October Meeting The October club meeting will be a presentation by Ryan Allred. He will be talking about some of the resources club members have on the web to get information about . He will show how you can use the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism website to find places to go fish- ing and some of the other useful information on that site. He will also discuss the clubs website. There have been a few changes to the members section on how club members can do fishing reports and also now show a pattern they like or even sell or trade fly fishing items. Depending on time and interest he will also talk about the clubs Facebook and Twitter pages. October 2016 Volume 21 Issue 10 Wichita, Kansas www.flatlandflyfishers.org Club Picnic INSIDE THIS ISSUE Make plans to attend the club’s annual picnic on Saturday, October 22.

Picnic Schedule The location has moved to Plum Shelter, which is located in Sedgwick County Future Meetings Park.

Fly/Gear Swap Hope to see you at the picnic. 2017 Slate of Officers Friday Afternoons Rod Building Class Page 2 ______Open Bill White Memorial Volunteer Raffle Page 3 ______Field and Stream Top 20 Flies Page 4 Club Picnic Activities ______

Alaska Trip There will be activities, fly tying Page 5 activities, raffles and good fellowship. ______Club Information Plum Shelter is next to the children’s Page 6 playground so bring kids and grandkids.

Neal Hall is the main meal cook and Dwan Welty and Dan Stark will be the Dutch Oven dessert cooks.

Anyone interested in Cost is $15 per person Dutch Oven cooking at (early or late arrival) the club picnic contact Pre purchase of ticket(s) receive 5 $1.00 Dwan Welty raffle tickets per ticket. [email protected]

www. flatlandflyfishers.org/ Next meeting October 6, 7:00 pm Flatland Fly Fishers 2

Club Picnic Schedule Club Elections

Picnic starts around 12:00 pm At this time the following have agreed to be placed on the bal- Outside activities 2 pm til 4 pm let for 2017 club officers. If you would like to be added Inside activities 4 pm til 5 pm please contact one of the current board members. Dinner 5:30 til 6:30 President Neal Hal Raffle 6:45 Vice President ????? Secretary Dan Stark Outside will be casting activities like a team distance casting, Treasurer Bill Ethridge a team “fly” golf activity and accuracy casting. Program ????????? Membership ?????? Inside will be fly tying activities like “match “ the hidden Newsletter Dwan Welty fly and blind folded and/or speed tying. Media Team Ryan Allred Activities Greg Stuever Raffles will be displayed and available for tickets starting at Conservation Darrell Atteberry 2 pm.

Dinner will consist of brisket, pulled pork, baked beans, cole slaw, baked potato and cole slaw. Desserts will be a variety of Dutch Oven delights with home Friday Afternoons made ice cream. Beverages will be tea and water Fly tying on Friday afternoons, this is open tying and/ or instructional tying Hope to see you at the picnic. Club members can come and tie there own flies or join in with one of the instructors for the fly of the week. The next fly of the week November Meeting will dry flies, like the Griffins Gnat, Elk hair caddies, crackle back.

Fireside Chat with Doug Meyer, club elections, fly swap, gear swap and Bill White Fly viewing.

December Meeting Rod Building with Neal Hall

Neal Hall will have a rod building class the 3rd weekend in Movie and Snacks, we provide the movie and drinks mem- January. bers bring the snacks. For more details get with Neal. Fly Swap

Their will be a Fly Swap at the November meeting. A fly swap is where members tie about a dozen of a fly and give to Dwan Welty at the November meeting. Dwan will take the flies and distribute them among with all that brought flies. You bring some and will leave with a set of different flies.

Gear Swap

If you have some unwanted fly fishing items or want more fly fishing equipment and show up at the November meeting and do some swapping and/or bartering.

Club Membership Renewal In Progress Flatland Fly Fishers 3

Open Fly Tying

Leave all your troubles behind and join the club for open fly tying. On June 9th the club started an open fly tying night at the Great Plains Nature Center. The only agenda is providing a time and place that past, present and future members can bring their tying equipment and get together to tie flies and talk about fishing. If you are new to fly tying and want to come you are welcome to use the clubs vices and materials and someone there would be happy to work with you. We have reserved the room for the second Thurs- day of the month for September, October, November and Decem- ber. Hopefully you are available to join us.

When: Second Thursday each month from 6:30 pm – 9 pm 2016 Volunteer Raffle Where: Great Plains Nature Center One of the requirements to be a 501 © (3) organi- zation is being active in the community.

