Here's, at least, some of what's going on...
Tight Lines! -- Kurt
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Annual Membership Drive - through Jan 11
To join the club or to renew your membership, go to online store at <
https://high-sierra-fly-casters.square.site>, add a 2023 Family Membership to your cart along with any goodies you'd like to have, and checkout. Only $30 per family living in the same residence. All those who have paid '23 dues as of 7pm on Jan 11th are eligible to win a $100 gift certificate at The Angler's Edge!
Dues are used to fund membership activities, such as general meetings and fish outs!
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January General Meeting - Jan 11 at Elks Lodge in the Ranchos
Features "Silver Salmon Fishing in the Aleutian Islands" presentation by Mike Phillips and Kirk Chiapella, along with rod & reel raffle, the usual raffle of small fly fishing goodies, updates on club happenings, etc.. Details to follow in a separate post.
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NDOW Intro to fly fishing course - Jan 3,10,17 in Gardnerville
This free course, taught by Jan Nemec, covers basic fly tying equipment and techniques before teaching you how to tie a woolly bugger streamer, hares ear nymph, and flying ant dry fly. All equipment is provided and preregistration is required. Go to:
https://www.register-ed.com/events/view/191424
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Trout in the Classroom - various dates
This year we're providing, in cooperation with NDOW and various service organizations, in-class educational and technical assistance to Douglas schools participating in this great program. We'll likely be in a half dozen or so classrooms. If you are interested in volunteering for this program, please contact me.
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Jeff's Blog
Jeff Evans, who joined our club earlier this year, has started blogging about his fly fishing adventures. It's at <
https://blog.hsfc.us>.
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More content for
hsfc.us
We taken a few articles previously published in our newsletter and put them on the web page.... including:
• Fishing the Wet Fly - by Dan Sedergren
• A Fly Fisher's Simple Pleasures - by Bob Taormina
• Go West Young Man- by Dan Sedergren
• Remembrances- by Bob Taormina
All and more can be found at <
https://hsfc.us/articles>. We also working on more "fisheries" content, found at <
https://www.hsfc.us/fishing/fisheries>.
We welcome submission of fly fishing content from our members and friends. If interested in submitting something, please contact me.
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Our club calendar is published at
https://www.hsfc.us/calendar
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Facebook
If you happen to be on Facebook, consider following us at @highsierraflycasters and joining the "High Sierra Fly Chatters" group.
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January Management Meeting (aka board meeting) - Jan 18 at Partnership Douglas County in Minden, 2-3pm
We'll be laying plans for '23. We need help many areas, including:
• communications (email, web site, social media, etc.),
• organizing fly fishing activities, and
• organizing fly tying activities.
Please consider attending and volunteering to help run your club!