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MAGIC VALLEY FLY

FISHERS

JOIN-RENEW NOW IN 2026 & 2027 DUES ARE INCLUDED!!

First Fall Family & Friends Meeting & Membership Drive

**Tues. Sept.15, 5-8p.m.**

at the Mountain View Barn

392E, 300S at Hwy 93, Jerome

We will be outside casting & inside tying flies with presentations including the Big Wood River Working Group update & new signups for youth, lady’s, new members, tying & casting groups; classes & outings. We’ll be asking for board & other volunteers while sharing our fly fishing tricks, tactics, fishing stories, & renewed family club emphasis.

See you at the Barn.

Please visit www.magicvalleyflyfishers.com -Events, Join, Facebook page, or call Bryan at 208-934-6405 with all your questions and ideas.

Magic Valley Fly Fishers Membership Drive

June 5, 2026, and beyond.

Thank you for your interest in fly fishing and our 54 years of experience helping Magic Valley Fly Folks enjoy our family friendly pastime! Our members are the lifeblood of our club. Without you we could and would not exist to fulfill our goals.

Please take one of our accompanying fliers and our new revised donation request letters to learn more about

WHY YOU WANT TO JOIN.

In addition to all our activities and goals discussed in those handouts for you, we have some new benefits for the donors we need to augment your dues and that you as members can help us secure to move forward with our objectives.

New for 2026, Sustaining Donors of $250-$500 receive one family membership for that and the next year, as well as being listed in our Sustaining Donors page on our website.

Foundations, companies & businesses as well as private donors of $500 or more receive 2 family memberships as above and their business information listing on our website.

Donations of fly fishing gear and related material of quality auction value qualify, as well as monetary contributions to our nonprofit club.

Thank you in advance for joining to support fly fishing.

MAGIC VALLEY FLY FISHERS 

DONATION & GRANT REQUEST

Dear Supporter,

Thank you for your interest in Magic Valley Fly Fishers (MVFF). We are reaching out for support to help fund our community programs, educational initiatives, conservation efforts, and organizational growth.

Our mission is to promote, preserve, and enhance fly fishing opportunities and fisheries in the Magic Valley and across Idaho. We collaborate with local agencies, Idaho Fish and Game, and private landowners to improve fishing access and habitat conservation.

MVFF proudly supports organizations like The Nature Conservancy, Fly Fishing International, and the College of Southern Idaho (CSI). We also contribute to fisheries science through scholarships and participate in community programs like Trout in the Classroom and Take Me Fishing days. We have experienced speakers at our meetings to enlighten all and teach fly fishing, fly casting and fly tying to “educate on, and perpetuate, the venerable art of fishing with artificial flies and the practice of sportsmanship and conservation” as another specific purpose spelled out in our charter.

To continue and expand our efforts, we need your support. The pandemic and following years have forever altered all aspects of our communities.  Our traditional fundraising methods must be supplemented.  Past large-scale donors are no longer contributing. Regular smaller businesses and private donors, as well as those who came to all our fundraising banquets, are now no longer participating due to all the economic factors that impact us all, especially our nonprofit and community groups.

Your generous donation will help us regain our momentum and fund proposed projects with the City and County, Twin Falls Canal Company, IDFG, CSI, Rock Creek Institute, Idaho State Parks, BLM and others. Your sustaining support would also allow us to do more education and training with youth and other groups in all the facets of fly fishing and conservation outlined above.

Please consider donating and being part of our mission to preserve and enhance Southern Idaho’s worthy fly fishing legacy.

Our EIN is 81-1669257 (effective date: January 26, 2016).  [reincorporated. Originally founded in 1972]
Thank you for helping us keep this vital work alive.

Sincerely,
Bryan S. Woodhouse
Acting President & Secretary, 2026, Magic Valley Fly Fishers
Call/Text: 208-934-6405
Email: 2bwoodyfly@gmail.com
Website: www.magicvalleyflyfishers.com

Please see our Sept 15 meeting details update, watch here and see you at the Barn. Bryan.

Go to our Events NOW and read all the details of NEXT TUE. 4/21 meeting's great evening in the 70's & sunshine at the Mountain View Barn.   Casting on the lawn and tying inside while having a burger and fly fishing fun with fine friends, how good can it get?   Cya there.

ALSO.

