THE TROUT LINE
Tualatin Valley Chapter News
September/October 2007
Chapter Meetings are held at the LUCKY
LABRADOR on the second Wednesday of
each month at 6:30 PM with a social get-together and
the formal meeting at 7:00 PM unless otherwise noted
in the newsletter or website. Lucky Labrador, Multnomah
Village, 7675 SW Capitol Hwy. Portland, (503) 244-2537.
Food and Beverages available.
Board of Directors Meetings held on the fourth
Wednesday of the month at a Directors home at 7pm.
Wednesday September 12
"Marine Reserves in Oregon's
Coastal Sea," Presented by Dr. Selina
Heppell from the Oregon State University Department
of Fisheries and Wildlife Her program will define and
discuss marine reserves and protected areas, how they are
likely to contribute to conservation, how they may affect
fishermen, and how citizens can get involved in the
upcoming effort to identify "Special Places" in Oregon's
coastal waters. Dr. Heppell’s research focuses on some of
the oldest and slowest-growing animals in the sea: sea
turtles, sharks, sturgeon, and west coast rockfish. These
marine animals share three traits: long lifespans, late age
at maturity, and endangerment due to over harvest by
humans. Through the use of computer models and
simulations, she is helping us understand how these
animals respond to human impacts and guiding research
and management policy towards their recovery.
Wednesday October 10 Jeff Morgan
on Small Stream Fly Fishing has been
tentatively confirmed since late March but we may have a
substitute if he is unable to make it this month. He has a
great new book out on Small Stream Fly Fishing
See the review below:
Editor: David Illig
President’s Column
Hank Hosfield
I’m going to spare you the retelling
of how I got signed up by Trout
Unlimited, but I will say that while
I knew very little about it, I
gathered from its name that it
must be something like Ducks Unlimited, only instead of
working to give the hunting world more ducks to blast, TU
was working to give us more trout to catch. I liked
catching trout. Unlimited trout sounded like a good thing.
I’ve always been in favor of more trout. Throw salmon in
there, too. Actually, I’m generally a fan of abundance for
most things—scotch broom and telemarketers not being
among them. I’m especially in favor of an abundance of
healthy fisheries where one doesn’t have to think twice
about the prospects for collapsing the wild stock if you
decide to take a fish home.
I’ve never been anti-harvest, I’ve simply gravitated toward
catch-and-release because I like the idea of throwing fish
back with the hope that they’ll be even bigger the next
time I catch them. I’m also not all that wild about eating
trout. I mean, it’s not exactly lingcod or halibut in the
taste department. So the next hatchery rainbow I conk
will be in an emergency food situation. But I‘ll take an
occasional brookie or two for the pan.
My even greater interest is in having more robust
fisheries—trophy fisheries, if the conditions allow them. I
see so many waters in our state that could be so much
better if they were managed with slot limits and reduced
harvest. Not that those regulations mean a lot to some of
the guys who have been regularly poaching our home
waters for decades. Just the same, I wonder how difficult
it would be to convince anglers that they could all enjoy
better fisheries if they weren’t so focused on harvest?
But before we attempt this, we’ll need to convince our own
ODFW that they might be able to more successfully sell
fishing and more fishing licenses if there were more good
opportunities for anglers to land memorable fish. Their
current thinking is that the public is primarily interested
in put-and-take fisheries, and that going home fishless is
somehow not worth the cost of the license. In fact,
almost all of their fishing promotion events revolve
around the harvest of recently stocked waters. They
advertise where their stocking trucks are heading.
Anglers are encouraged to come and get their limits.
Earlier this summer there was a fishing derby at Diamond
Lake. As you know, Diamond Lake was recently
reconstituted at the cost of several million dollars in order
to rid the lake of the tui chubs that turned the state’s

