Carr provided a Cortland Diamond Glass rod to be used for the Lawson Cary Award Raffle. With the list continuing to grow it wasn’t long before we all felt this could be / would be an en-joyable and productive banquet. On the evening of the dinner, we knew Jeff Perry and Rhonda Poole were doing a great job selling buck-et raffle tickets, but when Jim Less men-tioned just before din-ner that their sales had already exceeded last year’s total income it sure made the com-mittee members feel all the hard work was worth it.

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When this year’s Banquet Committee first got together the overriding objective was clear: let’s get members excited about the future, have fun and hopefully put a few dollars in the chapter’s treasury. All were accomplished as 82 members and friends enjoyed a ter-rific dinner, many went home with some very valuable items, and all had a lot of laughs on Sat-urday, April 5, at the East Greenwich Vet-erans Firemen’s Hall. Under the direction of chairman, Al Ball, the committee assem-bled a wide range of items to be used in the Bucket Raffle and Si-lent and Verbal Auc-

tions. It was amazing to see individual mem-bers and businesses supporting our great sport offering some outstanding items ( see attached list ). We certainly hit the ground running when Dave Miles donated a

14’ Mad River Canoe, Jay Boyer offered a hand crafted fly rod, case and net with a stipulation that the rod/case be used for a drawing for any dinner ticket holder and Joe

I hope everyone has enjoyed the tug of a feisty trout in this new fishing season. April is always an in-teresting and busy month as our projects kick in, members meet members among the riffles and pools our

fisheries offer, and we all meet new friends with common inter-ests, especially fly fish-ing. Our annual banquet is now histo-ry, but it has left many of us with fond memo-ries of a wonderfully

entertaining and happy event. We all certainly owe this year’s Ban-quet Committee a rousing ovation for a job WELL DONE! That modest group, now labeled as TU225’s ‘Dirty Dozen’, was (Continued on page 3)

The 2014 Banquet: “What a Blast”

By Ed Walsh Welcome to

the special

Banquet Issue

of the Long

Cast! In addi-

tion to the usu-

al roster of ter-

rific stories,

the last pages

of this edition

will contain

many, many

photos of YOU!

Be sure to pe-

ruse the pic-

tures and en-

joy!

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

From the Editor’s Desk 2

Fly of the Month 3

TU Banquet Contributors 4

New Member Profiles 6

Lawson Carey Award 8

Banquet Photo Gallery 9

P r e s i d e n t ’ s M e s s a g e

R o n M a r a f i o t i

Summer 2014 Summer 2014

If TU 225 was looking for an anthem to de-pict its present sta-tus, it would have to be Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’”. And alt-hough Dylan intro-duced this song back in October, 1963, it certainly is appropri-ate as our chapter reinvents itself. It started a few years ago when three young guys ( Mike Muzzy, Joe Grenon, and Chris Grenon ) voiced their disap-pointment with the chapter’s inactivity. Not only did they get the ball rolling with their comments, but they were out front organizing clean-up and streamside res-toration projects. You could see the in-crease in member-ship interest and in-volvement with large turnouts for these activities. Realizing our chapter has obligations to TU National directives, the Habitat Assess-ment Group ( HAG ) was formed to evalu-ate the condition of our watershed as it applies to Native Brook Trout sustaina-bility. The group, along with many oth-er members and friends, spent sub-stantial time meeting with RIDEM officials, coordinating efforts

with the URI Water-shed Watch Program, and collecting stream temperatures and ox-ygen levels that were assembled and pre-pared in a yearend report that was evalu-ated by TU National, Wood-Pawcatuck Wa-tershed Association and RIDEM before presenting to our membership at our March meeting. As things were get-ting better, the Board

of Directors realized getting out of the gate on a positive note was going to be very important this year. They also real-ized the best way to grow that positive en-ergy was with the an-nual banquet, and what a job they did. Under the direction of Chairman Al Ball, a committee was as-sembled and the re-sults of those efforts were obvious on Sat-urday, April 5, at the East Greenwich Vet-erans Fireman’s Hall where 75 members and guests were treated to some fine food, great auction items, and a lot of laughs. More than $5,000 was added to the chapter’s treasury, and equally im-portantly, the founda-tion was built for sus-tainable success with future banquets. This important chapter ac-tivity will be even better in 2015.

Communications is another area where many positive chang-es are evident. Meet-ings and speakers have been scheduled in advance and an email is sent to all well ahead of time. We are also using South County regional and local newspapers to get the word out on meetings and spe-cial events. And un-der the direction of Lawson Cary III a new TU 225 web page is being introduced and should be up and running very soon. If you haven’t been to

a meeting, or sup-

ported one of our out-

side activities

( stream restoration /

Arcadia clean-up par-

ties, etc. ) please put

one of these events

on your calendar. I’ll

bet the changes you

experience will reju-

venate your interest

in TU 225.

