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2018 "WINTER" WORKSHOP

Hello Anglers and Friends,
Here is what I know now. We will have only one this year and it will be on February 17,2018 at the Miller center on Gosse court from 2:00 - 6:00 pm. we will have some great engaging speakers and a great raffle to support Green Mountain Conservation Camp in sending our youth to camp to build the skills of stewardship to last a lifetime. As soon as I can confirm I will post an itinerary of guest speakers. I expect to see all your smiling faces there.


UPDATE;
Happy to announce that our guest speakers for the upcoming Feb 17 LCU Winter Seminar will include 2 familiar faces.

Brian Chipman, Fisheries Biologist from Vermont Fish & Wildlife Dept, will bring us up to date on the state of the Champlain Salmon & Trout fisheries.

Brad Young, Fisheries Biologist and Sea Lamprey Control Program Manager, US Fish & Wildlife Service.

In addition, we are hoping that someone from USFWS will be present to speak on Cormorants.

Till then get your frostbite on and fish on, Dean

BU plays Navy on the 17th, so I may not be able to make the workshop as I may be in Annapolis. However, Dean, thank you. These workshops are a hallmark of the Fleet, which remains informed, involved and effective.

I'd love to hear Brian speak to the current assessment of baitfish populations in the lake. I know that many think (i) the smelt population is down and that the alewife population is up and (ii) that cold, hard ice winters (like this one seems to be becoming) disfavor smelt as the whities proliferate.

What do the biologists think?

How about a rep from the NY side?

History of the Workshop:

2008 = First taping event: Don Marcellino / Bill Lowell / Salmon Eye / Don McNamera / Pat Church / Mike Demars.

2009-2010: Vt Home and Marine (3 events per winter)

2011-2012: Vt Home (2 events per winter) Began introducing speakers and free raffle drawings.

2013: Dean took over: Church location Malletts Bay first event. Second event Miller Center.

2014-17: (Two events per winter) at Miller Center. Began donating money from raffle in 2017 to benefit Kids going to camp

2018: One event scheduled Feb. 17th Saturday 2-6 pm.

10th anniversary of the workshops with 19 total workshops in the books. Dean took over in 2013 to date. Took a lot of help and generous donations including many speakers during this run! Thanks Dean!


2012 Workshop from the Vt Home days:

Thanks Ron for posting the video. Already 6 years. I recognized a lot of friendly faces.

List (18 different speakers) courtesy of Bill Lowell who is responsible for every speaker at our workshops:

From Bill:

Over those years, we’ve had a number of wonderful guest speakers:

UVM
Ellen Marsden, Fisheries Biologist
Tori Pinheiro, Lake Trout Acoustic Monitoring

USFWS
Brad Young, Sea Lamprey Management
Bill Ardren, Salmon Genetics
Andrew Harbicht, Salmon Genetics

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
Tom Manley, Geology Professor, R/V DAVID FOLGER

VTFW
Louis Porter, Commissioner
Brian Chipman, Fisheries Biologist
Bernie Pientka, Fisheries Biologist
Len Gerardi, Ret. Fisheries Biologist
Mike Wichrowski, Fac & Lands Adm
Bob Currier, Warden
Dana Joyal, Warden
Carolyn Blake, GMCC Camp Coordinator

SUNY PLATTSBURGH
Mark Malchoff, Weather Data Buoy
Eric Leibensperger , Weather Data Buoy

Chris Gatley, Pure Fishing
James Ehlers, LCI



Apologies for any omissions.

All the ones I've attended from the time we taped spoons and tied flies through now have been a great time to meet people, become informed about fishing, and fisheries planning and conservation on the lake. Thank you all who have been instrumental in setting these up.

Michael

Does one need to sign up for the workshop or simply show up?

D-Cypher wrote:Does one need to sign up for the workshop or simply show up?

Everyone is welcome to the workshop.
No reservation required. Just show up and bring friends if you want.

Could someone give me the complete adress ?
Can Canadian come?

Is there an entry fee ?

It's the Robert Miller Community and Recreation Center, 130 Gosse Court, Burlington VT.

It's open to anyone, we do have people from Canada that come to join us. There is an entry fee, $5 I think, maybe $10? Someone else will give you an exact number on the fee. This gets you a raffle ticket, covers the cost of renting the room for the afternoon, pizza and water, and we donate funds to support kids at the Green Mountain Conservation Camp.

Hope to see you there.

I will ne there for sure

Thanks for the info !

Late Update:

John Freeman from Small Boat Exchange generously donated a Cannon Electric Mag 10 downrigger for the raffle tomorrow.

Gonna have some nice prizes this year. Im especially looking forward to the discussion with USFW about the cormorant situation as well. Thanks for all your hard work in preparing this year's workshop guys! See you tomorrow!