Magic Valley Fly Fishers News

Tue April 21 Hot Update ++++

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:59:37 GMT

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.

April, May, June and Summer 2026

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:52:02 GMT

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!

Mini News Update March 12, 2026

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:46:42 GMT

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.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays & See you all on Jan. 20, 2026

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:57:56 GMT

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

What's New News September 10, 2025

Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:55:26 GMT

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

MVFF POSITION STATMENT ON MINIDOKA REFUGE & CRATERS of the MOON

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:38:39 GMT

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

The first planned acquisition is in the northeastern area of the Monument in Butte County and comprises the Huddles Hole kipuka. There is an 80-acre BLM parcel in the center of the kipuka that is entirely surrounded by private land. Access to the property is by a primitive road off the Arco-Minidoka Road. No easements exist across the BLM that access the private property. Cultural resource inventories have not been completed on the property; however, there is a likelihood of evidence of pre-contact use of the kipuka and along the lava edges consistent to similar areas in the Monument.
The second planned acquisition is located in north Laidlaw kipuka in Blaine County. It has been fenced by the private landowner in the past. The property is adjacent to Snowdrift Crater and the Great Rift Wilderness Study Area (WSA). Snowdrift Crater is a popular destination in the Monument for hunting and other recreational activities. The BLM estimates that 5,000 visitors per year make use of the undeveloped portions of the Monument, including visits to Snowdrift Crater and the Great Rift WSA. The parcel is located within designated Priority Sage Grouse Habitat. Snowdrift Crater is the top of a low angle shield volcano that formed nearly 500,000 years ago. It supports a large stand of quaking aspens and wildlife species including deer, elk, pronghorn, and many bird species.

Club Hot News Now, Summer & Fall

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 06:58:20 GMT

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.

Club News Update and Catch-ups

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:19:48 GMT

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

Club News Update January 2025

Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:37:41 GMT

Good evening. Please review our Events lead in and February and March dates as we are adding new things you all want to see and they will be coming more often in the days and weeks ahead.

Our February fishout is being worked out and will be posted soon and discussed at our Tuesday February 11 first monthly meeting posted in events. Mark your calendars for the second Tuesday of each month Feb through June for a fun and informative evening at the Barn.

Dues are now payable for 2025 and if you have any trouble give me a call at 208-934-6405.

Thank you and more very soon, Bryan.

August 22 News & Our Fall Road Ahead

Thu, 22 Aug 2024 23:09:03 GMT

Good afternoon.

Please read all that is new in Events, both the new updated green summary and each event posted with additional Events to follow soon both there and here in club news and with much more detail added as we know it.

Things have evolved and changed so much over the last months that we chose to stabilize things as much as possible for all our benefit and now we have a clearer path ahead for me to report on.

For First Tuesdays and Fishouts, things are working "pretty good" with only "minor disturbances in the force".

For our re-start of General Meetings, things have been a bit more bumpy. Therefore, I put a bit more into that starting Third Tuesday Event writeup to emphasize our need to boost attendance and get members renewing and new ones joining [and all being active and participating!!!] so we can again bring speakers / presenters down here to good old Twin Falls! We have fewer choices in this new, more costly environment and with fewer players in the game that is running on an even more complicated timeline.

We want to again see our new folks that have joined over the last few years that haven't been to a meetings much this year, and we especially would like to see and work with our former active (old?) members that are out-there, in all senses of the term?

I know we all want to get back to the future in all the best ways we can. So, as I can't remember where I parked my DeLorean, I best go find it!

Cya.

Much more soon, Bryan.

News Update

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 15:48:31 GMT

Please note that the July 2 event had to be canceled due to scheduling conflict.

New News and Events will be posted after our upcoming board meeting.

Club News, Reminder & IDFG days for June & July

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:43:00 GMT

Club News, Reminder & IDFG days for June & July June 3, 2024

Remember Tuesday, June 4.

Tomorrow Evening’s Fly Tying, Casting and General Fun at the Barn.

Hope to see you all there.

IDFG fishing days that they have requested our club’s help for June and July.

All Trout in the Classroom kids fishing days in April and May were great successes.

All days are from 8-9 am to 2-3 pm at the locations listed.

Please call Chris Foster 206-794-4802 with any questions.

JUNE

Wed. 6-5 = The last Trout in the Classroom kids fishing day at Gavers Lagoon.

Sat. 6-8 = Free fishing day at Riley Pond Hagerman.

Wed. 6-12 = Fishing Trailer Event at Freedom Pond Burley.

Sat. 6-15 = Fishing Trailer Event at Dierkes Lake.

Wed. 6-19 = Fishing Trailer Event at Filer Pond.

Sat. 6-22 = Vamos A Pesca at Freedom Pond Burley.

**Tue. 6-25** = Auburn Hospice Senior Fishing Day at Oster Pond #1, Hagerman.

Wed. 6-26 = Fishing Trailer Event at Riley Pond.

JULY

Sat. 7-13 = Fishing Trailer Event at SV Elkhorn.

Wed. 7-17 = Fishing Trailer Event at Gavers Lagoon.

Sat. 7-27 = Fishing Trailer Event at Lake Cleveland.

More Club News will be posted after tomorrow night’s meeting.

Please call or text me with items you would like me to put in our club news.

Thank you for participating with your club.

Call me anytime,

Bryan- Secretary 2024. 208-934-6405

HOT CLUB NEWS, REMINDERS & UPDATES

Sat, 11 May 2024 22:10:48 GMT

Please note the first 3 items especially and all are now new listings on our events page that you can register for. We need all the members we can get for the 18th so please let us know if you can come and help.

Saturday May 18, 3 to 6 MVFF will be at the IDFG’s 125^th Anniversary Celebration at Twin Falls City Park. Our tables will be set up in the corner of the park at 4^th Ave. E and Hansen St. E that is directly across the street from the front door of the Public Library and just three streets from Troutfitters at 2^nd & Hansen.

We will have fly tying, fly casting and knot tying displays and demonstrations at our tables and hands on for a few of those wanting a little TLC as time, crowds and space allow.

All members that can come and help set up at 2:00 pm. / close up at 6, and help at the event are asked to come and work with your club to make this a memorable event for us all. Please bring your own chairs.

Please call or text Bryan at 208-934-6405 if you can come to help.

Tuesday May 21 General Meeting 6-8 at the Mountain View Barn.

Our presentations will include our work underway with the City of Twin Falls Parks & Recreation. This includes our proposed use of the former C S I fish hatchery and property for both a kids fishing pond and future uses of the now closed hatchery for educational and other community purposes rather than being demolished.

Our documentation also details our larger, long standing, interests in restoration of Rock Creek for all fisheries, fishing and recreational purposes over its length from Magic Mountain to the Snake. These cover the many aspects of restoration and the ways MVFF feels these will benefit this important local stream and the County and City in the years ahead.

Other presentations will update you on our upcoming activities including fish-outs, meetings and summer schedule as well as plans for next fall now being formulated. Please try to attend as this is now our last General Meeting of the spring and we always need to hear your feedback and who can help make these meetings successful.

