DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

This evening President Dave called our meeting to order at 7:00. He announce that VP Tom was in China today, and Treasurer Doug was also out of town.

We had 10 members present tonight.

To begin with we had an around the room discussion of most current individual’s fishing trips...


Heidi reported that she and Barbara had been fishing locally on Bennington Lake lately. They are still finding some nice trout, in this lake so close to home.

Heidi reported that she and Barbara, had made their last trip to Jubilee Lake for the season this past Sunday. 

Heidi also reported they did find the annual NOTICE signs that the campground and lake boat access would be closing on Monday, 16 October. Heidi mentioned that traveling  Hwy 204 they had encountered black ice on the road, and some snow around the lake area. She found that her pickup was doing a little fish-tailing on the icy road surface.
She said their catch rate was very good, as they found sleet falling on their catch.

Dale reported that he and his Buddy had made a trip to Anthony Lake the 6^th of October, and found that above 6000' the area was snow covered. 

He was the only fisher on the lake that day, and reported that the air temperature was in the 40’s, but with sunbreaks he saw 60°on his fishing vest thermometer, which felt good. A beautiful day for fishing.
His catch for the day was 1 brook trout. On the way home he noticed a Full Moon rising over the Eagle Caps.

Dave gave us a report of his recent fishing trip on Omak Lake. He told us it was a really good trip, with a good many Lahontan Cutthroat trout being caught by his companions. 

He also mentioned that he had received his baptism into stillwater fly fishing from a kayak. He performed a kayak flip, as is was finishing his day of catching.  

Dale mentioned that he had been speaking with Blaire Elyce at Walla Walla Community College concerning publicity for Diane Briggs upcoming fly tying classes at the college… Tis the Season.

Also brought up this evening was the very poor numbers of the 2017 steelhead and salmon returns. 

No one reported having hooked into either so far this season.  SAD

It was agreed by all that we would hold the fly boxes that are (1) a door prize, and (2) a raffle item would be held over until next month… adding more flies then to those treasure boxes.


Many of us have found in the past few years how relaxing, and productive stillwater fly fishing can be.

Being many of us are approaching what is called the Golden Years, and climbing around is creeks and river, bucking against river current and slick bottom rocks… our program for this evening was to be a sequel to last month’s presentation concerning tried and proven techniques for stillwater fly fishing for Trophy trout by Denny Rickards. 
DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES – our video player / projector had incompatible wiring and this program will be postponed until our November 15^th meeting.

After we realized the failure of our equipment, we had another cup of coffee, some another glass of beer or wine and reminisced fishing trips with each other.  One of our new members, Joe who had done a fair number of fishing trips in Ireland, reminisced a funny tale of an ole ghillie that once took the Pope fishing. We had a good chuckle out of that one.

About 8:00 President Dave called the meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Dale McKain

Secretary 

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