2014 - Our Sixth Annual Fly Fishing Fair

On the patio at Waterbrook Winery

It was another beautiful Saturday for our 6th Annual Fly Fishing Fair. The morning started out a bit cool with a breeze, but by 10:00 a.m. the few clouds overhead had drifted away, the sun was warm, and it turned into a most comfortable day for fly fishing at Waterbrook Winery. For these annual events we do not try to keep a headcount, but watch and help as everyone comes and goes and practice with the hands-on fly fishing skills, we have to offer the public for FREE.

Once again (as a picture is worth 1000 words) this writer will turn to photos in the journal of this occasion. This journal is an overview of our 2014 Fly Fishing Fair, and to keep us looking forward to another sharing event in 2015.

On the outside - we have fly fishing

Kids learn to be fly casters very fast

Some discussion on casting technique

Tom getting ready to demo 

Practicing his casting over coy

On the inside we have...

A view across the Waterbrook Winery lobby

Troutwater Fly Shop and Guide Service

A table of silent auction items -Some Good Things-

Jerry Newell - our Project Healing Water Coordinator

Robin's - RLS Creations For Sale

 

Kristi our Waterbrook hostess moving her wares

On the inside and outside we have...

 the Tyer's Table

Steve and a novice fly tyer

Diane busy with another fly

Tyson enjoying showing some of his techniques -whipping materials onto a hook

The other end of the Tyer's Table

On the outside we also have...

Grant Richie's Minam Raft Rentals - Fishing Guide Service - Minam Motel

Grant Richie and sons - all fly fishers

fishing for coy

The Walla² Fly Fishers wishes to thank everyone that helped to make this 2014 Fly Fishing Fair another successful day. We hope to see everyone here again next year for our 2015 Fly Fishing Fair.

You can click on this link or the Labels: (below) - - to visit our past events.

Tight lines and Good Fishing

Walla² Fly Fishers

Contact Us

Tom Craig – President
Dave Stemmer – Vice President
Doug Coe – Treasurer
Dale McKain – Secretary - Blogmaster 
Gerald Newell - PROJECT HEALING WATERS Coordinator


Past Presidents
Tyson Kopfer
Bob Long
Scott Peters

Talking about fishing trips and our Seventh Annual Fly Fishing Fair

 


This evening President Tom called our meeting to order at 7:15. 




We had 14 members and guest in attendance. 

Our main topic of discussion this evening was the upcoming 2015 - Seventh Annual Fly Fishing Fair again being held at the Waterbrook Winery (and fishing ponds) located at 10518 Hwy 12 west of Walla Walla. 
 

our 6th Annual 2014 Fly Fishing Fair flyer

The date of our 2015 Fly Fishing Fair is set for Saturday June 6th.
It was announced that Teagh Gustin with Waterbrook Winery had been invited to address our group this evening, but he had another obligation to attend to. We hope Teagh might address our May meeting, and Secretary Dale will address an email to invite him to do so. We are again inviting Jim Gallagher - WA Yakima River guide and Grant Richie - OR Wallowa River guide to join us this year. 

Again this year we plan to offer FREE - 

fly rod casting instruction and waterfront coaching, fly tying demonstrations with tying table instruction and coaching, to go along with fly fishing the Waterbrook Winery ponds for trout, coy, carp - accompanied by fly fishing Catch and Release techniques.
We hope to begin developing promotional items for this year's Fly Fishing Fair in the next week or two with Waterbrook's Teagh Gustin, and therefore have most plans in place to discuss with the club membership at our next regularly scheduled club meeting on May 13th. The projected activities schedule for this year's event will again be 10am - 3pm.
Please mark your calendars to share this day with us. Again this year we plan to conduct a silent auction to raise funds for our Walla² Fly Fishers' -Project Healing Water Fly Fishing, Inc- (PHWFF) activities. 

Again this year the chef and kitchen of Waterbrook Winery will make food, drinks, and wines available for our midday refreshment. Their food and wine has always been quite delicious and very reasonably priced.

PHWFF coordinator Jerry was asked about the  steelhead fishing trip made to the Wallowa River on March 21-22. He reported that the trip was very successful and their stay at Minam Motel with fishing guide Grant Richie was a very pleasant experience. He told us most of their time on the Wallowa River was spent in the stretch 5 miles above the Minam River confluence. Evidence produced of the success of this trip was pictures of Derek and Brandon with steelies in hand.

