MVFF Club News and Reminder April 9, 2024
Good Evening Magic Valley Fly Fishers, Friends, Supporters and All the Ships at Sea!!
Reminder for next week’s Tuesday, April 16 general meeting.
The details below were just posted to next week’s General Meeting event a week from tonight.
Please go to Events, register and get ready for a good old fashioned club night of doing what we know & love best—fly fishing & all its facets and practicing all its parts!!
“ALL LEADERS NIGHT”
Butt to tippet— Everything you’ve wanted to know, ask or thought you should share about your connection to the fly and the fish!!
James will “Leader” us through discussions, demonstrations, demystifying, describing & doing the answers to your connection and presentation questions. We can try tying your ideas on dynamite design deviations on the old standard knotted and knotless versions too.
Bring your stuff to tie a few for your vest pocket and show us how.
It will be a long and the short of it evening!! Far & fine gossamer 6 x 20+‘ er’s to 15# 6’ brush-bustin’ lip rippers!
He wants this to be an interactive evening with you all just for the fun and landed fish of it all!
Come on over & we’ll all tie one on at the Barn.
LEADERS, THAT IS!!
We think this will be a big draw evening, so please register soon so we can tell Nina at the Barn the number and not run out of her scrumptious burgers, fries, salads, & desserts and to not run the keg dry!
Cya there. Bryan.
More Club News, upcoming activities and updates.
Clear Lake Country Club Workday & Free Club Fly Fishing, Saturday April 27, 2024.
The following has been posted in our Events and we will again have a signup sheet at next week’s meeting so we know how many we will have helping, eating and fishing.
Clear Lake Country Club lake shore cleanup to continue to improve fly fishing access will begin at 7:30 am. and finish at 11:30 this Sat. April 27. Those working must be paid members to be under our insurance and you can renew or join on line here any time or at the event. The rest of the day we fish for free. Register here and we will also have signups and more details and what tools to bring at the meetings before this event.
The Country Club has graciously awarded us an additional two free MVFF club fishing days in advance for our hard work helping them make everyone’s fly fishing access easier around the lake. These two additional days will be planned and added to our events here as soon as possible. Due to schedule conflict, the outing to Salmon Falls Reservoir was canceled to allow this CLCC event on 4-27. Salmon Falls Reservoir may be rescheduled for later.
Please call Fishmaster Fred at 208-969-1971 or Bryan at 208-934-6405 with questions.
IDFG Schedule & Events.
IDFG has sent out their first schedule for Trout in the Classroom (TIC) fishing days and Take Me Fishing (TMF) days this spring and always need our help 8 am. to 2 pm.
T I C days start on Tue. April 30 at Riley Pond.
All May TIC days are at Riley Pond except the last that is at Gavers Lagoon.
Riley Pond days & dates are Thur. 5/2; Tue. 5/14, Wed. 5/15, Thur. 5/16, Wed. 5/22, Tue. 5/28 and ending the month at Gavers Lagoon on Wed. 5/29.
June & July TIC and TMF days will be posted here in Club News to the end of May.
Watch this section for added day updates if we receive them from IDFG.
IDFG’s 125 year anniversary party will be held on Saturday May 18 at Twin Falls Park downtown. MVFF is honored to be asked to be a participant and we will have fly tying, knot tying and casting demonstrations as space and time allow along with lots of other info for potential new members. More details will be posted here and we will need volunteers to help plan, practice, set up, meet the folks during the day and closeup. Please sign up for this too at next week’s meeting and/or call me anytime.
A fly fishing gear swap idea has been discussed and will be at next week's meeting. Please come and give us your input. We will again need all the folks we can get to make this happen.
Other project possibilities are being researched by board members and will be brought to you all as soon as enough groundwork has been finalized and feasibility evaluated. These include the very old club desire to have a kids fly fishing pond close in Twin Falls, IDFG help with instream egg planting, IDFG help in tagging, IDFG help with stream access on Silver Creek feeder streams, and others long on back burners. Now is the time to get us going again on many of them as we continue to gain back our old strengths. In-club things we have wanted are a youth group, ladies group, new comers group, our history projects and others. All we need is people with the time and energy. Please let us know how and where you want to help.
April and May high water, where to fish safely and where it’s fishing good now.
Like for bass on the Malad at the Snake that is good through May, but really high water now-from Chris today.
Intel for flows and fishermen: From Ian this afternoon.
Reservoir levels on upper snake aka the teacups: https://www.usbr.gov/pn/hydromet/burtea.html
USGS water dashboard: https://dashboard.waterdata.usgs.gov/app/nwd/en/?region=lower48&aoi=state-id
Idaho Power releases, use the top left menu to select a dam.
Along with the above, please bring your knowledge and information on what’s fishing good now and therefore fishable and where to avoid. A good old round robin of recent fishing tails follows.
Fishouts at Riley Creek and Riley Pond were super well attended and everyone had fun, ate well and caught good fish. Tell us about your day there and where ever you have been fishing.
Website and Membership.
Way too much detail for here, but GO TO THE SITE AND USE IT, THEN GIVE ME FEEDBACK.
Try to log on and enter your e-mail address and password or choose “forgot” and reset. If you are in the new database already even if not paid up to current it will let you in with a bill for your 2024 $45. If it’s been since pre 2023, you are probably not in the database and just “join”.
Once in you will see the MEMBERS pulldown button under which is an under construction area where I will soon put our bylaws, etc.; the directory of members with phone and email; and our Forums, under construction. We know of some glitches that are minor but irritating and we are trying to learn how to not only fix them but build a better way to do stuff. Try it, you’ll like it. Call me if you have any questions, trouble or if you can help with the site. We need you on the website team. ALSO: Please pass the word to all your old buds to look at the new site, call me and rejoin. I may send out an “after the final, final, final” email to all those we haven’t seen in several years but I don’t know when I can get to that. Sure would like to have all our strays back to the BARN!!!!
More soon and see you next Tuesday.
Bryan. 208-934-6405
