Across
the Stream - July 2005
A
Publication of Heart of America Fly Fishers
HOAFF July Meeting
Monday, July 18, 2005 - 7pm
Blane Heumann
of
the Nature Conservancy will be presenting on the unique features of the Niangua
River watershed which make it an area of particular interest for preservation.
President's Message
Review of the first half of the year
by
Mark Borserine
The schedule for Southern Council FFF Conclave is out
and registration is open. My registration and check has already gone in; this
is the way you get the classes and events you want – register early. Repeating
myself, this year’s is the best yet!
Don’t miss out!
I’m glad to report the turnout for the One Fly was
good and a good time was had by all who came (see article in this newsletter).
Jim Jorgensen and Bill Lyon provided a good location and good food – I thank
them for their efforts.
Upcoming we have the Olathe aquafest on August 27th.
This event is attended by some 2,200 people and a wonderful chance to give the
HOAFF some exposure to the community. The event is only four hours long so it
will not demand much of your time; so, if you’ve not volunteered to help out
before, please consider doing so this time. The demand on you will be very
short and for one time only. Don’t be shy since everything we will be teaching
& demonstrating will be of the most basic nature. If you can spare the
time, call or e-mail Bill Brant or Mark
Borserine, their numbers are listed among the officers listed in the
newsletter.
Speaking of Officers, you elect a Board of Directors
(five) and they appoint Officers to oversee the operation of your club. Those
Officers, who are honored by your confidence in them, meet the first Monday of
each month at 7pm at the Community of Christ Church, the same place we hold our
Member meetings on the third Monday. Those Officer meetings are always “open”
meaning any member can come any time to the meetings. Also, we keep Minutes of
the meetings which are open to viewing by the members upon request any time.
Some of the Officers recently expressed the opinion that it would be a nice
thing to publish in the newsletter a brief update on the actions taken during
the Officer meetings; beginning with this issue, I’m happy to do so.
Olathe
Aquafest
by Bill Brant
“Round up all of the usual suspects”. It was a line
in an old movie, but is also applicable to our club. At the last club meeting,
I asked for volunteers to represent our club at the Olathe Aquafest. With a few
exceptions, all who signed-up were the usual suspects who always volunteer for
club opportunities. I would like to ask that some unusual suspects also
sign-up. If you have not been involved in club activities, please consider
joining us. No particular skills are required. Read further for more
information about the event.
Many communities across the metro area (actually all
across the country) are sponsoring events that demonstrate the importance of
clean water in our streams and lakes. The fish we pursue need clean water to
survive. Therefore, we are one of the beneficiaries of these events. These
events are usually both educational and fun.
Our club participated in one such event in May, the
Overland Park Healthy Streams Fair. Cliff Cain, Bill Lindley, Hod McIntosh, Tom
James and I demonstrated flytying, fly casting, and stormwater conservation.
The next event we will attend is the Olathe Aquafest.
It will be held Saturday, August 27th from 3:00 to 7:00 at Cedar
Lake Park in Olathe. Last year’s Aquafest had an estimated crowd of 2200
people. That’s a lot of folks interested in water. Last year they had
everything from environmental education to canoe paddling. It was pretty hot
last year, so the canoes were particularly popular.
We would like to demonstrate assorted flyfishing
skills and also teach flyfishing using the teaching factory that Hod developed
for the Hooked on Flyfishing programs. We can teach flytying, knots,
flycasting, and explain flyfishing equipment. We need additional club
volunteers to help.
These events give our club the opportunity to get our
name and face in front of a large number of people. We will have the opportunity
to introduce ourselves to perhaps thousands of people. We will teach a few of
them about flyfishing. Let me know if you want to get involved.
