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Meetings, Meetings 2023

Upcoming HFF Meetings and Reminders

A little reminder about the upcoming HFF meeting this coming Tuesday February 21st.

The program for this meeting will be how to arrange/select the contents of a fly box for a species or location. In spite of the weather outside today, it will not be long before we can all actually use all those flies we have been tying all winter. This will be a good chance to talk about what flies to take when and where.  The tying demo has changed as Paul Brown has Covid and although he is more than willing to share his knowledge about fly ting, he has no interest in sharing Covid with all of us. Good call Mr. Brown. Instead, I will tie a Midnight Mullet, a good simple streamer for Smallies and Wipers.

As mentioned before, there is a schedule change coming up for March. We will be holding the Annual Auction this March rather than the usual April. As usual Kernal Kevin will be exercising his dulcet tones to part us and a few bucks. This year we are going to divide profits from the auction 50/50 with the Healing Waters and Casting for Recovery groups. So, gather up all your very useful fishing and outdoor related items to donate to the auction. And I might add bring a few extra bucks to buy some of the very useful stuff that will be up for sale….

The April meeting will feature some important information about Lake Monroe. Members of the friends of Lake Monroe, science committee, Howard Webb and Maggie Sullivan, will present information about the Friends of Lake Monroe group, their purpose and the work they are doing and propose to do to keep Lake Monroe waters clean and useful. Howard has revisited some of the work that the Hoosier Flyfishers did to map out the depth of Yellowwood Lake. He will explain how he proposes to do a similar study of Lake Monroe. Howard uses a far more advanced set of electronics and procedures than we did to study Yellowwood. 

See you all there on Tuesday at the Legion. Dinner at 6:00 and Program at 7:00PM.

Stay warm, Tim

Meetings, Meetings 2023

HFF Meeting February 21, 2023

The February meeting of the HFF is coming up on the 21st. We will meet as usual at the Bloomington American Legion Post with dinner at 6:00 and the program at 7:00. We will have announcements and round table.

Looks like that damn groundhog has worked at helping push good fishing weather back a bit. However, this may well be a good time to put together the fly boxes we will need for those fishing adventures that are just around the bend so to speak. The program this month will be a discussion started by Larry Barber and Mike Donavon about how to organize our fly boxes and what to fill them with according to species you are after and the water type you are headed for.  This seems to be a good opportunity to share your suggested flies for various types of water and species of fish you have had success with in the past and pick up a few good suggestions. Who knows, Larry may even reveal his flies and spots for those one pound Bluegills.

Paul B early wiper
Paul B early wiper

As if this was not enough fun for a great evening, Paul Brown will be tying a Slump Buster fly. This is versatile John Barr pattern for anything that will eat a minnow. This fly is tied with Pine Squirrel zonker strip and a cone head. It will really get down there and wiggle away…I have seen Smallies or Wipers chasing this fly.

There is a schedule change coming up for March. We will be holding the Annual Auction this March rather than the usual April. As usual Kernal Kevin will be exercising his dulcet tones to part us and a few bucks. This year we are going to divide profits from the auction 50/50 with the Healing Waters and Casting for Recovery groups. So, gather up all your very useful fishing and outdoor related items to donate to the auction. And I might add bring a few extra bucks to buy some of the very useful stuff that will be up for sale….

Information on the April meeting will be coming up soon. The May meeting will be the picnic and more information on that coming soon as well.

Hoping to see you all on the 21st at 6:00 dinner and 7:00 meeting.

TimM