Saturday May 25 Fishout is now scheduled for Roseworth Reservoir (also called Cedar Creek). It is west, about 8 miles, from the Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir Dam on the road across the dam, & about 15 miles out of Rogerson. Reports are lots of fish, good pontoon and float tubing, wading+/-, and boat fishing with space both sides of the main launch ramp at the house to fish, launch & set up our base camp Saturday morning with hotdogs at lunch. Call Fred at 208-969-1971, Mike at 208-410-0308, or Bryan at 208-934-6405 with questions.

June 4^th First Tuesday Fly Tying, Casting and Storytelling 5-8 at the Mountain View Barn.

More info to be posted soon.

Canceled-June 18^th Third Tuesday General Meeting

Saturday June 29 Fishout at Big Wood River at Stanton Crossing Campground.

More info to be posted soon.

July 2^nd First Tuesday Fly Tying, Casting and Storytelling 5-8 at the Mountain View Barn.

More info to be posted soon.

Saturday July 27 Fishout at Billingsley Creek, Hagarman.

More info to be posted soon.

August 6^th First Tuesday Fly Tying, Casting and Storytelling 5-8 at the Mountain View Barn.

More info to be posted soon.

Trout in the Classroom IDFG request for Help Reminder on May days-all times are 9 am -2 pm.

All May TIC days are at Riley Pond except the last that is at Gavers Lagoon.

Riley Pond days & dates are 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.

Club News and Reminder

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 07:27:31 GMT

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.

Data - Idaho Power WebPortal

idastream.idahopower.com

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

Club News and Reminder

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 23:15:14 GMT

MVFF CLUB NEWS AND REMINDER Monday, March 18, 2024

REMINDER—Don’t miss tomorrow night’s presentation. Gerald has a new perspective on our local fly fishing and more. See this Event listing for more information and see you there.

WEBSITE evolution continues.

You must now be a paid active member to log on and see the Members Directory and Forums. We will now be able to add club-only content with greater security and build club forum discussions more easily on many topics. This is just happening now and may have some rough spots, so call Bryan 208-934-6405 with questions, ideas and if you want to provide hands-on website help to your club.

Log-in & dues.

If you can’t log in as last year, you need to go to Join Us and renew. If you were paid in 2023 and set up your log-in account, it will (hopefully) automatically populate that old data. Make sure it is all correct before you pay your 2024 renewal. If your last dues were 2022 or before, rejoin and you’re in. All dues payments by card will be on the website, not Square. Checks by mail to our Box 1037 T. F. I. 83301 and cash and checks at meetings and events are accepted but must be hand updated into the system so by card is best for us all. Hats, pins, maps and tickets are cash or checks only at meetings and events. At outside events like fish outs, cash or check only for dues also with no secure satellite Wi-Fi-link.

EVENTS. Please see our events section for our overview for the first part of this year and the specific event listings for the events with more information.

It’s a full schedule with more details being added as we know them.

Meetings at the Barn are now 6 to 8 pm. to encourage more to attend.

First Tuesday Tying and Fun Nights now will include casting on the lawn for those so inclined. If you or someone you know wants tying instruction, please contact Fred or me and we can go from there. Same goes for casting. Please contact James, Mike, or one of us for that also.

We’re here to help.

Third Tuesday General Meetings with a speaker or other presentations on fly fishing, tying or related topics in local fisheries issues are gaining in attendance. We hope you can all come to these through June and again through the fall. If you have speaker or topic suggestions, please contact us with your ideas as we want to find and book these folks as far ahead as possible.

Fishouts last year and this year have been going super well each month with lots attending and catching fish. Riley Creek saw everyone catching fish and having fun on the stream. Riley Pond this month will give us well stocked still water action and some potentially large fish too.

Please let us know if you have any questions or would like help at a fish out.

CLUB NEWS articles are best when written by YOU!! Write a few lines about your last club fish out day or personal trip or other related topic your fly fishing friends here in MVFF will enjoy and send it to me to put in this to all. YOU ARE our club!! We’d love to hear from you!!

Much more after tomorrow night’s meeting.

See you there,

Bryan Woodhouse, Secretary 2024 & mvffeditor2014@hotmail.com 208-934-6405

Fish Management Plan

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 01:00:00 GMT

IDAHO STATE NEWS

IDFG Gathering Public Comments On Chinook Seasons, 2025-27 Statewide Fishing Seasons, & Fish Management Plan

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public input on three fisheries processes

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 01:00:00 GMT

Fish and Game to hold two open houses in the Magic Valley to seek public input on three fisheries processes

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Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 12:07 PM MST

Public input is a critical piece to fisheries season setting and statewide management plan adoption

Idaho Fish and Game has three public comment periods opening on February 12,2024 that will address important issues impacting anglers in Idaho. They include setting the 2024 Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon fishing seasons and bag limits, the upcoming 2025-27 statewide fishing seasons and rules, and rewriting the 6-year, statewide Fish Management Plan.

Fishery biologists from the Magic Valley Region will be hosting two open houses to hear from area anglers about ideas they might have about these upcoming documents, and they will outline a few proposals that are up for consideration from Fish and Game.

The first open house will be held at the Magic Valley Regional Office in Jerome, 324 S 417 E, on February 13, 2024, from 6 – 8 p.m.

The second open house will be held on February 20, 2024, in Hailey at the Community Campus, Minnie Moore Room from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.

To learn more about the three processes and the timeline for public please see this news article.

For more information about the Magic Valley Region open houses please contact the regional office at (208) 324-4359.

Jan 13 FishOut @ Filer Ponds CANCELLED

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:14:19 GMT

Due to the weather and road condition we have cancelled the FishOut.

Important Updates & Club News

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:41:25 GMT

Magic Valley Fly Fishers Important Updates & Club News January 5, 2024

Our Tuesday January 9 meeting for next week is now canceled due to medical and other scheduling issues beyond our control.

PLEASE NOTE: Club information will not be e-mailed to you as in the past.

With our transition of our website continuing, only paid members will receive emails via their profile data from our site when necessary.

Public updates and information on monthly tying & general meeting nights, future fish outs, club projects & events, website evolution, and much more will be posted on our site in Events & News, and on our FB page as far ahead as possible for each month.

Our first 2024 fish out will be at Filer Ponds Saturday January 13, one week from tomorrow, after a large IDFG stocking is scheduled for next week. We will be there at 8 am. until we’re tired of catching fish with hot dogs, chips and water free for members and for a nominal $3 for non-members.

Our February 6 first Tuesday fly tying, fun and board meeting will be held at the Barn 5-9. All board members, potential board members, and members with ideas and help for us in this new 2024 are all strongly encouraged to come to the board meeting to jump start this fly fishing fun year ahead.

Bryan Woodhouse, Acting Secretary, 2024. 208-934-6405

Club Merry Christmas & Updates

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 18:55:57 GMT

Magic Valley Fly Fishers-Merry Christmas & Happy New Year One and All!!

Thank you all for coming to our meetings, fishouts and events this year that made it such a great success. We look forward to seeing you all more in ’24!!!

Our next meeting will be Tuesday January 9, 5-9 pm. at the Barn. Details for this meeting and other club information will be published January 2-4 and posted on our website and FB page.

Our following meetings scheduled so far will be:

Feb. 6, March 5, April 2, & May 7.

All are Tuesdays at our regular time 5-9 at the Mountain View Barn, Jerome.

