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August 2009 Chapter Meeting

Thursday, 06 August 2009

What: Appalachian Chapter of Trout Unlimited Meeting
Where: Greenway Farm off of Gann Store Road in Hixson
When: Thursday, August 20th, at 6:30 PM

Jim Herrig, a Forest Aquatic Biologist for the Cherokee National Forrest Service, will be the featured speaker. The topic will be the “20th Annual Brook Trout Restoration Project”.

This is the 20th year of electrofishing Brook Trout streams in the Cherokee National Forrest. This year, we will sample three streams; Sycamore Creek, Big Cove, and Rough Ridge. Two crews will work Sycamore Creek, collecting Brook Trout and transferring them to Roaring Branch, always an exciting process.

McNabb Campground will be open for volunteers the nights of August 28th and 29th. Trout Unlimited will kick off the day by serving breakfast on Saturday morning at 8:00 AM. Additionally, Trout Unlimited will have T-Shirts while they last.

This project has been very successful. It has allowed Brook Trout to flourish. Please plan on joining us to continue this restoration process.

Jim also reports that other head water streams are doing excellent. The drought wiped out larger fish larger, than six inches, but there was a great spawning season last year and there are many fast growing fish. He also indicated that by October there will be many six to eight inch fish and that there should not be any reason that anyone should be able to catch 50 trout in a day.

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