Fox Valley Trout Unlimited - October "Virtual" Chapter Meeting
Agenda:
- 6pm - 7pm Social Hour
- 7pm - 9pm Chapter Meeting & Guest Speaker
Guest Speaker: Ann Miller, Author of Hatch Guide for Upper Midwest Streams
While teaching beginning and intermediate fly fishing schools, Ann became frustrated with the lack of comprehensive Midwest information on insect hatches, taxonomy, behavior, and flies to match them. An aquatic biologist, she decided to tackle the world of bugs head on, and the result is the Hatch Guide for Upper Midwest Streams. The comprehensive field guide was published in January, 2012 by Frank Amato Publications.
Ann is a founder and current president of ‘Flygirls’, an organization whose purpose is to help women become involved in fly fishing. The club was founded in 1996 and continues in its purpose to teach women to fly fish as well as provide fly fishing and fly tying outings in Michigan and beyond. While focused on women in fly fishing, the club welcomes men as well.
Ann’s presentation “Virtually Buggy” will discuss some of the intricacies in writing her hatch guide as well as an overview of trout stream entomology. She is republishing her Hatch Guide by the end of 2021 with a new chapter on terrestrial insects.