Walla² Fly Fishers: March 2023

Monday, March 13, 2023

March 8th - fishing with Grant and Lottie

This evening we had 25 members and guest in attendance.

This our regularly scheduled monthly meeting -March 8- was held at our new meeting location - Chiquillas Mexican House at 428 Ash St, Walla Walla, WA. Our regularly scheduled meetings are held from September through May on the second Wednesday of the month. We have no holiday meetings from Thanksgiving thru New Year. We do have impromptu get together organized by Emails in June, July, and August, making plans to go fishing; with one and all who wish to join us.

PLEASE NOTE: our club is still looking for / asking for a couple or few individuals to stand up and fill the current openings for club officers… President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary. Currently we have no President or Vice President. Treasurer Harold and Secretary Dale have said that they will hold on, until others come forward. Secretary Dale says he will continue to “work” this club blog and the Facebook page postings, until someone else wishes to handle those monthly projects.

Will you consider helping the club by coming forward and filling these open positions? Thank you.

This March 8^th meeting Treasurer Harold was unable to attend, so no club $$ monies $$ transactions transpired.

We did have the usual fly boxes made available this month, the one for a Door Prize give away, and two for our club funding Raffle. Without our Treasurer being present we were unable to sale raffle tickets, so only had the giveaway of the one Door Prize box.

In April we will again –with our Treasurer present– have two (2) well-dressed fly boxes for raffling prizes, and another nice Door Prize flybox. Right now EACH of these boxes are holding about $50 worth of flies.

Our meeting this evening was MC-ed by ex-President Tom Craig,

with a little help from Secretary Dale. Topics discussed were the upcoming Walla Walla 4-H Weekend expo, where area young people are introduce to events and local organizations such as our – fly fishing and fly tying. Dale mentioned that the club had been approached by the College Place Lion Club to help conduct a similar program for the youth of College Place. Dale also mentioned that he and ex-President Dave Stemmer had discussed and would again make contact with Waterbrook Winery about sponsoring a Fly Fishing Fair on their fish ponds in early June.

https://wallawallaflyfishers.blogspot.com/2009/08/augusts-meeting-at-waterbrook.html

This we have done years ago and can be reviewed by following the link connected to these events.

It was noted that that club dues for 2023 were now due and at last November’s meeting it was agreed that the dues would now be Fifteen dollars ($15) for an individual’s membership and Twenty-Five dollars ($25) for a full family membership.

With the subject of club dues in mind, we made a historical reflection of things the club had been involve with (group activities and events) over the past 14 years. We also discussed a few plans to try to be involved with in 2023.

• 2023 Fly Fishing Fair – Dave and Dale will be working on this project soon - with a little help from our friends.

• Club group fishing outings to high lakes and rivers –
a group effort based on fishing reports –
different strokes for different folks…
trout, steelhead, and salmon fishing trips

• Fly Casting Clinics

• Round Table Fly tying get togethers

• Midweek After Work - cookouts and flotation fishing at Bennington Lake with all things being connected to our love and enthusiasm for sharing fly fishing and camaraderie - there can be some good catching evening at Bennington Lake.

NOTE: the club has a pontoon boat, two float tubes, and PFD / vests to share

and a library of fly fishing books and magazines.

Dave also has asked for all veterans in the group, or outside the club that you may know of… if interested in the local Healing Waters program to contact him, or follow the link below for more information.

https://wallawallaflyfishers.blogspot.com/2014/04/project-healing-waters-with-gerald.html

This evening we had the pleasure of our used-to-be-neighbors Grant and Lottie Richie to join us, coming across the Blues in snow and cold giving our evening’s program.

Lottie and Grant own and operate Minam Store on Hwy 82 at the confluence of the Wallowa and Minam rivers and from there provide fishing guide services on these rivers and the Grande Ronde River.

From here this blog is going to take a different twist and offer YOU a YouTube video produced by Grant and Lottie of their services.
A video beautifully well done…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESYF5ewefPY

Grant and Lottie, thank you so much for braving the winter weather / road conditions and joining us for the evening.

After their presentation we did conduct a drawing for the evening’s Door Prize flybox.

Thereafter our meeting was adjourned at 8:35.

Our next regularly scheduled meeting will be April 12, 2023 at Chiquillas Mexican House at 428 Ash St, Walla Walla, WA.
Dinner gathering at 5:45 with the club's business meeting to follow at 7:00.

Respectfully submitted,

Dale McKain
Club Secretary

Tight lines and good fishing

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Streamside thoughts...

Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.
- Lee Wulff
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The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.
- John D. Voelker
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I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, steelhead, or salmon on my line.
- Edward Weeks
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“I fish because I love to. Because I love the environs where trout are found, which are invariably beautiful... Because in the woods I can find solitude without loneliness. ... And finally, not because I regard fishing as being so terribly important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of men are equally unimportant and not nearly so much fun.”
- Robert Traver

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... tis not all of fishing to fish.
- Izaak Walton

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Walla² Fly Fishers' meetings

Our next monthly meeting will be February 20, 2024 Our meeting location is: Chiquillas Mexican House 428 Ash St, Walla Walla, WA 99362 (509) 525-2598 - next door to Walker’s Furniture Store Our regularly scheduled meetings are held on the second Wednesday of the month,
September - May.7:00

Come one, come all, come as you are. Our meetings are open to the interested fly fishing public.
Meeting dress code accepts waders anytime (we want to hear your most recent fish tale), but please leave studded wading boots at the doors. Thank you

NOTE: We do give and raffle away boxes of trout/steelhead flies at most monthly meeting. Hope to see you winning one soon.
Questions? Please contact us at: WallaWalla.Flyfishing@gmail.com

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About Us

The purpose and goals of the Walla² Fly Fishers are:

1) Promoting the art and science of fly fishing as prescribed by our club's by-laws.
2) To bring together our local fly fishing community; to share the camaraderie of fishing experiences, and to help each other develop our fly fishing skills and knowledge.
3) To be a family oriented group of fishers, welcoming spouse, children, family unit members into sharing our activities.
4) To help those who have physical, emotional, any handicap needs; where learning to fly fish may aid in their therapy and well being.
5) To adopt and maintain local waters, to share, to fish and be caretakers of that eco-system
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To be a member in good standing with the Walla² Fly Fishers one shall be vested in the Walla² Fly Fishers (annual dues are $15 for individuals -and- $20 for your entire family); be willing to learn, and share with others the arts and science of fly fishing.

Contact Us: WallaWalla.Flyfishing@gmail.com