We are going fishing - Happy Holidays - see you next year

Currently on our Holiday Vacation we will be back
after the New Year

This evening we came together for our last meeting of the year - 2023. 
Again our meeting was dinner at Chiquillas Mexican House 428 Ash St. in Walla Walla. As usual we begin placing dinner order at 5:45 and thereafter share the latest news in the fishing world and our most current fishing trip.
We did not have a scheduled speaker - presentation for this evening.
We may be changing our meeting location after the beginning of the New Year.

Earlier this year our President Diane and Co-President Judy had resigned their positions after 4-years of service (and the COVID-19 interruption), and our Treasurer Harold recently became ill, was hospitalized, and has been unable to fill that position for the past couple of months. With Dale being the only current active club officer, he call our meeting to order at 7:00 pm. He and ex-President Dave thereafter conducted our order of business for this evening.

Tonight our group was small, but we did have a quorum of our paid ($15/ year) membership, to conduct an election for a new slate of Club Officers.

Without a Treasurer being present we did not have our usually transactions with fly donations - door prize, or fly box raffle. Current funds in our club treasury stands at $1506.97.

We had a brief discussion of the past year's business, and projection of future 2024 activities. 

Ex-President Dave had been in touch with those who had said they would be interested in being club officer, so the nomination of Club Officers was rather brief.

President - Dave Stemmer

Vice President - Tanner Druffel
Secretary - Dale McKain

Treasurer - Doug Coe

These nominees were present and presented to the members attending this evening's meeting. Motion was made, no further nominees were available, and the above individuals were elected our new Club Officer beginning January 1, 2024.

With All being said, All was done. The above mentioned individuals will be our new Club Officers, effective with our January 10, 2024 club meeting.

After the above club business be taken cared of - we adjourned at 7:40 pm.

Happy Holidays 

Respectfully submitted,

Dale McKain

Club Secretary  

Tight lines and good fishing

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October 18 a short meeting tonight with a Tackle SWAP coming in November

 
Robert Sallee with steelhead
- RIP -
dear friend and fishing pal

This evening we had 12 members and guest in attendance. 

After dinner, we were expecting Ex-President Dave, having previously announced that he would be running late (with family affairs), to come and conduct our meeting.  Secretary Dale took the reigns while in waiting, and ask if there were any fishing tails to tell about. Doug said that he had been fishing steelhead on the Klickitat River, and he had caught a few. He reported that that river was a bit murky, but fish were catching his flies.

We also discussed the usual timing of the steelhead run upriver along the Columbia, and thoughts of near future trips following the run into the tributaries of the Deschutes, John Day, Umatilla, Grand Ronde, and Yakima rivers.
https://www.cbr.washington.edu/dart/quick_look/adult_bon_stlhd

We heard about several club members that had planned to make fishing trips on Wallowa River and high lakes today. Hope to get some good October fishing reports from these member in the very near future. There has been a number of the usual October snowfall reports coming from the Wallowa and Elkhorn mountain ranges - tis the season. 

an Anthony Lake fishing trip - October 18th

Tom, reported that he had returned home just a few hours ago from a cruise-tour in the eastern Mediterranean, and no fly fishing was allowed from their ship.The cruise was very pleasant, except for the recent outbreak of war in that area - they had to leave.

We then had a short discussion about the upcoming Fly Fishing Film Tour presentation -November 9th- at the Gesa Power House Theater, in Walla Walla. Dale said that he had sent out a couple of club Emails announcing this presentation and it was discussed about contacting the theater to see if the club could set up some kind of display to promote OUR club's presence in the community at this showing.
This presentation is being hosted by Washington Water Trust.
Please follow this link for further details - https://givebutter.com/wwt-f3t-walla-walla-2023

This evening we had plans for the election of new club officers, but without Dave being present, this will be postponed until our November 8th meeting. At that meeting we are thinking about having a fly fishing tackle SWAP, and Dale will be Emailing details in the near future concerning the setup for this event.
In November we will be returning to our usual Second Wednesday of the month meeting schedule.

This meeting was adjourned at 7:45.

Respectfully submitted,

Dale McKain

Club Secretary  

Tight lines and good fishing

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September 20 - Ready or not here it comes- 4" of September snowfall on the high lakes!

  A gathering of fly fishers

This evening after dinner our meeting was called to "order" at 7:00 by the evening's emcee - Dave.

During dinner, most of the discussions were of summer fishing outings and catching. So after dinner the order of business was rather short.

It was announce and discussed that our Treasurer Harold, had recently undergone surgery and was expected to have a rather lengthy recover period. 

