Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Rick Hafele - After dinner

Rick Hafele – After dinner - Fly Fishing Lakes

President Judy called our meeting to order at 7:03 this evening. We had 4 guest present.

Treasurer Harold reported that we have over $1400 in the club's checking account. 

VP Tyson said he was in the process of cataloging the club's library, hopefully it will be back on the table in September.

Heidi announced that there would be another meeting of the Lady Fly Fishers on May 22 at Clarette's restaurant. 

This evening we had the privilege of being joined by Rick Hafele - Author/Lecturer/Bug Man.
Today Rick was in town to discuss with a group of fly fishers from around the area the art, science and presentation of technical fly fishing from the layman’s view and language. 

As an author, Rick was not here to sell his books, but to share the vast amount of knowledge he has comprised in his education of Entomology.

The Complete Book of Western Hatches, was Rick’s first book co-authored with Dave Hughes, was published in 1981.  Since then he has co-authored or authored several other books including Western Mayfly HatchesAn Angler’s Guide to Aquatic Insects and Their Imitations, Nymph Fishing Rivers and Streams, and more. In 1983 he completed the instructional video, Anatomy of a Trout Stream, produced by Scientific Anglers.  This has been followed more recently by six other instructional DVDs: Fly Fishing Large Western Rivers (a four volume set), Nymph Fishing Basics, Advanced Nymph Fishing and most recently Advanced Tactics for Emergers & Dries.   

With the vast amount of insight that Rick shared with us this evening was about Fly Fishing Lakes; this writer will not try to make a conscientious accounting of Rick’s presentation, but instead point you to the wealth of knowledge share in Rick’s publications.
One can find many of Rick's publications on Amazon.com

This evening's program about lake fishing covered the hatches, fly patterns, and tactics needed for success on stillwaters.
Being a picture is worth a thousand words, this writer will give you some of the highlight slides of Rick's presentation and again encourage you to turn to Rick's publication for a greater understanding on how the fly and fish will go so well together to fill your creel, if you are inclined to do so.






Rick, we Thank You so much for sharing this day, and your knowledge / expertise with us. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge, on how and where to hook a fish.

To help cover the expenses of this evening we did a one fly box raffle tonight. This box was a donation with 12 flies brought to us by Heidi, and then Dale added 48 more flies to make the box an even 5 dozen fly box with flies for trout and steelhead. Rick pulled the raffle ticket and Jenny got the box. Our meeting was adjourned at 8:40.  

Our meeting was adjourned at 8:40.  
Our next meeting will be in September - look for an email to announce the meeting. You may also follow us on Facebook.

Respectfully submitted, 
Dale McKain 
Club Secretary  
Tight lines and good fishing


Diane Briggs –  Co-President
Judy
 McDole – Co-President
Tyson Kopfer – Vice President
Harold Saxby – Treasurer
Dale McKain – Secretary - Blogmaster


Dave Stemmer  PROJECT HEALING WATERS Coordinator

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