Bill Brant
816.941.9691 (home)
billandkathy@kc.rr.com
2005 Officers
PRESIDENT
Mark Borserine
majborser@aol.com
(913) 381-0722
pAST
PRESIDENT/SECRETARY
David Andrews
davidgandrews@kc.rr.com
H (816) 741-8314
tREASURER
Paul Bennetts
pbennetts1@comcast.net
913-338-3837
NEWSLETTER
EDITOR
Tom
James
tom@blackdogsports.com
O (816)
718-0393
PROGRAMS
Cliff Cain John Bell
cliffcain@hotmail.com j.bell@kcc.state.ks.us
H (913) 780-3865 H (785) 843-1782
O (913) 433-5224 O (785) 271-3139
OUTINGS
Jim
Jorgensen Bill Lyon
jjorgens@ci.lenexa.ks.us blyon51@yahoo.com
H (913) 469-1950 (816) 525-1243
O (913) 477-7701
MEMBERSHIP
Cliff Newton Fred Clark
ccnewton@sbcglobal.net fclarks@planetkc.com
H (816) 943-8306 H
(913) 831-0305
O (816) 426 3925 x260
CONSERVATION/BLUE
RIVER PROJECT
Raymond Zook
rzook@kc.rr.com
H (816) 941-2862
LIBRARIAN
Doug McDonald
mcdoug5148@sbcglobal.net
(913) 669-5222
EDUCATION/RECOGNITION
Bill Lindley Jim Mattes
(913) 888-3177 (913) 248-1030
SPRING
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Dick Martin Don Grundy
rlm@mllfpc.com dgrundy@sbcglobal.net
H (816) 781-9557 H (816)-781-9019
O (816) 221-1430
WEBMASTER
Vicky Newton
svnewton@sbcglobal.net
H (816) 943-8306
AUCTION/RAFFLE
Dan Zimmerman
dzmmrmn@aol.com
(913) 829-4768
HISTORIAN
Bill Brant
billandkathy@kc.rr.com
H (816) 941-9691 O (913) 458-6826
SOUTHERN
COUNCIL LIAISON
Hod McIntosh
singingreels@worldnet.att.net
Home: (913) 722-3684
BANQUET
CHAIR
John Richards
jreyedoc1@aol.com
H (816) 781-0545 O (816) 781-0500
Heart
of America Fly Fishers Meetings
Meetings
are held at 7pm on the 3rd Monday of each month
Community
of Christ Church
79th
& Mission Rd, Prairie Village, KS
Hatch of the Month
Bring a fly or a couple of flies to add to the Match of the Month
collection. During each meeting names are drawn and the winner receives the
collection of flies. This is a great way to learn new fly patterns and share
some of your favorite flies with the rest of the club. Members can also donate
a dollar to enter for the drawing.
Featured
Fly Tyer
Come early to the member meeting to watch the
featured fly tyer. If you are interested in being a featured fly tyer, contact
Dave Andrews.
HOAFF Apparel now available
Now you can get a T-shirt or a fishing hat with the
new Heart of America Fly Fishers Logo. To purchase your HOAFF apparel, see Tom
James at the next member meeting. Hats $15, T-shirts $12
One-Fly "Tournament" - June, 2005
by Mark Borserine
Members of the Heart of America Fly Fishers gathered
on June 18th at Maple Leaf Lake for our Annual “One Fly
Tournament”. In recent years the
“tournament” has come to be more of an outing with little or no attention paid
to numbers of flies or fish. However,
this year we must honor a legitimate winner:
Cliff Newton actually used only one fly all morning to catch six
“keeper” size bluegill (be assured they were all released); congratulations,
Cliff!
First on the water was your club president, but he
lost his first fly within a short time to Maple Leaf Lake’s flooded
timber. He caught one bluegill so small
he didn’t know it was on until he backcast; although the bluegill cast quite
well on a 5wt – a new streamer pattern!
Lunch was provided in the parking lot by our two
Outings Co-Chairs: Bill Lyon and Jim Jorgensen. Hats off to them, the brisket was delicious and all the
“trimmings” were just right!
A special feast for the eyes was the parade of
WaterCraft displayed by our members –check out these photos!
Officer
Meeting Summary Report
By Mark Borserine
A report of the highlights for the first half of the
year. The Officers go over a lot of routine “operational” items which will not
be detailed in the interest of brevity:
Donations
Year-to-date donations have consisted of $1,500 of
club funds to The Nature Conservancy Niangua Watershed project, $500 to The
Nature Conservancy of Kansas in memoriam of Stan Miller, our founding member
who passed away and $500 to KCPT to sponsor the showing of Tom James’ film on
the North Fork of the White River.
New
donation policy
Last year the Board and Officers established a new
policy regarding donations; rather than considering each request as it came in
and “piecemealing” our donations we will consider them all once a year in
September when they can all be “weighed” and compared to each other. September
is our “lowest” month financially so we can better decide how much we can give.
We left ourselves the option to vote exceptions, if needed; i.e., the donation
in memoriam of Stan Miller and the donation in order to sponsor Tom James’
film. The $1,500 to TNC was voted on last year but actually sent this year to
give the club time to seek private donations from the members to which you
generously responded, sending us over $5,000.
Auction
We had a very good auction last year, netting the
club around $6,000. This spring we had a generous donation of a lot of fly
fishing supplies and gear from the widow of one of our members who passed away,
Bob Groody. This will be sold at the auction.
FInances
There are lots of routine expenditures to be voted
on. Monthly we have a financial report and yearly an audit. An audit of our
financial transactions and position was accomplished in March of 2005. At the
end of June (six months), the club had a combined cash balance of $7,444.23.
The club maintains two accounts, the larger a Money Market to which is tied our
credit card machine used annually at the auction and an ordinary commercial
account for ordinary operations, both of these are at First National.
Conservation
There is always discussion about Conservation issues.
Most recently we added our club’s name in official support of the “Citizen’s
Agenda for Rivers”. The National FFF highly recommended us doing so.