F r o m t h e E d i t o r ’ s D e s k

b y E d W a l s h

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“As things were

getting better, the

Board of

Directors realized

getting out of the

gate on a positive

note was going to

be very important

this year.”

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Brook trout from the Falls River.

comprised of Al Ball(Chair), Jim Less, Jim Rubovits, Dick Diamond, Ed Walsh, Joe Grenon, Chris, Grenon, Mike Muzzy, Jay Boyer, Rich Ben-son, Lawson Cary III, and Jeff Perry…thank you ALL! And thank you to all our do-nors…we amassed a fantas-tic collection of donations thanks to them, and the 75 or so attendees bid willingly on every item available to provide our chapter with a much needed infusion of cash for member benefits and project support. The banquet was quickly followed by our an-nual cleanup for EARTH Day! April 26 started as a cloudy day with constant rain that did not deter TU225’s “Dirty 13” from accomplishing their task of eliminating much of the trash that was clogging the pathways and waters of the Arcadia Management Ar-ea…particularly along the

Upper Wood, Falls, and Flat Rivers. Sincere thanks to these Chapter stalwarts: Joe Grenon, Chris Grenon, Mike Muzzy, Al Ball, Lawson Cary III, Rich Benson, Russ Ahlgren, Krishnan Scott and his Father John, Ed Walsh, Dick Diamond, John McCall, and I apologize for missing anyone. We offer our sin-cere thanks also to the WPWA and Garelick Dairies

for donating supplies and refreshments for this clean-up. We have some in-tense and interesting pro-jects coming up, and are in dire need of volunteers to make all of these success-ful. These projects include a variety of stream en-hancements, habitat im-provements, the culvert study, the WPWA water temperature monitoring project for headwater streams, and more. Please watch the event schedule and/or contact Al Ball, Joe Grenon, or myself as the Project leads. Best wishes to all of you for an exciting and en-joyable 2014 fishing season in either fresh or salt wa-ter…a fantastic benefit of living, working, and playing in the Ocean State! Tight lines!! - Ron Marafioti

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TU 225 President Ron Marafioti

The Parachute Dry Fly has been a long time favorite and a constantly productive fly for me for many years. Whether fish-ing a heavily hackled #12 Adams for small stream brookies or a tiny sparsely tied #20 during a blue-wing olive hatch, the par-achute has been an effec-tive fly that is durable and floats well. A dark brown

Fly of the Month:

Parachute Adams

By Rich Benson

or tan body parachute in size #16 or #14 is a great fly for the early June hatches on the Wood River. I like straight eye hooks because I feel my hooking per-centage is better with the smaller hooks. The white poly makes a great wing/post and is easy to see when fishing in low light. Great for old eyes! After catching a fish, I simply blow on the fly, squeeze it dry in my

shirt sleeve and it’s ready to go again. Hook: TMC 101/Orvis Big Eye Thread: 8/0 Color of the body Body: tan, brown, olive, etc. Wing: white poly Hackle: dun/grizzly and brown for the Adams Tail: dun fibers (except for Ad-ams)

There certainly seemed to be a lot of smiling faces throughout the even-ing. Even the at-tendees who didn’t get their named called when the buck-et raffle tickets were pulled or might have been out bid in the silent or verbal auc-tions were having a good time. Lawson Cary III was taking a lot of pictures and not one included anything resembling a frown.

Some of the high-lights of the evening were Jim Rubovits’ sense of humor when handling the verbal auction, Rocco An-droezzi prancing around with a string of feathers he won, Mike Muzzy bidding up almost every item during the verbal auc-tion and Joe and Chris Grenon and Krishnan Scott trying to keep yours truly on point when picking tickets for the bucket raffle. On a slightly more serious note it was

great listening to Ron Marafioti make the presentation to Joe Grenon as our 2014 Lawson Cary Award recipient and then for Joe to win the Jay Boyer rod/case in the attendee raffle. Also for Carl Sullivan who won the Lawson Cary Raffle and the Joe Carr Cortland rod. I am guessing Carl will get a lot of use out of his new equipment when he visits the Yellowstone Region later this fall on his first trip out west. Another highlight that must be recognized was the presentation of a rod, reel and re-lated fishing equip-ment to Krishnan Scott as our youngest member. Bob Orpin donated the rod, Al Ball the reel and Dick Diamond the accesso-ries. Our chapter wants to recognize and encourage more young people to be-come interested in fly fishing. Krishnan, and Dad Mike, attend most of our chapter’s

