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Fish Report

Fishing the Flatrock River June 30, 2013

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Flatrock Fish Report June 30, 2013

Bloomington Minnow
Bloomington Minnow
Tim's smallie from the Flatrock River June 30,2013
Tim’s smallie June 30

Paul and I fished the Flatrock on Sunday June 30th. The gauge at St. Paul was at .92 when we started and at .94 when we left. At .92/.94 there was all the water we wanted to wade. I would recommend that anything above that is unsafe and unfishable. We have fished the Flatrock at lower gauge readings and it is a pleasant and productive little river with some nice Smallies. It even fished well during the drought when the gauge read .45 in June of 2012 (see pic # 21 on the 2012 the web gallery).

 

Nice smallie from the Flat rock River June30, 2013

We each caught 4 Smallies and a number of panfish and there were some nice fish in the long distance release category. We took fish both looking up and on weighted “Bloomington Minnows.” Panfish on small poppers were easy, the Smallies were not moving very far to take a fly. A lot of the wading was mid thigh and even belly button deep in a place or two. Again, I would not recommend making the trip if the stream flow was above .94 at St. Paul.

Tim

 

Meetings, Meetings 2013

March 2013 Club Meeting Reminder

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swallowscolorUnless you plan to celebrate St. Joseph’s Day and the return of the Swallows to San Juan Capistrano Mission, your plans should include attending the HFF March meeting. We will meet at the Colorado Steakhouse at 6:00 for food and the program at 7:00 PM.

“Each year on October 23rd, the Day of San Juan, thousands of swallows leave their mud nests at the San Juan Capistrano Mission and head south for the winter. Amazingly, the swallows return each year on March 19th, St. Joseph’s Day, and rebuild their nests for the summer.”

Granted there will few if any Swallows at the meeting (the exception being members swallowing appropriate adult beverage). However, we will roll out the new web site. And if that were not enough excitement, Kevin will provide us with the best information on the latest point-and-shoot waterproof digital cameras. Kevin has forgotten more about photography than most of us know or have ever known.

Next month is the yearly auction. You all can do two things to make this a success, one is to bring stuff, good stuff, second is to bring money, lots of money. We use the proceeds of this gala event to help defray the cost of the Christmas party, the spring cook out and programs. We used to buy books with the auction proceeds but it seems none of our members read such out dated vehicles of transferring information. Hence the web site…

See you all on the 19th,

Tim