Ed will be guest speaker at our Sept 21 membership meeting.  He will discuss the brook trout study being conducted by Ashokan Pepacton TU in the Ashokan/Esopus Creek Watershed. 

At age nine Ed Ostapczuk received his first fishing pole, at age thirteen he obtained a fly tying kit as a Christmas present and has been busy doing both ever since. Ed moved to the Catskills in 1970, drawn to the region by the Esopus Creek, which he has been fishing from that time forward. He is a retired middle school teacher, licensed NYS fishing guide, and author of books on fishing.

Ostapczuk joined Trout Unlimited in 1969 and has been a member ever since. He also belongs to several other conservation and fly-fishing organizations including the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild.

Ed Ostapczuk is the author of  The Wanderings Of A Mountain Fly Fisher: Tales From A Catskill Eddy And Other Trout Waters, and Ramblings of A Charmed Circle Flyfisher.