Cherry Creek Anglers - Trout Unlimited Chapter 474
Membership
Ron Austin
(720) 308-0979 H/Cell
P.O. Box 440372 Aurora CO 80044
Click here to send an email to get on our email list and to receive the electronic chapter newsletter "The Cherry Creek Cast".
Here is a link to the latest The Cherry Creek Cast newsletter April - May 2008.
(adobe acrobat file)
Here is the April 2007 Member Survey (PowerPoint format).
Trumbull Habitat Improvement/Handicap Access
Afectiononally refferred to as HI/HA Project. Click here to find out more about the this chapter Project.
Attached is a PSA and information on the Watershed Protection Fund, which receives dollars from the check-offs on state tax returns. Please pass the word about this program and encourage your members, friends, etc. to make a check-off donation. This was put together with Evergreen TU's own Hugh Gardner with footage from the Greenback video - thanks Hugh, for your efforts on this.
David Nickum
Executive Director
Colorado Trout Unlimited
1320 Pearl Street, Suite 320
Boulder, CO 80302
303-440-2937 x101
2008 CTU Youth Camp
Cherry Creek Anglers is
pleased to announce that one of our new members, Wes Carey, has been accepted to
participate in this year's CTU Youth Camp. Wes will receive a full tuition
Grant from our chapter.
Wes is age 15, and a
native Coloradan who lives in Parker and is a Freshman at Chaparral High School
there. He
believes he gets my passion for fishing from his Grandpa, as
did most of the other grandkids.
Wes’s mom also likes to fish.
Her favorite thing to do is fish on the river, like she did with her Dad,
growing up. He says, “Mom taught me how
to bait hooks with night crawlers - just like her Dad taught her.”
A beginning fly fisher,
Wes recently was given his Grandpa’s hand-me-down bamboo rod. His parents had it appraised and he was
surprised at its value, so he bought another rod to use until he becomes more
experienced.
Wes says, “I really like to rollerblade and do
tricks. My friends and I have been
checking out all the skate parks in the Denver metro area. We
like to ride the Light Rail downtown to the Denver Skate park (the one you see
on TV at the end of the news.) I also
love to go snowboarding - my favorite ski area is Winter
Park.”
Most of Wes’s friends are either on the Lacrosse or Baseball teams in
high school, as well as the other sports mentioned earlier that they do
together. He says, “I wish Chaparral had a fishing club or better than that -
a Fishing Team; then I could be fishing while the team sports practices are
going on during the week, instead of waiting for them to come home!”
Wes’s
favorite school subject is Adventure Experience, and he reports
that, “I'm normally a B student … when I get all of my homework assignments turned
in.”
He’s planning to keep his grades up too, so he can get his
driver’s permit.
He says, “People ask me what I want to be in life when I grow up?? What I tell them is that I want to be a World Renown Professional Fishing Person.”
2008 Full Calendar
Periodic updates will be posted
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Membership | Youth Activities |
| Newsletters and past emails | Past Activities ** photos ** | Past Meetings ** photos ** |
| Cherry
Creek
Anglers has a willing cadre of Fishing Buddies. Some with phone numbers
appear below: Bill Bird 303-690-0873 | Art Bailey 303-750-8358 | Dennis Cook 303-841-3612 | Bill McLaughlin 303-745-3137|Travis Barker 303-981-2590 |
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About
us!
The Cherry Creek Anglers meet on the 2nd
Thursday
every month at 7:00pm in the Gander Mountain Lodge meeting room.
Gander Mountain Sports is located at 14000 East Jewell Ave. in Aurora. Come about 6:30pm for raffle and social gathering. Situated at the corner of Abilene and Jewell. Abilene runs parallel to I-225 on the East side, and Jewell is North of Iliff and South of Mississippi. (Click here for map). Bring a friend! Cherry Creek Anglers meetings are open to everyone. 
Enjoy fine programs by well-known (and yes, even some famous) guests,
and maybe you'll also win one (or more) of the great fishing
raffle
prizes. Come join us. We're all about making new friends and fishing buddies, and having fun! Do you feel like you’re constantly in one big pressure cooker — or on a treadmill and can’t get off? How many times have you said to yourself, “If I could relax more...”? This can be your chance — a big, easy and enjoyable step toward slowing down that rat race and restoring the sanity you’re missing. Cherry Creek Anglers are a laid back bunch that can help you kick the habit of stress. Meet people who are already doing what you lament wanting to do. Put that tackle you bought to good use — for Fishing FUN! Cherry Creek Anglers’ monthly programs, clinics and educational programs can help you become more knowledgeable about your fishing pastime. Some program examples include: —Fishing RMNP —Building Tied Leaders —Abandoned Mines River Cleanup —High Alpine Angling —200 Year History of Fishing —Fishing the Platte —Fishing Videos —River Entomology Mingle with some of your fishing heroes, and join us on our trips to fish regional waters as well as exotic distant spots. Get-away trips build friendships that last a lifetime and can enrich your life. Participate in our conservation projects to improve or create fish habitat, clean up river areas, build trails and help preserve America’s cold water fisheries. |
Fishing
Buddies
Fishing Buddies are guys and gals who just can’t get enough
of
being on the water. All they need is an excuse, and your phone call to
see if they’re available is just what they’re
waiting for.
Day trips to the Arkansas, Cache La Poudre, South Platte, Clear Creek,
or wherever, is a fine way to get away from it all and up close and
personal with a nice brownie, rainbow or cuttie. 
Member Benefits
Joining
Cherry Creek Anglers includes automatic membership with
national Trout Unlimited. 1st year dues are just $17.50, and
regular
annual dues are only $35.00. Benefits include:
—Monthly programs —Fly Tying Clinic —Casting Clinic —Trout Magazine —High Country Angler Magazine —Newsletter —Fishing Trips —Educational Programs —Conservation Projects —Tackle Retail Discounts at Gander Mountain and Orvis Cherry Creek —Annual River Cleanup —Beautiful TU Calendar —Rental cars & hotel discounts —TU decal & address labels —Fishing companions Trout
Unlimited
Trout
Unlimited’s mission is to conserve, protect and restore North
America’s
trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds. TU
accomplishes this
on local, state and national levels with an extensive and dedicated
volunteers network. TU’s national and regional offices employ
professionals who testify before congress, publish a quarterly
magazine, intervene in federal legal proceedings and work with
its 157,000
volunteers in 450 chapters nationwide to keep them active and
involved in conservation issues.Cherry Creek Anglers has over 400 members. The chapter was formed in 2004 from its predecessor Aurora Anglers Chapter that originated in 1985. We are among Colorado’s twenty TU Chapters with ~10,000 members. |
