Talking about Fly Fishing this evening

 

We are talking about Fly Fishing this evening – club activities.

President Judy called our meeting to order at 7:10 pm. A lot of fishing tales and some club business was discussed with everyone sitting around eating dinner, before the call to order.

With October meeting notices sent out, Dale received a number of emails saying can’t make it RSVPs for this evening’s meeting. It was discussed that as a group we might need to discuss what is the BEST day of the month and week for us to be meeting. Tonight we had six members and one guest present.

Treasurer Harold reported that we currently had $1022 in our checking account and a small amount of make change cash on hand.

Secretary Dale made a brief synopsis-report of our September meeting and ask everyone to check out the club blog for details. https://wallawallaflyfishers.blogspot.com/

We did not have fly box door prize or raffle drawings this evening, but plan to again incorporate these into our future meetings. 

This evening Jerry Finnie did bring a box of flies that he had tied some very nice flies, but we voted to hold these flies for our November 9^th meeting, since our numbers were small this evening.

It was again discussed that there would be NO club membership dues collected before our January 2023 meeting and that the dues would then be Fifteen dollars ($15) per year for individuals and Twenty-five ($25) for family memberships.

We also discussed having club activities – other than monthly meetings – to bring the club together for one and all and the community to be more involved with fly fishing.

Activities discussed were:
1) again have a Fly Fishing Fair at Waterbrook Winery – if they will work with us again on this 

2) Check on again having a Fly Fishing presentation at the 4-H Weekend Activities

3) plan on some club fishing outings on some rivers and lakes 

It was mentioned that the club does have an 8’ pontoon boat and two float tubes for members use. 

As we were looking at the size of Sheri’s meeting room, it was discussed that we might need to look for a larger accommodation after the New Year. 

With our November 9^th club meeting we hope to have a round of new club officers nominations.
Will you think about giving out club 8-months of your time to develop fly fishing in the Walla Walla Valley?
Including the COVID-19 shutdown, the current club officers have giving almost 4-years of service to our cause. Thank you.

Again we will ask for your RSVP to our club’s Email address if you plan to have dinner seating / service for our November 9^th pre-meeting dinner, (this is so we may notify the Sheri’s meal service staffing what to expect on our behalf).
Thank you.

 Respectfully submitted,
Dale McKain
Club Secretary 

Diane Briggs –  Co-President

Judy McDole – Co-President

Harold Saxby – Treasurer

Dale McKain – Secretary - Blogmaster