most abundant trout fishery into a toxic dump. Diamond
Lake was restocked, and a lot of fanfare was generated
about the numbers and size of the fish going back into
the lake, in hopes of bringing back the once bustling
recreational fishery. The derby was sponsored by
Blackbird Sporting Goods, in conjunction with the Middle
Rogue Chapter of Trout Unlimited. It was by all accounts,
a tremendous success. According to reports, there were
over 1100 anglers registered, and the fishing was pretty
good. The photos from the event pictured a lot of smiling
people holding a lot of fat hatchery trout. If you’re trying
to promote fishing, you can hardly ask for a better
situation, right?
Yet as hard as I tried to feel warm and fuzzy about it all, I
couldn’t shake the unsettled feeling that despite the
obvious fun, maybe such events promote the wrong
things. My hope is that more happy anglers make for more
people with a vested interest in protecting our fisheries
and wilderness. But every time I see one of these
jamborees where the masses are walking away with
stocked fish I worry that we’re sending the message that
fishing is an extractive exercise focused on harvest. I
realize you have to start somewhere, but it wouldn’t have
hurt to mention to the 1100-plus casting their lines that
even an incredibly productive put-and-take fishery like
Diamond Lake can be fished out if it faced such
an onslaught on a continual basis. But my real concern is
not for Diamond Lake—which is an amazing fish factory
that has been historically successfully managed for
turning out more pounds of fish than any other lake in
Oregon—but rather for the great many other less
productive waters that can’t sustain this kind of
maximum harvest mentality. I wonder if we’re
conditioning anglers to regard their future enjoyment of
the sport contingent upon hauling many fish home to rot
in the freezer?
As someone who loves fishing almost beyond reason, I
consider taking fish home to be one of its less enjoyable
aspects. They’re messy, smelly, and certainly not always
delicious. The most fun of fishing is in the catching, but
the act of fishing itself is greatly rewarding for me. The
beautiful places I escape to, and often the friends that go
with me make time on the water with rod in hand among
my most treasured moments. Even if there aren’t fish for
me to club, I will enjoy my day. And year after year I will
continue to buy a license. I wonder if the same is true for
the kill-fish crowd? For me fishing is qualitative, not
quantitative. I think those who want to promote the sport
should give this greater consideration.
While they’re at it, maybe they should also consider
alternatively resting certain fisheries by closing them for a
year every so often. Maybe put 20% of the states waters
off limits every year to allow them some recovery time.
Think how much healthier the resource and better the
fishing might be. I think that would appeal to more
anglers.
As for the current management plan, I know I’m not the
only one who thinks that introducing new people to the
sport with gobs of hatchery fish may not be the best way
to hook new anglers. Bill Egan, the Information Director
for the Oregon Bass & Panfish Club believes it is a poor
way. In an outdoor feature article in The Oregonian
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written by Bill Monroe, Egan explains: “You look at the
cost of stocking trout and the fact that you’re not
teaching kids anything with a stocked fishery.” He also
added that stocked trout attract a lot of “selfish adults
who just stand there and exceed their limits.” Bill Egan is
into teaching the why and how of fishing, and helping
people understand why fish behave as they do. This
seems to me to be a more well-rounded approach. I’ll try
to overlook his quip that stocked trout are what feed his
bass.
The warmwater fish advocates of the Oregon Bass &
Panfish Club have done a good job of promoting their
fisheries and themselves. And there’s no mistaking in
their name what they’re about.
Trout Unlimited should be so well known and understood
throughout the fishing public for what we do for the
resource and in efforts to improve fishing. Most anglers
have no idea what Trout Unlimited is about. Maybe we
should be more like Ducks Unlimited.
Tight Lines, Hank.
We Help Remove Noxious Weeds
By Robert Bernard
Removal of noxious weeds remains an ongoing environmental
concern for our chapter. To that end, thirteen individuals devoted
two days to removing knapweed in the Deschutes Land Trust, at
the Rip Ranch. We removed weeds over a two-acre area near a
beautiful stream. Participants experienced personal satisfaction,
comrade, good food and a glorious, panoramic location.
Years ago, the Deschutes Land Trust became an “adopted” ongoing
conservation effort for the Tualatin and Clackamas TU chapters.
We help there at least two times a year.
The stream is one at which, last year, our chapter and made bank
improvements to mitigate erosion. This same stream just received
250,000 steelhead smelt. Someday, maybe we will catch steelhead
here
Most of our conservation efforts are in conjunction with
Clackamas TU chapter. This was another mutual endeavor. I
encourage our members to become participants in our
conservation efforts. Without conservation, we will soon be limited
to minimum fishing opportunities. Robert
Chapter Newsletter Editor Needed.
Its time to find some new blood and ideas and energy
for the newsletter. I think its time for me to move on to
other things. It has been a great ride with wonderful
articles written by many people. I’m grateful to have
helped publish them. We need a new EDITOR. This
volunteer activity happens every two months. Its good
experience and can go on your resume. Not much
technical knowledge needed. I’ll help whoever takes it
on get started. Contact me or the Board.
For now send Newsletter Materials to David Illig at
dillig1@aol.com, 503 296 9050. Articles, pictures,
poems, book reviews, equipment comments, fishing
reports, conservation issues, fishing issues,
Environmental issues and politics.

