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Events, Meetings, Meetings 2023

November 2023 HFF Meeting

November Meeting: Hoosier Fly Fishers will again meet at the American Legion Post in Bloomington for the monthly meeting on Tuesday Nov.  21st, 6PM for diner and 7PM for the meeting.  The program this month will concern “Tips and Tricks” for fly tying. Most of us have found a little trick or two that help our tying. These are often things not exactly found in a book or video but evolve at the bench. We will be sharing some of these and demonstrating at the vice. There will be room behind my vice if you want to sit down and share a tip of your own. 

Once again as per the constitution, we will hold the election of officers at this meeting. There will be a slate of officers put fourth. However, nominations from the floor are open. The elected officers will take office at the Christmas meeting.

Hoosier Fly Fishers monthly meetings are open to the public, now is a good time to join us for the coming year. Dues are due now, see Barbara Hatton at the Nov. meeting to sign up or pay annual dues.  Looking forward to seeing you all on the 21st, TimM

HFF Christmas Party:The Hoosier Fly Fishers Christmas Party for Club members will be December 10th at 11:30AM  and will be at the Red Lobster in Bloomington again this year. Each club member and their significant other will receive a $25 certificate for the meal. As always, this does not include adult beverages. It is very important that you let Barbara Hatton <barbara.hatton@hotmail.com> know how many of you are planning to attend. We need a good head count so please let Barb know at the November meeting or drop her a note.

The Christmas raffle prize this year will be a Moon Shine 9’, 5 wt. rod with an extra tip, a hard case and a reel with line. As an added bonus there will also be a canteen. I can think of a time or two when the extra tip would have saved the day.

January Meeting:  January 16th, 2024. Albert White will be joining us for the January Meeting to discuss Indiana smallmouth bass fishing. More details to follow.

Stay warm or cool, whatever Indiana weather demands today…

Tim

Meetings, Meetings 2023

Upcoming HFF Meetings and Reminders

A little reminder about the upcoming HFF meeting this coming Tuesday February 21st.

The program for this meeting will be how to arrange/select the contents of a fly box for a species or location. In spite of the weather outside today, it will not be long before we can all actually use all those flies we have been tying all winter. This will be a good chance to talk about what flies to take when and where.  The tying demo has changed as Paul Brown has Covid and although he is more than willing to share his knowledge about fly ting, he has no interest in sharing Covid with all of us. Good call Mr. Brown. Instead, I will tie a Midnight Mullet, a good simple streamer for Smallies and Wipers.

As mentioned before, there is a schedule change coming up for March. We will be holding the Annual Auction this March rather than the usual April. As usual Kernal Kevin will be exercising his dulcet tones to part us and a few bucks. This year we are going to divide profits from the auction 50/50 with the Healing Waters and Casting for Recovery groups. So, gather up all your very useful fishing and outdoor related items to donate to the auction. And I might add bring a few extra bucks to buy some of the very useful stuff that will be up for sale….

The April meeting will feature some important information about Lake Monroe. Members of the friends of Lake Monroe, science committee, Howard Webb and Maggie Sullivan, will present information about the Friends of Lake Monroe group, their purpose and the work they are doing and propose to do to keep Lake Monroe waters clean and useful. Howard has revisited some of the work that the Hoosier Flyfishers did to map out the depth of Yellowwood Lake. He will explain how he proposes to do a similar study of Lake Monroe. Howard uses a far more advanced set of electronics and procedures than we did to study Yellowwood. 

See you all there on Tuesday at the Legion. Dinner at 6:00 and Program at 7:00PM.

Stay warm, Tim