Burns Fishing Supplies

Trout Unlimited Stream Restoration Project

Burns Fishing Supplies' Junior Pro Staff and TU Member, Ryan Hartley and his brother Myles.

Here with friends participating in a Trout Unlimited stream restoration project to help protect native brook trout.

Fly Fishing Camp

This summer each Georgia TU chapter sent two kids to Fly Fishing Camp. Burns Fishing Supplies' Junior Pro Staff and TU Member, Ryan Hartley and his brother Myles were able to attend. At camp they learned techniques for fly fishing and fly tying.

Ryan Hartley with a big rainbow trout.

Ryan with a woolybugger fly he made at camp.

Steelhead Redd Pumping Project

Here working with the Pacific North West Salmon Center, Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group, and NOAA on an ongoing steelhead redd pumping project. We are pumping steelhead eggs in the Dewatto River in an attempt to distribute steelhead eggs in this watershed to help re-populate the Hood Canal rivers.

Junior Pro-Staff Ryan Hartley

My name is Ryan Hartley, and I have grown up fishing. I remember the first time my dad took me fishing when I was little. He took me to a river that he fished in as a kid. I was so excited catching rainbow trout from the river bank. Ever since then I have been addicted to fishing. I am lucky enough to have 8 lakes within walking distance of my house. Within these 8 lakes I can catch bass, bluegill, catfish, crappie, carp, shad and maybe even some others. I was a camper at the Georgia Trout Camp during the summer of 2013, and then returned as a youth mentor in 2014. I received the "Julie Stalnaker" award for doing good job as a mentor. The award named after a woman who was an active TU member and conservationist in our area. Sadly she passed from cancer. I was honored to receive it.