Fly of the Month: The Better
Mousetrap – Chartreuse Copper John
Michael Gentry
The Copper John has been a staple in most flyfishers’ fly
boxes for a number of years. About five years ago, one of
the seemingly endless yearly “new twists” in fly tying
literature and catalogs was the advent of chartreuse wire.
Searching around for a use for this material, I decided to
try it as a variation on the standard Copper John. I’d had
pretty good success with the standard pattern in lakes,
but honestly had never tried it in any rivers or streams. It
has turned out to be my best “searching” fly on almost
any water, usually noticeably out fishing the standard
copper pattern.
Hook: ……….. Tiemco 100BL, sizes 12 through 18
Beadhead:…….silver, and sized to the size of the hook
Thread:………. black 8/0 unithread
Tail:……………paired ginger or brown goose biot
Body:………….fine chartreuse wire
Thorax:……….peacock herl
Legs:…………..barred teal or mallard
1. Secure the beadhead against the eye of the hook.
I do that by loosely wrapping a “ball” or “cylinder”
of thread right behind the beadhead so that the
thickness of the thread mass is just about the
same size as the hole in the rear of the beadhead,
and then pushing the thread mass into the
beadhead hole with my fingers (so that the
beadhead is not wobbling on the hook shank).
2. Wind the thread to the bend in the hook.
3. Tie in the tail of paired biots so the tail is about half
the length of the hook shank.
4. Secure the wire at the tail juncture point by laying the
wire on top of the hook (the part you’ll use to wrap the
body sticks out the back) and then, first pulling the wire
at a right angle to the hook shank, wrapping (but see the
next point first) with close wraps of wire to about 1/8 inch
from the eye and tie off and clip the excess. Wrap in
tight turns (so that each wrap is tight against the earlier
turn and gives a smooth, solid color body; try to do it with
no underlying thread showing through – you can see from
the photo that I did not get this sample quite tight
enough). I usually cut off about 9-10 inches of wire to use
(enough to wrap three or four flies or more depending on
what size hook is used). This is the method I prefer; an
alternate is to hold on to about 1 inch of the wire and with
the other end simply start wrapping at the tail juncture to
the same tie-off point and then to cut the “holding” end
off as close to the hook as possible and use your fingers
to wrap the little tag end onto the hook. The only danger
of this method is that since the butt end of the wrap is
not tied in, sometimes the body starts to come unwrapped
after several fish.
5. What shape body? I tie mine with a taper,
getting larger toward the thorax. To do that,
before I start wrapping the body I build the shape
of the body with thread underwrap. However, I
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know several good tiers/fishers who swear that a
straight body works just as well (eliminating the
need for any underwrap). Call me a traditionalist.
6. Tie in a strand of peacock herl at the front of the
body and wrap a thorax to the back of the eye. I
prefer to make a herl/thread “yarn” by winding
the herl strand around the thread before wrapping
the thorax with the “yarn” (makes the thorax
stand up better after several fish), but some just
wrap the herl and tie off.
7. On each side of the front of the thorax, for legs tie
in five or six barbs of barred teal or mallard so
that the legs extend about halfway to the start of
the bend of the hook.
8. Wrap a small head and finish. I put a small drop
of head cement on the wrapped head for extra
strength.
9. For an extra flourish, I sometimes put a drop of
epoxy on the top of the thorax, giving it a
“shellback” appearance. I can’t honestly say that I
have seen a difference in hookup rates with the
shellback over the standard, but I like the looks of
it.
The fly presumably simulates some sort of mayfly nymph,
and I have had success fishing it on the swing in rivers
and streams and in lakes on a slow retrieve like a
chironomid or on a slow troll. Several months ago, four of
us ventured to Horseshoe Lake, an hour north of Spokane.
I put on this fly as a “searching pattern” as I often do, and
immediately started having noticeably more success than
the others. One by one, they sidled up to “see what I was
using” and I handed out samples. I don’t know how many
fish that fly caught over two days, but it was in the many
dozens. One guy did not change flies the entire first day.
The lake had brookies, Westslope cutts and Kamloops
rainbows, and all readily took the fly. The dictionary
defines chartreuse as a liqueur which is “highly
esteemed”, and I’d argue that that definition also applies
to this “better mousetrap”.
Michael