Remember too, that if you go onto our website and renew or mail a check now dated this year you will get your 2024 family membership at the $35 price that will go up to $45 Jan. 1, 2024. We’re still working on the site with more improvements coming soon.

Please go to our FB pageto see another example of our great local fishing that I just posted with more to follow in the coming weeks.

Again, happy holidays and thank you all again for making our first year of our next 50 years of MVFF Club fun fish-outs, tying and lying a great success.

Sincerely,

Bryan Woodhouse, Secretary & Past President, 2023 Call, text or email me anytime. 208-934-6405 mvffeditor2014@hotmail.com

Club News October 31, 2023

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 06:41:48 GMT

Magic Valley Fly Fishers October 2023 Club News. Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Happy Halloween

President’s Message for October.

Hello all,

Fall is here. That is great for the fishing but I always have mixed emotions. After fall comes winter. I love fishing in the winter but just don't get much of it done. I have been out a bit lately but would always like to get more time on the water. I was looking forward to fall for the schedule to slow down a bit but so far it hasn't, so have to fit that fishing in when we can.

As for fall activities, there are still a couple of fish outs to get on. There is also the banquet to get ready and have. Then there are the holidays. There is definitely enough to keep us all busy, as everyone knows. We have already been talking about the next year and what we are going to do. Now is the time to let us know if you have ideas for the club. We are hoping to expand on the fish-outs and spread the love. Be on the lookout for news on those with locations and if you want to host one or want to fish a specific place, please let me know.

We are hoping to do some fundraising in the early spring or late winter. Nothing is final yet but keep your eyes peeled for events. As always, we are looking for speakers at the meeting and any suggestions will be appreciated.

Lastly, keep an eye on the Facebook page and feel free to chat and post about your fishing trips and let's see if we can get some impromptu gatherings. That would be a lot of fun for everyone even if they cannot attend. Good chats and discussions can be had. I am going to keep it short this time but hope everyone is getting a few (fish that is). Tight lines everyone and look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

James Harper, President, 2023. paraadams@hotmail.com mvff208@gmail.com208-961-0850

One week from tonight, November 7, is our Talkin’ & Tyin’ Tuesday evening at the Barn and our Board of Directors and Fall Party Team meeting.

The following was handed out as a signup at our general meeting on October 19.

“Please work with your board by phone & text, email and our in-person team. Our plan is as follows:

Oct. 19 through Nov. 6 texts & e-mail actions including but not limited to advertising, donations collection and organizing & party day organization and logistics.

Nov. 7, Tue. Tying, board meeting and in-person Party Team meeting at the Barn. Donations brought in then can be sorted and organized for raffles and silent auditions ahead of the party.

Nov. 8 through Fri. Nov. 17phone, text & e-mail actions / completions.

Sat. Nov. 18, 12 noon to 3:00set up by the team at the Barn.

Sat. Nov. 18, 4:30 team back & ready for our doors to open at 5:00.

Please call/text Bryan at 208-934-6405 to get you going with our team to put this party together.

You can also e-mail me at bryswood@juno.com or mvffeditor2014@hotmail.com Please also text me if you send me an email.”

Saturday, November 18, 2023, is our Fly Fishers & Friends Fall Party & Prime Rib Banquet at the Barn, 5-9 pm, with only 18 more days to go!! Please go to the website and register and pay now if you haven’t already!! All the details are there for another exceptional Mountain View Barn prime rib dinner with all the sides and desserts as well as the bio and links to our speaker Mr. Nate Brumley of Dry Fly Innovations in Meridian. Please call Bryan at 208-934-6405 if you have any questions or issues with registering or paying online or if you need to mail a check or pay at the door as we must have meal counts by Tuesday, November 14.

Donations.

We must all continue to seek donations of all kinds to ensure great raffles and silent auctions. Let’s get back to the old days of flowers on the table for the ladies and lots of cool and interesting prizes of all types as well as great fly fishing related goodies. The donations world has changed with our large donors of the past all gone. That increases the need for all our members to get creative and seek donations whenever or go to a craft show, farmers’ market, and entice all your friends and relatives to do the same so we can replenish our till at our raffles.

Building back our reserves is needed again and is the only way to continue our scholarships, conservation group donations and ongoing activities. We must keep our goal of education of fly fishing to all that are interested and allow us to spread the pleasures and rewards of fly fishing to new folks and next generations of conservationist fly fishing friends.

Costs have increased many fold. If we want to get back to doing projects in riparian habitat restoration & maintenance and fisheries, as well as landowner access improvements with IDFG and others as we have done in the past, we need new and additional funding support.

Consult your company and others about donations and sustaining support contributions to our type of recreation and natural resource education based non-profit organization that provides both youth and adults a long tradition of new and interesting ways to get out, fly fish, learn entomology, and do it in our Southern Idaho Outdoors and beyond.

There’s still Time to Volunteer.

Our election of officers and board members is typically held each November so we need to fill our slate of candidates by early November and publish it after our November 7 meeting to have our election for 2024 on schedule at the Fall Party on Saturday, 11-18.

Three of this year’s board members cannot serve next year due to work, family and other commitments and we need members to help with the work of making club activities happen.

Our current officers are weighing their options with lots of ideas for our club and want yours too.

We would like new officers too who can help get the work done and so we can have a real election with more than one candidate for each office. What a concept!? We’re burning out & up.

We want to do what you all want with your guidance and help. Getting our meetings at the Barn grows more difficult as their business grows and as we hope to increase our attendance and fit more of your schedules. Your active participation is essential. We continue to need more folks to take on tasks to get the club work done to keep activities happening. Please contact any of us by Tuesday November 7.

Officers & Board of Directors & Phone #’s.

President-N_______________#__________: Vice President-N__________#____________ Secretary-N_______________#_________ : Board Member-N__________#____________

Committees needing leaders and members:

Casting, N___________________#_____________:

Tying, N_____________________#_____________:

Meetings, N___________________#_____________:

Membership, N___________________#_____________:

Website & FB, N___________________#_____________:

Projects & Conservation, N___________________#_____________:

Fishouts-Outings & Special Events, N___________________#_____________:

Fundraising-Scholarships & Promotion. N______________________#_____________:

Other Important Information & Dates.

2024 Membership Duesare payable now online or by check by mail to Box 1037 T, F, I. 83303 or at the meetings by cash, check or square and if you pay before the end of this year it is $35 that goes to $45 in 2024. What a deal!!

Vice President Fred Schneiter reports a great turnout of folks at the fishouts at Clear Lakes Country Club days and on the Big Wood River at Stanton Crossing with the numbers of members fishing in the teens and fish in the 20’s-both numbers and lengths (or more)!!

Board member Chris Foster, that is our liaison with and volunteers for IDFG, reminds us all to check the fishing regulations for closures on some of our waters starting November 1, others December 1 and take regulations change now also to catch & release on several of our waters locally. Also call Parks & Waterways, and Parks & Recreation and BLM for Quagga Mussel access restrictions that are now in flux. Also, the boat launch at Twin Falls Dam Idaho Power Park is undergoing major construction and has closures also.

Board member Brenda Weekes, that is also working on the Jerome County Park trail project on the Snake, says the trail work and river crossing will be finishing in the next few weeks.

