February 2012
2 posts
WatchTU has heard tell that there are trout eggs that are hatching across the valley at the Trout in the Classroom schools. If you haven’t checked yet, now may be a good time! Above is a little movie that one classroom took using a glass dessert bowl for some of their eggs. Thanks Jim & Brenda for sharing!
Trout in the Classroom Egg Pick up date
FEBRUARY 8th – time will be sent out later…
Please remember to plug in and test all your equipment 2 weeks before egg pick up date.
January 2012
5 posts
Project Healing Waters (TU) & VA Recreation...
Happy New Year to all,
We’re kicking off this year with a NEW event for our veterans - fly tying classes.
Project Healing Waters(TU) & VA Recreation Therapy
Presents
In February PHW and Boise VA Recreation Therapy will offer 10 seats to veterans interested in a 5 week fly tying class learning the finer techniques to fly tying.”Project Healing Waters” a nationally...
: Top Ten 2011 Trout and Salmon Stories in Idaho →
idahotrout:
As in past years Idaho Trout Unlimited wraps up 2011 with a ranking of the top ten stories, events and other things affecting trout and salmon in Idaho.
1. For the third time in a decade the Bonneville Power Administration and NOAA Fisheries are found guilty of violating the Endangered…
December 2011
4 posts
Thanks to TU & Project Healing Waters
Dear Project Healing Waters Staff and Volunteers;
On behalf of the Boise VAMC and our veterans please accept our greatest thanks for your efforts in providing our veterans with a fantastic experience on the South Fork of the Snake River. We could not have asked for a better experience that included fun, education and training from a great group of fisherman. The staffs willingness to teach and...
November 2011
5 posts
Checking in on the urban Boise River Trout Fishery
The Ted Trueblood Chapter has devoted much time and resources to improving habitat along the lower Boise River with a goal of enhancing the wild trout fishery. Our activities have included work on several habitat projects, and in addition we have participated in a limited manner with Idaho Fish and Game’s periodic monitoring of the fish population.
The last population monitoring work...
Cub Scouts plant the cottonwoods they helped grow
Thanks in part to the continuing hospitality of Ada County Parks, more planting of vegetation along the Boise River by some local Cub Scouts. They planted cottonwood trees near Bown Crossing Saturday Nov. 12, that they and community members grew this year. Scouts met in the parking lot behind the Powells Candy Store in Bown Crossing at 1:00 pm. This was a coincidence. We didn’t...
Pierce Creek Update
Today, November 2 we broke ground. Steve, we needed some gold shovels for the show. The crew has cleared and grubbed the site ..looking very sparse. There are alot of BFR’ s laying around the site. Kesler has installed the coffer dam, laid the 24” culvert and diverted the water. Crossed the road with culvert and terminated in plastic lined ditch returning to the stream. The...
October 2011
3 posts
Watchidahotrout:
TU President and CEO Chris Wood delivers the State of TU presentation at the 2011 Annual Meeting in Bend, Ore.
September 2011
9 posts
Report from the National TU Meeting
Here’s a report, mostly in pictures, from the national Trout Unlimited meeting held in Bend, Oregon September 15-18. The Ted Trueblood Chapter was represented by President Chris Jones, Treasurer Andy Brunelle, and Board of Directors John Ellsworth, Darryl Kuhrt and Pat Kilroy.
The Chapter won the Silver Trout Award, second place nationally among chapters. Photo below is Chris Jones giving...
From the Spokesman Review Eye on Boise blog -
Eye On Boise
PETA brings anti-fishing campaign to Idaho
Posted by Betsy
Sept. 23, 2011 10:47 a.m.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, is bringing its anti-fishing campaign to Boise today, with a noon protest scheduled outside a bait and tackle shop on Vista Avenue, Idaho Angler, to press the group’s current campaign that fishing is cruel. “Parents should get their...
Woolly Buggers Meeting September 20
The Woolly Buggers will meet on Tuesday, September 20 at 6:30 p.m. at the Idaho Fish and Game Headquarters Trophy Room.
The program will feature Boise flyfishers’ fishing for the world’s largest salmonid, the Mongolian Taimen.
Trueblood Chapter Meeting Sept. 14
The Ted Trueblood Chapter meets Wednesday, September 14 at the MK Nature Center behind the Idaho Fish and Game Headquarters.
For our program that evening that starts at 7:30 pm we will have Nate Brumley, the owner of Dry Fly Innovations (www.dryflyinnovations.com), an online fishing company out of Meridian, Idaho. DFI specializes in custom dry flies and fishing videos.
Nate is a native...
Hayfork culvert replacement delivers results
Bull trout are now found in the upper reaches of Mores Creek. Recent field monitoring found large, migratory fish have passed through the new Hayfork culvert crossing into the upper reaches of the creek.
Back in the middle of last decade the Ted Trueblood Chapter began working in earnest with the Boise National Forest on a number of projects with one emphasis on improving habitat connections by...
August 2011
3 posts
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
7 posts
May 2011
11 posts
WatchTed Trueblood Chapter Inaugural Fly Casting Tournament a Success!
More than 130 people took part in the inaugural Ted Trueblood Chapter Fly Casting Tournament May 14 at Eagle Island State Park.
The event was a fundraiser for the Pierce Creek reconnection project on the South Fork Boise River and also served as a fund and friendly competition event for fly fishing enthusiasts across the Treasure...
