee Troyer volunteered.

It was also suggested that we consider stocking our browns in the fall rather than the spring. There were a number of questions as to the impact on the trout which no one could answer. Brandon will write as letter to fisheries biologists including Darah Deegan and Ann Miller to see if they can offer any insight.

Habitat Access Maintenance Project
Mike will order the hams from Old Hoosier Meats, which will be distributed to C & R landowners in December. Those receiving hams will be:
Oesch – 1
Schwartz – 3
Fry – 1
Wilbur Yoder – 1
Hoover – 1
Lee Yoder – 1

Next Meeting –December 12, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Middlebury Library.
Lee Troyer – Secretary

Attendees: Mike Beachy, Joe King, Bob Hagin, Don Fiwek, Brandon Rasler, Tom Cripe, Court Walker, Leonard Gustin, Tim Magnuson,  Tom Martin

Meeting opened at 7:00 PM by Mike Beachy.  Meeting Minutes from Sept.  2012 meeting were approved.

Fishing Reports: Joe King caught Salmon at Pucker St. Dam, Niles, MI with egg patterns, Mike Beachy 9/30/12:  5 browns, 1 rainbow, one 4” natural brown??  Sighted some large browns.

Treasurer’s Report: Fiscal year completed 9/30/12.  $10,315.38, with an approximate non-profit savings of $710.00.  No liabilities at present.  TU insurance bill will be paid when due again.

Work Days: September 15, 2012;  14 volunteers were present to work on Barking Dog site.  Previous work done at the various work day locations done this holding still looking good and filling in nicely.

Volunteer Hours: LECTU stream cleanup / stream workdays only:  Total 203 volunteer hours.  Total volunteer hours for Riverfest, Youth Fishing Derby, etc. and above mentioned work days Totaled 869 volunteer hours.

Indiana On The Fly: January 5, 2013, Indianapolis, IN.  Patty Beasly contacted LECTU for sponsorship for 2013.  LECTU members agreed.

TU Everett Drake Chapter Dissolution: LECTU received the cities of Kokomo and Lafayette, IN.  We received approx. 65 new members due to this.  A letter will be sent to these new members introducing them to LECTU.

Tie-A-Thon: LECTU would like more participation to help SJRVFF.  A list of requested flies may be found at www.sjrvff.com

LECTU Spring Outing: The date for the LECTU Annual Spring Outing will be Saturday May 4, 2013.

Adopt-A-Trout: Discussion regarding a Winston 9’, 5 weight, 4 piece rod with Lamson reel as raffle grand prize.  Models to be determined.

Raffle License: Application will be made.

Pavilion Reservation: Mike Beachy to contact Tom Enright of Middlebury Parks Department to reserve the site for the 2013 outing.

Guest Speaker: LECTU to determine guest speaker for the 2013 Outing.

Donations: Bob Hagin to contact manufacturer’s, fly shops, etc. to begin Soliciting prize donations for 2013 Outing.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:17 PM

Minutes Taken By:  Court Walker

Attendees: Mike Beachy, Jim Phillips, Joe King, Don Fiwek, Brandon Rasler, Tom Cripe, Court Walker

Meeting opened at 7:00 PM by Mike Beachy.  Meeting Minutes from June 2012 meeting were approved.

Fishing Reports: Joe King caught a mix of rainbows, browns and smallmouth bass on C.R. 120 using a spin cast equipment.

Treasurer’s Report: Approximately $10,300.00, with an approximate income exceeding expense profit of $700.00

Communications: Card of Thanks from Mary Smith for our support of Casting For Recovery Card of Thanks from the Middlebury Parks Dept. for our help with the Youth Fishing Derby.

Discussion of tasks to be accomplished for the September 15, 2012 workday at the Wayne Frye property.

Hoosier River Watch: Mike Beachy was able to talk with Tom Enright of the Middlebury Parks Dept.  regarding the possibility of LECTU taking over the HRW program and supplying him with the data.  This was under the assumption MPD was not doing the regularly scheduled testing. Tom said that they were indeed doing it on schedule and would keep us in mind though if our assistance is needed.

TU Everett Drake Chapter Dissolution: LECTU received the cities of Kokomo and Lafayette, IN.  We received approx. 65 new members due to this.  A letter will be sent to these new members introducing them to LECTU.

TU Volunteer Operations: Beverly Smith of TU Volunteer Operations sent a letter to all chapters asking us to sign on for support of better rules and regulations for fracking procedures LECTU members present agreed unanimously to sign 0n.

LECTU Board Member Nominations:

Joe King was nominated for a three (3) year term on the LECTU Board of Directors by Mike Beachy.  This motion was seconded by Jim Phillips.  Attendees voted unanimously in favor of Joe’s three (3) year appt. to the board.

Mike Beachy then made a motion to allow all currently serving board members to remain in their positions as is for the next year, or according to the time limits of their term.  This motion was seconded by Jim Phillips.  Attendees voted unanimously in favor of keeping serving board members in their current positions.

