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 8th
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.
Our meeting this evening was MC-ed by ex-President Tom Craig,
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. 
a group effort based on fishing reports –
different strokes for different folks…
trout, steelhead, and salmon fishing trips
• Fly Casting Clinics
• 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
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.
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…
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.
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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