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Contents

May 5, 2015: Barbecue. Flycasting Clinic at Keezletown Ruritan Club!

May 12, 2015: Jeff Greendyke on Kayak Fishing Note: All Massanutten TU meetings are held at Keezleton Ruritan Club, 1118 Indian Trail Rd. starting at 7 PM.

June 9, 2015: Massa- nutten TU Summer Picnic at Brian Trows’ on

Mossy Creek

March-April Massanutten TU Highlights

March 10, 2015; Colby Trow on Saltwater Flyfishing

April 14, 2015; William Heresniak, Fishing the North Branch of the Potomac

March 26, 2015: Trout in the Classroom; Ottobine Ele. Brook Trout Release

March 28, 2015; Jeff Courier Headlined at Mossy Creek Flyshop Open House

April 11-12, 2015; Flyfishing Festival in Waynesboro

Project Healing Waters (PHWFFF) Report by Bill Cartwright, Pro-

gram Leader Ph: (540) 432-0607; Email: dichb@aol.com

May 5, 2015: MTU Special Day! Barbecue. Flycasting

Clinic at Keezletown Ruritan Club!

Dusty Wissmuth, flyfishing guide and casting instructor, will treat MTU

members and guests to a casting clinic at 5:15 PM Tuesday, May 5, at the

Keezletown Ruritan Club. Attendees will dine at 6 PM on a barbecue!

Afterwords at 7 PM, Dusty will treat us to his experiences guiding in Mon-

tana and Yellowstone Park.

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November 11, 2014: Tim O’Brian Shows Rodbuilding and Rods

March 28, 2015; Jeff Courier Headlined at Mossy Creek Flyshop Open

House

Hope you made the Mossy Creek Fly Fishing 12 Year anniversary Open House,

Saturday, March 28, 2015! It highlighted Jeff Courier, Jeff gave several talks

detailing over 300 fish species he has caught in 40 fly fishing years around the

world. He also excels as an artist (see attached photo) . As always , MCFS open

house featured several flytiers and of course, barbecue!

May 12, 2015: Jeff Greendyke on Kayak Fishing

Jeff Greendyk grew up in central Virginia. Now finding himself in Charlottesville, he is using eve-

rything he has learned in the last 16 years to fish the James and Shenandoah Rivers. Jeff currently is

the Fishing manager of the Orvis Company store in Charlottesville Va. The topic of Jeff’s talk will be

“Kayak Fishing.”

April 14, 2015; William Heresniak, Fishing the North Branch of the Po-

tomac

William Heresniak from Eastern Trophies Fly Fishing offers year-round guide services on select waters

in Maryland and Virginia. William targets large fish on his guided trips and ties flies for trophy trout, small-

mouth bass, and musky. He is known for his creative streamer patterns. William’s presentation focused on

fishing the North Branch of the Potomac River and he presented an outstanding fly tying demonstration of

patterns that are known to catch trophy fish in these waters. William has 100s of big fish photos on his

website.

March-April Massanutten TU Highlights

March 10, 2015; Colby Trow on Saltwater Flyfishing

Colby and Brian Trow have been bonefishing every year in

the Bahamas. Colby told and showed us some fantastic ex-

ploits on bonefishing. Then, he wowed us with his new fly-

fishing passion, marlin caught on the fly off Virginia Beach.

They teased marlin close to the boat, then cast a fly in place of

the teaser; explosion as the marlin takes, then spectacular vid-

eo of the leaping fight and catch.

March 26, 2015: Trout in the

Classroom; Ottobine Ele. Brook

Trout Release

Ann Komara’s Ottobine Elementary

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Project Healing Waters (PHWFFF) Report by Bill Cartwright, Pro-

gram Leader Ph: (540) 432-0607; Email: dichb@aol.com

The month of April was the kick-off os the program’s spring events for the veterans. To prepare

for fishing outings, the participants met weekly to tie flies for spring fishing. Likewise there were

weekly casting classes to introduce the seven new disabled vets to fly casting. During the month there

were five local area fishing outings.

Many thanks go to the volunteers who gave freely close to 500 hours at various events. Volunteer

help is more than welcome. If you would like to contribute an hour or two, your impact will greatly

help the vets. If you would like to teach a class, or just share stories with a vet, your help would defi-

nitely help those who need help. If you would like to volunteer, please email me at dichb@aol.com.

Upcoming Massanutten TU Meetings (Thanks to Richard Faust)

September 8, 2015, Dan Downey.

Dan Downey is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at James Madison

University. Dan is a native of the Shenandoah Valley and attended Madison College before earning

his PhD in analytical and nuclear chemistry from Louisiana State Dan is a past president of MTU.

His presentation is titled “Water Chemistry of North Branch Simpson Creek and the Rich Hole Wil-

derness Fire.”

October 13, 2015, Charles Kraft

Charles A. Kraft Jr. has been designing flies and guiding since 1959. His patterns not only work

for bass and trout, but also for Saltwater species too, and are used all over the world. Chuck's fly

patterns include the Kraft Kreelex, the CK baitfish and the Kraft Clawdads. The Clawdad repre-

sents a crawfish and is extremely effective on large rainbow and brown trout and smallmouth

bass. Kreelex and baitfish are both deadly imitations of forage fish. Chuck will demonstrate how to

tie several of his most successful patterns and give tips on how they should be fished.

April 11-12, 2015; VA Fly Fishing Festival in Waynesboro

VA Flyfishing Festival welcomed many new exhibitors to the tent this year. Mossy Creek Fly

Shop again had a strong presence, and Colby Trow gave a talk on fishing the Shenandosh Valley.

Guide Tom Sadler gave a demo of his specialty, Tenkara fishing. Shane Maybush tied streamers.

Wine booths gave free demos (winerys present were weaker than in 2014, but many new

sources presented). Experts Lefty Kreh, Ed Jaworowski, Gary Dubiel, William Heresniak, Dusty

Wissmuth, Chuck Kraft, Kiki Galvin, and many others presented, but the most unique booth was

two young (10 & 12?) brothers fly tying commercial flies!

5th Grade class released their TIC brook trout into Jerry Black’s stretch of Beaver Creek on

March 26, a delightful sunny spring day. Ann is a national teacher of the year for hosting local

veterans who received stars the class made. Ann is signed up to do TIC next year.

Bill Conlin led MTU volunteers Jerry Black, Fred Williams, Susan Chairamonte, Rodney Min-

er, and Kemper Eagle helping the excited youngsters to release the 2 inchers and to do a stream

macroinvertibrate survey. Jerry handed out a quarter to each student who found a water penny.

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5811 Foxcroft Drive

Harrisonburg, VA 22801

Remembrance of David Fox

On the recent passing of David Fox, a longtime valued MTU member, we send our heartfelt

condolences to his family. Despite his crippling disease, David made nearly all MTU meetings

until his last two years. He was a professor of education for 20 years at James Madison Uni-

versity. David was friends with former MTU President Dennis Patzig, and also with the Eagles,

but was a close fishing buddy of Tom Leigh, also a professor at JMU (and before that, Madison

College). Donations to MTU can still be made in honor of David, care of Treasurer Henry

Bowser.

June 9, 2015: Massanutten TU Summer Picnic at Brian Trows’ on

Mossy Creek

Massanutten TU tentatively is planning our Summer Picnic for 6 PM till ?, June 9 at the Bri-

an Trow home on Mossy Creek. The usual; $15 per person for food, bring your own lawn

chairs, umbrellas just in case, fly rod, permit to fish Mossy, fun and fishing games, and park off

the road. Similar for backup choice at Jerry Blacks on Beaver Creek. Check the MTU website,

etc. for final plans.