Thank you, Money, and Phil (from Trevis)

Hi to those who braved the weather (??) and made it to the Fly Chuckers’ meeting this Saturday.  Where were the rest of you?  You missed out on Ernie playing the role of instructor, Laurie joining our group, and a “Ginger” waitperson who arranged the tables for us (or else).

Meat of this email:  Per my last update, we had $360 available in our "Treasury” as of the end of 2016. The January 7th meeting brought in an even $50 from the purchase of Curt Nordrum’s excess tying materials and Hugh Langevin’s excess tying material (courtesy of Ward), and the meeting today (January 14th) brought in an additional $32, bringing our total Treasury to $442, confirming the guesstimate of our Assistant Treasurer, John Gigler.

Ward has promised to bring in the last box of Hugh’s materials next week, and Brian is due to return with a box of Curt’s materials, so bring your spare cash when you pack your tying kits for next Saturday morning.  Also, per the last blog, Scott is issuing a Bass Worm challenge of sorts.

Finally, Phil Eldred, Member Emeritus, who is now in Nampa, Idaho, and who somewhat razzed me for fishing for trout with “belly-button lint”, has totally gone over to the dark side, fishing for Idaho, Oregon and Nevada trout, as shown by the attached pic of an 18” rainbow.  Not a bad fish! (He does admit to still chasing smallmouth on the Snake River, though.)

Bob Trevis

Phil Eldred with a nice 18" Rainbow.