The Timothy Lake Outing
By Andy Andrews
Because of the success of last year’s outing to Timothy,
this year we decided to reserve a group camp area. The
site that was chosen was somewhat separated from the
other sites and therefore more quite and private than the
other group sites that affront the lake. The weather was
better than expected with only a few white, puffy clouds
around and pleasantly warm temperatures during the day.
I believe that everyone who was fishing caught some fish
on Saturday or Sunday. On Saturday, there was a
moderate to heavy bite that turned on between noon and
two – o’clock in the afternoon. Most of the fish caught
were rainbows, but brook and cutthroat also came to the
net. At least one - trophy brook was caught and released,
and possibly more trophy fish were caught, depending
upon what your definition of what a ‘trophy’ would be.
Keeping with tradition, these definitions are intentionally
kept a little vague between fishermen and can be
misconstrued as ‘secret’ locations and techniques. The
reality is that the ‘whole truth’ is generally never told in an
effort to protect a fishery from overuse. TU members will
help others with the trusted fly patterns and technique
because we believe that other members share our values
and will protect a valued resource. Of course, the right
pattern and technique are only part of the fishing puzzle;
the fish have to be interested in ‘dining’ or you are just
doing a casting exercise. Sundays’ fishing was much
slower than Saturday’s experience. Fish were caught on
Sunday, but they were just fewer and they were harder to
come by.
On Saturday evening, the Road Kill Grill put out another
respectable meal for the group. A recent addition to my
camping equipment was a hand – cranked blender that
turned out a few Margaritas to go with dinner. Later
around the campfire, S’mores (for the kid in all of us) were
made on magic roasting sticks, which are manually
extended and digitally rotated. Around the fire, fishing
was discussed and world problems were resolved with
reckless abandon.
One advantage to
fishing with TU is
that we have a few
members’ who are
very experienced (I
don’t count myself
in that group) and
are willing to help
those with less
experience. We
were not born
fisherperson’s; we
had to learn just
like everyone else
who picks up a rod.
We’re not critical of
someone who does
not know the right
knot to use; we will
show you. If we
only have one or
two experienced people turn out for the outing, you will
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learn much faster than if you try to teach yourself. After
you reach a certain point in learning, it simply takes time
on the water to develop your skills. And before long, you
will be passing along what you have learned to others. All
you have to do is have the courage to show up and start
the learning process for fly fishing. I know there are a few
of you out there who keep saying to yourself that, “I
should probably join in on a trip sometime, but maybe I’ll
wait until the next trip”. Well, the next trip is the outing
to Klamath Lake, and at that point our program for 2007
will be half - over. So my question to you is when will you
stop the excuses and join in the TU outings?
Klamath Falls Outing Review
By Andy Andrews
The TU contingent arrived at Klamath Lake on a sunny
Friday afternoon. Our camp was established at Odessa
Campground, on Odessa Creek. The campground had
approximately six – spaces, all with tables and fire rings.
Water is not available at the campground and only one
‘modern’ outhouse was available on site. The beauty of
this campground was not totally due to the tall Ponderosa
pines, but was also in the fact that no camping fee is
required.
The first evening, we fished Odessa Creek where it entered
the lake; Mt. McLoughlin was clearly visible in the
background. The Upper Klamath Lake is part of the
largest lake in Oregon. But for its immense size, it is very
shallow with a maximum depth of maybe 15 – feet.
Everywhere we fished we found the water depth to be no
more than 6 – feet. The lake is heavily used by waterfowl.
While on the lake we saw many white pelicans, grebes,
eagles, ospreys, egrets and cormorants. If fact, on one
evening, an osprey crossed the bow of our boat no more
that 10 – 12 feet away and about 3 – 4 feet off the water.
He was laden with a 16 – inch rainbow trout carried
‘torpedo’ fashion (to reduce air resistance) which is their
custom. If you are a bird watcher and are not aware of
the Klamath Basin, you need to do some investigation of
the area. You do not need a boat for the lake. You can
drive the dikes in the area and travel along the waterways
that extend into Northern California. This area is known
as the KBBT, or Klamath Basin Birding Trails and is a
nationally recognized area for migrations routes and other
wildlife. Though far from an expert, I will do a future
newsletter article on the KBBT and birding as I know not
everyone in TU fishes, but might enjoy birding.
Our first evening fishing experience was almost
uneventful except for a native sucker that was caught and
released unharmed, according to the law. This fish had
become a host to an eel of 6 – inches in length. Saturday
morning, after more casting, two large trout were brought
to the net; pictures were taken and the fish were released
back into the lake, unharmed. It was said that fishing
Klamath is a little like steelhead fishing in that you need
to throw a lot of line and spend lots of time on the lake in
order to reap any rewards. Like steelhead, these trout are
very large and usually are measured in pounds instead of
inches, and catching even one on a weekend is a gift from
the fish gods. All of the fish we caught during the
weekend ranged in the 25 – 28 inch range, except for the
sucker which was much smaller. Fishing the lake is best
done from a boat. Areas like Rocky Point can be fished

