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February 2020 |
General MeetingTuesday, Feb. 11, 2020Anita Coulton
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President’s Letter
As usual, January was a bust month for Central Jersey Trout Unlimited. My thanks go out to all the volunteers who made the shows we attended last month a success! We had a strong showing of volunteer support for both shows. We will be continuing our volunteer raffle this year. For every four hours of volunteer time, you give you will get a ticket to win a twenty-five dollar gift certificate to one of our supporting fly shops. We will hold this drawing at the BBQ in June. This is yet another reason to come out and enjoy an afternoon of good food and fellowship at our annual BBQ! Looking forward, we have a couple of events on the horizon. In April, we will once again be attending Rutgers Day. This day-long event will take place on Saturday, April 25th. We will be giving casting lessons/demos, talking about the work Trout Unlimited does in NJ, and promoting our 2020 Fundraising Raffle. We will be starting to take volunteer information for this event at our general meeting next week. Please consider coming out and lending a hand. 
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News & Events2020 CJTU Fly Tying SchoolFree to all StudentsBeginner and Intermediate ClassesDates: February 12, 19 & 26 & March 4, 11 & 18, 2020
More InfoIron Fly
At our December meeting, one person was brave enough to step up and tie a fly in our “Iron Fly” competition. Of course, that may be because I forgot to announce that we had an Iron fly competition. But Sal Lauro did not forget, and he whipped up this beauty with materials stolen, excuse me, “borrowed” from our sale table. As the sole participant, Mr. Lauro was awarded a gold star and a $25.00 Gift Certificate to a local fly shop for his efforts. The fly will be on display at our general meetings for the remainder of the year, and Sal will be on hand to sign autographs for a small fee as he has to raise money to pay us back for the fly tying materials he “borrowed”! Help CJTU when you shop at Amazon!
https://smile.amazon.com/ch/23-7355313 Use the link above to access amazon.com and help support CJTUCJTU is now part of the Amazon Smile program. By clicking through to Amazon with the above link, CJTU will receive a small percentage based on your purchase. Fly of the MonthParalep Hackle Stacker EmergerTied by Bill Ninke
We all like fishing big dry flies like Hendricksons. But in the midst of a blanket Hendrickson hatch our size 12 Hendrickson or size 14 Red Quill dry is often ignored. Time to put on a pair of smaller flies like a size 16 Paralep Sparkle Dun trailed by a size 16 or 18 Paralep Emerger tied in hackle stacker style. The Paraleptophlebia Adoptiva (Blue Quill in non-Latin scholar terms) is a mahogany bodied mayfly that often accompanies the Hendricksons as a masking hatch. And trout sometimes prefer this smaller tidbit. . So this month’s fly is definitely one you should tie and use. Hackle stacker style uses a hackle wound on a thread or material core much like a parachute hackle with the core then pulled over the top of a pattern and tied off. This results in the hackle fibers sticking out of the top and sides of the pattern with none on the bottom. In the United States, Bob Quigley is most often associated with this style since he wrote extensively in Fly Fisherman magazine about it. In Europe, this style is called Paraloop and usually is associated with Ian Moulter, a Scottish tier, who wrote two books about it. But Ned Long and Jim Cramer, both recently deceased California tiers, are generally acknowledged as preceding both Quigley and Moulter and both independently created it. They respectively called the style Hedgehog and Pullover. There are some differences in the details of the styles of all these tiers but the result is virtually identical. I much prefer the specifics advocated by Quigley in which the core is loops of tying thread held in place by the index finger of your left hand and the hackle is wound using the thumb and middle finger of that hand and the thumb and index finger of your right hand. No extra gallows tool is required as in some of the other styles. The hackle is first attached on the hook shank and then wound up the loops and then back down, being tied off at the hook shank. Other styles vary the winding and the tie off. In the next three months I’ll be presenting patterns that use some of these variations. Stay tuned. From the photo you can see that this month’s pattern has very few components. The rear of the fly is borrowed from a Pheasant Tail Nymph while the front has a hemisphere of hackle fibers over the thorax to support the pattern in the film and act as a sighter so you can easily follow the drift. You grease only the hackle so that when fished the fly sits in the film at about the angle of the photo, the “nymph” part submerged, the rest representing the mayfly exploding from its nymph case. Once you get used to using your left hand to continually tell the world you are “Number One”, the pattern is easy and quick to tie. Trout love it. You can vary the hook size and materials coloration to yield emergers for other mayflies. Trout will love them too. Click here for the recipe! |
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I hope everyone has been enjoying this unseasonably warm winter we have been having. I have been getting on the water regularly and enjoying some exceptional winter fishing. Just this past Monday, I was fishing in nothing but a flannel shirt, and the water I was standing in was 45 degrees. Not your typical February weather for sure! I have a feeling we may still see some winter weather before its all over, but for now, I am enjoying these warmer days.
