May’s speaker will be Mark Imus.
“Fly Fishing for Bass”
Mark Imus grew up in Coeur D’ Alene, Idaho and Spokane, Washington where he learned to fly fish while in high school. He has been a commercial fly tier, fly fishing guide and co-owner of a fly shop and fly fishing travel business.
Mark has been a long time member of the FFF and has been a demonstration tier at many conclaves, most recently at the 2004 regional conclave in Seaside Oregon. In addition to fly fishing Mark enjoys dutch oven cooking, white water rafting and upland game bird hunting. During his program mark will share the ins and outs of fly roding for bass and some great places to practice nearby.
Join us on May 9th, 2006 for a great show!
Upcoming Events
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SPRING FISH OUT |
5/13/06 |
Saker Medevarapu. (208) 746-7721 |
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KCF Picnic at Wawawai Park |
6/3/06 |
Fred Trevey (208) 743-5465 |
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Burling Pond Clean-Up & Breakfast |
6/24/06 |
Zach Funkhouser (208) 743-0435 |
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1st Lochsa Fish-Out at Wendover |
7/8 & 7/9 |
Zach Funkhouser (208) 743-0435 |
May 9th Meeting at Clarkston Quality Inn
Dinner begins at 6:00 PM
Meeting/Presentation at 7:00 PM
President’s Message…….
Wow, what a great banquet. I’ve heard from several club members that thought our 2006 spring banquet was the best we’ve ever had. The Quality Inn’ Stern Wheel room was beautiful, the auctions went well, the food was good and Terry’s program was very entertaining. In all we made a little over seven thousand dollars. I’d like to thank everyone who attended and, in particular, anyone who brought a non-club member. We’ve got high standard to live up to next year, but a lot of good ideas to build on from this banquet.
The Kelly Creek Flycasters have a lot going on this week. On top of our regular monthly club meeting this Thursday at the Quality Inn, Fish & Game would like to finish our clean-up work at Mrytle Friday evening. Most of the work is done so this will be primarily a social function. Please plan to meet us at Myrtle Friday evening sometime after 4:00pm. We’ll work for a bit and then IDFG will be BBQing steaks for all in attendance. It should fun time so I hope to see everyone there. This is social call as much as a work day so bring your gloves and an appetite.
On Saturday we have our Amber Lake Fish-Out. We’re going to keep this simple, just plan to get there and fish some. We’ll be joining the Pullman/Moscow club at the lake. Saker will bring directions to the meeting on Thursday. This is a one day event and will include a meal served that afternoon. We’ll be discussing this fish-out at the club meeting and we’ll decide on a meeting place for all our members that want to carpool up to Amber together. It takes about 2 hours one way to get there. Plan to bring your non-motorized personal float craft (bank fishing opportunities are limited), drinks and snacks. Our trip leader for this fish-out is Saker so feel free to give him a call if you have questions at 746-7721.
Take care and I look forward to seeing everyone on Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week.
Catch you on the fly…….
Zach Funkhouser
Fly Fishing and the World Wide Web
As more and more folks gain access to the World Wide Web via the internet. A ‘world’ of information becomes available to the flycaster. The amount of information available at a keystroke is amazing. Topics are limited only by imagination---weather, river flows, water temperatures, travel, fish biology, outfitters, fly shops and fly pattern recipes to name a few.
At the top of the list for the Kelly Creek Flycaster is our own website at www.kellycreekflycasters.com. (Place your curser on the highlighted link and click to visit this or the sites listed below) Here you will find our calendar of events, our newsletters, fly of the month, a photo gallery and other interesting subjects.
