Interesting & timely thread here. Being the current Conservation Chair of the local fly fishing group; Tahoe-Truckee Fly Fishers (
www.ttff.net); I'd like some board input as to the pros & cons of the TTFF becoming a TU chapter. Some comments have already been made. Are there any others that may be pertinent?
David Lass is a northern California regional rep. I personally like him and he seems dedicated. California Fly Fisher did a feature on him a few issues ago. He has been very active in the Truckee area; fly fishing with us, attending meetings (both the club's & recently a Truckee River Watershed Council on a geomorphic assessment of the Perazzo Meadows) & being a "lead" in today's Truckee River Day's habitat restoration project on Prosser Creek (new gravel for spawning)...to mention some of his visible activity.
My conundrum is whether the TTFF should be a TU chapter
. My initial take when we spoke was, "done". Then I realized that TU (and CT?) represents all anglers, not just fly and hardware anglers; the focus being restoration and preservation of self-sustaining, wild populations of trout...not the methods. I guess I've been naive all these years, thinking TU (...again ?CT?) represented lure or fly anglers...never thought about bait anglers.
is that:
1-bait-anglers have a higher propensity to harvest wild trout and, everything I've read (and I did a lot of it to prepare for a recent CA F&G Commission meeting in spring of this year) or heard.
2-bait-hooked fish have an undisputible, higher mortality rate upon release.
...hence the conumdrum.
Thanks in advance.
Frank R. Pisciotta
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