December 5 is our Talkin’ & Tyin’ Tuesday evening at the Barn, HO-HO-HO.

December 16, Saturday is our winter (hopefully warm) Club fish out at Clear Springs Country Club Lake in Buhl and is free to all paid club members.

Thank you all for your support. See you soon.

Bryan S. Woodhouse, Secretary & Past President, 2023. Call or text anytime, 208-934-6405.

Club Weekly Hot Topics Update Friday Oct. 13, 2023

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 22:12:26 GMT

MVFF Weekly Hot Topics Update Friday, October 13, 2023.

Tomorrow 10/14 is our free fishing day at Clear Lakes Country Club Lake in Buhl. It will be in this nice fall weather with fish recently caught so big they wouldn’t fit into our nets. Lots more +/- 20 inches have been seen too sipping midges so try a dry!

Paid members fish free and if you renew or join tomorrow you get that perk plus your 2024 dues paid at the current $35/ yr. family rate that will go up to $45 on 1-1-2024. That’s a $20+ savings and you can pay there at the fish-out tomorrow.

Fred will be set up at the parking lot above the launch dock around 8 am. for you to sign in there first and then go down to sign in at the Pro Shop for their records.

Golf carts are again available to rent at the pro shop for our shore fishing pleasure around the lake, input stream and on the island at our price of $10 all day and we just reserved two this morning and want to get the word out to you all about this added benefit to our members.

Mike and the others will have your free hot dogs from about 11 to 2 with all the fixin’s.

Out on the water again!! Great fish, great folks, great fun.

Next Thursday, November 19, is our General Meeting at the Barn with the café serving.

Our member & speaker Bob Harrison will present his program on Winter Fly Fishing in Phoenix, Arizona and the Warm Southwest. While a native of Hayburn and lives here spring and summer on the family farm, Bob’s primary home is in the Phoenix area where he is a long time member of the Desert Fly Casters, Fly Tying leader and knows all the spots to catch fish and how when we are frozen up here! He will cover Phoenix’s urban ponds and canals that offer fly fishing opportunities for bass, trout, carp and tilapia throughout the winter. The presentation will cover locations, equipment, and local resources for getting away from Idaho’s cold weather to other areas around his state and region. Lots warmer, good fly fishing and not so far away.

A show not to miss.

Our October Club News will be out after the General Meeting next week. It will include our President’s October message and those from our other board members. Please review our September 8 Club News as there is a lot in it and we will be adding current information to all the topics discussed there and more including:

Please keep getting donations. Our Saturday November 18 Fall Party and Banquet needs all you can make, find and bring in asap. Checks to the club for sustaining support work well too!!

Task/date sign-ups to get this event to happen will be distributed and discussed next Thursday. You can call to begin working with us NOW if you can’t make that meeting.

Please go to this event on our website to learn more about our speaker, register and pay now so this can be a fun party all will enjoy.

Officer, Board of Directors, & Committee Chair 2024 positions must be filled now for our November election. We seriously need you all to WORK with us. New and seasoned, young and old, experienced and not-so-much are needed NOW to do the tasks that the too few of us are burning out on now. HELP!

Thank you all for making MVFF the fun & solid old fly fishing club that it is.

Bryan Woodhouse, Secretary & Past President, 2023. 208-934-6405

Club Calendar Updates & Reminders Monday October 2, 2023

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 17:55:07 GMT

MVFF October 2, 2023, Calendar Updates & Reminders.

Good morning.

Tomorrow evening Oct. 3 is our terrific tying Tuesday at The Barn 5-9.

Next Saturday Oct. 7 Melissa Wagner, one of our newest members and C.S.I. Aquaculture Guru in a post on our MVFF FB page invites us all to join them at the Hayspur IDFG hatchery campground for fly fishing the lagoon and area creeks. See her post for more information.

The following Saturday Oct. 14 is our MVFF October Free Fly Fishing Fest for paid members at the Clear Lakes Country Club Lake in Buhl.

The next Thursday Oct. 19 is our general meeting at The Barn 5-9. Our member & speaker Bob Harrison will present his program on Winter Fly Fishing in Phoenix, Arizona and the Warm Southwest. While a native of Hayburn and lives here spring and summer on the family farm, Bob’s primary home is in the Phoenix area where he is a long time member of the Desert Fly Casters, Fly Tying leader and knows all the spots to catch fish and how when we are frozen up here! Lots warmer, good fly fishing and not so far away. A show not to miss.

More October and fall club news with further details on the Banquet Saturday November 18, more fishouts and tying nights will follow and be posted soon. See our past Club News’ also.

Please review our website for further event detail updates and registration information and for joining & renewing.

Also watch our Facebook page for more information on fun fly fishing & tying around our area.

Thank you for your continued support of MVFF.

Call/text me any time for fastest response at 208-934-6405

Bryan Woodhouse, Secretary & Past President, 2023.

Club News Friday September 8, 2023

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:20:27 GMT

Magic Valley Fly Fishers September 2023 Club News. Friday, September 8, 2023

Good afternoon. Here is our happy, very busy September & Beyond.

This next Tuesday, September 12, is our Fly Tying and Club fun evening at the Barn 5-9 with burgers, salads and beverages. We’ll be tying flies and telling tall tales and it will be easier now that we have moved our board meetings back to a different night and location each month for less distraction and more tying and communicating time for all.

The following Saturday, September 16, we will be enjoying our Exciting New Whitefish Derby and fish out on the Boise River below Anderson Dam. Details are on our FB page and website with registration on the latter. This looks to be a great new fundraiser that could be an attraction fitted to each and all fish outs in the months ahead. James has worked hard on this one and let’s all get out and catch one for the club! Every fly fisher can use a chance to win a great new 5 wt. too!

The next Tuesday after that, September 19, is our General Meeting at the Barn, 5-9 with burgers, salads and beverages and maybe more. This will start our new next season with a recap of our Whitefish Derby and Adventure Stories of Summer ’23 by James and others and gets us going again for another fun fly fishing fall. Many had asked to have general meetings again and we were lucky to get this day because all Third Thursdays were already booked for Sept. October will be back to a 3^rd Thur. as is listed below.

Our President’s Message for September.

Hello all.

It feels like just yesterday that we were looking forward to another summer with the promise of warm weather and all the fishing that that entails. Now with Labor Day in the rearview mirror we can both look back at the summer and look forward to my favorite time of year the autumn. Looking back on the summer is a great time to reflect on what went well and what we can improve on for next year. Like any fishing trip I like to reflect on some of my favorite fish. Like the 20” brown on Silver creek that sipped the brown drake. I also like to reflect on the ones that I didn’t get. Like the fish feeding 10 feet in front of me that I didn’t get a cast to due to weather on the Missouri. I reflect on what I could have done both differently and better.

Overall, I feel the club has had a great summer. Fred has done a great job of planning the fish outs that we have had and Mike has done a fantastic job in support and can really cook a tasty dog. The fishing has been pretty good at all of them and the company and talk has been even better. If you haven’t come to one you are missing out, and there are still a few to come so put them in your planner and see if you can make it.

