This evening
we had 25 members and guest in attendance of our May 10th 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 14th – 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 113th
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 20th
– 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.
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 ENLARGEDThank 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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