We had 23 club members and guests in
attendance for this meeting to start our 2024 New Year.
Prior to the
business meeting dinner was served and fish tells were passed around the
tables.
Introduced
this evening were the new club officers for 2024, duly elected at our November 8th
meeting. The new club officers are:
President
- Dave Stemmer
Vice
President - Tanner Druffel
Secretary - Dale McKain
Treasurer
- Doug Coe
Dave Doug Dale Tanner
This evening it was discussed making a change in our meetings location, maybe a location at not so large a room and with better acoustics. This topic will be continued to a later meeting after a survey of locations has been made. Do you have any suggestions?
4-H Super Saturday – March 23rd. Tom said that he would take the lead role for fly casting instructions, and Diane said that she would take the lead role for demonstrating fly tying. All of those interested in helping with this event please contact Tom. This event will again be taking place at the Blue Mountain Community Church 928 Sturm Ave, Walla Walla, WA.
Our fly fishing program presentation this evening was a real treat. It was comprised a video presentation of the fly fishing excursions of fellow club members Robin and Daniel Biggs.
Daniel has recently become more and more involved with producing videos for TV presentations, documentaries and fly fishing excursions.
Tonight Robin and Daniel took us to 6
nearby Oregon – Washington fly fishing locations and shared with on screen
photos and video presentations, with descriptions of what you can find there.
Of these there was: Strawberry Lake (needing a backpack float
tubes), John Day River (near Service Creek, Oregon), Willow Lake (off of I-84),
and Dusty Lake (Quincy Wildlife Area), and a few more that Daniel would
prefer to share only by “just word of mouth”.
Many of these locations are stocked
annually or more often, for everyone’s fishing enjoyment. Follow the links
below for maps to and description of the locations mentioned in this evening presentation.
https://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/locations/lowland-lakes/dusty-lake
https://www.billmatthewsoutdoors.com/post/john-day-river-spray-to-service-creek
https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/malheur/recarea/?recid=40166
http://columbiariverimages.com/Regions/Places/willow_creek.html
https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/deschutes/recarea/?recid=71994
It should be noted, that Daniel and Robin are not Pacific Northwest fishing guides, but if you would like to contact them, concerning their adventures of where they Go Fishing, you can reach them at their online business address; also if you might need to have some professional photography work done...
