Rocky River Chapter Trout Unlimited
Charlotte, North Carolina
We Conserve, Protect and Sustain our
Coldwater Natural Resources
5.20.2020
As we move into the ever changing recommendations for behavior and safe procedures, our fishing habits need to adapt in a safe and responsible way. Trout Unlimited has given some guidance and the information is below. Please continue to check for updates as this is a very fluid time. 1. Practice good social distancing on the water. The Centers for Disease Control recommends staying six feet apart from others. We’re taking it a step farther — we’re asking anglers to stay a rod’s length apart from their fishing partners whenever possible. The standard fly rod is nine feet long.
2. Wear a multi-layered face covering when in the vicinity of other anglers. Even a double-layered cloth mask can help slow the spread of the virus. 3. Avoid fishing from a boat with someone you haven’t been in lock-down with. In other words, if they’re not family, don’t fish from a boat with them — it’s just not possible to practice social distancing while in a drift boat. 4. Drive to the river separately to get to the angling destination. 5. Stay local, if at all possible, to limit exposure to others, and limit others’ exposure to you. 06,01,2020
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Fall Alarka 2019
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Dark Matuka
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Olive Matuka
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Fly of the Month 07.20
A unique streamer style from the land of the Kiwi is the Matuka. For durability and to create a firm, wide looking girth on a streamer, the wing feather is partly striped as a half-feather and attached directly to the hook shank (quill against shank) with a wire or thread ribbing. The Matuka began as a lake fly in New Zealand in 1883. It soon became well known and used as a western streamer in the United States.
While tying a Matuka fly pattern, the idea expanding on the technique of attaching the “fish fin” to the hook shank lead to two new fly patterns that Tom and I are introducing for the first time in this article:
Arrow
Darter
Matuka
Fly of the Month 07.20
Tom Adams and Alen Baker
A unique streamer style from the land of the Kiwi is the Matuka. For durability and to create a firm, wide looking girth on a streamer, the wing feather is partly striped as a half-feather and attached directly to the hook shank (quill against shank) with a wire or thread ribbing. The Matuka began as a lake fly in New Zealand in 1883. It soon became well known and used as a western streamer in the United States.
While tying a Matuka fly pattern, the idea expanding on the technique of attaching the “fish fin” to the hook shank lead to two new fly patterns that Tom and I are introducing for the first time in this article:
Arrow
Darter
Matuka
Fly of the Month 07.20
Tom Adams and Alen Baker