Harold had previously given his Notice of Resignation as Treasurer, but would stay on until a good club's money / bookkeeper would fill his shoes. Now is the time for One Good individual to come forward to handle our club's treasury, as Harold has now had to give up that responsibility.
Harold, Thank You for the years of service that you have given our club.
Get well soon, our thoughts and prayers are for your speedy recovery.

This evening we had 10 members in attendance. Without a Treasurer being present we did not have our usually transactions with fly donations - door prize, or fly box raffle.

With some members -other obligations- it was discussed and decided that next month OCTOBER that we would again hold our monthly meeting on the THIRD Wednesday of the month -- the 18th. Please mark your calendars accordingly.

Also discussed was a meeting plan - program for November 15th. Currently thoughts are to have a SWAP Meeting. A meeting to buy-sale-trade those Fly Fishing goods that you haven't used in awhile. NO JUNK PLEASE, just used and unused goodies that you no longer have use for. What to you think?

With the low membership turnout tonight, we were thinking that many of you have made a last-ditch-effort to make an end of Summer fishing trip and gotten snowbound. It was announce that yesterday there was a FRESH 4" snowfall that covered the Elk Horn Mtns. - Anthony Lake, a favorite fishing hole and summer cooling off spot, holding large triploid rainbows* for many of us.      

with snowfall September 21 8:11 am

 

Mid-summer catching on Anthony Lake

With the onset of Autumn -shorter, cooler days- catching can be good here.

a typical October 18th catch of FIVE (5) 12" to 20" triploid rainbows*

Now to discuss the urgent business at hand... Will YOU step forward and share your time and effort as a Club Officer? You will not be alone.
The job might consume 1 or 2 of your month's waking hours, and the time to attend a meeting; with summer fishing months - time OFF.

Please mark your calendars for our next meeting -October 18th-    at Chiquillas Mexican House 428 Ash St, Walla Walla, WA.

Dinner orders being placed/starting at 5:45 pm with business meeting / program to follow at 7:00.

Respectfully submitted,

Dale McKain

Club Secretary  

Tight lines and good fishing

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* “triploid” trout are normal rainbows that have been modified to be sterile, but are otherwise identical to other rainbow trout. They look, fight, and taste just the same. With no ability to reproduce, triploids focus all of their energy on eating and growing large — sometimes to exaggerated proportions.

https://www.fishuntamed.com/blog/what-is-a-triploid-trout

https://guiderecommended.com/what-is-a-triploid-trout/

June 14 - Before our summer fishing trips

 

This year we voted in May to plug in one more meeting before our Summer Break - fishing trips.

This evening we had 17 members and guest in attendance. 

We had no formal meeting program scheduled, so with Dale emceeing the evening we share dinner together and discussed plans to go fishing during the summer. Several folks had already started their summer fishing season, and gave us a report on their results.
No one was asked to detail exactly which rocks in the streams, or which hole in their favorite lake had always surrendered their best catches.

Treasurer Harold reported that we currently have $1,506.77 in our club's checking account.

If you are interested in joining us for our next club meeting - September is the THIRD Wednesday 9/20 being there are a lot of other area activities earlier in the month.

Places to go wet your fly in 2023...

https://www.dfw.state.or.us/

License information - https://myodfw.com/fishing/licensing-info

Fishing regulations - https://myodfw.com/articles/2023-fishing-regulations

Fishing reports of places to go fishing - https://myodfw.com/recreation-report/fishing-report/northeast-zone

https://www.fws.gov/partner/washington-department-fish-and-wildlife

License information - https://wdfw.wa.gov/licenses/fishing/types-fees

Fishing regulations - https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/regulations

Fishing reports of places to go fishing - https://www.washingtonfishreports.com/spots/index.php

Hope to see you at our next meeting September 20th at... Chiquillas Mexican House at 428 Ash St, Walla Walla, WA.

Respectfully submitted,

Dale McKain

Club Secretary  

Tight lines and good fishing

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A History of Fly Fishing in the Northwest USA

 

This evening we had 25 members and guest in attendance of our May 10^th meeting. To date we now have 25 paid members in 2023. Club membership fee is $15 for individual or $25 for full family membership.

We still do not have a President or Vice President leading our ranks. Club Secretary -Dale and Treasurer -Harold and currently keeping records of the club’s activities.

Again this evening Ex-President Dave Stemmer and Secretary Dale McKain co-directed the meeting as MC’s. Treasurer Harold Saxby reported that we currently have over $1350 in the club checking account.

