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Meetings, Meetings 2022

August 2022 HFF Meeting

The August meeting of the HFF will be August 16th. As always we will meet at the American Legion in Bloomington at 6:00 PM for dinner and the meeting at 7:00 PM. In addition to the announcements and round table there will be a raffle. Future programs include an outing to Yellowwood when the weather is a little better. The October program will be most interesting, we are having Joe Smith of Healing Waters giving a presentation on their goals and activities. In November we will be having a program featuring Casting For Recovery. These programs are not to miss. As is always the case, we look for your suggestions.

The program this month will be two part. First, Larry Barber will be discussing the Copper John Fly. The Copper John, developed by famous tier John Barr, should be in every trout fisher’s fly box and rumor has it that local (one pound) Bluegill are also attracted to this little bugger. The second part of the program will be a real treat, Barry Clarke will tie a Copper John.

This is an excellent book to add to your library,” Barr Flies” by John Barr. The flies in the book are tied by Charlie Craven. Check out Charlies Fly Box for some first class videos. I am betting there is a 99.97% chance Larry will mention this book in his presentation. Here is a video of the “Barr’s Copper John Fly Tying Instructions Tied by Charlie Craven“.  Barry’s demo will give us an up-close chance to see the fly tied and a chance to ask questions. Videos are great but in person demos are much better…ask questions.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on the 16th.

Tim

Events, Meetings, Meetings 2022

Annual HFF Members Picnic May 21st 2022

Time once again for one of highlights of the year, the HFF annual picnic!! And, once again, the Clarke’s have generously offered their Lake Lemon home as the site for the picnic. This year the picnic will be May 21st.  The fun will start about 11:00 with food at 12:00.  The club will provide burgers, buns, chips and soft drinks. If you want adult beverages, you will have to bring those. Please bring a side dish to share… I have the chocolate cake business covered. Again, many thanks to the Clarke’s for their generosity!

Please note that Lake Lemon is in the back yard and this would be an excellent time and place to try out all the first-class tackle and flies you bought at the auction. Who knows, there may even have been some flies noted for catching Bluegills in local water.

Another thing to note is that the HFF will be having “Official Meetings” this summer.  Usually we have had “unofficial meetings”, that is there would not be a “real” program for the meeting, just eat dinner and tell fishing lies stories. This summer we will be having programs for the meeting and still eat, drink and tell stories.  As always, we look for suggestions for program or demos. Please stay tuned for details of up-coming meetings. Rumor has it that there may well be a demo on tying a feather Game Changer fly in July.

Hope to see you all at the picnic on May 21st. Claims of 1-pound Bluegills taken from Lake Lemon during the picnic will be carefully weighted by the Executive Committee and the successful fly will be confiscated for our personal future use…

See you there,  Tim