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MONTHLY PROGRAMS

2009 Meeting Schedule:

(third Monday of every month except December)

January 19 Mark Shelton New products - Sage and Fishpond (amoung others)
February 16 Rob Freeman Alaska
March 16 program cancelled
April 20 Darren Watson His Cutthroat Grand Slam last year
May 18 Steve Dally Mountain River Fly Shop, Arkansas
June 15 Flytying/casting/social  
July 20 Dennis Whiteside Ozarks Smallmouth Guide
August 17 Paul Bennetts, Jim Ohnemus Wyoming trip
September 21 Club Picnic
October 19 JB, Cliff, and Mark Michigan Steelhead
Nov 16 Club Auction/Raffle
Dec 4-6 Annual Winter Bennett Spring trip and Banquet

 

2008 Meeting Schedule:

January 21 Kevin Kurz - K & K Fly Fishers  
February 18 Members' Fly Tying / Social Night Bring your own equipment and tie flies. Show and tell, listen and learn. Always a fun night.
March 17 John Berry John Berry is a fly fishing guide in Cotter, Arkansas and has fished the local streams for over twenty five years. He will talk about fishing strategies in his area.
April 21 Curt Elder Cane rod builder
May 19 Cliff Cain and John Bell Florida tarpon
June 16 Members' Fly Tying / Social Night  
July 21 Jeff Williams Arkansas G&FC trout program
August 18 Sam Potter Rolla area flyfishing opportunities, Mill Creek, Little Piney and other streams
September 15 Club picnic  
October 20 Kirk Werner trip to St Joseph River, Idaho & Olive the Woolly Bugger
November 17 Club auction  
Dec 5th to 7th   Bennett Springs outing and Annual club dinner

2007 Meeting Schedule:

January 15 Clint Wilkerson Clint will give a presentation on fishing the White & Norfork Tailwaters including his techniques and demonstrating tying his six favorite flies.  Clint promises he will ‘tell all’; there will be no secrets!  Do not miss this one! 
February 19 Members' Fly Tying / Social Night Bring your own equipment and tie flies. Show and tell, listen and learn. Always a fun night.
March 19 John Gospodarek 

Captain John Gospodarek is a highly skilled and competent fly fisherman and instructor. He has over 15 years of guiding fly fishing experience and lives in West Yellowstone, MT guiding fly fishing for trout in our nation's most renowned streams and rivers through the summer and fall. Winter and spring find him guiding saltwater fly fishing in the beautiful waters of Charlotte Harbor, Boca Grande, Sanibel, and Sarasota Bay on the western coast of Florida.

John Gospodarek will be talking about fly fishing opportunities in Florida and Montana.

April 16

Brent Frazee

KC Star Outdoor Editor 

Brent’s program will be interesting as he has many years' experience as outdoor editor
May 21

Norm Crisp of

Streamside Adventures

Program entitled “Traveling & Trout Fishing”
June 18

Mike Kruse of the Missouri Department of Conservation

Mike is a fisheries biologist. He will be talking about the Trout Program in MO among other topics
July 16

Bruce Kessler

Warm water fishing the Big Piney for Goggleeye and Smallmouth
August 20

Monet Drake

A long time HOAFF member, Monet will share from his vast store of experience "How to Take a Guide Trip". Monet's talk will be accompanied with pictures from his May 2007 fishing on the Bighorn River in Montana.
September 17

Annual Picnic

All details are in the following link:

Shawnee Mission Park Shelter # 4

October 15

Annual Club Auction & Raffle

Click here for Auction List

November 19 Jeff Williams Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) trout management biologist, Jeff will be talking about the Arkansas trout management program among other topics
Nov 30, Dec 1 - 2

Bennett Spring Outing and Annual Club Banquet

 

 

2006 Meeting Schedule:

 

January 16 Members' Fly Tying / Social Night Bring your own equipment and tie flies.
February 20 Monet Drake Chilean Adventure - Slide Show
March 20 Phil Lilley Some would say scuds and sow bugs rule on upper Lake Taneycomo but would it surprise you that midge patterns do as well or better? Come find out why....

Featured Fly Tyer - Jim Ohnemus

April 17 Eric Pietz Colorado Outfitter on Fly Fishing the Green River (Utah) and Fly Fishing Grand County (Colorado)

Featured Fly Tyer - Mark Borserine

May 15 Darrell Bowman Trout Biologist for the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission (AG&F). Always an entertaining and informative speaker.

Featured Fly Tyer - Monet Drake

June 19 Norm Crisp

"Fly Fishing Strategies"

http://www.streamsideadventures.com/seminar_strategies.html

Featured Fly Tyer - Cliff Newton

July 17

Ron & Sheryl Knight

Former HOAFF members now living in Texas, will be talking about designing/tying warm water flies and showing us "Spinnerbait" Flies

 

Featured Fly Tyer - Jim Bebb

August 21 Craig Fuller Biologist with Missouri Department of Conservation, will be speaking on the Niangua River/Bennett Springs area. 