from a tube, but the majority of the shoreline is very
marshy and filled with reeds making launching and
landing without a ramp nearly impossible even with a
boat.
On Sunday, two more fish were boated and released.
During our Sunday outing, I held several conferences with
my fly explaining that it had the choice of becoming
immortalized by catching fish, or be left to rot in a log.
Unfortunately, it chose poorly and was left to rot in a log;
proving once again that my skills as a motivational
speaker are
very
limited. On
Sunday we
had to
search out
new water
in the lake
as the area
around
Odessa was
undergoing
an algae
bloom.
This is an
actual algae
‘plant’ that due to water temperature, sunlight and
whatever else makes it grow, becomes a green carpet in
the water. The water can become soupy with algae, and
consume a great deal of oxygen from the water that is
needed for fish survival. This growth forced us into
Pelican Bay, near the Rocky Point Resort. As we ventured
into the bay (and clear water), one area caught our
attention. Very large trout were consistently jumping out
of the water and we felt the fish gods were about to smile
upon us. Unfortunately, we were unable to solve the
riddle as to why the fish were carrying on this behavior of
jumping from the water. There was no bug hatch, nor
minnows in the water that the larger fish would chase, but
the display the fish were putting on was awesome! Some
of the fish were 12 – or more pounds and we could
generally see (or hear) fish breaking the water somewhere,
non – stop. After considerable thought on my part, I came
to what I believed was the answer. The fish were jumping
in celebration that the weekend had ended and they had
not been caught. Of course when I put forth this theory
to my friends, my idea was met with the same smiles,
chuckles and headshaking I had seen when I was in
conference with my fly; the one left behind in the log.
During our
weekend,
Klamath
Lake had
released a
few of its
secrets to us
and our
experience
on this
outing had
been great.
If there were
any disappointments during the weekend, it had to due
with the fact that you didn’t join us. I’m sure that we will
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again return to this area to be awed by the splendor of
the lake and the thrill of chasing big fish. Andy
Chapter Needs Conservation
Projects Leader Our chapter highly values
conservation efforts. We know individually, and as a Trout
Unlimited chapter, we must strive to improve our streams
and lakes. Improvement means helping to make them
clean, pollution free, accessible and beautiful.
Our efforts correspond with TU’s mission
statement…”conserve, protect and restore North
America’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds.”
Please consider yourself for this Position in our Chapter.
Call Robert Bernard to discuss it.
TU Fishing Outings 2007
September 20--26 Fall River, Central Oregon,
Fall River Campground
October 5, 6, 7 State Project, Location TBA
October 14 Round Lake,
Upper Clackamas Watershed
October 26, 27, 28 Crooked River, Central Oregon
Campground TBA
Contact Andy Andy.Andrews@nustarenergy.com
503 969 2246
National TU Staff Reviews Streams
By: Robert Bernard
Throughout the United States, local TU chapter’s partner with
national TU to improve our steams via efforts entitled Embrace-A-
Stream and Home Waters Initiative. The first initiative began in New
York during 1976. TU members yearly devote 125,000 hours and
more than 1.5 million dollars in stream restoration work.
During the week of July 9, our state chair, Tom Wolf hosted Laura
Hewitt, TU Watersheds Coordinator. They visited Oregon
watersheds near Tillamook and Deschutes. They offered to meet
with individual members as an opportunity for us to give our views
about implementing an embrace-a-steam project and possible
streams for statewide adoption.
I met with them in this exploratory, first step, meeting. We
discussed purpose, possible streams and organization. I expressed
my views about likely streams, i.e., Sandy, Metolius, Deschutes and
Wilson plus issues about economics and involvement. Again, this
was an exploratory meeting. Many other facets are necessary for
any steam adoption.
Let me know if you have ideas and interest in being involved with
exploration of Embrace a Stream possibilities. Robert