We had several business matters - questions to handle before our meeting’s program…

1) Dave asked, Do we wish to have a club meeting in June? – Not a usually scheduled meeting date.
Answer -- YES – we will have a June meeting on Wednesday the 14^th – please mark you calendars. We will be discussing some group (large or small) summer fishing outings - Please indicate on the Attendance Sign-in sheet if you will be an interested party to be contacted as outings form and carpooling is planned.

2) Dale ask if the club would agree to moving our September meeting to the third Wednesday of the month, since the second Wednesday was in conflict with the 113^th year of the Pendleton Round-Up and Dale's 70 years of attendance?
Answer -- YES – it was agreed to move our September meeting date to Wednesday the 20^th – please mark your calendars.

With this club business being taken care of, we had a small presentation from Brock Peterson – Fishery Biologist with the Tri-States Steelheaders concerning their
W² WATERSHED CREEL TOURNAMENT being held from June 1 thru July 31, 2023.
There will be OVER $300 in prizes to the top anglers of this tournament.

Click on poster to ENLARGE

-The tournament will be on the Walla Walla River, the Touchet River, and tributaries of these rivers that are legally open to fishing

-Target species: smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, walleye, northern pikeminnow, rainbow trout, brown trout, cutthroat trout, brook trout, and common carp

-Prizes will be award to the most salmonid predators caught (bass, walleye, pikeminnow) and most species caught

-The tournament will be run through the MyCatch cell phone fishing app from 
June 1 through July 31.

 Please go to their website for more information àà https://www.tristatesteelheaders.com/

Making reports for their most current fishing trips:
Harold had been on the Yakima River and had hooked into some 20" Rainbows, Diane had just gotten back from fishing the Big Hole River in Montana, and Dave was fishing the Snake River this afternoon and had caught 35-40 bass and had to stop fishing when he lost his rod and reel. He called it a good day of catching.
NOTE: We will be discussing some group (large or small) summer fishing outings during our June meeting - Please indicate on the Attendance Sign-in sheet if you will be an interested party to be contacted as outings form and carpooling is planned.

After a short discussion, we then welcomed our guest program speaker for this evening,

Dennis Dauble.

Dennis is a retired fishery scientist, educator, and outdoor writer from Richland, Washington. His topic for the evening was The History of Fly Fishing in the Western US.

Dennis has published five books about fish and fishing, and regularly writes on a wide range of natural history topics for regional newspapers and magazines.
Again because this evening's presentation was brought to us in a slide show / dimmed room lighting, Secretary Dale did not take notes of the presentation but recorded pictures of most slides – to be presented here.

Please NOTE - any and all slides can be clicked on to be ENLARGED

Please NOTE - any and all slides can be clicked on to be ENLARGED

Thank you Dennis for coming over from Richland and sharing this evening and your presentation with us.

After Dennis’s presentation we had a drawing for the fly box door prize give away for this evening.

Tonight’s meeting adjourned around 8:30.

Respectfully submitted,
Dale McKain
Club Secretary - Blog master

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Fly Fishing with Kyle Bratcher (ODFW) - NE Zone

 

April 12, 2023 with Kyle Bratcher - ODFW

This evening we had 27 club members and guest present. 

Since we are still without a club President and Vice President, Secretary Dale McKain and Past President Dave Stemmer were MCs for this evening program.

The evening's club business was conducted in a rather informal manner, with a briefing of current fishing trips, past events and current planned events.

Treasurer Harold Saxby stayed busy collecting membership dues, and selling Fly Box Raffle tickets. This evening we had three (3) fly boxes to distribute - one (1) for the evening door prize and two (2) for raffle tickets sold. Each box contained over $50 worth of flies. 

Before the fly box transactions, after dinner was served we had our program presentation given by Kyle Bratcher - fishery biologist with Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Enterprise Office.

Kyle and his wife are avid fly fishers

Kyle being raised in Baker, Oregon has been able to secure a job with ODFW in his home waters of Union, Baker, and Wallowa counties. A very lucky guy.

This area of NE Oregon is one of a few that has Year 

Round Open fishing season for trout.

Since this presentation was a slide show -in the dark- one had to be here to learn all that was said. We hope that these slide clips will create enough interest to cause you to want to go fishing in a corner of the Oregon Heaven.

Because this slide presentation was given in the dark, and the camera shots shown here are not of the best - clear quality, you may wish to open the program via this PDF attachment. 
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:VA6C2:8e5b9c55-e237-43e8-afc1-4dd6bdc13256

Kyle, we thank you so much for coming over the mountains this evening and giving us this presentation of your most favored fishing waters.

Thereafter our meeting was adjourned at 8:35.

Our next meeting, and the last before our summer "Let's go fishing" break will be Wednesday May 10th.

Respectfully submitted,

Dale McKain

Club Secretary  

Tight lines and good fishing

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