Two nights at his cab-in on the Upper East Branch of the Dela-ware River Cabela’s – four $25.00 Gift Certifi-cates, discount cou-pons Sandy Ball – Hand decorated jewelry box Eileen Belleville – 5” x 8” fishing scene needlepoint

Joe Carr – 2/3 wt Cortland Diamond Glass Fly Rod ( Law-son Cary Award ) Jay Boyer – hand crafted net, 4 wt. fly rod and cedar rod case & sock Rob Lewis – West Branch of the Dela-ware River guided float trip Bruce Concors –

The Banquet Committee

Al Ball, Chairman Dick Diamond Ron Marafioti Mike Muzzy Joe Grenon Chris Grenon Jeff Perry Rich Benson Jay Boyer Lawson Cary III Ed Walsh Jim Rubovits

Thank You to the Banquet Contribu-tors: Lawson Cary III – Flies tied by his father Gloria Cary – Ladies’ toiletries Al Ball – Catskill Style & Wood River Flies, fly fishing tools, fishing net, fly reels, wood carving, fly lines Elda Carrigan – Jew-elry

meetings and the young man participat-ed in our fly tying meeting last fall. Hopefully we’ll see more young people at our meetings and this presentation can be-come an annual event. Thank you to all the members who supported this year’s banquet. Please tell members you see who weren’t there what a good time you had. Hopefully this year will be just the beginning of bigger and better things to come. Thanks also to the group who organized and planned this event. In the end Al Ball must have thought what George Peppard said after epi-sodes of the A Team: “I love it when a plan comes together”.

T U B a n q u e t a s m a s h i n g s u c c e s s ( c o n ’ t . )

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BANQUET COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND GENEROUS CONTRIBUTORS

TU 225 – Captain Jim Barr guided fishing trip John McCall – Soft hackle wet flies / Or-vis fly box Rich Benson – Lam-son 6/7 wt. reel Ray Rathbun – fly fishing books, fly lines Dave Miles – 14’ Mad River Canoe John Troiano – Pre-mium cigars from Montecristo Granite Farms Res-taurant – gift certifi-cate The Orvis Company – fully loaded Safe Passage sling pack Steve Culton – Sig-nature Wet Fly selec-tion Captain Jim Barr – Signature assorted salt water flies Peter Nilsen – color poster of 50 salt wa-ter flies, three color prints of Rainbow Trout/Cutthroat Trout/ Smallmouth Bass and four black & white prints of Brown Trout/Rainbow Trout/Brook Trout and At-lantic Salmon John Mello – hand crafted wood carving Ruffwear – dog leash, bowl, toys and training tools Roger Williams Park Zoo – four en-try passes Eastern Mountain Sports – Kayak and paddle board rentals Boston Red Sox – autographed picture of John Lackey Ronald Lasko – two

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illustrations from “ A Tale of Two Rivers” Chris Grenon – fly tying lamp, nymph fly selec-tion Bob Orpin - Orvis 5 wt. 8’6” Orvis Rod, DB Dunn rod case Jeff Brousseau – book: Striper Moon Seven Stars Bakery - $25.00 gift certificate Town Pizza II, Rich-mond - $25.00 gift cer-tificate Stage Coach Inn, Wy-oming - $50.00 off one night stay Ace Hardware, Wyo-ming – Jig Saw Wyoming Package Store – Jim Beam Bour-bon Jim Less – Orvis spin/fly set, Clearwater reel, Shimano reel / spare spool Dick Diamond – two Fenwick fly rods: 9’ 7wt. & 9’ 4 wt., fly lines, Aus-sie Kidney Purger, Bud-weiser Christmas light string, assortment of fly boxes, candy bowls Mike Muzzy – assort-ment of hackle, feathers (pheasant, duck, etc.) Mike & Liz Muzzy – Chocolate themed basket Jeff Perry – Bugger Barn fly box with assort-ed salt water flies URE Outfitters – Fly Logic 8’, 4/5 wt. fly rod, two $25.00 gift certifi-cates and six fly tying hen necks Westerly Enterprises / George Champlin – 10 kt. Yellow gold necklace, 14 kt. Yellow gold stud ball earrings, 14 kt. Yel-low gold black pearl/

BANQUET CONTRIBUTORS (con’t.)