I can honestly say this summer just flew by. I was able to get some great fishing in and I sincerely hope you were as well. The rivers were flowing high for a long time but mostly fished well once they started to fish, in my opinion. I am really optimistic for a great fall and the fishing that will come. I am excited for the September fish out that is going to be our Whitefish derby. Daniel from Idaho Troutfitters donated a fantastic Lamson fly rod to give away. This will be a great time fishing a great river (South Fork Boise below Anderson). I am also excited to start meetings again and visiting and hearing everyone’s triumphs this summer. The fly-tying meetings have been fun as well and we look forward to keeping that going.

As the board goes, we are really moving forward with planning for the fall Banquet. We are finalizing the details of that up and will have more news shortly. We are planning on the next couple of fish outs. In Sept and Oct, and we are resuming meetings and busy with work on presentations for those. We are always looking for help on all of these, and volunteer time and even money is appreciated. Along those lines if you haven’t visited the Facebook page and/or the new Webpage please do. There is a bunch of work that has been done and hats off to Greg for his work there. We love to hear from all of you on Facebook, and you can post pictures on both sites. I just put some of my summer pics on the website. Go take a look and share yours as well. Thanks all and I look forward to talking to you more at one of the meetings or the fish outs.

James Harper, President 2023. paraadams@hotmail.com mvff208@gmail.com208-961-0850

October 3 is our Talkin’ & Tyin’ Tuesday evening at the Barn.

Ya all come, ya hear?

October 14, Saturday is our Club fish out at Clear Springs Country Club Lake in Buhl and is free to all paid club members.

October 19, Thursday, is our General Meeting at the Barn 5-9 with the details of the evening posted on our website and Facebook as they are finalized.

November 7 is our Talkin’ & Tyin’ Tuesday evening at the Barn.

November 18, Saturday is our Fall Banquet with prime rib dinner at the Barn 5-9. Details with registration, payment and other information are being finalized as James said above and will be published and sent out to you all very shortly. Please see the additional information below under Donations on this, our major event of the year, as edited and added to from last month’s Club News.

December 5 is our Talkin’ & Tyin’ Tuesday evening at the Barn.

December 16, Saturday is our winter (hopefully warm) Club fish out at Clear Springs Country Club Lake in Buhl and is free to all paid club members.

Other Important Information.

NO RSVP’s Needed.

Increasing attendance at our functions has now established all our published events will occur unless uncontrollable events require changes and has removed the need for rsvp minimums. Come on out if you can even if you didn’t think you were going to be able to attend. Everything is doable, one way or another.

Registrations and Event Details.

It is now still very important and easy to register and pay for events if there is a charge using our new website and it is essential for our planning and making these activities happen successfully. Early registration and payment help us immensely and we are looking for ways to give you perks for that that work for us all without complications. Late arrivals for some functions may have additional charges or other than normal meal selection, seating, etc., depending on the event and will be posted in the details of that activity. Watch these for new updated information.

Donations.

Saturday, November 18, 2023, is our Fly Fishers & Friends Fall Fun Prime Rib Banquet at the Barn 5-9 pm. that is only 10 weeks, 70 days from tomorrow, 9/9/23. Mark your calendars if you haven’t already!! All the fine details are in process and will be sent out & posted soon so all can register, pay and plan to make it a great evening. It is going to happen no matter what so register as soon as it is posted!

It is also time for all of us to seek donations of all kinds to ensure great raffles and silent auctions. Let’s get back to the old days of flowers on the table for the ladies and lots of cool and interesting prizes of all types as well as great fly fishing related goodies. The donations world has changed with our large donors of the past all gone. That increases the need for all our members to get creative and seek donations whenever or go to a craft show, farmers’ market, and entice all your friends and relatives to do the same so we can replenish our till at our raffles. Feel free to call me, Fred or James if you would like us to pick up your donations early so we can get them logged in and ready for our silent auction and raffles ahead of Saturday November 18.

Our new MVFF website is up and running {still www.magicvalleyflyfishers.com} and has much still to be added, but we want you all to use it and give us your input as WE evolve it over these next weeks into what we want it to look like and have the functions you want for our club. There is way too much to talk about in this Club News. We will be sending out an email soon regarding membership log in, posting pictures, getting forums going and much more. Please volunteer to help us on this if you have website or database use and management experience and forgive our slow rate of implementation and improvement. Greg is still doing most as we gain momentum in building the site to what we all want and, as James said, we thank him immensely!

Time to Volunteer.

Our officer and board election is typically held each November so we need to fill our slate of candidates by early November to have our election for 2024 on schedule.

We want to do what you all want with your guidance and help. Getting our meetings at the Barn grows more difficult as their business grows and as we attempt to increase our attendance with different days of the week/ month to fit more of your schedules. Your active participation is essential. We continue to need more folks to take on tasks to get the club work done to keep activities happening. Please contact any of us to help on a committee or help with other duties.

Officers & Board of Directors.

President-N_______________#_____________: Vice President N_______________#________ ____ Secretary-N_______________#_____________: Board Mem-N _______________#______________

Committees needing members:

Casting,N___________________#_____________:

Tying, N_____________________#_____________:

Meetings, N___________________#_____________:

Membership, N___________________#_____________:

Website & FB, N___________________#_____________:

Projects & Conservation, N___________________#_____________:

Fishouts-Outings & Special Events, N___________________#_____________:

Fundraising-Scholarships & Promotion. N______________________#_____________:

Articles, stories and other input.

I hope to get back to having more time to incorporate YOUR trip reports, stories and fishing-conservation-habitat-access improvement and other ideas into these Club News. I would like it to evolve into a Back-to-the-Future new version of our old Windknots Newsletter. Don’t know where I parked my DeLorean so may not be able to get there, but I would like some of your stuff to put in too. Then too, I hope, to get more of that directly onto the website and make it much faster and easier.

Thank you all for your support to keep this fun old fly fishing club going strong. See you soon.

Bryan S. Woodhouse, Secretary & Past President, 2023. Call or text anytime, 208-934-6405 or e-mail me at mvffeditor2014@hotmail.com

Club News and other “Windknots” for July & August on July 27, 2023.

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:47:43 GMT

Good Morning Magic Valley Fly Fishers

Club News and other “Windknots” for July & August on July 27, 2023.

Way too much good stuff happening to get to it all here, but here is some to start.

REMEMBER OUR NEXT TALKIN’, TYIN’, & TELLIN’ TALL TAILS TUESDAY

fun night is this coming week on APRIL-oops-August 1, 5-9 pm. at the Mountain View Barn with burgers, salads and beverages. These evenings are growing and help us have more quality club time together as well as tie flies. Bring whatever knot tying, rod building, net building or other ideas you want to get going on these nights too. A “friendly” cribbage game isn’t out of the question!

We’ll have a short board meeting with however many board members can make it while the fly tires are setting up and getting folks tying. We want you all to come, learn about, and get involved in all that’s underway. Please come and give YOUR BOARD your ideas on how we can do all the upcoming activities WITH YOUR HELP!

These include:

Club family fly fishing outings. A minimum RSVP # will be required for all longer trips.

