Author Archives: TreeTopFlyr

Late Breaking News!  Yet one more reason to come out to Thursday night’s Chapter Meeting.  The chapter has accumulated some very nice raffle items over the past few months and will be fielding a banner crop of gear, books, and sporting clothing for your perusal.  Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20, so bring [...]

You know that type of gravitational pull…  Memories of whispers in that backwoods bar about isolated pockets of greenback cutthroats even further north, that tight-lipped game warden who took a look at the car and said “ya, you might make it but it’s 4 hours on jeep trails,” online message boards that clam up at [...]

Need some help with your casting?  How about some remiders about the knots you can never remember how to tie when your are out on the water?  What if you have a family member or friend who might want to learn some of the basics of fly fishing in order to get started in the [...]

For all those who were unable to make it to the last couple chapter meetings, here are the final number for our fall fundraiser.  Before I give you all the good news though, I have to tell everyone how impressed I am and fortunate we all are that we have such giving folks in our [...]

The good news is that the weather is warming up.  The good news continues with the fact that this cold spring has cut down on early fishing pressure on some of our favorite Wisconsin spring creeks.  In fact, so many of us are excited to get out on the water that the Fenway House Hotel [...]

At the upcoming March 14th meeting, located at Christ United Methodist Church, 600 Deerfield Rd., Deerfield, Captain Austin Adduci, owner and head guide of Grab Your Fly Chapters will be the evening speaker.  He has grown up in the South Suburbs of Chicago with a passion for fishing his whole life.  He started fly fishing at the age [...]

Information about weekend of February 23/24. The Arkansas fishing trip sounds like it was a success from what I heard at fly tying night.  The weather turned out to be pleasant even though it was on the cool side.  Many fish were taken on different flies using different methods.  Randy again caught the largest fish [...]

Winter is so trapping in it’s all it’s trappings, especially for a fly fisher from Chicago. It can be blindingly boring, and crushing to a soul as it creeps through it’s long nights and short harsh days. But when the earth’s axis starts tilting back towards the sun I have often found myself bursting forth [...]

We hope the Spring will bring higher flows and thereby fish up our restored Millard Ravine in Highland Park. While physical work has finished up on this stream, the work of educating the public continues. Jim Tingey, Rebecca Grill, Matt Jennings, and other many other Parks Department Staff are working with John Cawood to develop [...]

We are in desperate need of volunteers to help with the youth program at the Woodstock Show on February 23rd and 24th. The time commitment would be for either a morning or afternoon session. Our primary commitment is to do an introduction to fly fishing gear as well as knots.  As things stand we have [...]