The Newscaster is the monthly news letter for the Indianhead Fly Fishers. The current President's message will be here and the Newscaster archives will follow.
Reminder - the previous Newscasters are all available from the archives (down below this message).
Since Bruce is traveling currently, Royce will add a couple of notes
It appears that the NW Fly Fishing Expo, the original show first held in Eugene Oregon, the start of the FFF, the longest continually running fly tying and fishing show, may be in trouble. The prime time on Saturday looked like this, typically the aisles would be packed and the vendors would have exceeded this by double.
There were a couple of interested parties in IHFF and so we may see a couple of new faces over the course of the next months
Lee Clark of "Clarks Stonefly" fame, showed me some bass jigs he's put together and has been testing them successfully on the mid Willamette R. It appears they would work well for deep water bass, like at Oxbow when you're tired of catching the popper dinks, or at CJ if you want to get past the little bass in the top one foot.
Happy winter/spring/winter/????? . . . .everyone!
Back decades, when my first younger brother and I would spy any new body of water, that appeared more than a couple of inches deep, two things were invariably spoken.
1) “I bet there are fish in there!”
2) “ How can we catch ‘em?”
For the last 3 days, I have been hearing four of my grandkids echoing the same to their father. It gives me joy!
The IFF/ Bee Tree Folk School Fly Tying Workshop classes are continuing weekly. Check out the club Facebook page to view some photos that Bonnie posted. Maybe we can get some put on this sight. It’s great to see the continued effort that Tony and so many other members are investing in this outreach to our community and sport.
rogress on the Weiser Community Pond improvement project has occurred! The funds that Mark’s efforts with the Mellon Foundation grant have been received and are ready to transfer to the City of Weiser Parks department, pending another meeting of a recently rejuvenated committee. I have been told that meeting is 3/20 at 10:00 am, at the city offices . Mike T. is a good source of information about this. Also, the annual pond clean up has been scheduled for June 6th.
The board has been working on future plans, including those for the monthly second-Tuesday-of-the-month general meeting presentations. For April expect some useful information from a Oregon Fish & Game department biologist, and come May, it’s a presentation from Tony on backcountry water filtration techniques. That meeting includes our end-of-winter raffle. We need donation items, and also more flys to add to the styrofoam fish, for those raffles.
Mike, Aimee, Dick, Bonnie, and ???? have been working with local graphic folks to start producing logo decals, hats, shirts, etc. Maybe we can get an report on their progress at the April meeting.
Mark has been working on some flycasting coach instruction possibilities: With part of the LOR Foundation grant, the club has purchased a number of rod/reel/line combinations, so that we can plan and publicize some casting classes this spring. So I looking for bunch of folks to volunteers to participate in the training session(s), so we can have multiple coaches prepped for those classes.
I am hopeful we can see some plans from our group trip committee soon, so keep attention to the website for any new announcements,.
If spring ever gets here, enjoy it. If not, go fishing anyway.
Tight Lines
Bruce Parsons
Coming up in March:
Fly Tying
March — March 18th 6pm (basics) - (tie the fly) 8pm
Location — Weiser Library
Fly to Tie - TBA
Time to renew your fishing licenses and boat licenses, the links are on the home page
Idaho Fishing Rules Here
Events
NorthWest Fly Fishing Expo Mar 7 - Mar 8 details