Bill White Memorial Fly Tying Event This year some of the service/activities the club will be active in are the Wichita Sports Show, the “Wild Women” day, a GPNC fund raiser, the OK In 2014, Bill White, a past board member, an avid fisherman, espe- With Kids Walk With Wildlife and cially for carp and an outstanding fly tier passed away. Kids and/or Women Clinics.

In memory of Bill the club would like to start a "Bill White Me- For the club to do these service/activities and morial Fly Tying Event" and the winners chosen by the members. hopefully more the club needs members to volun- teer. This event will have 3 divisions: Women's Division, Men's Division and Youth Division As a thank you for volunteering the club has a special raffle called the “Volunteer Raffle”. The member will tie a fly of their choice and give to Dwan Welty or Steve Webb anytime between now and the November club The volunteer raffle is for those who volunteer to meeting. help with any of the service/activities. Each time you volunteer for an service/activity your name will At the November and December meetings these flies will be on be added to the volunteer raffle list. display for members to view and vote as to which they like the best (names of tier will not be shown). The drawing for this raffle will be either at the club’s annual picnic in October or at the November At the December meeting a winner in each division will be an- meeting. nounced and at the January meeting will receive a plaque with their fly and name. If you want more information talk with any board member or Each entrant will be allowed two (2) entries.

Visit our website www. flatlandflyfishers.org/ Flatland Fly Fishers 4 Field and Stream Top 20 Flies www.fieldandstream.com

Name: Clouser Deep Minnow Name: Name: Black Ghost Name: Zonker

Name: Name: Name: Name: Griffith's Gnat

Name: Name: Stimulator Name: Sparkle Dun Name: Rusty Spinner

Name: RS-2 Name: March Brown Spider Name: Gold Ribbed Hare's Name: Copper John

Name: Fur Ant Name: Dave's Hopper Name: Name: Egg Fly Flatland Fly Fishers 5 Alaska Trip 2016 Doug Meyer

After it is decided to do an Alaskan vacation, my wife and I 6. Had to try the beers from local breweries. Check made a MUST DO list. Here we go! Skagway Brewing Company 1. Have to be one of the 30% of visiters who actually get to see Mt. Denali….formally known as Mt. McKinley.

2. See for ourselves that in the summer it will never get dark at night. Check and Check

3. Had to see Glacier National Park Check

7. Had to do some fly fishing. Grayling Check

4. Had to go on a cruise Check

The stream we fished My guide holding the first Grayling

Salmon No Check It was too early in the season

5. Had to do some local shopping, Well our wives anyway. Note above us reads “Husband Waiting Bench”

To close, it was two weeks of great adventure and great Check memories.

Flatland Fly Fishers

5709 N. Sullivan Wichita, KS 67204

Flatland Flyfishers meet monthly at the Great Plains Nature Center, located at 6232 E. 29th St. N, Wichita, KS

Questions and Answer If you have questions regarding any aspect of Fly Fishing please submit them to: [email protected]

Upcoming meeting activities Media Team October Ryan Allred and our media You know us as Ryan, Steve and Dwan but we are November Fire Side chat with Doug Meyer also called “Flatland Fly Fisher’s Media Team”. The required annual club meeting, Club elections Join us on facebook and twitter and visit the web site Fly and Gear Swap for current club news. Voting for Bill White Fly Tying Visit our website December Movie and snacks Final voting for Bill White Fly Tying www. flatlandflyfishers.org/

January Winner(s) of Bill White Fly Tying Ark River Anglers Fly Tying Class

Come tie with us from 7-9 pm the third Tuesday each month

See us for your fly tying/fly fishing needs Wide selection of material and tools from Peak ~ Colorado Angler ~ Hareline ~ Wapsi and others

If we don’t have it, we will special order for you

Cortland ~ St. Croix ~ Redington ~ Rio ~ White River Fly Tying Wednesday, October 13 & 20, 6 pm Fly Reels ~ Fly Rods ~ Fly Line ~ Fly Fishing Accesso- Fly Tying Wednesday, November 9 & 16, 6 pm ries Fly Tying Saturday’s 10 am Follow us on Facebook.com/Zeiners & Zeiners.com Please Call 316-682-8006 for additonal dates and informaton

Zeiner’s Angler Supply Fly Shop

737 S. Washington #6 ~ Wichita ~ 316-265-5551

Flatland Fly Fishers Club 2016 Upcoming Activities

October 22 Club Picnic January 1st One Fly