diamond earrings, sterling rope chain, Hematite dol-phin necklace and a 18” Figaro Chain Ultimate Upholstery – three decorative tissue box covers with a fly fishing, pet and beach theme Lex Wiltrout – assort-ment of fly fishing equip-ment and tools including sun glasses, wading belts and hooks. An original copy of Polly Rosborough’s book Fishing the Fuzzy Nymph Gene Bates – Fishpond fly fishing vest and flip focus clip-on 3.5 magnification lens Jim Rubovits – 10 assort-ed fly fishing books, rain-bow trout knife, trout belt buckle, miscellaneous fly tying threads and holder, jewelry, miscellaneous fishing clothing, 4/5 wt. Ross reel, many bags of dubbing material Safety 1st Security - $100 gift basket of securi-ty products Roma Kachanis – two pendants: Spring Flowers / Blue Skies Joe Grenon – bath cubes Clive Bennett – Hex Fly assortment Salt Water Edge / Peter Jenkins - $100.00 gift certificate, Salt Water Flies of the North East Karen Steve – Fly assort-ment Please support our ban-

quet contributors and

say thank you to them

next time you visit their

businesses or see them

at our meetings.

Grover and Andy Fugate Grover and Andy re-cently moved to North Kingston after 26 years in Warwick. They have two daughters. Amy is a Pediatric Dentist and Heather a Forensic Accountant. Grover received his BS in Natural Re-sources from the Uni-versity of Connecti-cut, studied Public Administration at Me-morial University, Newfoundland, Cana-da, and completed his MBA with program emphasis in resource policy analysis also at Memorial. He is the Executive Director of the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, a position he’s held for the past 28 years, and he is also Adjunct Faculty at URI. Andy received a BS(Hons.) in Biology from Memorial and a BS in Pharmacy from

URI. She is a pharma-cist with Rite Aid. Grover was intro-duced to fly fishing by an uncle at 12 years of age at Moosehead Lake, Maine and got

Andy actively in-volved five years ago, although both admit as a native New-foundlander fishing was in her blood long before she picked up

T U 2 2 5 W e l c o m e s n e w m e m b e r s !

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a fly rod. Most of their fly fishing locally is on the Wood River but they will, and have, tried other spots in the state where there is trout habi-tat. They have also fished in Maine, Newfoundland, Lab-rador, Quebec, Connecticut and Florida. They look forward to testing their skills in other states, regions and countries as time allows. They have become regulars at our monthly meetings and actually won the raffle at the first meeting they at-tended in early summer. On behalf of the

membership of Nar-

ragansett TU 225

let’s welcome

Grover and Andy

Fugate to our chap-

ter.

Joel LaSalle Joel is from Wood-stock, CT. and lived there until coming to R.I. for college. He is a graduate of Bryant University with a B.S and Masters (BSBA) in accounting and works as a CPA for a public accounting firm. Joel lives in Cranston. Joel has always en-joyed fishing but only got into fly fishing a year ago when a cousin got involved in this great sport. He’s

fished locally at Wallum Lake, Beach Pond, Narragansett Bay and the Wood River and region-ally all throughout New England and Pennsylvania. He lists Al-lagash Lake in the North Woods of Maine as a favorite destina-tion. Joel hope’s to learn more about

fly fishing from veteran TU 225 members and expects to take an active role in the chapter’s conservation ef-forts when time allows. He’s also ties his own flies and has attended the Wood-Pawcatuck Fly Tying Pro-gram run by our own Jay Boyer. Joel wants to let everyone

know how much he appre-

ciates the warm welcome

he’s received from our

members. Having talked to

Joel a few times I say the

pleasure is all ours.

F l y o f t h e M o n t h ( c o n ’ t . f r o m p . 3 )

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Officers President - Ron Marafioti / C: (571) 643-1452 / email: rmarafioti@msn.com Vice President – Dick Diamond / C: (401) 500-0402 / email: diamonddri2011@gmail.com Secretary – Position Open Treasurer – Jim Less / C: (401) 225-2828 / email: james.less@verizon.net Board Members Al Ball – Banquet Chairman / C: (401) 397-4639 / email: ozziepup@gmail.com Rich Benson - H: (401) 823-3011 / email: jbenson22@cox.net Chris Grenon – C: (401) 474-5794 / email: gimpdog1@cox.net Joe Grenon – C: (401) 742-6390 / email: 22joey44@gmail.com Lawson Cary III – (401) 206-1530 / email: lawsoncary@gmail.com Long Cast Ed Walsh – Editor – C: (401) 742-6536 / email: walsh4613@cox.net

Note There is an excellent video on tying parachute flys (thanks Ron) – http://

www.flydreamers.com/en/video/play-parachute-mayfly-dry-fly--v4013?

utm_source=fd&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=newsletter but is very different

from the way I tie mine. I tie in the tail first, then the wing. Next, I dub the body on up to

and around the wing. Next, tie the hackle with the stem pointing towards the eye of the

hook and wrap the hackle around the wing. When the stem is secured, lift the hackle and

apply a small amount of dubbing in front of the wing to complete the fly.

