Our next monthly meeting is tomorrow, February 11, at Idaho Pizza, on Commercial Street. If you want to be part of planning future event, come early at 6 pm. That will be followed at 7:00 by the membership meeting. I am told the program will include a roundtable discussion about fishing gear organization. If you haven’t yet decided on a vest, pack, etc. carrying and deploying your “stuff”, maybe the decades of experience represented there will give some ideas to pursue.. The staff at Idaho Pizza will be happy to sell you dinner. There will be the usual “stick raffle” for prizes. I expect the library will be open for your perusal.

Remember our “Start of Spring” celebration at the May meeting will include the raffle for donated items, so if have some items which you no longer have need, get them to Mike S. before then. This includes flies to add to the foam fish; anything you have tied or those you no longer use.

Our next fly tying session will be Feb. 18, Weiser Library conference room at 7:00 pm. I have not heard anything about the featured fly, or if there is one. Maybe we will just tie a body and wing it (pun intended).

The Bee Tree Folk School will be hosting another Fly Tying Workshop, with instructors provided from among our membership. There will again be a series of five weekly classes, organized by Tony Buthman, starting February 27th. This time around we are hoping for some equipment standardization, funded by the grant that our own Mark L. secured, with a lot of diligent effort. Their website, beetreefolkschool.org will have more details. Please help spread the word into the community, as we are hoping to recruit more members through this effort.

Tight Lines,

Bruce Parsons