First Meeting of the New Season
State Updates 'Do Not Eat' Fish Advisory for Huron River
Remembering Local Businesses That Supported Our Banquet
A Wealth of Information at Your Fingertips
First AATU-VA Fly Fishing Class Re-Scheduled
The Mozart of Fly Casting?

Looking Forward

First Meeting of the New Season
Tuesday September 11

The first meeting of the new season is coming Tuesday September 11, featuring Diane Dupuis, Development Director, and Remy Long, Land Protection Specialist at the Legacy Land Conservancy. Diane and Remy will share their organization's perspective on the land that surrounds, contains, nurtures and protects our precious trout streams and their plant and animal life, as well as how their organization works to help ensure fly fishers continued success.

Special Reminder: The Member Fly Raffle. The September 11 meeting will be the debut of this new monthly feature. To enter and have a chance to win a hatful of member-tied flies, just bring a fly you’ve tied - or if you don’t tie, a fly you’ve found effective in your own fishing - to the meeting (and to every meeting this year). Attach it to a card with the name of the fly and your name, and drop it in the bucket when you arrive. One of the flies in the bucket will be drawn during the meeting, and the person named on that card will win all the flies in the bucket!

State Updates 'Do Not Eat" Fish Advisory for Huron River

by Evan Sasiela, Mlive.com

On Friday August 24, Michigan health officials issued an updated “do not eat” advisory for all fish in the Huron River in Livingston, Oakland and Washtenaw counties. The advisory from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services updates an advisory that was issued Aug. 4 relating to PFOS, or perfluorooctane sulfonate, for fish in the Huron River. The updated advisory clarifies the bodies of water for the “do not eat” fish advisory on the Huron River at North Wixom Road, including Norton Creek, and downstream to the Huron River at the Livingston and Washtenaw County Line. The updated list of bodies of water affected, according to the MDHHS, is:

› Hubbell Pond, a lso known as Mill Pond — Oakland County.

› Kent Lake — Oakland County.

› Ore Lake — Livingston County.

› Strawberry and Zukey Lake — Liv ingston County.

› Gallagher Lake — Livingston County.

› Loon Lake — Livingston County.

› Whitewood Lakes — Livingston County.

› Base Line and Portage Lakes — Livingston and Washtenaw County line.

Fish from Kent Lake were tested and found to have high PFOS levels, officials said. The MDHHS said the update is to account for recent surface water data showing fish in an additional area should be included in the “do not eat” advisory. Touching fish or water and swimming in these water bodies is not considered a health concern, according to health officials. PFAS, which includes PFOS, do not easily move through the skin, according to the MDDHS. In addition, an occasional swallow of river or lake water also is not considered a health concern. Michigan tested fish fillets as a result of its PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, effort. The advisory relates to the state addressing the discovery of PFAS and PFOS, according to the MDDHS. The state has been routinely testing fish fillets for PFAS since 2012 and the MDDHS releases annual “Eat safe fish” guides in the spring and emergency advisories as needed. Guidelines for safe fish consumption may be found online at bit.ly/fishsafe18. Current guidelines relating to the PFAS fish contamination may be found at michigan.gov/pfasresponse.

Remembering Local Businesses That Supported Our Banquet

Listed below are the remainder of the local businesses that generously helped us offer terrific prizes at our 2018 Banquet, which we have been hi-lighting in recent issues of Reel News. So, please keep them in mind when you go out looking for a product or service they can provide:
Tractor Supply Company
U-M Athletic Department
Village Corner
Weingartz
Whiskey Memories
Zingerman's Community of Businesses

A Wealth of Information at Your Fingertips

Thanks to the internet, there’s always a wealth of information at your fingertips these days, and that includes current issues, developments and general information about cold water conservation, fisheries, and fishing. Starting close to home, your AATU web site contains basic information and updates about the Ann Arbor chapter and it’s activities, as well as links to relevant topics and sources. You can visit that web site by clicking http://www.annarbortu.org. Another rich and timely source of everything from chapter announcements to fly tying and fly fishing videos to posts by your fellow members is the AATU Facebook page. In fact, the article below about the young fly casting prodigy was borrowed from a posting on our Facebook page. You can check out our page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/170026860699/. To stay abreast of conservation and fishing developments across Michigan, visit the Michigan Trout Unlimited web site at http://www.michigantu.org. And of course there’s the Trout Unlimited web site at http://www.tu.org for a national perspective on subjects and issues we should be aware of. Going forward, every issue of Reel News will contain a block of clickable links to these sources for members’ convenience.

First AATU-VA Fly Fishing Class Re-Scheduled

Due to the forecast of thunderstorms on the scheduled date of August 25, the first AATU-VA fly fishing introductory class for veterans has been re-scheduled to Saturday September 8 from 1:00-4:00 pm. As instructor Mike Mouradian suggests in one of his AATU Facebook posts, if you’re interested in seeing how Mike teaches fly fishing to beginners, by all means come by Gallup Park in Ann Arbor next Saturday and see how it’s done. After entering the park’s main entrance, continue straight ahead over the bridge and then to the end of the road after the bridge to the end parking lot.

The Mozart of Fly Casting?

Maxine McCormick started fly casting at 9 years of age, and at 14 she owns back to back world titles. WARNING: This article could do permanent damage to the adult ego, proceed at your own risk! Mike Mouradian posted the following link on the AATU Facebook page: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/sports/maxine-mccormick.html. It’s a really inspiring story of a wunderkind with a fly rod casting circles around the competition, including most adults and even her mentor. It’s a good read, enjoy!

Looking Forward

2018-19 Meetings and Events

All monthly AATU member meetings will take place at Webers Hotel and Restaurant, 3050 Jackson Rd., in the Ann Arbor Room at the back of the main entrance level dining room. Doors open at 5:30 for friends, food, and drink, and the monthly program begins at 7:00.

September 8 - Veterans Introduction to Fly Fishing class at Gallup Park - 1:00-4:00 pm (See article above)
September 11 - Legacy Land Conservancy's Development Director, Diane Dupuis, and Remy Long, Land Protection Specialist on how the Conservancy works to help ensure fly fishers continued success.

October 9 - Patrick Ertel of the DNR in Grayling will present the Biology of Rivers. This one is not to be missed!

November 13 - Capt. Devon Carr, H2O Charters: West Michigan Rivers Customized Trips on the Fly!!

December 11 - Holiday Party and Swap Meet at Webers

January 8 - Guide John Gouker, D-Loop Outfitters of Wellston: Fishing the Big and Little Manistee, Pine, PM, and Bear Creek for your favorite cold or warm water species. Specializes in walk-in trips.

February 12 - Member Movie Night, a night to remember!

March 12 - Mill Creek Update: “Where are we on our 6-year project”. Bill Phillips, Jeff Braunscheidel, MDNR Fisheries Division; Kristen Thomas, MITU; Steve Zawistowski, AATU
April 23 - Annual Conservation Banquet at Barton Hills Country Club

May 14 - TBD This meeting will be the new edition of "Bamboo and Brats" - still working out details with the probable location being one of the Metroparks.

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