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.
NOPE!
I don't think so.
No way . . . .So. back to basics——-
I happy to report that the recently completed Fly Tying Workshop was a success on several fronts, including the recruitment of several new members. Led by our vice president, Tony, side-rodded by Aimee, a bunch of our members worked together to provide a good experience for the students, who expressed their appreciation. This effort was accomplished in conjunction with the Bee Tree Folk School, utilizing equipment purchased with the LOR Foundation grant, as well as materials donated by the local Ace Hardware store. I hope someone remembered to take photos—-send them to Royce, please.
I direct your attention to the Activities section of this website, where Royce has carefully listed dates/ times, locations for various classes, fishing trips, and social events, with which we hope to tempt your participation. Particularly important to me, is the casting instruction outreach coming up. The initial preparation involves a group of us traveling to Angler’s fly shop in Boise, where the owner has agreed to teach us how to teach others to cast. (There are still a couple of openings in the class roster—call me!). This is scheduled for April 24th, and will utilize equipment purchased with funds from the afore mentioned grant (Thanks Mark!)
The next class will utilize the new “coaches” from the first class, to teach a local class aimed at interested IFF members, planned for May 3rd, and a following class to be advertised to the community, on May 31. Since the plan is to utilize lawn spaces eg. parks (specific sites TBA), from 10:00 am to noon, Aimee has a good idea! Howabout a picnic afterword?
The Weiser Community Pond is part of the history of IFF, and we are again planning to participate in its annual cleanup. Prepping for this, members will be manning an information booth at the Vendome in Weiser, May 2nd, with the specific task of recruiting volunteers for the clean up event (on Friday, June 6th). If you are willing to donate some time for manning the booth, contact me, Aimee, Dave or Mark.
IFF will be providing lunch for cleanup volunteers, with food donations from local stores. The event is a cooperative effort with several local volunteer groups, and the City of Weiser.
I direct your attention to the Planned Fishing Trips section of the website—don’t miss out! Also the information in the newsletter regarding a fishing location data base; that would be a great help to all of us in future planning.
Our May general meeting will feature our end-of-winter raffle—Mike has amassed an amazing list of rods, reels, and equipment, plus the annual drawing for the $$$$. There is also a lot of flies that have accumulated on the foam fish—they also go to winner!
Next time you see Tony, ask him to model the logo shirt he has been working on, and get him to send a photo to Royce. Hats, hoodie, and other apparel have been planned.
I look forward to seeing you all at events and on the water. Don’t forget to block sun, ticks, and mosquitos, and to travel and fish safely. We want you back!
Let's fish,
Bruce Parsons
A fantastic presentation on the Eastern Oregon stillwater fly fishing possibilities was given by Dave Banks of the Hines office of ODFW on Tuesday April 9.
Thank you Ray for putting this together, Dave was very informative. Do we have access to the Idaho Fish Biologist for our district?
Five to six new members were added this month, which was great to see.
Please submit your fishing reports and pictures to Royce via email
See the "Events" section below or click here to see the upcoming planned fishing trips
If you would like to plan a trip, or organize one of the posted trips contact Royce via email.
Here is a club fishing event in the planning stages for Largemouth Bass this Summer. Crane Falls Lake last week was at 48 degrees and the trout came out to play
We would like to start collecting data on our fishing opportunities on our web site. Please pick a body of water that you are familiar with and provide some information on it. Maybe, location, size, depth or water flows, fish species available, difficulty to get to it, best time of year to fish it, best flies to use, best technique, equipment necessary (paddle/power boat, wadeable, etc). The plan will be to use this data to create our annual fishing plans. This data will be made accessible only to our members so we can keep secret places and techniques to our secret society. ;)
Also going forward, a link will be included HERE to a past newscaster from the same month from our archives. Hopefully this will encourage members to use this resource
Tight Lines
Where's Waldo?
Coming up in April:
Club Meeting
April 8th - 6pm Board Mtg (everyone invited), 7pm Club Mtg - ODFW presentation
Location - Weiser Idaho Pizza
Fly Tying
April 15th 6pm (basics) - (tie the fly) 8pm
Location — Weiser Library
Fly to Tie - Prince Nymph
Leader - Ray Perkins
Events
April 25th 10 club members will be attending a casting instruction class (to teach casting) will be held at Anglers in Boise
Here's a helpful Fly Fishers International information Page for casting instruction
May 3 Club Casting Class 10 am at a park in Weiser to be named later
May 31 Casting Class 10 am at a park in Weiser to be named later
May 13th Club Spring raffle
Weiser Pond Cleanup June 6
Club trip - Murray Reservoir, Unity Oregon June 7 (free fish day in Oregon)
Time to renew your fishing licenses and boat licenses, the links are on the home page
Idaho Fishing Rules Here
