2010 Women's Fly Fishing Day

Saturday May 22nd Huron River Watershed Council/Ann Arbor Trout Unlimited and Ann Arbor Parks Woman's fly fishing day -

We will be hosting a FREE one day intro to fly fishing for women in the Ann Arbor area. This is an opportunity to try flyfishing or introduce a significant friend interested in fly fishing. 9am to 5pm . What is flyfishing, Casting, knot tying, fly identification, entomology, and wading, and possible fishing with women instructors.
We have rods, waders, flies if you don't .Also free lunch! All You need is an interest and a pair of polarized sunglasses ( kmart ones are fine)Please wear appropriate clothes for the weather Also if you want to fish you should have a valid Michigan fishing license. Details will be sent to you with registration. Limited to 15 woman 15 or above. please register with Margaret Smith ------------ or Mike Mouradian for information mouradia@umich.edu


see for last years group http://physh-ed.blogspot.com/2010/01/womans-fly-fishing-day-last-year.html or http://physh-ed.blogspot.com

woman's fly fishing day last year

Saturday, May 16, 2009
Woman's fly fishing day
Comments and pictures from the woman's fly fishing day. We had 10 women students and two woman AAATUers teaching (Margaret C. and Madeline D)
To see the pics full size click on the picture.

Mike,
Thank you so much! I had a great time, despite the cold (I will note that it is now sunny...grrrr)
Patti :)

Mike,

Just a note of thanks for such a fun time - I really appreciate your organization's willingness to share their expertise and passion for fishing with us "newbies". A free seminar (lunch included) was very generous. I'm looking forward to becoming skilled at fly fishing - I had no idea I had a talent for tying knots!! Your class definitely gave me the jump start I was looking for.

Please keep me on your mailing list for future events.
Best regards,
Trish W

Mike,
Thanks for these photos. I want you to know how much I appreciate AAATU making a class for women possible. I learned alot from you and with the assistance of the many fishing women volunteers we had great personal attention.

The weather was not so cooperative but we are all stalwart women and made the best of it. I am sooooo happy I learned how to tie on my own flies, no fish caught, only the back of my fleece and disappointed that I lost three flies, even with experts checking my tie ons.I guess those are my mistakes of the season so I can move on and enjoy the fishing next time.

Let me know of any events with AAATU fishing so I can join in. I loved meeting the other women members and their interest to have me fish with them anytime, always fish up with those who have more experience.
I love my hat and the lunch was great.

Suzanne

Hi Mike,
If I didn't thank you for Saturday's flyfishing event, I'll thank you again now. It was fun and I appreciated your generous efforts.
Also, the gals who help were great. Could you thank them for me?
Anna

Alumni fishing

A former Physh ed student called me up and asked to go fishing. I told him to bring a couple other UM students with him so he did. We had a fun evening of fishing.

this is the new physh ed blog for Community High in Ann Arbor

I am the teacher Mike Mouradian . This blog will inform you of what's happing in the class. Here is the basic lesson plan for the first nine weeks.The class will meet tues and thur after forum 3:30 -5:30


This class is a Community Resourse Class at Community High and I am a volunteer teacher. The class materials, equipment and some fees are sponsored by the Future Fisherman Foundation, Ann Arbor Area Trout Unlimited, The Argo and Gallup Park Canoe liveries, and Colton Bay Outfitters.

Week 1
What is being an Outdoors Person?
T 9/11
Conservation
Ecology
Protection
Restoration
Wise Use
Th 9/13
stream ecology
Physical
Chemical
Biological
Use

Week 2
Fishing- Sport or Harvest?

T 9/18
History
ethics
Methods
Spincasting
bait casting
Fly Fishing
Th 9/20
Look at Equipment
take apart spincast reel
take apart Fly reel
learn to tie knots, chinch, surgeon, nail

Week 3
Lets go fishing!
T 9/25
Spincast for sunfish/bass

Th 9/27
Canoe Basics
safety
paddling

Week 4
T 10/2
Canoe trip
Th 10/4
What is flyfishing
pg 1-6
fly line, fly rod, leader tippet Types of flies

Week 5
T 10/9 Learn to cast a fly rod
tth 10/11 Fly Golf

Week 6 Fishing
T 10/16 Fish
Th 10 /18 Fish

Week 7 Review flies
T 10/23Learn to tie flies wooly bugger, crayfish
Th 1-/25 Tie Caddis, elk hair nymph

Week 8
T 10/30More fly tying/ trip to fly shop
Th 11/1 final fly display

Week 9
fishing practice

what I've been doing the past year

The past year has been busy for the physh ed classes.
I have presented fly fishing workshops at two middle schools as well as a summer camp.
I was able to do a fly tying workshop for a teacher in an elementary school who is doing a special project to teach his fifth graders fly fishing. The students tied a wooly bugger.

