Rocky River Chapter
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Check the link below for information on this Fall schedule for stocking :
Chapter Meeting - September 16, 2021
Our speaker will be Grant Buckner. He will be reviewing challenges and opportunities for our area and chapter in the Northern Catawba river basin and a fresh report on streams along with some bug skinny as well.
As the Northern Basin Coordinator, Grant works to advance the goals of the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation. He collaborates with Lake James Environmental Association and a variety of stakeholders to develop a watershed management plan for the Northern Basin of the Catawba River. Additionally, he helps the Catawba Riverkeeper coordinate and implement current projects, such as the Swim Guide Program. Grant is a native of Western North Carolina. He received his Bachelors of Science in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and his Masters of Science in Biology at the Appalachian State University. For his master’s thesis, he focused on biomonitoring using aquatic insects in Central America. Before joining the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, Grant worked as an Adjunct Lab Instructor in the Biology Department at Appalachian State University. Grant’s passion for protecting rivers stems from fly fishing while growing up in Western North Carolina. In his free time, Grant enjoys birding, wildlife photography, and fly fishing. Teen Essay deadline extended to October 1 giving more time to write and win some gear !
NC Rivercourse program 2021
If you are not familiar with Rivercourse, take a look at this video to learn about out our extremely successful program to involve youth in Trout Unlimited. If you know the program, take a look at this video for a deeper insight into what the attendees experience at Rivercourse.
Our thanks to Jim Smalley for another excellent video. 
From a recent national meeting with Chris Wood, CEO and President Trout Unlimited, read below :
Check the link below to read the new strategy for our organization. Not a departure from our basic, historic plans but an update with the future in mind. Download the Strategic Plan from the introduction document. Please let the board know your reaction after reading and volunteer for some of our many activities to advance the Trout Unlimited agenda for our children and their children. Showing athleticism in all aspects of RRTU. Kristoff gets a 4.5 difficulty with an overall score of 9.997 !
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exclusive Rocky River divided, hinged cap fly puck
Rocky River StoreL ate last year we launched a store for your access to RRTU items while at the same time contributing directly to our Conservation projects like the Davidson River Enhancement Project. The funds will also go toward our Outreach programs like the immensely successful and important Trout in the Classroom.
Please continue to peruse the store as we are adding items as often as practical. 
Southern Appalachian Fly Patterns - color index
Push the Watch Me button below to see the latest Rocky River Trout Unlimited/Waving Dog production. This is an epic and an amazing collection of history along with current events on one of the North Carolina signature streams and the results of Trout Unlimited chapters working with agencies to a common goal of enhancing and improving the stream and resulting benefit to trout habitat.
Our Thanks to Jim Smalley for tireless effort and the excellent production. Thanks to all those who participated !!!
Another great day aiding our local water environs.
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CDC Biot Sulphur Comparadun
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CDC Biot BWO Comparadun
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Fly of the Month 09.21 - CDC Biot Comparadun
We thought a little more realistic looking, highly productive fly pattern may be needed for the fall and winter hatches of Blue-Winged Olive or BWO and other may flies. Utilizing CDC feather fibers as well as turkey or goose biots may be viewed as more advanced, but with a little practice, these materials are actually as easy to tie with as deer body hair and dubbing.
CDC feathers and puffs have a “vein-like” structure and natural oils that provide buoyancy. The buoyancy is readily maintained by using a drying powder like Frog’s Fanny or Dry Magic to restore the material once soaked with fish slime. CDC can be highly visible on the water surface depending on the contrast between the CDC color, the lighting and the water conditions.
A dubbed body provides color and translucency. A dyed quill body provides durability, color and the appearance of ribbing. A dyed turkey or goose biot provides durability, color, the appearance of ribbing and a more realistic body contour. All three methods of tying a body to “match the hatch” are highly effective depending on the present selectivity of the trout.
The Comparadun style fly pattern has no hackle and depends on the buoyancy of the 180-degree arching or splayed wing to ride flush in the surface film, presenting a well-defined profile of both body and wing, exposing the entire body to the trout - an excellent flat-water pattern.
The Comparadun is comparable to a parachute style fly pattern but without the circle of hackle fibers that provide the buoyance which gives a “rough appearance” of legs. The Comparadun is so effective, one may conclude that imitating legs may be over-rated. Keep in mind that Comparadun and parachute fly patterns are not designed for “rough water” conditions. Yet the deer-hair wing or in this case the CDC wing gives this fly good buoyancy, and it can hold its own in choppy waters as well.
CDC Biot Comparadun
BWO CDC Biot Comparadun Sulphur
The two most useful mayfly fly patterns needed to “match the hatch” in our area are the Blue-Winged Olive and the Sulphur, especially for the Tennessee tailraces. Actually, BWOs appear on rainy or cloudy days for most of the year on many of our Delayed Harvest Streams. A close third would be the Green Drake for a short period on our larger waters such as the Davidson River.
Bob Nastasi one of the authors of Hatches and originators of the Comparadun created this fly pattern in the 1960s. The Comparadun pattern is really a variation of Fran Betters' Haystack fly pattern. Both patterns work equally as well. Tying the CDC wing on the Comparadun requires a technique that helps make the body more slender on smaller fly patterns and keeps the wing upright and slightly slanted back which is more like the natural mayfly duns.
CDC Biot Comparadun
BWO CDC Biot Comparadun Sulphur
Fly of the Month 09.21
Tom Adams and Alen Baker
CDC feathers and puffs have a “vein-like” structure and natural oils that provide buoyancy. The buoyancy is readily maintained by using a drying powder like Frog’s Fanny or Dry Magic to restore the material once soaked with fish slime. CDC can be highly visible on the water surface depending on the contrast between the CDC color, the lighting and the water conditions.
A dubbed body provides color and translucency. A dyed quill body provides durability, color and the appearance of ribbing. A dyed turkey or goose biot provides durability, color, the appearance of ribbing and a more realistic body contour. All three methods of tying a body to “match the hatch” are highly effective depending on the present selectivity of the trout.
The Comparadun style fly pattern has no hackle and depends on the buoyancy of the 180-degree arching or splayed wing to ride flush in the surface film, presenting a well-defined profile of both body and wing, exposing the entire body to the trout - an excellent flat-water pattern.
The Comparadun is comparable to a parachute style fly pattern but without the circle of hackle fibers that provide the buoyance which gives a “rough appearance” of legs. The Comparadun is so effective, one may conclude that imitating legs may be over-rated. Keep in mind that Comparadun and parachute fly patterns are not designed for “rough water” conditions. Yet the deer-hair wing or in this case the CDC wing gives this fly good buoyancy, and it can hold its own in choppy waters as well.
CDC Biot Comparadun
BWO CDC Biot Comparadun Sulphur
The two most useful mayfly fly patterns needed to “match the hatch” in our area are the Blue-Winged Olive and the Sulphur, especially for the Tennessee tailraces. Actually, BWOs appear on rainy or cloudy days for most of the year on many of our Delayed Harvest Streams. A close third would be the Green Drake for a short period on our larger waters such as the Davidson River.
Bob Nastasi one of the authors of Hatches and originators of the Comparadun created this fly pattern in the 1960s. The Comparadun pattern is really a variation of Fran Betters' Haystack fly pattern. Both patterns work equally as well. Tying the CDC wing on the Comparadun requires a technique that helps make the body more slender on smaller fly patterns and keeps the wing upright and slightly slanted back which is more like the natural mayfly duns.
CDC Biot Comparadun
BWO CDC Biot Comparadun Sulphur
Fly of the Month 09.21
Tom Adams and Alen Baker
