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        • Instructional Tyers
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    • Communications
    • Conservation >
      • Conservation Partners >
        • NC Camo Coalition
    • Diversity >
      • BSA Merit Badge
    • Outreach
    • We welcome your feedback!
    • Become a TU Member
    • Mission and Brief History
  • Calendar
  • Programs
    • Trout In The Classroom
    • RiverCourse Fly Fishing Youth Camp
    • Casting Carolinas
    • Wilson Creek Adopt-A-Stream and Stream Watch
    • South Mountain Adopt-A-Park
    • Stone Mountain State Park
  • Resources
    • Fly Patterns >
      • Fly of the Month Patterns
      • RRTU Class Recipes
      • DRY FLY PATTERNS >
        • Adams Variant
        • Asher
        • Baigent's Variant
        • Blue Quill
        • BWO
        • BWO Catskill
        • Carolina Wulff
        • Cricket
        • Damsel Fly Parachute
        • Dun Fly, August Fly,Wasp Fly
        • Early Nelson
        • Egg Laying Caddis
        • Elk Hair Caddis
        • Female Adams
        • Gray Fox Variant
        • Griffith's Gnat
        • H & L Variant
        • Hopper Juan
        • Mr. Rapidan
        • Japanese Beetle
        • Jassid
        • Klinkhamer
        • Light Cahill Catskill
        • Little Green and Little Yellow Stonefly
        • North Carolina Yellow Sally
        • Parachute Ant
        • Parachute Adams
        • October Caddis
        • Orange Forked Tail
        • Rattler
        • Red Headed Caddis
        • Rusty Spinner
        • Sulphurs Part 1
        • Sulphur Part 2
        • Yellow Palmer
      • Wet Fly Patterns >
        • Black Gnat
        • Breadcrust
        • Coachman
        • Cock-y-Bundhu
        • Cooper Bug
        • Grizzly King
        • Ibis
        • Parmacheene Belle
        • Red Ass Soft Hackle
        • Trude
        • Tups Indespensible
    • NC General Hatch Charts
    • Fly Shops, Outfitters and Guides
    • Fly Fishing >
      • RRTU Reference Fly Tying >
        • Entomology Basics
        • More Entomology Basics
      • More Fly Fishing Basics
      • Fly Fishing Tips
      • Trout Fishing & Trout Fishing Stories
    • History, Reading, References >
      • S. Appalachian & Smoky Mtn History >
        • Archive History >
          • FORR Campaign >
            • FORR 2020
    • Calendar Copy
  • RRTU Store

Rocky River Chapter
Trout Unlimited
   
Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

WE CONSERVE, PROTECT, AND SUSTAIN OUR COLDWATER NATURAL RESOURCES
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Coming THIS Saturday - 01.16.21

Plan  to join us for the first fly tying session of 2021 and the third in sequence.  This will be a Zoom class like the past two.
Everyone is invited to give it a try.  We have Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced classes. It is not necessary to have attended previous classes to enjoy the program.
There is no fee and classes are about one hour in length.
All attendees, past or new will need to register once the link is provided. 

Note :

January Registration Invitations sent
01.11.21

Session Three of RRTU Flytying

Saturday, January 16
via
ZOOM
Please Register ASAP
Newcomers welcome to all classes
Use the buttons below to log in on Saturday :

Beginner Session 3
Class starts at 9:00, sign in starts at 8:30 for beginners only

Intermediate class Change !!!!

This session only, the Intermediate class will combine with the Beginners class taught by Jack McNeary.   It will be the Gold Rib Hares Ear.  The Tellico will be covered at a later session. 
The link above will get you to the class.
  Note the time change !!!
Apologies for any inconvenience.

Note to    Advanced   class :     
                           
Email with sign in link
to be sent via email to registered attendees.

Just Released Video- 12.28.20

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Push  the button below to see the latest Rocky River Trout Unlimited/Waving Dog production.  This is 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.   

The reviews have started coming in :

Thank you for producing A Century Overdue: DRHEP. You have skillfully woven together a video that captures several storylines; Davidson River history, government/nonprofit partnership, TU Chapter cooperation, and the value of stream restoration. The result is a video that will be used for years to come in communicating the TU message. Since I have been a TU member, one of my most enduring observations, is the incredible scope and excellence of talent found within the TU membership. Your production of A Century Overdue: DRHEP is perhaps the best example of my observation. I would have never imagined that within RRTU, there you were, and you graciously donated many hours of your time and skills to make this video the stellar product that it is. I really can’t thank you enough.

Sincerely,
Jim Rumbough

President, Pisgah Chapter

Watch Me

A Century Overdue:
Davidson River
Enhancement
Project



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 HUGE  thanks to the folks at Orvis

and to everyone who made this possible. 

The Davidson River Habitat Enhancement

Project is the ultimate beneficiary. 

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ROCKY RIVER TROUT UNLIMITED STORE

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One of the color plate pattern illustrations Volume 2

VISIT  the "new" RRTU Store !  Items you can not find anywhere else. Purchases go directly to support chapter projects, like the Davidson River Enhancement Project ! Plus, you get a valuable item of your choice.  Like the just published, long awaited Volume 2 of the Southern Appalachian Fly Patterns and RRTU Fly of the Month.  This is a new standard of history on the trout flies from local tiers, often featuring in-person interviews, and impossible to find anywhere else. 
RRTU Store

ROCKY RIVER TROUT UNLIMITED FLY OF THE MONTH :

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Rex's Realistic Black Stonefly
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Realistic Stonefly
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Rex's Golden Stonefly
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Realistic Adult Stonefly
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Rex's Brown Stonefly
Fly of the Month 01.21 - Rex’s Realistic Stonefly Nymph

When you grabbed a few recommended flies at the fly shop, you may have noticed that the flies appear to either be an attractor fly pattern or suggestive fly pattern. An attractor fly is designed to get the instinctive or territorial attention of the fish, is typically composed of bright colors and may appear to be an extreme version of the intended fish food. Examples include a Chernobyl Ant as well as the Royal Wulff which imitates an upright and divided winged mayfly yet has a bright royal red band on the body that seems to readily attract fish. A suggestive fly is designed to somewhat match the size, shape, colors, textures and/or actions of the fish food an angler believes present at that time or during a “hatch”.  Examples include exact color matching Catskill style flies like the Quill Gordon and March Brown as well as tail dunking emergers and wing cased nymphs which have the shape and color of the fish food imitated.

Burnt-Wing Extended Body Green Drake
Rex’s Realistic Stonefly Nymph
J:Son Adult Caddis
Helmeted Sculpin

Fly of the Month 01.21

Tom Adams and Alen Baker



Choose the Learn More button for the rest of the story and the tying recipe with instructions :

LEARN MORE



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NOTICE: A quick overview of the calendar is now at the top of this page under Upcoming Events.
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We who trout fish together ...will work together to
Conserve,  Protect,  and Restore our Coldwater Streams

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Rocky River Chapter of Trout Unlimited (RRTU) 348


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