LAWSON CARY AWARD

TO

JOSEPH GRENON

Joseph Grenon has distinguished himself as an outstanding role model for members of the Narragansett Chapter of Trout Unlimited through his hard work in conserving, pro-tecting, restoring, and sustaining the coldwater fisheries and their watersheds in Rhode Island over the past 3 years.

Since joining this Chapter in August 2010, Mr. Grenon served as the Chair of the Pro-jects Committee, and now serves as a member of the Board of Directors and the Con-servation Committee. Mr. Grenon’s dedication and success at rejuvenating the Projects Committee has led to improved water flow and retention of acceptable water tempera-tures in the Upper Wood River, both of which help sustain trout populations. For the past two years, Mr. Grenon planned and completed numerous important and beneficial habitat and improvement projects, and re-energized the membership to participate in activities that promote the conservation mission of this Chapter. Upon the recent reor-ganization of the Conservation Committee, Mr. Grenon continues to spearhead the Pro-jects Group under the Committee umbrella. He is also an active member of the Wood River Fly Fishing Club.

As a member of this Chapter, Mr. Grenon initiated and led projects including roadside and streamside cleanups, stream and bank restoration projects, culvert assessments, and tree trimming and path clearing activities. Because of Mr. Grenon’s leadership and dedication to the Chapter’s mission, participation of the membership in projects and conservation-related activities has increased, and as a result, more has been done to improve fish habitat and user safety in a short time.

Mr. Grenon is an avid fly angler and fly tier, and is known for his warm welcome to all newcomers who chase trout on the river. It is not uncommon to see him testing his skills on the river against a wily trout, salmon, or steelhead, often, with mixed success.

The singularly distinctive accomplishments of Mr. Joseph Grenon reflect great credit up-on himself and the Narragansett Chapter of Trout Unlimited.

Joseph Grenon has distinguished himself as an outstanding role model for members of the Narragansett Chapter of Trout Unlimited through his hard work in conserving, protecting, restoring, and sustaining the coldwater fisheries and their watersheds in Rhode Island over the past 3 years.

Since joining this Chapter in August 2010, Mr. Grenon served as the Chair of the Projects Committee, and now serves as a member of the Board of Directors and the Conservation Committee. Mr. Grenon’s dedication and success at rejuvenating the Projects Committee has led to improved water flow and retention of acceptable wa-ter temperatures in the Upper Wood River, both of which help sustain trout popula-tions. For the past two years, Mr. Grenon planned and completed numerous im-portant and beneficial habitat and improvement projects, and re-energized the membership to participate in activities that promote the conservation mission of this Chapter. Upon the recent reorganization of the Conservation Committee, Mr. Gre-non continues to spearhead the Projects Group under the Committee umbrella. As a member of this Chapter, Mr. Grenon initiated and led projects including road-side and streamside cleanups, stream and bank restoration projects, culvert assess-ments, and tree trimming and path clearing activities. Because of Mr. Grenon’s leadership and dedication to the Chapter’s mission, participation of the membership in projects and conservation-related activities has increased, and as a result, more has been done to improve fish habitat and user safety in a short time.

Mr. Grenon is an avid fly angler and fly tier, and is known for his warm welcome to all newcomers who chase trout on the river. It is not uncommon to see him testing his skills on the river against a wily trout, salmon, or steelhead, often, with mixed success.

The singularly distinctive accomplishments of Mr. Joseph Grenon reflect great credit upon himself and the Narragansett Chapter of Trout Unlimited.

Joe Grenon wins Lawson Cary award

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A T T H E C O V E N T R Y E L K S C L U B 4 2 N O O S E N E C K H I L L R D

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C O V E N T R Y E L K S .

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B U R G E R S , H O T D O G S A N D T R I M M I N G S E R V E D .

Directions From North: 95 South Take Exit 6 to Rt. 3 N to Nooseneck Hill Road .5 miles on right

From South: 95 North

Take Exit 6 to Rt. 3 N to Nooseneck Hill Road .5 miles on right

Membership If you are interested in learning more about joining the Narragansett Chapter of Trout Unlimited , visit our website www.tu225.org All members also receive TROUT, TU's award-winning color magazine. You'll get four issues a year, full of conservation news, updates on TU activities, grassroots success stories, and fishing destinations recommended by "The Budget Angler." (This paragraph was excerpted from Trout Unlimited's National web site. )

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