Featured Fly Tyer - Bruce Cochran

September 18 Annual Picnic Shawnee Mission Park Shelter # 4
October 16 Annual Club Auction & Raffle More info to follow
November 20 Joe Tomelleri Kansas City’s world renowned trout illustrator on discovering a new species of trout in Mexico. 

December 1 - 3

Bennett Spring Outing and Annual Club Banquet Rescheduled to January 13th 2007

Click here for more info

 

2005 Meeting Schedule:

 

January 17 Will Maloney

 

February 21 Members' Fly Tying / Social Night  
March 21 Darrell Bowman  
April 18 Paul Sodeman

Kansas Golden Bones - Fly Fishing

May 16 Olaf Borge Silk Lines & Bamboo
June 20 Kevin Kurz Fishing Patagonia

July 18

Blane Heumann

Niangua River watershed

August 15 Bill Lindley & Gervis Beiriger

Canada

September 19 Annual Picnic Shawnee Mission Park Shelter # 4
October 17 Steven Dally

Fly fishing in Tasmania

November 21 Annual Club Auction & Raffle  

December 2 - 4

Bennett Spring Outing and Annual Club Banquet Click here for more info

 

2004 Meeting Schedule:

 

January 19 Darrell Bowman AG&F - Trout Biologist
February 16 Fly tying, rod building & social night  
March 15 Spence Turner  
April 19 Fox Statler

 

May 17 Warm water fishing Ask the Experts panel
June 21 Fishing the White River Bob Heine
July 19 Members' Social Night

 

August 16 Dan Ward

 

September 20 HOAFF Annual Picnic  
October 18

Joe Tomelleri

 

November 15 Annual Club Auction and Raffle  
December 3 - 5 Bennett Spring Outing and Annual Club Banquet  

 

2003 Meeting Schedule:

 

January 20 Florida, Yellowstone, Michigan John Bell
February 17 Fly Tying / Social Night All Fly Tyers
March 17 White River Panel Discussion Tom James to moderate the discussion.
April 21 backpacking the Rockies Steve Fritz
May 19 Clint Wilkerson  
June 16 the best backcountry fisheries.  Rich Osthoff
July 21 Annual Picnic at Antioch Park  
August 18

fly fishing the Texas Hill Country rivers

Constance Whiston

September 15 Darrell Bowman

AG&F - Trout Biologist

October 20

Fly Fishing the North Fork

Tom James of Black Dog Sports
November 17 Annual Club Auction and Raffle

 

December 5 - 7 Bennett Springs Outing and Annual Club Banquet  

 2002 Meeting Schedule:

January 21 American Rivers Association Pete Carrel
February 18 Taneycomo Guides Stan and Caroline Parker
March 18 Ozark Smallmouth Fishing John Starks
April 15 Fly Fishing for Bass & Bluegill Tom Nixon
May 20 Lakeside Nature Sanctuary Vicki Richmond
June 17 Fly Tying All members
July 15 Annual Picnic  
August 19 Davey Wooton  
September 16 Fishing Tips Bill Brant
October 21 Mo. Dept. of Cons. Mike Kruse
November 18  Yearly Auction Jim Walker et al
December 6-8 Yearly Bennett Spring Trip & Banquet (this outing takes the place of a regular meeting)

 2001 Meeting Schedule:

January 15 Wyoming Wilderness Jim Ohnemus & Dave Andrews
February 19 Rainbow Lake Resort - Col Fred & Kitty Brinkmans
March 19 Mo. Dept. of Conservation Mike Kruse 
April 16 SMSU Entomology Steve Jensen
May 21 Fly Tying - Show & Tell  
June18 Kootenai River - Montana Kelly Palmer
July 16 Annual Picnic at Antioch Park  
August 20 Pack trips in Wyoming Monet Drake
September 17 Salmon / Steelhead Fishing in Michigan Bill Brant
October 15 Fly fishing experiences Steve Jenkins
November 19 Yearly Auction Jim Walker
December 1 Replaced by Bennett Spring Outing  

2000 Meeting Schedule:

January WHITE BASS Terry Tanner /  Steve Fritz
February HISTORY OF FLY FISHING Clarence Peaslee
March FISHING SOFT HACKLE Royce Roberts / Malcolm Beck
April FISHING IN WYOMING Bud Gilmore / Bill Lindley - see http://www.beartrak.com/
May BIOLOGISTS US CORP OF ENGINEERS Guest Speaker from Corp. of Engineers
June FISHING FOR PAN FISH Terr & Roxanne Wilson
July ANNUAL PICNIC  
August CANADA FLY FISHING Gervis Reiriger & Bill Lindley
September BIG HORN RIVER Monet Drake
October FISHING OREGON Ray Fincke
November ANNUAL AUCTION  
December ANNUAL TRIP TO BENNETT SPRINGS No meeting