October 2016 Newsletter
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Cascade Family Flyfishers Vol 33, Issue 10 October, 2016 Inside the Newsreel On The Cover Page 2 Prez Sez Randy Beard with a Rogue River Jack Salmon Page 3 Big Sky Montana Kat Paiva October Meeting Page 4 Upcoming Fly Tying Potluck Annual Fundraising Auction & Dinner Page 5-6 Photos October 27, 2016 6:00 pm Page 7-8 Tenkara Fishing, Dave See page 9 for details Hughes —————————————————- Monthly Meeting Location Wesley Methodist Church Page 9 Auction Invitation Corner of Oakway & Cal Young 4th Thursday of the month Page 10 Upcoming Events Doors open at 6:15 meeting starts at 7:00 pm Board meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of the Page 11 Membership Application month at 6:00 pm and all members are welcome. Both meetings are held at Wesley United Methodist Church Page 12 About the Club explore our more complex topics. All members are encouraged to come and we always have a great The Prez Sez potluck lunch. More details will come out later; and 2) Some of the topics we'll explore and consider in Glenn Miller detail at this meeting are additional conservation projects, future youth programs, support of conservation groups, and a review of all our s I write this column, the trees are starting to projected educational outdoor schools and other change color, leaves are falling, and the events in 2017. A weather is changing. The days are getting I feel blessed to have served as President of this shorter and the temperatures are nice and moderate. club for the last five years. It's been real rewarding It's such a beautiful time of the year. I have a and a lot of fun and I've really enjoyed working with tendency to look and plan ahead but doing that just so many energetic and high quality people. But it's brings me to the winter months. With an occasional good to change things up every so often and Randy reminder from my wife, I'm going to live in the Beard is waiting in the wings to be our new President moment for the next 4-6 weeks and enjoy the in 2017. Yes, he will need to be voted in at the richness of fall in the northwest! Winter will come November meeting but if that's not a "no brainer" soon enough. vote, I don't know what is! Randy has tremendous Time is running short to fish the high Cascade energy and enthusiasm, is friendly with everyone, Lakes. I made a spur of the moment decision and and has great leadership skills. We are very headed up to Gold Lake one day last week, catching fortunate to have him stepping in. In addition to a day before the big storms rolled into the Pacific Randy, we'll also vote on a new Vice-President and Northwest. It was my first time to Gold this year and three new board members. I'll announce the I was able to net a few chunky, beautiful Rainbows. candidates for these positions at the October Hardly anyone else was there. I wanted a few Brook Auction. trout for the smoker and looked all over for them Glenn Miller but was only able to land one small Brookie. Oh well, I'm sure there will be a few more good days to fish up there before the season closes on Oct 31. I've also heard good reports from those fishing Diamond Lake and I hope some of you can join Marv Clemons on the club outing Oct 21-23. The focus in our club this month is the Auction. It's one of our biggest events of the year and is our biggest fundraiser. You've all been getting reminder e-mails and phone calls. If you can, I encourage everyone to get involved in some way by donating a few items or helping out at the event. Some of you are so busy with jobs, school, or other things that A chunky Gold Lake rainbow just getting to the Auction will be all you can do. I hope most of you can make it as it's really a fun and festive event! Here are a couple of things that came out of the board meeting last week: 1) Our annual planning meeting will be Saturday, December 3rd at the Vida McKenzie Community Center. The meeting will be held from 9-2 this year; an hour or two longer than previous years which will give us additional time to 2 Big Sky Country fat rainbows in all sizes, orange-jawed Yellowstone cutthroats, By Katherine Paiva Technicolor Brookies, and an assortment of other silver slipperies. The fish alone are reason to go back. Most of us have a favorite place we like to fish, a place we return Montana is full of new friends and old friends, some native born, to time after time, year after year. Ours is Montana. We’ve spent and those from far away lands, all fierce in their love of this nearly two months there this year, and club members have asked glorious piece of earth. You’ll meet them at the Laundromat, in us why. “Are you moving there?” No. “What’s so special about line for the vault toilet, or over a campfire – and they’ll share the Montana?” Let me explain. best places to fish, what flies to use, and where to find non-Bison To us, Montana is as familiar as a years-old flannel shirt – the one pizza. Listening to the life stories has formed many a friendship. that frays and fades each time you wash it – but you return to it again and again because it’s comfortable. That’s how we feel Inevitably though, whether it’s your first visit or your twenty- about Montana. It’s comfortable, casual, and informal. We return third, some Montanan will draw you aside, point to a distant spot to reunite with old friends, to fish, and relax. on the horizon and conspiratorially whisper, “They filmed A River Runs Through It right over there!” Seriously. It’s happened to us at Usually people go on vacation or travel to escape their everyday least a dozen times. But not as many times as we’ve crossed the reality. Montana, however, is full of reality – the natural kind. When Clark Fork. Driving from Columbia Falls to Spokane we lost count. you don’t have cell phone service or a TV, you just look up the The Clark Fork is the Starbucks of Montana – it’s everywhere. It’s canyon to determine the weather, or stick a foot out the door to also on the fishing list for next year. gauge the wind. Mom Nature is in charge in Montana and she’s quick to upset the best-laid plans. That’s reality. Our relationship with Montana is a comfortable combination of shared life stories, friends, fish tales, the unexpected wonder of Which brings me to the Montana sky. It’s amazing. People always nature, and that ever-glorious sky. Is it any wonder why we want to ask, "What's so special – it’s the same one you have at home.” By return again and again? You should go. comparison, that's not true. When I'm sitting in a boat on a Montana river, I feel like I'm sitting at the bottom of a snow globe. The sky above is ever-changing – petal soft snow one minute, and pelting hail the next. Then it switches up to cold, torrential down- your-neck rain, glorious glaring sunshine, or a slide show of bumpy, fluffy, streaky, or whispering clouds. The sky mesmerizes me and causes me to clog my camera memory with so many photos that it begs for "more iCloud Storage please." The Nature Channel is “on” twenty-four seven in Montana. Trying to park the car for pizza? Watch out for the bull elk wandering across the parking lot. Jumping out of the boat for a quick shore lunch? “Oh look, there’s a big buck swimming in the middle of the river. He must have been right behind us.” (Where’s the dam camera?) Buffalo stroll nonchalantly down the roads of Yellowstone and cause a Pied Piper tail of tourists and camera luggers. Petite hooved antelopes litter agricultural pastures, wolves and mountain goats abound, and, if you’re lucky, you’ll see a bear – from afar. We love the spread and sprawl of a Montana landscape too. It’s a mixture of towering rocks walls, plains, foothills, and green forests of fir, larch, and pine. The wide-open valleys, caused by the pause of a glacier, provide a 180-degree view that’s more beautiful than any obnoxiously sized TV screen. When you go, drive through Paradise Valley on the way to the Lamar Valley in Yellowstone and you'll see what I mean. Cold clear paths of running water riddle Montana. They carve through the countryside, falling, trickling and rushing, hurrying to join with other waters, or standing perfectly still and filling a space with a glittery face toward the sky. Lake McDonald in Glacier Park is just one example – it takes my breath away. Several awesome feisty native fish live in those waters too. They’re smart, sly, and elusive. Over the years we’ve been lucky enough to catch beautiful golden big-shouldered Browns, huge chubby kissy-face white fish, 3 Leaburg Fly Tying Gathering & Potluck When: Saturday November 19, 2016 Where: Leaburg Fire Station Time: 9:00 am to 2:00 pm Last potluck — pies & enchiladas At our last fly tying potluck we had a large turnout.