Meeting was adjourned at 7:50 PM.
Minutes Taken By:  Court Walker

Meeting Attendees
Brandon Rasler, Lee Troyer, Mike Beachy, Court Walker, Leonard Gustin, Don Fiwek, Tom Cripe

Meeting Minutes
The minutes from the June meeting were approved.

Fishing Reports
July 24, Mike took 10 browns and 1 rainbow and on July 29, he took 4 browns.
Leonard caught 5 browns in late June.

Treasurer’s Report
Don reported a balance of $10,610.67. We netted $1,047.00 for our fiscal year.
All required reports for the Indiana Gaming Commission have been completed.

Communications
Mike is working on articles for the summer newsletter. He also has some pictures for our web site from some of our work projects.
Brandon stated that we need to renew our contract for hosting our web site. It was decided to renew for two years.

CR 43 Project
We had approximately 25 volunteers show up for our CR 43 project. Mike stated that we are about 75% complete and we will schedule another work date next year to complete it. The permits are sutill in effect as long as we keep doing work on the site.

LECTU Work Days
June 30th – We had three volunteers to cut a trail on Hoover’s property. Also, several half logs were installed in the meadow.

July 28th – We had four volunteers for a work project at the Foundation Hole.

August 4th – We had two volunteers to complete the work at the Foundation Hole.

September 15th – We will be doing a project at Barking Dog. This will involve moving some logs so the more volunteers, the better. Mike said that Steve Mack will bring several guys from Cabelas.

Middlebury Youth Fishing
This event will be held this Saturday, August 11th. We have been asked again to assist the event as judges. Volunteers are Mike, Court, Lee and possibly Tom. The fishing contest is from 9 AM to 11 AM. We need to be there at 8:30 AM. Please bring a measuring device.

Middlebury RiverFest
The date of the Riverfest is August 18th. We will have a booth and help the Park Dept. with a couple of their activities. Don will get a check for $50 to Leonard as a donation. Volunteers are Mike, Lee, Leonard and possibly Don.

River Watch
Court reported that he spoke with Tom Enright about the River Watch program. Tom stated that he was behind on this and planned a sampling for last Thursday. Court would like to take this project over. It would require two people for one hour for each sampling.

New Business
Mike received a book from TU titled “My Healthy Stream”. He stated it is well written and he would like to order additional copies to give out to the Little Elkhart property owners in addition to Dar Deagan, Tom Enright, the head of the Middlebury Parks Dept., and others. It was greed to order a case of 40 books at a cost of $120. The books retail for $9.00 each.

Mike also received a letter from TU urging our chapter to support the efforts to stop the Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay, Alaska. It was decided to support TU’s effort.

Indiana on the Fly is scheduled for January 5, 2013. The cost is the same as last year, which is $200 for the booth plus $5 for additional chairs.

Everett Drake Dissolution – In the past, there was a ghost chapter in Indiana called the Everett Drake Chapter that had Indiana TU members assigned to that were not assigned to any other TU chapter in the state. TU wants to dissolve this ghost chapter and divide those members between Central Indiana TU and LECTU. Mike will propose to Central Indiana TU that we take everything North of I-70 and they take everyone South of I-70.

Elections are scheduled for the September meeting. The Director that is coming off the board is Wayne Andrews.
Lee stated that he will not be at the September meeting and will need someone to take meeting minutes. Leonard said he will volunteer if he is able to make the meeting.

Next Meeting –September 10, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Middlebury Library.
Lee Troyer – Secretary

Meeting Attendees

Brandon Rasler, Pete Lehman, Bill Myers, Lee Troyer, Tom Cripe, Penny Myers, Mike Beachy, Bob Hagin, Bob Roth, Chris Miller, Don Fiwek

Meeting Minutes

The minutes from the April meeting were approved.

Fishing Reports

Water levels have been low and clear. Mike reported 69 degree temps a week or two ago but has since come back down to 62 degrees.

The DNR will be releasing additional rainbows May 12 – 13 and again May 26 – 27. The Little Elkhart release will be at Bonneyville Mill.

Treasurer’s Report

Profits from our spring outing and Adopt-A-Trout raffle was $1,700. Last year it was $2,500. The difference was that we purchased 10 TFO rods and used 4 of them this year. This means that we will have 6 more rods for the future that came out of this year’s expense. We also had a $300 speaker fee that we did not have in the past.

The winner of the Winston rod was Bill Cleary from Indianapolis.

We had ordered 12 hats for the committee with the spring outing logo. We were short 3 hats. It was decided that we also give hats to our fly tying volunteers. Lee will order those hats and get them distributed.

Communications

We need the summer newsletter to go out after we stock the brown trout and before the CR 43 project so that we can include the specifics on the CR 43 project.

CR 43 Project

The CR 43 project is set for June 16th. We will meet at the project site at 8:30 AM. All permits are in place.