Jerry reported that they also motored down to the Wenaha River, coming off Wildcat grade (an experience in itself) and hiked upriver out of Troy, OR where they hooked into quite a few wild steelhead and Dolly Varden "Bull trout".




We also had reports of fishing the Tucannon River ponds and that Bennington Lake has been stocked with 500 trophy size Triploid/ Rainbow trout. It was suggested that when fishing Big 4 Lake if you have a touch of green in your fly, one might expect many more hookups of the trophy size trout swimming there.

Tom shared with us more photos of his February trip to New Zealand with a photo album he had put together, as well as a photo album he has made of his fly fishing in the WA and OR home waters. In the WA-OR fishing photo album we saw pictures of President Tom, and Treasurer's Dr. Doug with his first steelie in hand, and big smiles on both of their faces. Steelhead catching does that to most people's faces.

Tom - Sean in NZ

Tom - Doug with steelies in hand

    

Tom also announced that we still have on hand a couple more club logo caps available at $20 each. Also discussed was the very large selection of apparel available at Graphic Apparel  in College Place, all of which can have our club's logo embroidered into for FREE.  Club members can buy apparel off their shelf or clothing racks, and /or buy from elsewhere and have our club logo embroidered on any clothing article for only a $5 setup charge if clothing bought elsewhere.

Many articles of apparel are available at Graphic Apparel

Treasurer Dr. Doug reported that after settling all accounts payable created by our 2014 Fly Fishing Banquet, we now have $1000 in our club's bank account. He also reported that we now have 23 members with 2015 paid accounts. Doug is still accepting 2015 membership payments in the amounts of $15-Individual / $20-Family.

This evening our meeting was adjourned at 8:02p.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Dale McKain

Club Secretary

Tight lines and Good Fishing

Contact Us

Tom Craig – President
Dave Stemmer – Vice President
Doug Coe – Treasurer
Dale McKain – Secretary - Blogmaster Gerald Newell - PROJECT HEALING WATERS Coordinator


Past Presidents
Tyson Kopfer
Bob Long
Scott Peters 

YOU are cordially invite to...

Our Eighth Annual Fly Fishing Fair

Saturday 18 June 2016 -11:00 am 

at Waterbrook Winery
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10518 W. Highway 12  Walla Walla, WA

“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

There is an art and science to throwing a nearly weightless hook - with fur and feather attached - 30', 60', 90' to a rising fish. Almost anyone can do it - just come out and try it.
Group and individual fly casting instructions are offered - FREE.

OH for the joy... of a nice fly presentation, and then the fishy hook-up that follows.

Demonstrating the art and science of fly tying --
where the smallest of flies, is sometimes what it takes to a catch large fish.
We do offer individual fly tying instructions - FREE 

Yes, we do stand around discussing fishing and other important matters in life

There are fish to be caught on the fly at our Fly Fishing Fairs at Waterbrook Winery

Walla² Fly Fishers - invite area fly fishing guide services to join us to share in the day and the opportunity to fly fishing our Pacific Northwest waters successfully

Walla² Fly Fishers' special community project is sponsoring our local Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc.
The annual Fly Fishing Fairs gives the general public and the area fly fishing community the opportunity to join in our efforts to contribute to the cause with silent auction tables, holding some nice items.

At Waterbrook Winery there is pop, lunch, and wines served to refresh the day, Please join us.

We offer individual fly casting instructions - FREE

 

Visit our previous SEVEN Fly Fishing Fairs links to get a taste of our venue, and the Waterbrook Winery.
June 18th once again we will be fly fishing / fly tying / talking about the art and science of the sport. Will you join us?
FREE - hands on programs of fly casting, fly tying, fly fishing to the interested PUBLIC - we have the fly fishing gear you will need, or bring your own.

Click on this link and follow the label - Fly Fishing Fair - to view past Walla² Fly Fishers' Fly Fishing Fairs and other club activities.

Tight lines and good fishing

Direction and map to Waterbrook Winery

https://goo.gl/maps/N2JBWFCvnPE2

We hope you will join us here on June 18th.