SRTU March Meeting

Started by Dougfish, February 03, 2013, 12:57:27 PM

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Dougfish

Smith River TU will meet at Ranias restaurant in uptown Martinsville, VA at 6:30pm on March, 7. We encourage you to show up a little early and get your dinner order in, if desired.

Keeping with yearly tradition, Smith River Trout Unlimited will feature fly tying at it's Spring meeting. 
We will have two "celebrity tiers" at the head table:
Paul Gruver, aka PHG, will return for a second year in a row to show us many of the little tying tricks he has learned over the years.
Ralph Muller, aka Outdoorguy3 or Mr. Soft Hackle, will show us how he ties those tiny soft hackles which are so effective on regional tail waters.

Members and guests are encouraged to bring their own vise and materials to "tie along" or show us your secret pattern.
We will raffle off a fly box filled with "Smith River Specials" again this year. To fill this box all members and guests are asked to bring and donate three each of your "go to" fly or flies. Last year the lucky winner walked away with a fly box stuffed with flies that many of us would have given our eye teeth to have in our vest. We also have a fly tying vise to raffle off in a separate drawing.

We'll talk about the upcoming club activities, including: a club fishing/camping trip, Fish With A Friend, fishing reports, Smith River Fest, river clean up day, and other activities. If you have suggestions for activities contact a club officer, ASAP. www.smithrivertu.com for contact info.
Lets make 2013 a fun year on the Smith River and our other favorite waters.


Al

We are less them a month away from the SRTU quarterly meeting which will feature fly tying (details below)  -  Reminder to all tyers we are asking you to donate one of your "Smith River Specials" to help fill the raffle fly box. Three of one pattern is what we would like (one to use, one to lose and one to copy if it is a winner). Bring your donation along with your vise to the March 7th meeting to show us how you created it.  Everyone should bring a fistful of $5 bills. Raffle tickets are one for $5 or three for $10. 

Al

In addition to the fly tying theme and Smith River Fly Box raffle we have a great "the rest of this year" program to announce at our March 7th meeting. Want to learn more - come to the meeting ;D

Al

See you folks tomorrow evening. Can't wait to see your "secret flies". Great program lined up. In addition to the fly tying we will hear about trips and events planned for the remainder of the year.