Fly Casting Class

The fly casting class for Intermediate/advanced will be June 9th. Riverbend Park is not available for that date. Lee stated that we could hold it at Ox Bow Park in Elkhart but he is still checking other alternatives. He will email out specifics. Those signed up are Don Fiwek, Bob Hagin, Court Walker, Brandon Rasler, Penny Myers, Bill Myers, Pete Lehman, Tom Cripe and Lee Troyer. The fee for the class is $10. If it is held at Ox Bow Park, there is a $2 entrance fee.

Brown Trout Stocking

We will meet at McDonalds in Middlebury at 8:00 AM on Friday, May 11. Cost of the trout will be $2.92/ea plus transportation. Volunteers are Don, Bob, Pete, Tom, Chris and Lee.

The permits are in place and Mike requested that we text him when the stocking is complete.

Middlebury RiverFest

The date of the Riverfest is August 18th.

LECTU River Work Days

Scheduled dates are July 28, August 11 and September 15. Sam Hoover requested that we call him prior

to any work dates on his property. Mike would like to add another work date for late June to cut the trail through the woods.

Annual Spring Outing Recap

All agreed that the outing went pretty smoothly. There were 51 lunch tickets sold and not everyone bought a lunch ticket. Bob Hagin will send out thank you letters to the donors. Suggestions and notes for next year:

• Chris Miller said that having Wayne help with the stream tour was a big help. In addition, having only one tour allowed the tour guides to also participate in the outing.

• We will need another table for raffles next year.

• Four pop-up tents were needed

• Steve Mack did a good job announcing

• There was difficulty in seeing the slides for Ann Miller’s program on the screen due to the ambient light. Maybe we could put up tarps around one end of the pavilion next year.

• We could use the before/after pictures from Dave Arrington in the future.

• If there are enough kids attending, maybe we should have a kid’s raffle.

New Business

Mike received a letter from a teacher from the Warsaw Career Center wanting to do a Trout in the Classroom class.

Lee received a call from Marc Gantz about putting on a program for the 4-H Fishing Club on June 5 th. There are 50 kids in the club and approximately 30 attend their meetings. Marc thought that maybe we could use the pond on the new property at the Goshen Fairgrounds to do some interactive fly casting. Mike stated that we will pursue this. Volunteers thus far are Mike, Brandon and Lee. Lee will follow up with Marc.

Next Meeting –June 13, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Riverbend Park.

Lee Troyer – Secretary

Please note the June meeting will be at Riverbend Park.

There will be no meeting in July.

Meeting Attendees
Leonard Gustin, Brandon Rasler, Lee Troyer, Court Walker, Pete Lehman, Tom Cripe, Bob Hagin, Don Fiwek, Jeff Stauffer

Meeting Minutes
The minutes from the March meeting were approved.

Fishing Reports
Mike caught 14 brown on 3/31
Court caught two browns
Brandon caught one brown
Leonard caught 2 browns

Treasurer’s Report
Our current balance is $10,543.30.

Communications
The newsletter that we snail mail should go out as soon as it gets printed and mailed.  The web site has up-to-date information for our Spring Outing.

CR 43 Project
The project is all set and awaiting word from John Law.  Tentative date for the project is June 16th.

Fly Casting Class
Charlie Ray has very few dates available for a fly casting class.  It is either June 9th or some time in September.  Five members (Don, Bob, Court, Brandon and Lee) would be interested in an advanced fly casting class and would like to do it June 9th.

Casting for Recovery
Don will check when we last donated to CFR.

RiverFest
Leonard reported that they had another meeting but they have not finalized very much.  LECTU will basically have the same involvement as last year.  We will donate at least $50 and maybe more, depending on the results of our fund raisers.

LECTU Decals
The decals have arrived and were distributed to the members at the meeting.  We will distribute them to those that sign in at the spring outing.

LECTU River Work Days
It was decided that we will have work days on July 28, August 11 and September 15.

Brown Trout Stocking
We are still waiting on the hatchery test results.  We would like to stock the browns the Tuesday after the spring outing.  We would like to stock two places at Wilbur’s; one being straight in from the lane and the other by the steel bridge by the woods.  Also at the well field and at Spring Street.

Annual Spring Outing
The date for the 2012 event will be May 5th.    Mike provided a list of items for the raffles.  He also provided a list of assignments for the outing.  Items resolved are as follows:

• Brandon will provide a projector screen.
• Lee will either secure a fly tying volunteer or else do it himself.
• We need flies tied for the fly boxes.  Leonard will supply some.  Lee will also if he has time.
• Tour volunteer – We need a volunteer for the tours.  No one volunteered.  The discussion centered around if we need to do this every year.  Maybe we should simply document what routes Chris does on his tour so we have it available for the future.  Maybe a walking tour could be substituted some years.
• TFO Rods – We will have 4 of our TFO rods.  We will put a 6, 8 and 12 weight in the raffle.  We will put the 12’ 12 wt in the silent auction.
• Court will bring the soda and water.
• Court will help Charlie Ray set up.
• Ticket pricing will be same as last year.

Next Meeting –May 9, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Middlebury Library.
Lee Troyer – Secretary