Riffles, Runs & Lies

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June’s speaker will be Dan Landeen.

“Fly Fishing Nez Perce Country”

Dan Landeen is a resident of Clarkston, Washington and is employed by the Nez Perce Tribe as a wildlife biologist.  Dan’s hobbies include bamboo fly rod building, backpacking, flyfishing, and photography.

He is also the principal author of two books, I Am of This Land: Wildlife of the Hanford Site and Salmon and His People: Fish and Fishing in Nez Perce Culture. He is also the author of Steelhead Fly Fishing Nez Perce Country: Snake River Tributaries, Rivers, Anglers, Flies, Origins which was published by Frank Amato Publishing this April.

Dan Landeen's unique book chronicles the history of Steelhead flyfishing in Chief Joseph country on three of America's most storied rivers: The Grande Ronde, the Clearwater, and the Snake River. Dozens of historic and contemporary photographs amplify the books interviews. Among other things, this program will show us local steelhead fly fishing master's in their own element along with their favorite flies.

Join us on Thursday, June 8^th for a great show!

Thursday, June 8^th, 2006

Meeting at Clarkston Quality Inn

Dinner begins at 6:00 PM

Meeting/Presentation at 7:00 PM

President’s Message………………...

Greetings club members.  This will be the last newsletter for a while so I’m going to take this opportunity to remind you all of the activities we have planned for the summer.  1^st off, Bill Lillibridge will be organizing a clean-up of the Burling Pond in North Lewiston the weekend of June 24^th and 25^th.  We do this in order to prep the pond for our kids fishing class and it’s always been a pretty fun outing.  Plan to meet at about 8:00am and work for 2-3 hours.  We’ll also be serving up another great breakfast prepared by Bob Clark.  Bill will be e-mailing more details, but plan to bring a rake, waders and gloves.  Last year Ginny did a full back-flip off of one of the piers, she promises to do even better this year.

Our 1^st fish-out of the year will be held on the Lochsa the weekend of July 8^th and 9^th .  This July fish-out is always a great success and usually has a very good turn-out.  Fishing conditions look like they will be perfect.  Plan for a dutch oven feed Saturday night and plan on an hour Sunday morning for the highway clean up on U.S. 12.  As usual, we’ll meet in Loop B at Wendover campground at MP 158.  Please RSVP with Zach so we can plan appropriately for Saturday’s dinner.

That gets us all the way to August, when we have our annual Kelly Creek fish-out the weekend of August 19^th and 20^th.  Bill Lillibridge has agreed to be our trip leader for this one so remember to contact him if you have questions.  We generally meet at the

Kelly Forks campground for a weekend of fishing the North Fork, Kelly Creek, Moose Creek and Cayus. 

The club will send out e-mail reminders of these activities before they happen, but you will not be

receiving a monthly newsletter until September when our regular meetings start up again.

I hope everyone has an opportunity to attend one or all of our fish-outs.  Let’s try and make the summer a success for the club and have a great time fishing together, after all, that what our club is all about.  Take care and I wish all of you a fantastic season.

Catch you on the fly…….

Zach Funkhouser

KCF’s 2006 Calendar of Events

Member Profile

Graydon, Greg & Coleman Dietrich

You’ll see these familiar faces at the KCF meetings.  Greg grew up fishing with his Father on the West Coast with any bait or lures that could be found.  Greg took up fly fishing when he was a teenager and now his kids really enjoy the sport too!  Greg and Sharon have three children: Alex 12, Coleman 9, and Graydon 7.  Graydon enjoys tying flies and has put some in our monthly raffle.  They turn out great!  The Dietrich family enjoys fishing for bass and trout.  Sharon enjoys reading a good book while watching the fish get reeled in by smiling fishers!  Say Hi to the Dietrich family at the next club meeting!

Treasurer’s Report

Account Balances through April 2006

Checking Account Balance                     $       859.47

Savings Account Balance                        $    4,611.59

Total Funds                                            $    5,471.

Kelly Creek Flycaster’s Board of Directors

Bamboo Rod Raffle

Don’t forget to get into to our Bamboo Rod raffle.  Tickets can be purchased from Fred Smith and are $10 each.  I can’t think of a better way to begin to the 2006 fishing season than with new cane so check out the rod at our next meeting a buy a few tickets!