Female volunteer to solicit "non-fishing" items

We need an auction diva ! to ask for spa donations, jewelry, crafts, anything a woman would want to bid on. This might involve someone who is a patron of a clothing company or spa or jewelry store or cooking class ....etc. The possibilities are endless!

Volunteer Opportunity - Auction program

We need someone to put together the final verbal auction program. It will take approximately 5 hours the weekend of November 12th and 13th, 2011. Sharon will help the volunteer.Thanks for volunteering for this most important fundraising event !Please contact Sharon Lance at (303) 694-3409 or by email at stlance@comcast.net if you’re interested in any of these volunteer opportunities.

Volunteer Opportunity - Auction

Give us a hand to raise money for conservation and youth education.We need two volunteers to gather and prepare photos for a slide show during our auction.  The slide show would include images of all our work throughout this past year. The photos will need to be gathered from various people on the board, for which we will provide the contact info. The slide show will include photos from this year's youth camp as well. We will also provide a large screen. Please contact Sharon Lance at 303-694-3409 or at stlance@comcast.net.

August lake trip

Richard Pilatzke and Gary Thompson will be leading an August chapter trip to Silver Dollar Lake. This is a hike in lake off Guanella pass that is located at 12,200 feet elevation.  The trailhead is at 11,200 feet and the distance to the lake is 1.6 miles.   We will  leave from the South Suburban Board  of Realtors parking lot at 6:00 am on Saturday, August 20th.  We are starting early due to the common thunderstorms on Guanella.  Participants should bring water, a good hat, sunblock, camera, bug spray, and any other necessities, but remember that you will be carrying everything you bring for 1.6 miles.  Silver Dollar has greenback cutthroats, the trail is open , and the lake is fishing well, according to Your Fishing Partner in Idaho Springs.

Looking for a volunteer for the auction

We need some help for the upcoming auction. The Chapter is looking for someone to help us put together a powerpoint slide show of our projects from the last year and highlight some of the bigger items we will have in the auction. We would provide all the images, we just need someone to put them together into a simple slideshow.If you are interested leave a comment below or send me an email nick (at) nibydesigngroup.com.

South Platte River Clean Up Successfully Completed!

July 23rd, 2011

Twenty one intrepid volunteers from our chapter along with two from CUSP (Coalition for the Upper South Platte) braved sunny 90 degree weather to clean up an 8 mile stretch of the South Platte River north of Deckers, CO. Thanks to all the folks who participated to make this our best turn out for 2001! Enough trash was collected to fill a pickup truck!The BBQ lunch of brats, hamburgers and cheeseburgers along with cool refreshments was enjoyed and appreciated after a hot morning of trash removal. Many thanks to Doug McFarland who organized the project and prepared the BBQ!Again, we could not accomplish these important conservation and restoration projects without the support of our TU chapter volunteers.Thank you to the following participants!Peter Kohler   Loren Kohler   Don Cushing   Bill HoneyfieldDuane Van deVentner   Jim Rasmussen    Derek HankinsJohn Aaron   Ray Carney   Bob MillerSusan Miller   Alan Whitehead   Jim Klug   Kent HigginsChris Burros    Richard Pilatzke    Jim Stranahan    Bob DiCarloDoug McFarland    Jordan Pogue    Mike PogueEach of our volunteers earned a raffle ticket making them eligible for our 2011 Cutthroat Chapter Conservation Volunteer Recognition Award Raffle to be held at our annual auction. See our website, www.cutthroatctu.org for details! Hope to see you at our August 20th Gill Trail Project!It is good to know the river is healthy, lots of bugs! 

Crystal Lake damsels

About 7 intrepid members of Cutthroat chapter and one FFFer made the two plus hour trip to Crystal lake outside of Leadville on Sunday, July 10th.   They were rewarded with a bountiful callibaetis hatch and a dynamite damsel emergence.  Almost everyone caught fish on adult damsels and many other patterns, mostly dry flies.  There was a little weather, as a thunderstorm quickly blew through.Fishing was great both before and after the storm.  As a result of the great fishing, the trip on Wednesday, July 13th is returning to Crystal Lake instead of Hayden Meadows Reservoir.  Hayden is receiving a huge influx of cold Arkansas River runoff and this is detrimentally affecting the hatches

CCTU Wins Communications Award

Colorado TU presented the John Connolly Outstanding Chapter Communications Award for 2011 to the Cutthroat Chapter for our "exemplary use of electronic communications - including outstanding electronic newsletter, redesigned and revitalized website, and innovative use of social media - to engage and inform its membership."

Fishing on the Fourth

Jim Rasmussen helped some local kids get into some fish this weekend. Over 70 kids turned out at Progress Park to hook a few on the Fourth of July. Looks like it was a ton of fun and I'm going to have to enter my daughter next year. You can read more here

Colorado TU Youth camp

Check out this YouTube video of a Pueblo youth trying to make a difference.