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Bart Durham

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About Bart Durham

  • Birthday 01/24/1962

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  • Location
    Naperville
  • Interests
    Kayak fishing and fly fishing for smallmouth on local rivers and tributaries.

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  1. Ike Rhodes, former manager at Orvis Yorktown Store that recently closed, is starting his new fishing business called Illinois Fly Fishing Company. Check out his new website: http://www.illinoisflyfishingcompany.com/
  2. Have a Happy 4th of July gentlemen , I know I will most certainly be smallmouth fishing. hope you can all get out on the water.

  3. A contingent of ISA members joined a group of approximately 30 volunteers on May 20, 2023 to take part in the Dupage River Sweep in Bolingbrook in conjunction with the Bolingbrook Park District.. The weather was perfect and we cleared about 30 lawn bags worth of invasive plant species that had invaded the DuPage River Trail in Bolingbrook. Other volunteers picked up trash and river debris. I'll post some pictures when I can minimize them for posting. Afterwards, Kevin Daugherty, Jim Wright and I were able to pick out a large blue barrel that had floated downstream on the East Branch near Weber road. Thanks to all that participated.
  4. Apologies for the late notice but the DuPage River Sweep will be taking place this year in just a couple of weeks on Saturday, May 20th, 2023 from 9 am - 12 noon. We'll be working with Daniel Flinn, Natural Resources/Horticulture Manager at the Bolingbrook Park District in cleaning up the East Branch of DuPage River Valley. There will be opportunities here for river clean up work and restoration work involving removal of invasive species along the river valley We will meet at the Hidden Lakes Trout Farm Parking lot located at 419 Trout Farm Road in Bolingbrook at 9 am. Bring some good gloves and boots and plan to get dirty and dress appropriate for the weather. Trash bags and trash picks will be provided by the Park District. This is a great opportunity to give back to a river system that means so much to the members of our great organization. We look forward to seeing you there. Here is some more information on the river clean up event: https://www.theconservationfoundation.org/river-sweep/
  5. We'll need everyone's support to get behind this bill. Please sign the call to action in Terry's link above. We believe the Governor will support and sign the bill if we can get it before him.
  6. In response to the Supreme Court Case, a River Access Bill Committee was established by IEC to draft the proposed River Access Bill. I am on the committee and we have been working diligently behind the scenes on the River Access bill and it is in final form and we believe will survive judicial scrutiny. IEC Director Jennifer Walling will be our conversation speaker at the Blowout tomorrow night and will talk in part about the River Access Bill that will be introduced to the House Committee next week for vote in Springfield. If it passes the House it goes to Senate for passage and then to Governor. DNR has shown some resistance to support for the bill, saying it will increase their administrative burden, and there is big meeting today with DNR and Bill Committee counsel to address their concerns and garnerDNR support. We have to have DNR on board for bill passage. A media announcement will be forthcoming on submission of the bill to be followed by a big campaign push for the Bill.
  7. ISA is excited to present a zoom fly tying session next week with Rich McElligott on Monday evening, February 6 at 7pm. What exciting fly will Rich bring to the table vice this year? Tune in next Monday to find out, here is the zoom link for the event: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87987366330?pwd=MmtsdVFnNnpMbVc2amFwMGJvV0g4UT09
  8. Here is the zoom link for Terry's ISA Toolbox seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87987366330?pwd=MmtsdVFnNnpMbVc2amFwMGJvV0g4UT09
  9. I've been told I'm guilty of this. I'm technologically challenged but what do you do on your phone to prevent this if you want to take fish photos but not give up location? Place phone in airplane mode before fishing?
  10. We really enjoyed Tom's presentation last night on the history of the Foxy Craw and showing us how to tie this magical fly. We will be positing a recording of the session on here shortly for those of you who missed it.
  11. Murdich minnow rock and are one of my favorite smallmouth flies, but they are expensive. Urbs, could you teach us how to tie these?
  12. ISA is excited to have our distinguished member Tom Loo present our first Fly Tie Session of the 2023 winter season. Here is the Zoom link for the event. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84343671689?pwd=MDFXVVc0SjJzNUNoWjQzWjdjZGdTUT09
  13. Some excellent winter fishing tips Eric. It looks like this mild winter should present some great winter fishing opportunities for us so these winter fishing tips could not have come at a better time.
  14. We're so sorry for your loss Ed.
  15. Meg, yes they have excellent salad and other food items as well. Looking forward to seeing everyone on Friday. Please bring your flies too Meg, we may have a recruiting pitch for you. If we can't do the fly exchange this time we can set one up in near future!
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