Annual Banquet
Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 24th,
2009. For the third year standing, Camp Hiawatha will be the lo-cation for
the banquet. This year‘s activities will include a six-hole round of golf
with two person teams, as we played last year. Teams will be drawn out of a
hat and prizes will be given for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winning teams.
With hopes of getting away from more competitive gatherings, there will be
no distance casting competition this year. We are trying to focus more
toward the time we have to spend together and utilize more of that time for
fellowship.
In addition to the casting golf, there will be fly tying instruction going
on indoors for those who wish to get a re-fresher on popular techniques, or
local patterns that some of our members have been successful with. There
will be club vices set up around the ‗Fly Tiers Bench‘ for members who would
like to tie along. The tying instructors will bring materials for the
patterns they are tying.
There will also be an amateur photo contest at the banquet. The photos could
be of insects, either natural or repli-cated fly patterns, fish caught on a
fly, someone fly fishing, rivers, lakes or streams where you were fly
fishing, or anything that falls in the fly fishing realm. All entrants must
submit an 8 x 10 hardcopy that will be displayed during the banquet. Members
will be encouraged to take a ballot and vote for the photo they like the
best. There will be a prize given for the top three photos.
Dinner will be provided by Neal Hall this year, and desert will be that of
Dutch Oven Cooking. There will be a few Dutch Ovens set up this year for
multiple dishes. These are a few ideas the board members came up with to try
to get more of our members involved in club activities, for without each
other we are not a club.
Of course, there will also be the raffle items on display for everyone to
drop tickets on to see if this may be your lucky day! Hope to see you
there!!
Dutch Oven Session
Do you like desserts that are prepared using a Dutch Oven but do not own a
Dutch Oven or you own one but have never attempted to use it. At the Fall
Banquet on October 24 one of the activities will be a Dutch Oven Session.
The aim of this session is to give those who want to cook using a Dutch Oven
the opportunity to so. We will be cooking desserts like peach, blueberry or
cherry cobbler. We could cook an apple crisp or a double chocolate bunt cake
or a host of other desserts. If you are interested in attending this session
please contact Dwan Welty, by e-mail at dwanwelty@cox.net or talk with a
board member. The capacity of this session is 10 people. You do not have to
be a member to attend this Dutch Oven session but members will get first
choice.
Silent Auction to start at September meeting
A silent auction is slated to begin at the September meeting, carry through
the October meeting and end during the Fall Banquet on October 24, 2009. A
silent auction consists of a sheet where bids are entered in writing and at
pre set dollar increments until finally reaching the winning bid before the
pre determined ending deadline. The auction prize is the twenty five volume
fly fishing encyclopedia ―Lefty‘s Little Library of Fly Fishing‖ written and
edited by Lefty Kreh. These books cover almost every subject in the fly
fishing world; Trout, Bass, Saltwater, Tackle, Fly Tying, Fly fishing
history. It‘s all here. Come to the September meeting and check out a sample
from this valuable, collectable set of books.