RIFFLES AND POOLS

SEPTEMBER 2020 NEWSLETTER

UPCOMING EVENTSSep 5th: Buena Vista Kids Fishing Derby 2020. CANCELLED

Sep 9th: Member meeting. CANCELLED

Sep 28th: Moonlight Pizza get-together, read below for more info.

Nov 11th: Year-in-Review meeting and potluck: CANCELLED

All our events can be also found on our online calendar.

MOONLIGHT PIZZA ANNUAL GET-TOGETHERBy Rick Helmick

Please come out on Monday, Sept 28th, for some great pizza, good salads,and their home brewed beer! Moonlight Mondays support a different localnonprofit, by returning 10% of their entire day's sales back to thatorganization. Hopefully this will become an annual fundraising event for CPC,this being our second year in a row that we have been selected.

With COVID-19, it will be slightly different this year, as they don't encouragemingling, so there will be alternative ways to do so. They limit seating to partiesof 10, but I'm not sure if many of us want to sit with such a large group.

Patricia and I plan to come out for dinner, table for two (preferably on theirlarge outside patio), and visit with our CPC friends seated around us at therestaurant's 6-foot table distancing.

If this doesn't appeal to you, consider ordering take out and say hello when youcome by. They also offer delivery. Or consider purchasing a gift card. Swingby, or order by phone.

Both of these count as sales for the day, which we will earn 10% from. And, we

are also supporting a local business, and their employees.

$$ - RAISE FUNDS FOR CPCWHEN YOU SHOP AT CITY MARKET - $$By Pam Simpson

Do you know that CPC is registered in the City Market Community RewardsProgram?? Do you shop at City Market in Buena Vista?? This Kroger/CityMarket program is an easy way to earn funds for your TU Chapter with noadditional out-of-pocket cost to you. CPC earns funds every time you buy yourgroceries at a City Market.

By registering your City Market loyalty card, the funds raised support kid'sfishing derbies, youth education, college scholarships, conservation work andhelps keep the "lights" on.

In 2019, CPC raised $295 from a very small number of families. Through theend of June 2020, an additional $95 has been raised. Imagine how much moreCPC could raise if more cards were registered! If you have not registered yourloyalty card, please consider doing so.

Go to https://www.citymarket.com/i/community/community-rewards toregister or email CityMarketCommunityRewards@citymarket.com for moreinfo.

CPC's account number is HM421.

Anglers in the high country (photo: Tom P).

RIVER SPEAKOVERLAPPING

THE SEAMS

So Many ReasonsIn these three seasons

Must be something in the water

Milder September, 30 chancesTemperature adjusting, robust feeding

Wilder October, you get 31Lower CFS, heavy competition

Quieter November, 30 before winterLess intrusion, no fly confusion( two blankets for December?)

Laddering your fly into each seasonschanging seams guaranteed to give you

bumps, hits, refusals, takes in all thezones in the currents, seams, chop,

deep and mid-level runs.

Choosing wisely, same size, type of flycan give you all day success,happily replacing said fly that

has been chewed to practically nothing.

Ninety one days, no need for guessingwasn't that something!

M H

High country lake cutthroat (photo: Tom P)

FALL 2020 SCHOLARSHIP AWARDSBy Barbara Plake

Kori Davis, $1500 Fred Rasmussen Memorial Scholarship. Kori is a continuingscholarship recipient, receiving her first CPC TU Scholarship Award in Fall2019. She is a senior at Colorado School of Mines majoring in environmentalengineering. She is also on the varsity swim team. Her goal is to work as aproject manager for an environmental firm focusing on ecology and waterquality. She lives in Salida, Colorado.

Grady Petit, $1500 CPC TU Scholarship. Grady is a continuing scholarshiprecipient, receiving the Fred Rasmussen inaugural scholarship in the fall2019. He is a senior at Kansas University with a major in environmentalsciences. He is also a cadet in ROTC at KU anticipating a commission in theUnited States Army upon graduation. He is from Salida, Colorado.

Kori Davis Grady Petit

FISHING QUOTE"Ability is what you are capable of doing.Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." -- Lou Holtz

On the search for brookies... (photo: Tom P)

If you'd like to share a short note and some photos from a recent trip, pleasesubmit them to our editor.submit them to our editor. Anyone willing to contribute a column would be

appreciated.

EDITOR-PERMANENTLY-AD-HOC: Tom Palka. Members are encouraged tocontribute to this publication: fishing stories, experiences, or quotes. Sendquestions or submissions by email to editor@collegiatepeakstu.orgeditor@collegiatepeakstu.org. Editor'sdeadline is the 23rd of the month.

This is the e-Newsletter of Collegiate Peaks Chapter of the nation's leading coldwater This is the e-Newsletter of Collegiate Peaks Chapter of the nation's leading coldwaterconservation organization -- Trout Unlimited.conservation organization -- Trout Unlimited.

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