Please try to attend the next public workshop on our new City of Twin Falls Rock Creek Project on MAY 5 at the Herrett Center at CSI with times to be posted here soon along with their announcement and flier with links.

More on our 3rd Tues, May 19 General Meeting, Friday June 5 at the Filer Fair Grounds, and other club good stuff to follow soon.

Thanks.  Bryan.

A Happy Spring day to you one and all.

Watch this News and our Events section for our monthly meetings April 21, May 19, and other great event details coming soon.

Especially mark your calendars for Friday June 5 for an event long on our bucket list that is now within casting distance.  It is one not to miss with all the details and how you can and are needed to help coming to you on these pages and in your e-mails as the specifics evolve!!  

Call/text or send smoke signals to me anytime with your ideas!

Bryan. 208-934-6405 & please leave a message so I won't delete you as SPAM and can call you back!

Good afternoon Magic Valley Fly Fishers and all those we know are about to join at our next General Meeting, this next Tuesday 3/17.  Please see our Event listing for more details on a great show and evening ahead.  April and May meetings are posted but just now being put together with as much as we know now on the Event.

Please try to come to our meetings and encourage all your interested friends & neighbors to come and join to help us get the person power up to being able to do more projects as we have done in the past.  If you all send me more materials I can post more here in NEWS.  

Please also contact me at 208-934-6405 to let us know how we can bolster our ranks, do what you all want and get more done.

Thanks and more soon.

Bryan Woodhouse, Secretary, 2026.

2025 was a good year and 2026 looks to be even better with our meetings starting January 20. It will be a lively discussion with MV Fisheries Biologist Tucker Brauer on his work with the Department of Fish & Game on our Big Wood River and the proposed regulations changes they hope will benefit this great river.  We will have folks tying before the presentation if all goes well and may have other fly fishing info as well as hearing where you all have been fishing.

Please also call or text me if you have news items I can put into this Club News to turn it into a 2026 newsletter like the ones I sent you all in years past.  I need good current fly fishing and other related stories from members with pictures to make this happen and will start working on it as soon as you get in touch.

Happy Holidays and call or text anytime.

Bryan  208-934-6405

 

Good morning Magic Valley!

After a lively board meeting last Thursday a full fall is ahead.

Please review our Events as new things were just posted.  We hope to see you all at the Opening Potluck this coming Saturday that has updated details you will want to see.  In the November Fall Party announcement also just added you will see the following:

Raffles and Silent Auctions will need all your help to have lots of donations fitting for fine fall fundraising & fly fishing fun!!  Dig out all your great old gear gathering grit and call us to pick it up or drop it off to replenish our dwindling supply of great raffle goodies. Please also help us get out and contact old and new donors as we've done before our banquets over many years.  We need your help, thank you! More on this as an ongoing priority project for future fundraisers to follow soon also.  

This request above is our next step moving forward with our request for donations we posted here in NEWS  June 3 as part of our hot fall news.  In that article you can get a copy of our current  donation request letter to aid in your getting out gleaning for your club the means to have fun meeting raffle fundraising in keeping with our fly fishing interests.  Please call or text me with your successes in getting goodies and your ideas on how you can work with us to improve this process.  We will have monthly raffles starting again at the October 14 General Meeting if we get enough to raffle off.  Every body likes to win good stuff and it has always built good club interaction.

Also:  Email reminders as our PAID members have just received will now be used more and more for letting you know what's been updated here and other info on fishouts, clean ups, and club stuff that you'll want to be part of this fall and beyond. We are working to expand this to include other folks from our past rosters and get it to new prospective members via their email and possibly text as well as FB.

Thank you and call/text anytime, Bryan. 208-934-6405

MAGIC VALLEY FLY FISHERS POSITION STATEMENT

Regarding Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge & Craters of the Moon National Monument August 24, 2025

MVFF strongly supports adding land and access and improving all aspects of existing public use in Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge and Craters of the Moon National Monument. These areas are used often by our members fishing, hunting, birding, hiking, biking, camping and wildlife area enjoyment.

The proposed plan details as stated in the paragraphs we received that were excerpted from the Land and Water Conservation Fund and we reviewed (& copied below) are greatly needed and will be appreciated & used by us all.

20+ members have told me they will be able to fish, hunt and use these areas more easily and often if the proposals can take place soon.

