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April 2025 HFF Metting

I hope you all have managed to survive the recent weather. That was a lot of rain…lots of water and we need water to fish. May I assume that more water equals more fish? It is always interesting to see what changes this flood will bring to local waters.

The next HFF meeting will be April 15th. Again, we will meet at the American Legion Post 18, with dinner at 6:00 and the program at 7:00. The program will be in two parts. First, Sandy Clark-Kolaks will introduce us to WINGS…Women in Nature Gaining Skills. I am looking forward to learning about this group and their activities. The second part of the evening will be the Annual Auction.

The Annual Auction of Good Stuff is always lots of fun. This is the chance to get those fishing/outdoor related items you didn’t know you really needed. We depend on members to donate very desirable and worthy items related to fishing and outdoor activities. And be assured, there will be feathers you really do need. My guess is there will be a few books with lots of pretty pictures and perhaps even some material worth reading if you are still into old fashion reading…There will always be some great flies tied by the members. However, there will be no Goose. The auction helps fund the club picnic and Christmas party and gifts to the Legion folks, occasional conservation projects, and Healing Waters and Casting for Recovery. There will be a bit of a change this year. Kernal Kevin will not be able to join us as auctioneer. The honor will be in the able hands of Kyle Swafford. So, bring some really good stuff to give Kyle something to work with to part you with a few bucks for the good of the club.

More news.. The HFF Annual Picnic will be on May 10th. Once again Barry and Susie Clarke have offered their Lake Lemon home for the gala event. More on this soon.

Looking forward to learning about WINGS and seeing all the great stuff you bring for the auction. Again Dinner at 6:00 and the program at 7:00.

Stay warm,

Tim

Meetings, Meetings 2025

March 2025 HFF meeting

HFF Meeting: I assume we are all enjoying the weather and if I am not mistaken it is bringing up ideas of fishing soon. However, we know Indiana weather and please remember it did snow on April 1st in 1909…We will meet at the Legion on March 18th with dinner at 6:00 and the program at 7:00

The meeting this month will basically have two parts. We will be having a presentation on Indiana entomology by Sawyer Scheid. Sawyer will also be presenting a lecture on entomology as part of our adventure with the 4H events coming up soon. He was also the winner of the Indiana State Fair Entomology presentation. I am sure we will get valuable information about bugs we can transfer to our fishing…

The second part of the meeting will be filling the 50 fly boxes for the 4H event. Mike Donovan has the 50 boxes, it is up to us to provide the flies. If you have tied 50 of your favorites bring them, if you don’t have 50 of the same fly bring what you have… This is going to be a fun time…

Looking forward to seeing everyone on the18th. Bring some stories and some flies.

Tim

HFF Program with Monroe County 4H: We are moving forward. The program will take place Wednesday, 3/19/25 and Saturday, 3/22/25.

The Wednesday session is a Zoom meeting from 7pm to 8:30pm ish. We will be at the Purdue Extension office at 3400 S Walnut St. This will consist of a short presentation on “What is fly fishing”, “Fish ecology and entomology”, “Fly tying – Materials and Demo”, and “The Basics of fly casting” (with a practice rod).

The Saturday session will be at the Four Winds Lakeside Inn and Marina, 10am to 3pm. These sessions will be “hands on” experiences of the above topics plus some games and a presentation on further adventures in fly fishing – trout out west, saltwater, etc.

You would be welcome to attend any and all sessions, the Wednesday presentations are covered and will be short. Saturday we could use all the help we can get. Particularly with fly tying and casting. If you would like to do a presentation on “Adventures In Fly Fishing” as a closing to the day, let me know.

Mike Donovan is collecting flies from the tiers to make up boxes of flies for the kids. If you would like to contribute, we need 50 flies. You could bring the flies to the next meeting on the 18th, we may be boxing the flies up then.

We are expecting around 50 kids to attend.

If you have any questions, just let me know.

Kevin