Please feel free to bring a friend (always welcome).  50-50 raffle with new prizes. So . . . Remember to bring dollars or flies!

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Oatka Creek and Spring Creek
A home stream for Rochester--area trout fishermen, Oatka Creek has three personas: brushy headwaters supporting trout in Wyoming County, a warmwater midsection extending from Warsaw to LeRoy and the premier trout water downstream from LeRoy.

This last dramatic change, putting Oatka on every trout fisherman's A-list, is because of large infusions of spring water from the locally named "Blue Hole" near LeRoy, and from Spring Creek, which enters the river near Mumford.

Flowing through farmland with the usual pools, runs, riffles and pocket water, Oatka averages about 50 feet in width, making it an ideal fly-fishing stream. The limestone spring creek character of the river produces an abundant array of aquatic life, so scuds, nymphs and streamers are recommended for winter excursions.

Oatka is noted for producing trophy fish, the result of a nutrient-rich environment that is generously stocked annually with brown trout. There is also natural spawning occurring in these waters, which adds wild browns to the DEC's plantings, and a few wallhanger rainbows are reported, suspected to have escaped from the Calaedonia hatchery. Public access points are at the bridges in LeRoy and Mumford.

No-kill trout fishing is permitted year 'round with artificial lures in a segment from Union Street upstream 1.7 miles to Wheatland Center Road. No-kill, artificials-only fishing is permitted from Oct. 16 to March 31 from Bowerman Road upstream 1.4 miles to Union Street, and from Wheatland Center Road upstream 2.5 miles to the mouth of Spring Creek.

Trout fishing is permitted all year in the other portions of Oatka Creek in Genesee and Monroe counties, with no tackle restrictions, no size limit and a creel limit of five fish (with no more than two trout measuring 12 inches or longer).

Spring Creek is the location of the historic Caledonia trout hatchery, site of the first successful introduction of brown trout in North America in 1884. Only two small sections of the creek are open to public fishing, including about 200 feet of water on the hatchery property, open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and nearly 1,000 feet of stream after it leaves the hatchery.

Neither stretch is a big deal, that is, unless you'd delight in holding in your hand a brilliant, gem-like wild brown with some of the same DNA as those few German browns that started America's fishing revolution.

Diamond-clear water makes for challenging catch-and-release, artificials-only fishing.

The winter fishing stretches of Oatka Creek and Spring Creek are on local roads off state Route 5 in eastern Genesee County, the southwest corner of Monroe County, and northwest corner of Livingston County.

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REMINDER
NYS renewable fishing licenses expired on September 30.
Renew now! 

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Want to be a Board Member?
If you would like to be on the Chapter Board of Directors, and we do need new help, please contact Brian Pitre of the Nominating Committee, at 585/742-8501 or brian@dockside.net and ask that your name be "entered in the race".  Thanks.

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Prez Sez . . .
Thanks very much to Norm Brust and Steve Coleman with all the help in preparing the programs for this year.  We still have an opening for next month (November) and for February.  If you have any ideas or suggestions, please do not hesitate to give me a call or an email.  You can see the currently planned programs on the Chapter web page. 

I hope you enjoyed last months meeting.  The topic and presentation on Oak Orchard by Ron Bierstine was first class.  I heard many positive comments from folks who were there.  Also thanks to Pat Tefft for helping with the raffle. 

I don't know why this next item gets so few calls, but we will continue to help you sell fly fishing items that you would like to turn to cash.  All you have to do is email me at jpc@travela.com with the details and it will go in Tight Lines without charge.  It is as simple as a free want ad listing can be!

I'm goin' fishin' . . .
                                                                                                         ~~ C

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For Sale:  ??? 
Email jpc@travela.com with the details and we will list your item(s) for sale. 
How else can we say it?
It's a free Want Ad.

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Meetings are held on the third Monday of each month,
and are held at the Wegmans Market Café, Eastern Boulevard,
Canandaigua, beginning at 730pm.

Please mark your calendar now. Meetings are open to the public.
Hope to see you there.