Recently we had a "women's fly fishing day" with a dozen women at Gallup Park in Ann Arbor.
here is a web site to the pictures http://picasaweb.google.com/mouradia/WomansFlyfishing?fgl=true&pli=1#


http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/tGJvMsUbxw6Z1iYD8-YXlQ?feat=directlink

final event of 2007-8

After 9 weeks of practicing on ponds around Ann Arbor the group went "Up North " to Mike's cabin near the Ausable River near Mio. As usual the weather didn't cooperate and there were flood conditions on the river. We visited Bob Linseman's fly shop here he explained what a fly shop does and about the bugs currently hatching. With that info we went to Commin's Fats and huggd the shore while wading. Most everyone caught a fish using a drifted nymph.
To make the trip more autentic we ate pancakes like Hemingway's Nick Adams.

spring session starts april 15

We will begining our sessions with flytying until the fishing picks up. The flies we will tie will be:

• the woolybugger- this fly is a streamer which mimics bait fish, and large nymphs. this is fished by casting down and across the stream, letting it swing down stream then stripping up.
• the hare's ear nymph- a nymph with a bead head, can be used with an indicator or another dry fly.
• The foam ant- this is a terestrial which is fished on the top of the water. this mimics ants and beetles.
• The prime mouradian- This is a good all round dry fly.

Once we have a stash of flies to work with we will begin fishing.

I will be gone the first two weeks of May. so the class will fish independently. In earl June we will take a trip to Mike's cabin and fish the Au Sable and Rifle.

Last day- Fly Tying

We finally got our tying kits on the last day of class. The group tied a couple of woolybugers and a peacock herl nymph. The next nine weeks will focus on flt tying, and fishing. See you in the spring.

trip to Colton Bay Fly Shop

On Tuesday we went to a fly shop to see what services they offer. John Davis the owner spoke about some of the new materials they had isn clothing and about the shop. Mike Shultz the manager was tying flies for an upcoming trip he was guiding. He explained the value of hiring a guide. The class checked out al the flies and materials.

Wading in the Huron River

the Big Day

We put it all together on thursday and waded the Huron River at Island park. This was the first day of wading. No fish were caught but a lot of trees were hooked. Next week tues and thurs will be river fishing days

physh ed in the news

Check out this article in the Ann Arbor News. If the link doesn't work just search on the mlive page for PHYSH. http://www.mlive.com/annarbor/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1192545654245320.xml&coll=2

Flies for Gallup Park

Tuesday and Thursday are fly fishing days. I tied a few flies to try on the sunfish. Since this is fall and there is still a lot of insect activity we will be using some topwater terrestrials
the foam ant,foam frog, the Prime Mouradian, and for subsurface a peacock hurl nymph.

Argo to Gallup park trip

We canoed from Argo Dam to the Gallop park empoundment. This amazing trip runs through the center of Ann Arbor. We were traveling during the 5 o'clock rush but you couldn't hear traffic. It was a perfect fall day with colors. We saw a couple of blue herons, ducks, fish rising and turtles swimming. We are really lucky to live in a city which has created this natural corridor through the urban area. The astonishing thing is we only saw two fishermen on the banks and no one wading. Also I think we were the only ones cameoing at that time.

pics from the first canoe day

Our first day of canoeing. Cheryl Saam, canoe instructor and director of the argo and gallup parks taught the class the basics of canoe safety and technique.

canoeing !

We will canoe Gallup park. On tues OCT 2
Tuesday we will leave CHS right at 3:30 to go to Gallup. There we will get instruction on all aspects of canoeing. Paddling, Safety, entering and exiting the canoe, directions ...... We'll paddle around Gallup pond and see what happens to a Dam empoundment.
On Thursday Oct 4 we will again go to Gallup and be taken upstream to Argo Pond (another Dam empoundment) and will canoe downstream through Ann Arbor to Gallup. We'll have to portage once and we'll view what happens to an urban waterway. This canoe trip may take 2 hours so plan on getting home a little later on thurs.

trip to Gallup park

On thursday we went to Gallup park and most every one caught a fish.

change of schedule

We will be going to Gallup Park this thursday We will be at the end of the road at a little bay where there are a lot of sunfish. We will learn to fly cast next tuesday, then back on schedule

knots to know

The first set of pictures show a clinch knot. This is the most used knot for fishing . It is used to tie the hook or fly to the line.
this is a great Knot tying site with animations





SURGEON’S KNOT (the last picture) – This makes it easy to join two lines, but one line must be short, since you
have to bring the one end through the formed overhand loop. As with other lines, use a lot of
overlapping line so that you can pull on all four ends to properly pull tight. Work with both lines
together as you tie this, and make sure that both loops are the same size to assure a strong knot.



LOOP KNOTS (middle picture)
Use loop knots to make a loop in the end of a rig to which the line can be tied or to make
two loops for an interconnecting loop system of attaching tackle parts.
SURGEON’S LOOP – This knot is similar to the Surgeon’s Knot for joining lines. To make this,
fold over the tag end of line and form the knot using both strands to make a double overhand knot.
Pull up carefully on both the two ends and the loop. #1
#2 #3
#4

thurs 9/13

Remember we will leave CHS at about 3:30 for island park. the second pavillion. we will probably be done by 5:pm