Saturday, August 19, 2023, on the Big Wood River is our next scheduled club fishing day. Our outing leaders will decide the details and meeting location on the river at our August 1 evening meeting or shortly thereafter. Our main meeting location, with ample parking and other details, will reference the access point numbers as designated on the Blane County Big Wood River Fishing Access maps available at all our meetings and at Idaho Troutfitters. This info and the minimum number of SOLIDLY COMMITTED RSVPs we must have by Wednesday August 16 to allow this trip to happen will be posted on our Facebook page and new website with contact #’s. Watch there too for info updates should they arise.

Saturday, September 16, 2023, on the South Fork of the Boise River is our September fish-out. The final planning will occur in early September and be published as described above with references to appropriate Benchmark Maps book location information and will also include RSVP #’s needed by 9/13/23. Saturday, October 14, 2023, is MVFF free fly fishing at Clear Lakes Country Club-CLCC- in Buhl.

Saturday, November 18, 2023, is our Fly Fishers & Friends Fall Fun Prime Rib Party at the Barn 5-9 pm. More on this is discussed below.

Saturday, December 16, 2023, is a warm winter MVFF free fly fishing day with big fish at CLCC.

One of our new features Greg already has active is your ability to “register” (RSVP) on an event like those above and that helps us all in making things happen.

Talkin’ & Tyin’ Tuesdays will be fun, functional and growing 8/1; 9/12; 10/3; 11/7;& 12/5/2023.

Ya all come, ya hear?

Saturday, November 18, 2023, is our Fly Fishers & Friends Fall Fun Prime Rib Party at the Barn 5-9 pm. that is only 114 days away from today, so mark you calendars if you haven’t already!! All the fine details are in process and will be sent out & posted soon so all can plan to make it a great evening.

It is also time for all of us to seek donations of all kinds to ensure great raffles and silent auctions. Let’s get back to the old days of flowers on the table for the ladies and lots of cool and interesting prizes of all types as well as fly fishing related goodies. The donations world has changed with our large donors of the past gone. That increases the need for all of our members to get creative and seek donations whenever you go to a craft show, farmers’ market, and entice all your friends and relatives to do the same so we can replenish our till at our raffles. For now that is the only way to continue our scholarships, conservation group donations and allow us to get out and spread the pleasures and rewards of fly fishing to new folks and next generations of conservationist fly fishing friends.

General Meetings will be resuming for September and October with dates & details to be determined and posted on the calendar on the website and on Fb.

Thank you for your continued support for and interest in MVFF.

More soon, call/text me anytime 208-934-6405 and see you Tuesday at the Barn.

Bryan Woodhouse, Secretary & Past President, 2023.

Club News - September 2022

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:00:02 GMT

Magic Valley Fly Fisher September 2022 – State of Our Club

MAGIC VALLEY FLY FISHERS SEPTEMBER 2022

STATE-OF-OUR-CLUB September 27, 2022

Your current officers and board members here tonight will each give you their views on the state of our club and their visions of fall and spring needs, directions and activities over this next year.

We need your ideas and help to continue monthly meetings with speakers, our history project, fly casting and tying with kids and new folks, IDFG projects, fly tying times, fishouts and other things picking up speed again.

We must have different folks fill officer, board and committee positions to fulfill our bylaws, business requirements, goals and desires through 2023 and beyond. We need new visions, experience, ideas and

workers to get back to doing more to help us all learn more and enjoy fly fishing with all it has to offer. A new President and Secretary are required now that we’re returning to more normal activities status, and because you have had to put up with me for FAR TOO LONG. Extraordinary times have changed.
I will help & advise as Past President– NOT as Permanent President. Snicker-snicker!
Greg Edgar has graciously agreed to stay on as our Treasurer as we all appreciate.

Our bylaws addressing officers, board positions and committees are available by e-mail on request and here at our opening meeting. There is flexibility in how we structure who does what, but the tasks must get done for our club to continue. Officers and board members take on committee leaderships if no other members fill those needed roles as only a few of us are doing now. It must be spread among more members to lessen the load on each and maintain continuity in our operations and in meeting our goals. The more we work together the easier it will be to keep MVFF alive and well and moving ahead into our next fifty years fly fishing as we preserve, promote, enhance and educate to perpetuate our sport. We are lucky to have new and returning members with incredible experience and skills in all areas where we need help. This should be fun in our sport, not work.

Officer and board election is typically in November so we need to fill our slate of candidates by early November to have our election for 2023 on schedule. If required, however, it could be done December 17 at the Christmas dinner also serving as a Special Meeting for that purpose with seven (7) days prior notice.
We want to do what you all want with your guidance and help. Getting our meetings at the Barn grows more difficult as their business grows and as we attempt to increase our attendance with different days of the week and month to fit more of your schedules. Our active participation is essential. So, sign up here tonight!!

Thank you all for your support to keep this fun old fly fishing club going strong. See you on the water!!
Bryan S. Woodhouse, President & Secretary, 2022. Call or text anytime, 208-934-56705.

Club News - November 2022

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:59:20 GMT

Club News – November 2022

CLUB NEWS November 7, 2022

Happy November on this nice, rainy day. It’s recharging both our water supplies and hopes for great fly fishing opportunities over the months to come. Have a GREAT THANKSGIVING wherever you wade, drift or roam!

There will not be a monthly meeting in November due to time and scheduling constraints.

Our Saturday, December 17, Christmas Party at the Mountain View Barn, 5 to 9 pm,featuring Nina’s scrumptious traditional turkey, ham and all the sides and deserts we can hold, needs your reservations soon. The cost including tip is $45 for each person which is well below our current inflation levels.
We must get a minimum of 25 people reserved by Wednesday December 14 to make this event happen and we already have eight in for a warm and fun Christmas time at the Barn.

All the “Early Birds” that get their RSVPs in by Wednesday *November 30*will be entered into a special raffle for a fly fishing adventure for 2 that is a $300+ value.
Payment this year is by check to our P.O. Box 1037 T. F. I, 83303, or by check, cash or plastic at the door after a confirmed reservation is logged in by reply to this email, phone, text, or receipt of your check to our P.O. Box by 12/14. There will be no on-line payments for this event for several reasons this year.

You only pay for your adult beverage bill in addition.
Last minute late comers at the door could get chicken; but it was so good it rivaled the prime rib at the 50th anniversary dinner in April. Plan to come and let us know if you can; but COME!
Our big Christmas Raffle and Silent Auction will feature more trips in the auction, books and lots of fly fishing, fly tying and non-fishing goodies from donations we have already received that will appeal to the ladies as well as the gentlemen. We always look forward to those cool things you all bring to these get togethers that you know we all want to win from the boxes of good stuff you need to DOWNSIZE. I may bring a van full at the rate I’m sorting!! If it’s too big (like Bob’s U-boat) bring a picture to put out for a bid or bucket bonanza! No prize too big or too small for us all to have a ball! Bring ‘em early or get them to us ahead of the party to get them sorted and on the tables for all to bid on. Bring lots to have fun and support MVFF!
A small history display will show some of the donations we have received and our progress you will all be interested to see and become involved with in the future.
Santa may even show up? HO. HO. HO.

Election of officers and board members will be at the December evening.
The ballot with explanation is attached.
WELCOME JAMES.
I want to thank James Harper for again stepping up as President this coming year. James took to the oars on this boat a few years before I arrived here in Twin and we all appreciate having him again help us navigate and put us into fish in the waters ahead. His audition at the September meeting, and his hard work at the April Anniversary doing the casting with all the new folks, reminded us of his many talents, visions for our fly fishing club’s future, and his commitment and abilities to making them happen.