Small-Stream Fly Fishing by Jeff
Morgan Reviewed by Scott Richmond
Why do people fish with flies: to catch big trout, or for the
aesthetic experience? Most people will admit to the latter.
And where can you get the best aesthetic experience:
shoulder-to-shoulder with other anglers on a big, famous
river, or on a solitary trip to a small stream? Again, most
people will go with the second answer.
So the 64-million-dollar question is: Why do so few fly
anglers seek out small streams? I think there are three
major reasons. The first is they don't know where to go.
The second is that they don't know what to do when they
get there. And last, they have misconceptions about fly
fishing on small streams.
Those reasons would vanish if more anglers read Jeff
Morgan's book, Small-Stream Fly Fishing. This is a terrific
book for anyone who enjoys fly fishing. Even if you don't
intend to drop your fly into a four-foot wide creek, you'll
pick up invaluable tips that will help you fish anywhere.
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observe and analyze their features, then draw the right
conclusions about flies and tactics.
Next he goes into small-stream entomology, explaining
clearly how it's different from that of big rivers. In that
chapter you'll find 100 fly patterns (many of which are on
Westfly) that are especially suited to fly fishing small
streams. For each pattern there is a photo, recipe, and
commentary about when and how to use the fly.
Additional chapters go into Tackle and Equipment;
Common Types of Small Streams; and Technology, such
as using maps, GPS, and the internet to find suitable
creeks. The book's final chapter includes case studies that
show how to analyze and fish several small streams
(sorry, but the real names are not revealed).
Find Your Own Eden
Westfly users are familiar with Jeff Morgan through his fly
tying column. I sometimes think that three decades from
now the only thing I'll be remembered for is as the answer
to a fly fishing trivia question ("Who gave the famous Jeff
Morgan his first opportunity to write a regular fly fishing
column?").

Exploding the Myths
In the first chapter, Morgan explodes several small-stream
myths: • Small Streams Contain Small Fish. Yes, many do.
But if you know what to look for, you can find productive
creeks filled with good-sized trout that have little
knowledge of what an angler looks like.
Small Streams Are for Beginners and Kids. On the
contrary, many small streams are more challenging than
the big (and artificial) tailwaters that the West is famous
for.
• Small Stream Fly Selection is Basic. Sometimes that's
true, but more often it reveals a failure to understand the
nature of small streams.
• Small Streams Are Tough to Access. Simply not true.
I like his thorough, analytical approach. Jeff is always
thinking, always asking "why?" and always ready to buck
the conventional wisdom. Those qualities have produced
the definitive book on a subject that should be close to
the heart of western fly fishers.
If you like the fluffy, simplistic style of most popular fly
fishing magazines, don't buy this book. But if you want
hard, in-depth knowledge that will let you find your own
fly fishing Eden--and let you fish it productively--than go
to your local fly shop and get Small-Stream Fly Fishing.
Then read every page; you'll be glad you did.
Just Get out of the way and hope
you’re Lucky. David Illig

And so on. One-by-one, Morgan looks at the small-stream

misconceptions held by most fly anglers, and corrects
them.

True, you're not likely to find five-pound trout in these

waters, but with a little work you can find your own liquid
Eden with enough fish over 12 inches to give you perma-
grin.

Treasuring Individuality
Morgan makes the point that large rivers are the
homogenized result of many small streams, but each
small stream that makes up a large river tends to be
unique. That individuality is their charm, but it's also
their challenge. A stream's unique geology, trees,
vegetation, and hydrology drive the insect population and
hence the trout population (or lack thereof).