Education
We are always planning for upcoming events, such as
the Olathe Aquafest. The NFFW activities in April took a great deal of planning
and discussion. Under current discussion are formal Education classes to be
given at the Discovery Center, at the Community of Christ Church to our own
members and this week, a request from Shawnee County, KS (Topeka). These are
all possibilities; look for things to begin to get developed!
501(c)3
This status was actually granted (upon request) the
HOAFF last year by the IRS. This very positive move affects all our discussions
since. We can now promise donors full tax deductions. Speaking of that, any
functions that you volunteer for such as the Olathe Aquafest are fully tax
deductible to you; in otherwords, your mileage, any meals you may have to eat
because you are away and lodging expenses you may incur. This new status also
opens up to the HOAFF the very real possibility of Charitable giving.
Southern
Council Conclave
"Celebrating
the Arts of Fly Fishing"
Thursday
Programs added to 2005 Conclave Schedule
Planning for the 2005 FFF Southern Council Conclave
is in full swing and we need your help. This is the 25th anniversary
of the Southern Council and we will be “Celebrating the Arts of Fly-Fishing”.
This year will see an expanded Thursday pre-conclave
program. These programs will be value added programs and will require an
additional modest fee.
Most will limit the number of participants. Be
sure to send you registration in early to insure you a place in the program of
your choice. You can get a registration form as well as register online at www.southerncouncilfff.org.
Some of the Thursday programs include on the water
seminars like, Advanced Nymph Fishing with Joe Humphreys and John
Wilson, Sink Tip Symposium and Stream Strategies with Roger
Maler, River Boat Basics by John Berry and Gary Flippin, Soft
Hackle Fishing with Davy Wotton and a workshop on Kyaking with
Louis & Clark Outfitters.
You can take the FFF Casting Pre-certification with
Captain Tom White.
There are fly tying programs with Captain Lenny
Moffo and How to Spin Deer Hair with George Harmeling, and
other programs of interest including Painting Wildlife with Watercolors
by Duane Hada, a Stream Entomology program - Bugs - An In-Depth
Study with Art Mazzier.
Extend your conclave trip by a day and take advantage
of some of these fine programs.
The
Fox Tail Grub
by Ward Bean
from www.warmwaterflytyer.com
Hook Mustad 9672 Size 10
Thread Uni-Thread
6/0 - Olive
Eyes Bead
Chain Small -You
choose color
Tail Rabbit
Fur from Zonker Strip Olive
Underbody Hare-Tron
Dubbin Dark Olive
Body Hen
Neck Feathers Olive
Grizzly
Step 1
Lay down a thread base back to the bend. Then return
the thread to about one eye width behind the hook’s eye. Attach the bead chain
eyes with several figure-eight thread wraps and return the thread to the hook’s
bend. Apply Super Glue to the eyes to lock them in place.
Step 2
Remove a clump of rabbit hair from a Zonker Strip and
measure it against the hook. The tail clump should be as long as the hook. Tie
in the tail material and return the thread to the base of the tail.
Step 3
Select and prepare a hen neck feather by removing the
fluff from the base of the stem. Stroke the barbs back to expose the feathers
tip. The size of the feather barbs should be the length of the hook’s gap. Tie
the feather in by the tip “wet fly style” with the cupped side of the feather
facing the hook.
Step 4
Build a tapered underbody by dubbing the body to
about the half-way point on the shank making sure that the body widens as you
dub forward.
Step 5
Palmer the feather forward over the dubbing and bind
it down at the dubbing break. Remove any excess feather material in preparation
for tying in the second feather.
Step 6
Tie in the second feather in the same way that you
tied in the first. This feather should have barbs somewhat longer than the
first feather so that the tapered look of the body can be maintained.
Step 7
Next, dub the remainder of the underbody by
continuing the taper to the eyes. Palmer the second feather forward to the
hook’s eyes and bind it down with a couple wraps of thread. Remove any excess
feather.
Step 8
Dub the thread with a very fine noodle of dubbing and
figure-eight the dubbed thread around the bead chain eyes until a pronounced
head of dubbing encases the eyes. Form a neat thread head in front of the eyes
and tie off the thread.
Step 9
Now brush the Fox Tail Grub vigorously with a dubbing
brush to marry the dubbing fibers with the feather barbs. The more you brush
the buggier the fly gets.
If you don’t have a dubbing brush the Whitlock
Dubbing Brush is very simple to make. All you need is a wooden dowel for the
handle and a piece of velcro for the brush. Use some super glue to affix the
velcro to the dowell and some heavy thread to decorate the handle and you’re in
business.
For more information go to the “At The Bench” page at
www.warmwaterflytyer.com to learn how to make one.
Upcoming Events & Programs
July 18,
2005 Blane Heumann - The
Nature Conservancy
August 15
Bill Lindley & Gervis
Beiriger - Canada
September
19, 2005 Club Picnic - Shawnee Mission Park
October
15, 2005 Fall Outing - Branson MO
November
21, 2005 Annual Raffle &
Auction
December
3, 2005 Winter Outing - Bennett Springs MO
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