I also want to thank you all for helping on the board and as dedicated members in all we do.

MAGIC VALLEY FLY FISHERS SEPTEMBER 2022 STATE-OF-OUR-CLUB is attached and was distributed at both the September and October meetings. We are solvent, lots going on now into the fall, and we look forward to another good year starting into our next 50 ahead. It’s your club. Thank you one and all.

PLEASE RSVP BY REPLY OR AS ABOVE FOR A GREAT CHRISTMAS PARTY AHEAD. More soon, call/txt/e-mail me, and have a GREAT THANKSGIVING wherever you wade, drift or roam! Bryan Woodhouse, President & Secretary, 2022

CLUB NEWS

MVFF Official Election Ballot Officers and Board of Directors

MVFF SEPTEMBER 2022 STATE-OF-OUR-CLUB

Club News - January 2023

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:58:15 GMT

Club News – January 2023

MAGIC VALLEY FLY FISHERS CLUB NEWS– January 23, 2023

Good evening.

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend our upcoming February and March meetings at the Mountain View Barn, Jerome Id, 392 E, 300 S, starting in just two weeks from tomorrow.

February 7, Tuesday, Fly Tying Evening, 5-9 pm.

February 21, Tuesday, Monthly General Meeting 5-9 pm. with speaker presentations on fly fishing tactics & techniques, tying fish fooling flies, fisheries & conservation discussions, club activities in planning and more.

March 7, Tuesday, Fly Tying Evening, 5-9 pm.

March 21, Tuesday, Monthly General Meeting 5-9 pm. with speaker presentations on fly fishing tactics & techniques, tying fish fooling flies, fisheries & conservation discussions, club activities in planning and more.

Fly Tying Evenings will now begin again on a regular basis so we can urge each other to get more into our boxes and help the new folks that have been asking us how they can begin.

New tiers wanting help and instruction need to call the number below by Feb 4, Saturday so we have the tools and materials set up and ready for your new addictive pastime building fish fooling bugs and baitfish. There’s lots on YouTube, but you have to start with your hands on the vise and bobbin!

Experienced tiers- bring your travel tying outfits, show your tricks and techniques and swap materials and lies—I mean info!! The materials and information exchange builds fun and knowledge because we can see and feel how it’s done up close and personal in this hands on hobby.

During this first tying meeting we will get your input and discuss what else you want and we can do in upcoming tying sessions in this lifelong learning process.

Also: For the first fly tying evenings the Barn’s café will not be open. You may bring your own Mc-Whatever.

Monthly General Meetings are now being planned with details on each to follow as we get them. The Board is currently working to get interesting and informative speakers and presentations on a wide range of fly fishing, tying, fisheries and other topics in Idaho and beyond that are relevant to all our fly fishing pursuits.

If you know of Southern Idaho folks that are interesting fly fishers and/or are involved in fisheries, riparian habitat, access or other related segments of our fly fishing sport, please call, text or email us their contact information so we can be in touch to see if we can schedule something with MVFF.

March 24, Friday, & Saturday, March 25-East Idaho Fly Tying Expo in Idaho Falls. Mark your calendars and plan on meeting a bunch of us up there for the next great Snake River Cutthroats Expo. Several of our best MVFF tyers are on the schedule to demonstration tie at this show that is one of the best in the western states. See Bruce Staples Snake River Cutthroats info on the web.

MVFF Board Meeting, Thursday, January 19 Highlights. “Now we just get out and do it!” sums it up!

Overall:

All on the board are enthusiastic that our club is healthy and continuing to Preserve, Protect, Promote and Enhance the sport of fly fishing with all its facets and do likewise for the resources, waters and fisheries that allow it to prosper. Our involvement in the Rock Creek Project, work with IDFG, Twin Falls Canal Co., CSI Aquaculture, the new Jerome Snake River Park Project, and other projects will proceed as we get more of YOU working with us Board folks and we obtain the newest information on these evolving projects and how we fit in.

Fish-outs:

A calendar of fishing days and destinations is in production and will be sent out soon to get all on board and out fishing. Days and locations will be in keeping with the unanimous consensus that family & kids coming and learning has been, and must continue, as a foundation of MVFF’s education duty and community commitment.

Set the fish-out and publish it ahead for members to commit and go. If you go fish it, they will come!!

Dues & Membership:

The January 1 to December 31 calendar year remains our dues cycle. Our $35 family dues remain the same and are payable online through March 2023 on our current website. You may also pay by check to our P.O. Box 1037 Twin Falls Id. 83303, or at meetings by cash, check or plastic on our new Square card reader. To encourage all ages to enjoy our sport, a family can include grand kids, or even great-grand-kids for us really old folks. (: They will then get their parents to join and come out too! The nurturing by a family member builds lifelong fly fishing memories and our next generations of fly fishers.

Thank you to all of you that have paid as we are now at 50 members and climbing back toward our old numbers! Our roster is in update mode and this will continue as time and new membership persons add their expertise to the process. We will continue to collect data for this process at monthly meetings so we can have everyone’s mailing addresses again. We may need to mail you items like membership cards to facilitate discounts and access to more club associated activities. Please be sure to send us any phone or email address changes as those will remain our primary access to you.

To simplify our processes, we are evaluating separating membership drive dues payments from fundraising & special event fees for entrance or meals at future activities. This will avoid double payments on dues and make tracking membership & event management easier. More on this as it evolves.

More information, updates and our new president James Harper’s message will follow soon.

Thank you all for your support and active participation in your club.

Please call, text or email us anytime.

Bryan Woodhouse, Secretary & Past President-2023, 208-934-6405

Fred Schneiter, Vice President, Fly Tying & Fish-Outs, 2023, 208-969-1971

Club News - February 2023

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:57:32 GMT

Club News – February 2023

CLUB NEWS

Magic Valley Fly Fishers February 13, 2023, Reminder and Update.

Good afternoon.

Our first general meeting of 2023 will be one week from tomorrow night February 21 from 5 to 9 at the Mountain View Barn, 392 E, 300 S, Jerome.

Our main presentation from 6:30 to 7:30 will be by our new President James Harper giving us his views on many fly fishing myths and how to turn them into an advantage for all Magic Valley Fly Fishers. With luck he will also have time to tell and show us some of his fishing adventures last fall on the upper Snake, Big Lost and beyond.

The opening act preceding James will be Vice President Fred Schneiter’s video loop and his narrative showing us some of his MVFF local fly fishing fish fooling fun with new, old and perspective members around this magic valley over the preceding months.

After James’ show we will give you some updates on project areas begun in previous months and how our new board is working to keep these interesting and important items moving forward.

After what is sure to be a lively Q&A with James and us all we will have a round robin of fishing tales from you all.

The Café at the Barn will be open for business as in all previous general meetings and have a great mini buffet, burgers, salads and other goodies available as well as new kegs being tapped according to my latest info from O.J.

As we said in our Club News of Jan 23, dues are due now for all & each year on the Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 cycle. Thank you to all that have already renewed/paid and thank you especially to the several new folks that have joined recently. You may still pay on our website through March but after that we are looking into new methods that may be back-to-the-future with mailing your check to P. O. Box 1037 and by paying at the door with plastic, check, or that old thing—cash??

