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Meetings, Meetings 2025, Uncategorized

July 2025 HFF Meeting

I hope everyone survived the 4th of July with all their fingers. Our July meeting will be on the 15th and again we will meet at the American Legion Post #18 here in Bloomington. Dinner at 6:00 and the program at 7:00

The program this month will concern water safety with Barry Clarke presenting. I quote Barry…”I do have about 70 years on the water and have broken pretty much all the rules at least once. So, I have some examples of what can go wrong to share.” We look forward to others sharing information about their “on the water” safety tips.

Paul Brown will be doing the tying demo. He will tie the Micro Bugger. This pattern caught a lot of Bluegills in Griffy Lake this summer.

Next month Kyle Swafford will present a program on fall fishing for Smallmouth bass.

Look forward to seeing everyone on the 15th. HFF meetings are open to the public. If you are interested in fly fishing or fly tying you are welcome to join us.

Catch a fish,

Tim

Meetings, Meetings 2022, Uncategorized

HFF Monthly Meeting October 2022

Project Healing Waters

We are really looking forward to the October 18th HFF meeting.  As  usual we will meet at 6:00 for dinner and the program will start at 7:00. This month we have a terrific program. We will be hosting  a presentation  by Joe Smith about Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing and the important work they are doing for our veterans.

Before this evenings  program we will be  having a brief business meeting. Kevin will bring us up to date on the Volunteer Work Day at Yellowwood Lake State Forest on November 5th. The plan is to clear some of the shoreline of two fishing jetties to restore or improve access for fishing.

Barb Hatton will briefly discuss the up coming Casting for Recovery program.

We will be presenting the Slate of Officers for next year. This includes:
President– Charlie Shaw
Vice President-Program- Mike Donovan
Newsletter- Tim Mather
Treasurer– Barb Hatton

Please feel free to nominate from the floor. If none is made we will move to elect as stated.

After this brief business meeting there will be a short break during which you may buy some tickets for the raffle at the end of the meeting and/or  to pay annual dues.

After the short break we will get on with the real interesting and important part of the meeting. Joe Smith will be  talking to us about Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing and the important work they do for our veterans. Looking forward to understanding the role fly fishing has in and is helping veterans and how we may help. We will have two additional guests with us for the meeting. Two American Legion Commanders from adjacent counties will be joining us for the evening. 

As always, we will meet at 6:00 for dinner with the program starting at 7:00. Looking forward to seeing you all there,

Tim