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Greetings Fellow Anglers... |
Greetings!
 Join us Monday night, November 5th, at the Millennium hotel for the Annual Business meeting plus a couple of short member presentations.
Hope you still find the time to get out there and fish before the rivers freeze!
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NOVEMBER Program - Business Meeting and Fishing Presentations
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 Business Meeting and November Speakers Our monthly meeting on November 5th will be held at the Millennium starting at 7 PM in the Ballroom on the third floor. This is our annual business meeting. Agenda items include Following the business meeting, two club members will present short programs. Damond Blankenship will talk about fishing the Kenai River and Pudge Kleinkauf will talk about her new book - "Pacific Salmon Flies: New Ties & Old Standbys". She will show slides of flies that she designed as well as other salmon fishing classics and she will have copies of her book available for sale and autographing at the meeting. Click here to see additional information about Pudge's books and presentations. |
December Meeting - Gift Exchange and Member Presentations
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Business Meeting at Millennium Hotel 7 PM
In addition to the wonderful and exciting gift exchange, three members will give short presentations.
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AFF SCHOLARSHIP WINNER ANNOUNCED
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Natural Sciences Scholarship 2012-2013
Jan Schnorr
The Alaska Fly Fishers Scholarship Committee consisting of Mike Harsh, Steve Lambert and Jan Schnorr solicited, reviewed and selected the Natural Sciences Scholarship recipient for 2012-2012 and we are pleased to announce our winner, Matt Catterson, to you. He will receive our $1,000 scholarship. Matt is a graduate student enrolled in the Sustainable Ecosystem-based Management of Living Marine Resources program offered at the University of Fairbanks. His graduate research focuses on Situk steelhead. Please take this opportunity to download a copy of his goals and research statement to learn more about this upcoming professional who may influence future fishing in Alaska.
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TYING CLINIC!! from Frank Stevens
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All Tiers
The fly tying clinics begin on November 17, 2012, at 10 AM to 4 PM. We are meeting at the KTUU classroom on the second floor. Follow the signs at the East end of building located at 701 E. Tudor Road. The tying clinics are open to the public and new tiers are welcome. If you have a vice bring it along. We have extra vices and will supply the tying materials needed for the fly of the day.
Watch your newsletter for upcoming word on a possible tying contest for 2013. If you have any suggestions email them to me at akfrank@mtonline.net.
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Change Is Not Always Good
Recall last month's FISH TALK. It described how sloughs ("slews") function and why sloughs are important fish habitat in the Susitna River. Prime quality sloughs often have upwelling groundwater that is important spawning habitat for chum salmon and, in some rivers such as the Susitna River, sockeye salmon as well. Rearing salmon and resident fishes also use slough habitat for overwintering and rearing. Click here to download the entire copy of this article to read the rest of this month's Fish Talk.
Bill Hauser is the author of Letters From Alaska, The Inside to the Outside and the NEW book Fishes of the Last Frontier, Life Histories, Biology, Ecology and Management of Alaska Fishes.
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NEWSLETTER EDITOR ANNOUNCEMENT
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Welcome Dean Williams to our volunteer circle! Dean has volunteered to edit our FlyLines Newsletter starting December 2012. Articles and news items should be forwarded to him at deanwilliams610@yahoo.com.
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