Last Tuesday evening 2/7 was our opening monthly fly tying and open get-together night at the Barn and was enjoyed by all of those that came, tied, learned and got better acquainted. We had over 20% of our paid club members attend and that was awesome! ( It does, however, say our paid membership is down a bit too! Pay up!) We know these nights will work back into a major happening for our club as they had begun to evolve back when we started them in 2019, so plan on coming on March 7 and get involved.

Also, mark your NO MISS date for our March 21 general meeting with guest speaker, our own, Mr. Tucker Brauer, Magic Valley Regional Fisheries Biologist for IDFG. He will present information on all things Big Wood River, as well as other great things the Department has underway with another lively Q & A to follow.

Thanks again and we look forward to seeing you all this next week on Tuesday Feb 21.

Fish hard, send pics & stories, have fun, call/text/email us anytime. What a team!!!

More soon, Bryan Woodhouse, Secretary & PP, 2023, 208-934-6405. mvffeditor2014@hotmail.com

James Harper-President
paraadams@hotmail.com 208-961-0850

Fred Schneiter-Vice Pres.
fredschneiter@yahoo.com 208-969-1971

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Club News - March 2023

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:56:34 GMT

CLUB NEWS
Magic Valley Fly Fishers March 14, 2023
Good evening,
Our second general meeting of 2023 will be just one week from tonight on March 21 from 5 to 9 at the
Mountain View Barn, 392 E, 300 S, Jerome. Our main presentation from 6:30 to 7:30 will be by our guest
speaker, our own, Mr. Tucker Brauer, Magic Valley Regional Fisheries Biologist for IDFG. He will present
information on all things Big Wood River including it’s history, current work and plans for the future that the
Department has underway. He will also update us on other IDFG work and fisheries issues around our Magic
Valley with a lively Q & A to follow.

President’s Message-James Harper
Hello MVFF members.
We are slowly getting to spring. Spring is one of my favorite times of year as I always take a spring trip with
my sons. We have been doing this trip and chasing the Blue Wing Olives of spring. Once again, this year we
are going and I can hardly wait. We are usually a bit early for the BWO’s but there are still fish to be caught.

Things so far this spring are looking favorable for the water outlook. Word is pretty favorable and sounding
good for the Steelhead season. As things start to warm up a bit, I hope that everyone can find some time to wet
a line. There should be plenty of nice days ahead and lots of opportunities. That is what this is all about,
getting to the water to catch fish. Spring is always a great time after the long winter.

As far as the club is going, we have been meeting as a board and have some real fun things planned this
year. We are excited for some of the events that we have planned and you will be seeing more of those coming
up.

Just a reminder, the fly-fishing Film Tour is finally coming to Twin. Let’s get out there a support fly fishing in
the area. Those films are always tons of fun, and also, often a bit educational. If you haven’t already checked
out the Facebook page, you really should. There is lots of great content that we have been able to share, with
many fly patterns that have been tied as well as some links to really great articles. We are also getting the
Instagram page going it is MVFF208@gmail.com. We would really like your help and support to get that
moving forward. Feel free to post to either the Facebook or to tag us in the Instagram posts. We all like to see
what everyone has been catching.

Thanks everyone and let’s get out there and catch a few fish.
– James.

PLEASE NOTE: Send all your comments, pictures, links and ideas to the new MVFF208@gmail.com as
James noted above in addition to our e-mails listed below for our best responses and archiving of your inputs.
Text us for fastest responses. Thank you for your support.

Vice President’s Message-Fred Schneiter
I am looking forward to our fishing Fun Day at Murtaugh Lake in May. We have the pavilion there
reserved for us. More details to follow.

Our 1st fly tying evening, 2/7, we had a good turnout. Our 2nd evening, 3/7, not as many showed
up. We did have a couple of interested parties (not members yet) attend and actually did some
tying!! Looking forward to a good turnout at our next evening, 4/4.

Still working on fish out days. Weather has not been cooperating and a lot of locations are not open yet
but will keep researching.

We’ll be getting a list of days soon from Fish and Game for their volunteer events as well as ‘Trout in the
Classroom’
I appreciate everyone who has participated and hope we can get more volunteers.
– Fred

More Updates & Information

Next Tuesday March 21 will begin with our 5-6:30 “wet fly time” for getting together, eating, sipping and
will again feature Fred’s video loops, DVD’s and stories of getting our folks out and catching fish.
The Café at the Barn will be open for business as in all previous general meetings and have a great mini
buffet, burgers, salads and other goodies available as well as new beverages to try.
We will give you some updates on project areas begun in previous months and how our new board is working to keep these interesting and important items moving forward.
We will have our round robin of fishing tales again from you all to learn what’s fishing well-or at all??

Dues
As we said previously, thank you to all that have joined or renewed for 2023. For all of you that paid at the 50th
party last April 30, 2022, dues are due again & each year on the Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 cycle. You may still pay on
our website through March. but after that we are looking into new methods that may be back-to-the-future
with mailing your check to P. O. Box 1037 and by paying at the door with plastic, check, or that old thing—
cash?? More on our website transition will follow as we have the details you need worked out. Please also help
us by working with our teams for our upcoming tying nights, meetings, events and fish-outs-we need you.

The first Tuesday evening March 7 was our second great monthly fly tying and open get-together night at the
Barn and was enjoyed by all of those that came, tied, learned and got better acquainted. We know these nights
will grow into an important evening for our club as they had begun to evolve back when we started them in
2019.
Please plan on coming on the first Tuesday, April 4 as in the calendar below and get involved.

Calendar of Meetings and Special Events now scheduled for 2023 with more details to follow.

April 4, First Tuesday Tying & Talking Fly Fishing.

April 18, Third Tuesday General Meeting with guide and instructor Chris Gerono giving us casting lessons
“in the Jerome wind” on the lawn early and then giving us his presentation on guiding for selective trout on the
Boise, Owyhee and Grand Ronde rivers. More details soon and come early for demonstration and tutoring on
casting in Southern Idaho!

May 2, First Tuesday Tying & Talking Fly Fishing.

May 20, Saturday, MVFF Spring Fun Fly Fishing Fling Day at Murtaugh Lake Park Pavilion for a full
day of demonstrations, coaching, practice at the water getting first time and old time fly fishers together to build
new community fly fishing knowledge and excitement.

June, July & August and then fall activities & fish-outs will be announced as we know them.

November 18, Saturday, MVFF Fall Fly Fishing Festival and Fundraising Banquet and day of
excitement.

Again, mark your NO MISS date for our Third Tuesday April 18 general meeting with Chris Gerono.

Thanks for your interest and we look forward to seeing you all this next week on Tuesday March 21.

Fish hard, send pics & stories, have fun, & call/text/email us anytime.
More soon, Bryan Woodhouse, Secretary & PP, 2023, 208-934-6405. mvffeditor2014@hotmail.com

James Harper-President paraadams@hotmail.com 208-961-0850
Fred Schneiter-Vice Pres. fredschneiter@yahoo.com 208-969-1971
New Club E-mail MVFF208@gmail.com