We all cast about a “weather eye” before venturing into the great outdoors. The forecasts in the paper and on TV are general by design and often a look out of our window makes us wonder if the forecaster ever looks out their window. We can do better. A good place to get a quick picture is at www.weather.com, this site is by the same folks that do the weather channel on cable TV. At this site you are not limited to the local area; weather information is available for most named places in the world. Dig into this site and one can find detail by the hour, jet stream location, frontal location, satellite views including visual and IR spectrums as well as water vapor and much more. For the real enthusiast a visit to NOAA’s National Weather Service offers a plethora of sites that provide enough information to write a dissertation. The home page for the western USA can be found at www.wrh.noaa.gov. I go to the aviation forecasts when I want to get a good feel for what the weather might be in the mountains at various elevations. There are a number of sites that have taken the technical information generated by NOAA and present it in a more user friendly form. I go to www.weather.org for general information and www.weatherimages.org/index.html#aviation for general information and for displays of the jet stream (for the “jet” scroll down to the Aviation Corner). Proximity of the “jet” can make or break an outing, particularly if you will be just north or south of its position. Both sites have links to weather cameras worldwide for an instant real time view and other interesting stuff. Most state and provincial highway departments have cameras and weather information including pavement sensors.
Ever wonder if that long planned trip to British Columbia will be will be affected by smoke from large forest fires. Go to Environment Canada’s site at www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca; select your favorite language and go. Here you will find a very inclusive and easy to use site; it is much easier to navigate than the NOAA site.
Forest fires are a very real factor for our outdoor experience here in the west. A visit to the National Interagency Fire Center site in Boise at www.nifc.gov will lead you to all you want to know and more. I use the link to www.nifc.gov/firemaps.html for satellite views of smoke plumes and IR views to locate proximity of hot spots and the associated fire fighting activity. The National Weather Service, the Forest Service and BLM maintain a system of Remote Accesses Weather Stations (RAWS) linked via satellite throughout western US. Visit these for up to the minute weather for back country locations at http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/roman/. A more local site can be found at www.wrh.noaa.gov/mso/newlcl.php. During fire season a number of temporary sites are also made available.
What would fishing be without water? Want to know about flows, temperature and snow pack, its there with a click of the mouse. Visit http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt for river flows and temperature and www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snotel/ for snow pack and precipitation information.
The weather is good, we have water, where are the fish? Check www.fpc.org/CurrentDaily/7day-ytd_adults.htm for fish over the Columbia and Snake River dams. Going to fish out of our area, for example, the Missoula area—check the latest conditions and insect activity at www.grizzlyhackle.com fishing report. Many fly shops have websites with similar “local knowledge” information.
The list is endless and I’m running out of space. The web is packed with things of interest to a flycaster. Fortunately some smart folks have developed ways to help us search for information we may want. There are a number of search engines—I mainly use Google at www.google.com, type in a word or phrase and presto a list of possibilities appears. A more comprehensive search can be made using “MetaCrawler” which searches a number search engines at www.metacrawler.com. I often use this when looking for scientific information. Often subjects are “linked” to similar or supporting information at different locations. You can find items for purchase, research user experience with a particular rod, line or fly, fly pattern recipes, fish biology or simply how to spell a word. As I said above the list is endless. If you have a fairly powerful computer and high speed connection, have some fun and log onto Google’s “Google Earth” (go to google.com, click on ‘more’ then Earth) or NASA’s “World Wind” at http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ and literally fly over and find your special places on earth.
I’ve hardly scratched the surface of this topic. As you surf the web for interesting topics and you come upon one that would be appropriate for our club website, let Ginny Foote know so she can create a link for all of us to enjoy.
Fred Trevey—Member Kelly Creek Flycasters Board of Directors
Treasurer’s Report
Account Balances through April, 2006
Checking Account Balance: $ 859.47
Savings Account Balance: $ 4,611.59
Total Funds: $ 5,471.06
Kelly Creek Flycasters Board of Directors
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Member & Term |
E-Mail Address |
Phone Number |
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Zach Funkhouser, Pres. 2007 |
743-0435 |
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Terry Nab, 2008 |
746-4810 |
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Fred Smith, Treasurer 2006 |
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743-2390 |
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Bruce Young, Secretary 2005 |
746-7079 |
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Bill Lillibridge, 2007 |
743-8970 |
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Ginny Foote, 2008 |
751-1750 |
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Jeanie Centenari, 2008 |
791-5474 |
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Fred Trevey VP 2007 |
743-5465 |
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John Claassen,. 2008 |
243-8958 |
2006 Spring Banquet