I only have time and space for 7 of their stories here.  I and all others asked want this great fishing, hunting, birding resource to be maintained and enhanced for us, our families, friends and neighbors now and for the future.

The top items on everyone’s lists were to grade & maintain roads, all access areas and improve use maps and signage to make it easier to use the area and know where the boundaries are and what the rules are and why. The fish and wildlife are there; we want to be too!!!

One of our members whose family founded “Quigley” two centuries ago; now just a dot on the map north of the wildlife area & below Craters of the Moon, has trouble navigating the river he’s grown up on with the confused jurisdictions & poorly signed & maintained public and private property & roads. These projects could help fix what exists and add new use for us all as he and his family want.

Another member Bob, was just at Lake Walcott & “The Refuge” Thursday 8/21/25 showing this great area in our back yard to visitors, & said he would also use the area more if these improvements happen. This Bob grew up and lives close by on the Snake River in Hayburn and fished Walcott the week before, caught a few and would really like better access and maintenance.  Weekends are very crowded now.

Glenn, our big fish member in the pictures,  also agrees on all and is guarded in his hopes these projects will actually get done.  Especially in time to help us old guys & gals take our grand & great grandkids to both areas again soon to learn and continue our outdoor family fun traditions of fly fishing, hunting and more.

Another Bob that duck hunts the refuge in fall and fishes both the lake and river when possible told me Friday he agrees totally to improve this area now! Let’s spend the funds as proposed and make it better now and not let it degrade further from neglect and insufficient management & funding for upkeep.

Rob and Cindy fish, birdwatch-photograph, hike & hunt and will use it more year round if roads and access are improved and added.  All would like better winter & year-round use with it so close to us and home to so many species.

Steve that fishes the river in his drift boat, as well as hunts grouse and waterfowl, enlightened me that the diminishing Sage Grouse range is not only in and around the Craters but also extends now into the Minidoka Refuge. Better roads in and knowing where legal use and private restrictions conflict is a current major issue in using these close by and valuable wild areas in both proposed cases.

And my last and most recent conversation today was with Norm that lives less than ten minutes from the gate at Lake Walcott.  He volunteered to go right over and take some pictures for us if needed. He told me of going to one of the access points on the river in the Refuge yesterday 8/23/25 to carp fish and not being able to fish with bad road conditions, signage missing or unreadable, parking problems and unclear private vs. public boundary issues.

The other members questioned all had equally interesting and important stories.

Please release the funds as proposed (and allocated?). They are needed. Now!

Sincerely,

Bryan S. Woodhouse, Secretary-Magic Valley Fly Fishers 2025

www.magicvalleyflyfishers.com

EXCERPTS FROM: LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND

• Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge (USFWS) - Idaho - $3,000,000 - 540 Acres
• • FWS will acquire two properties totaling 540 acres. The first acquisition is approximately 500 acres that border the Snake River. The property has highly degraded riparian habitat. FWS will restore the habitat, benefiting many species including warblers, flycatchers, orioles, and raptors. Acquisition will also expand public recreational activities, such as fishing, hunting, and wildlife viewing. The second acquisition will be either a conservation easement or fee purchase of 40 acres of wetland and river habitat. The banks along the waterbodies of this property are severely eroding from farming up to the edge of the water; restoration will benefit waterfowl including Canada geese, mallards, pintails, gadwall, and teal. If not acquired by FWS, this property will likely be developed, exacerbating access challenges and trespass issues and further fragmenting habitat.

Craters of the Moon National Monument (BLM) - Idaho - $2,400,000 - 2,143 Acres

PLEASE go to the EVENTS as this first week in June and next are important as is the info on the summer and Sept. 13 Fall Opener Potluck and all with too much detail to duplicate here.  

Please also review the following, come back active in YOUR club and give a copy of this letter to your bank manager, business friends, corporate executives, rich uncle and all other possible supporters of fly fishing, outdoor recreation and conservation in Southern Idaho and beyond. Whom ever you can think of to gain back  sustaining donors to get us more stable and able to support or sponsor the projects we know are needed in our community is what we must have going forward. 

This will be going up soon under the donor button too on the home page for all to print and use.

Dear Supporter,

Thank you for your interest in Magic Valley Fly Fishers (MVFF). We are reaching out for support to help fund our community programs, educational initiatives, conservation efforts, and organizational growth.

