We are catching up two months with this Newsline.

Read below about the Georgia Supreme Court's denial of the appeal of the Fowler Shakerag permit.  This is a major blow to Chattahoochee River water quality.

In February I attended the Georgia Women Fly Fishers' "Mardi Gras" themed annual fund raiser at Sweetwater Brewery.  The place was packed.  I spent some of the evening talking to Beverly Booth who runs "Casting for Recovery" in Georgia.  She thanked me for UCCTU's support.  Those ladies know how to throw a party!  UCCTU needs to find an annual event that is on par.

Last month Kevin McGrath and I attended the TU SE Regional meeting in West Virginia.  It was a well attended day of good meetings.  TU again presented the new website being rolled out.  And the goal of member diversity was emphasized.  Justifiably tagged or not, TU's future success is not in being thought of as a bunch of "old white guys".

Finally, special thanks to Charlie Bennett, Rick Kinkade, Dutch Earle, Kevin McGrath, and Gerry Mecca who have headed up UCCTU activities covered below.

Annette McLean - VP of Operations and Rod Design, Winston Rod Co.

Since 1985, McLean has been a respected leader, not only within the company, but throughout the fly fishing industry. She is an outstanding angler and fly caster, has fished from Alaska to Florida and has conducted fly casting clinics for both men and women McLean has served on the boards of the Lewis & Clark Trout Unlimited Chapter in Southwest Montana and on the International Women's Fly Fishing Organization.  After her presentation, Annette will pull the winning raffle ticket for our Winston Boron IIIx winner's choice fly rod.

A separate raffle will be held for a TFO BVK II reel donated by The Atlanta Fly Fishing School.  Some lucky member can leave the meeting Tuesday with a whole new rig!

TU Georgia Council "Fly -Tie-Athlon" Held at Bass Pro

Saturday, March 9 a team from UCCTU joined teams from 6 other Georgia TU chapters in a high visibility fly tying event set up at Bass Pro Shops in Norcross.  Thanks to volunteers Dutch Earle, Ed Chamberlain, Ed Sullivan, Bob Schmitt, Andrew Brown, Ricardo Meyer, Bob Foster, and Chris Smith.

Thank you too to all of the sponsors who made donations in support of our team.  The event raised money for both Council and UCCTU conservation activities.   And the 125 flies tied by the UCCTU will be auctioned off at Chapter meetings.

  

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Q1 Raffle - Winston Boron IIIx Fly Rod!
Last chance! See Rick Kinkade at the meeting for tickets.

Congratulation to UCCTU's Jim Harvey who sold the winning ticket!

New Members:
Robert Baxter
Brad Beard
David Brawner
Amanda Bridges
Melissa Esford
Joe Garmon
Jennifer Hagen
Robert Holland
Tib Holland
Kurt Huntzinger
David Kachur
John Levey
Welling Lifka
Josh Loventhal
Philip Porter
Raphael Siebenmann
Ed Stinson
Gordon Tanner
Rodger Weyant