What: Appalachian Chapter of Trout Unlimited Monthly Meeting
Where: Greenway Farm in Hixson, TN
When: July 20th, 6:30 PM

Title:  Beginning Fly Fishing
Presenter: Robert Prytula

Description:  Join us for an introduction to fly fishing.  Topics include: equipment, rod selection, stream tactics, safety, entomology, knots, species information and fly fishing destinations and resources.

This will be a very basic course.  This course wil allow someone who has never fly fished to become more familiar with the sport and fill in some gaps for those that are.  A text will be provided for all people attending that they may keep as a reference.

Robert Prytula  will also have three boxes of  his flies to give away. 

July 29th is the TU-TVA Cold Water Meeting in TVA's West Tower in Knoxville at 9:00 AM and will run till noon. After lunch, the TN Council will meet. Several Appalachian  chapter members are planning on attending. You are welcome to attend this event. Steve Brown sent the following description:

"The TU-TVA Coldwater meeting is a semi-annual gathering of all the take-holders in cold water fisheries, including TU, TVA, TWRA, the ational Forest Service, and sometimes the National Park, TDEC, TDOT, and he Corps of Engineers.  The principle point is to keep each other informed. We talk about the current state of coldwater fisheries, and often have people invited to talk about a current problem.  This year, I expect to show the first cut of the Back the Brookies DVD.

The Summer State Council meeting will be held in the afternoon, and the agenda includes council elections, and discussing a strategy for re-chartering all Tennessee Chapters (pursuant to the Chapter Focus Prject and the CEI that each chapter filled out last year)."