Thus, in order to fish a small stream well--and to know

what makes it different from its neighbors--you have to
understand what makes it tick. Here, Morgan shines. He
goes into the ecology of small streams, showing how to

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Waldo Lake to Remain Clean & Quiet!
Ask the Governor to support the
Forest Service's
decision to ban
gasoline motors
on and around
this wilderness
lake.
Many of you responded to our December 2006 appeal to
comment on the proposed ban of gasoline motors on and
around Waldo Lake. Your overwhelming response helped
the Forest Service to do the right thing: phase out loud,
dirty gasoline motors from the surface of one of the
purest lakes in the world! Thanks to all who helped
convince the Forest Service that Waldo needs to be kept
pristine and beautiful for future generations!
The first time the Forest Service proposed to maintain
Waldo Lake’s pristine qualities by phasing-out of motors
on and around the lake, in 2001, the threat of appeals and
lawsuits made them back out of its decision. Over the
past few years, they’ve re-analyzed the ban, and in early
2007 the FS made a decision to phase out gasoline motors
on the surface of the lake over the next two years.
Specifically, they decided to
• Restrict boat motor use on Waldo Lake to electric
motors only, with exceptions for the
administrative and emergency use of internal
combustion motors when approved by the Forest
Service.
• Prohibit floatplanes from using the surface of
Waldo Lake.
• Prohibit public use of generators and chainsaws
within the Dispersed Recreation, Semi-primitive
Non-motorized management area (MA-10e)
surrounding Waldo Lake.
Like last time, this long-awaited decision was appealed by
interests who feel that they can not enjoy Waldo Lake
without loud, polluting motors. Fortunately, though, the
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Forest Service stood its ground, denying this appeal and
standing up for one of the true gems of the Oregon
Cascades and the vast majority of lake users who enjoy its
solitude and clean waters.
Take Action!
It looks likely that motorized-use proponents will sue over
the Forest Service’s decision and who has jurisdiction of
the lake. The Forest Service, Oregon Wild, and other
groups will fight to uphold the decision in court.
Meanwhile, the question of whether the Forest Service or
the State of Oregon has jurisdiction over regulating the
lake’s surface will be brought up in court. While the State
may disagree with the Forest Service’s claims to
jurisdiction, it is important that Governor Kulongoski take
a stance that, regardless of authority, gasoline motors do
not belong on Waldo Lake or in the pristine backcountry
around it. People who love the serene beauty of the area
should ask him to work to find a resolution to the issue
that maintains the Forest Service’s admirable decision.
Another thing the Governor can do is urge the
Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to finish their
long-awaited designation of "outstanding resource
waters", required under the Clean Water Act. This would
protect Waldo Lake, Crater Lake, and several pristine
rivers from activities that would degrade water quality.
Please take a moment to send a quick note to Governor
Kulongoski today!
Contact Morgan of Oregon Wild at 503-283-6343, ext. 213
Chapter Business Issues
My recommendation we conduct the annual meeting at
our regularly scheduled meeting. Our fiscal year begins
October 1. As we are working on by-laws and because, I'd
like us to have more time to recruit new board members, I
believe we will be best served by conducting our annual
meeting in October. Perhaps by that time we can have
bylaws for review, an annual report, budget development,
a prior fiscal year treasurers report, information on plans
for 08, an whatever else goes into an effect annual
meeting, including guidelines per By-laws and TU
Handook or web site.
At a board meeting earlier this year, we discussed putting
a notice of board
member election in the newsletter prior to our chapter's
annual meeting in
the fall. I am not sure if that is the Sept. or Oct. meeting,
but looks
like now is time for the notice to be published.
 Tualatin Valley Trout Unlimited
September/October 2007 Jeff Morgan Book Review Marine Reserves
Officers and Board
President: Hank Hosfield
228-6553 hankh@imagina.com
Vice President Robert L. Bernard 503-239-8507
bearbernard@yahoo.com
Treasurer Erle Norman 293-6006
caddis2000@hotmail.com
Membership Chair
Board of Directors:
Eric Thompson 297-0718
anglingeric@msn.com
Dick Rohrbaugh
rbaugh@lclark.edu 636-3877
David Illig Newsletter editor
296 9050 dillig1@aol.com
Alex Barkume - 642-7024
alexbarkume@comcast.net
Andy Andrews Outings
Andy.Andrews@nustarenergy.com 969 2246
Jerry Heppell
gheppell5@verizon.net 639-9408

Communications Paige Wallace

503-803-9466 flyfishgirl@hotmail.com