Our mission is to promote, preserve, and enhance fly fishing opportunities and fisheries in the Magic Valley and across Idaho. We collaborate with local agencies, Idaho Fish and Game, and private landowners to improve fishing access and habitat conservation.

MVFF proudly supports organizations like the The Nature Conservancy, Fly Fishing International, and the College of Southern Idaho (CSI). We also contribute to fisheries science through scholarships and participate in community programs like Trout in the Classroom and Take Me Fishing days.

To continue and expand our efforts, we need your support. The pandemic has affected our traditional fundraising methods, and past large-scale donors are no longer contributing. Your generous donation will help us regain our momentum and fund proposed projects with the City and County, Twin Falls Canal Company, IDFG, CSI, Rock Creek Institute, Idaho State Parks, BLM and others.

Please consider donating and being part of our mission to preserve and enhance Southern Idaho’s fly fishing legacy.

Our EIN is 81-1669257 (effective date: January 26, 2016).
Thank you for helping us keep this vital work alive.

Sincerely,
Bryan S. Woodhouse
Secretary 2025 & Past President 2023, Magic Valley Fly Fishers
Call/Text: 208-934-6405
Email: mvffeditor2014@hotmail.com | mvff208@gmail.com
Website: www.magicvalleyflyfishers.com

With only 55% of our members renewing now or on time over the last two years, it is forcing us to get those we can to help us fund raise with this new 2025-6-7 method and not old outdated unproductive methods of the past.  Getting your buddies to pay their dues would help a lot too!  So would more of you coming to meetings and fishouts you say you want. I'm at the top of the list at not making fishouts and some meetings with family issues and need your help in getting more in working to allow us to continue and hopefully grow. 

The workings of this site are always improving and changing and those will be discussed as the fixes and additions happen.

Thank you, that's all for now, and see you 6/6 & 6/10 and beyond.

Bryan.

Hi again all. I apologize for my long delay in posting all we are doing. This will take several installments over the next days and here goes.

Please watch our Events section as I just posted Dennis Brauer's adventures program for our April 8 general meeting evening you will all want to see and we will post more soon.

Please also check your records and pay your 2025 dues even if you hadn't paid for last year (or beyond) as we are fine tuning our membership tracking and show almost 50% of you are behind.  That really cuts into our meager cash flow and thereby limits many of our hoped for activities.  You will soon get more send-outs via the website if you are paid up and will be dropped too if you delay too long now that more of our system is moving to fuller automation.  You can still mail a check or pay with check or cash at the meetings, but on-line is fastest and populates your profile best.  Also please always now put in your street address and mailing address if different as we want to do more mailings to you of your new membership cards and know where all our members are for regional activities going forward.

One in-process project you won't get if you snooze is the new detailed survey Ian made that will get your desires known if you take it if you get it if you get it; get it???? snicker-snicker 

Trout in the Classroom Project.

IDFG has again asked MVFF to help with the Trout in the Classroom fishing days for the kids at the end of their projects this spring. All will be 8:00 am. to 2:00 pm. at Riley Pond at the Hagerman hatchery except for the last three to be held at the Hayspur hatchery off Hwy 20 by Silver Creek. 

IDFG brings all the gear, worms and their folks to help teach fishing and fish handling skills, the kids are bussed in and out, and we assist with teaching, baiting hooks and untangling lines. Fred is even proficient in netting cell phones off the bottom of the pond at dock!! The kids’ teachers and parents are a great help too with lots of kids coming to learn and have fun.

Please call Chris Foster, our IDFG liaison and fabulous fish filleting & cooking teacher at 206-794-4802, or me at 208-934-6405 with any questions.

Days are as follows. 

April 29, Tue.

May 6 Tue, 7 Wed, 8 Thurs, 12 Mon, 14 Wed, 15 Thurs, 19 Mon, 20 Tue, 28 Wed,

29 Thurs, at Hayspur Hatchery.

June 3 Tue, 4 Wed, at Hayspur Hatchery.

Thank you in advance for your help with these kids, some of whom may have never been fishing before, ever! It’s really great to see them catch their first fish. Bryan.

Please watch too for IDFG’s free fishing days that will be posted here later in the spring and summer with details to help get everyone out fishing and that we also help with.

 That's all for now and as I always close, more soon and call me anytime.

Bryan