More Clubs on the GLC's Roster
We're happy to have the Mackinaw Trail Flyfishers renew their membership in the GLC. Contact information may be found in the “Clubs” section of this website, for those of you in the Cadillac MI area.
A new FFF charter club has been formed in the Valparaiso IN area. We'd like to extend a heartfelt welcome to the Duneland Fly Fishers, and we look forward to seeing them represented at all our events. Contact information has been posted on our "Clubs" page. Congratulations to everyone who had a hand in forming this organization.
Who Are We?
 We are the voice of fly fishing in Michigan and Indiana.
The Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) and its Councils are the only organized advocates for fly fishers on the national and regional level.
The FFF is an organization was founded in Eugene, Oregon in 1965. It was formed to give fly fishing a unified voice, to promote fly fishing as a method of angling and to protect and expand fly fishing opportunities.
The FFF is now international in scope with active memberships throught the world. The FFF has hundreds of member clubs and thousands of individual members.
Three Strikes Should Mean You're Out, Right?
Part of what was sent downstream
For the third time in recent memory, the dam at Song of the Morning Meditation Center, on the Pigeon River, has sent a disastrous discharge into the river, resulting in incredible damage to the fishery. Please contact the DNR about this ongoing threat to what is, or was, an amazing trout fishery. Further information may be found in the following documents.
 Letter to the Editor
Catastrophe on the Pigeon
Sturgeon Valley Rd. Photo
Song of the Morning Impoundment Photo
Pigeon at Tubes Photo
FFF and GLC Scholarship Award
The Great Lakes Council of the Federation of Fly Fishers has established a one-thousand-dollar scholarship for a student who will be entering his or her second, or later, year of college and who is working toward a degree that is consistent with the purposes of FFF.
This year’s cutoff date has passed. Information about next year’s scholarship will be posted on this website as soon as it is available. This year’s winner will be announced soon, and named on this website. Kevin Lounds, VP Education for the GLC, is in charge of the awarding of this scholarship, and can be reached at [email protected]. An electronic version of next year’s application will be available. Watch this website for updates.
AuSable River Trophy Water Regulations
VP Conservation Terry Lyons reports that the Department of Natural Resources, Fisheries Division, has been discussing changes to the fishing regulations for the “Trophy Water” reach of the AuSable River below Mio for about two years. A related “Status of the Fishery Resource Report” was released by the DNR, accessible at this address.
Terry has written a brief summary of the status of the regulation changes, which you may access by clicking the following link: AuSable River Trophy Water Regulations. There was to have been a final version of the Director's Order for regulation changes presented at the Natural Resources Commission's 06November meeting, but no such item appeared on the agenda, and the link for the Order is not yet functioning, possibly because suggested revisions are still being considered. Please watch this website for further developments. |
