MONTHLY PROGRAMS
2010 Meeting Schedule:
(third Monday of every month except December)
| January 18 | Mike George | Flytying |
| February 15 | Fly Tying Social night | |
| March 15 | Monet Drake | Fishing small flies, #16 and smaller |
| April 19 | Phil Lilley | Lilley's Landing Fishing Guide on Tannycomo |
| May 17 | Jeff Williams - AG&F | Arkansas trout update |
| June 21 | Lynn Lyon | Lynn is the owner of Kansas City Paddler. He will bring a couple of Kayaks and discuss new products |
| July 19 | Casting games | |
| August 16 | Mark Van Patten | Aquatic Entomology |
| Sept 20 | Annual Picnic | |
| Oct 18 | Joe Tomelleri | World famous trout illustrator |
| Nov 15 | Annual Auction |
2009 Meeting Schedule:
| January 19 | Mark Shelton | New products - Sage and Fishpond (amoung others) |
| February 16 | Rob Freeman | Alaska |
| March 16 | program cancelled | |
| April 20 | Darren Watson | His Cutthroat Grand Slam last year |
| May 18 | Steve Dally | Mountain River Fly Shop, Arkansas |
| June 15 | Flytying/casting/social | |
| July 20 | Dennis Whiteside | Ozarks Smallmouth Guide |
| August 17 | Paul Bennetts, Jim Ohnemus | Wyoming trip |
| September 21 | Club Picnic | Relocated to the Church - too much rain |
| October 19 | Charlie Reading | owner of Reading's Fly Shop near Bennett Springs |
| Nov 16 | Club Auction/Raffle | |
| Dec 4-6 | Annual Winter Bennett Spring trip and Banquet |
2008 Meeting Schedule:
| January 21 | Kevin Kurz - K & K Fly Fishers | |
| February 18 | Members' Fly Tying / Social Night | Bring your own equipment and tie flies. Show and tell, listen and learn. Always a fun night. |
| March 17 | John Berry | John Berry is a fly fishing guide in Cotter, Arkansas and has fished the local streams for over twenty five years. He will talk about fishing strategies in his area. |
| April 21 | Curt Elder | Cane rod builder |
| May 19 | Cliff Cain and John Bell | Florida tarpon |
| June 16 | Members' Fly Tying / Social Night | |
| July 21 | Jeff Williams | Arkansas G&FC trout program |
| August 18 | Sam Potter | Rolla area flyfishing opportunities, Mill Creek, Little Piney and other streams |
| September 15 | Club picnic | |
| October 20 | Kirk Werner | trip to St Joseph River, Idaho & Olive the Woolly Bugger |
| November 17 | Club auction | |
| Dec 5th to 7th | Bennett Springs outing and Annual club dinner |
2007 Meeting Schedule:
| January 15 | Clint Wilkerson | Clint will give a presentation on fishing the White & Norfork Tailwaters including his techniques and demonstrating tying his six favorite flies. Clint promises he will ‘tell all’; there will be no secrets! Do not miss this one! |
| February 19 | Members' Fly Tying / Social Night | Bring your own equipment and tie flies. Show and tell, listen and learn. Always a fun night. |
| March 19 | John Gospodarek |
Captain John Gospodarek is a highly skilled and competent fly fisherman and instructor. He has over 15 years of guiding fly fishing experience and lives in West Yellowstone, MT guiding fly fishing for trout in our nation's most renowned streams and rivers through the summer and fall. Winter and spring find him guiding saltwater fly fishing in the beautiful waters of Charlotte Harbor, Boca Grande, Sanibel, and Sarasota Bay on the western coast of Florida. John Gospodarek will be talking about fly fishing opportunities in Florida and Montana. |
| April 16 |
Brent Frazee KC Star Outdoor Editor |
Brent’s program will be interesting as he has many years' experience as outdoor editor |
| May 21 |
Norm Crisp of Streamside Adventures |
Program entitled “Traveling & Trout Fishing” |
| June 18 |
Mike Kruse of the Missouri Department of Conservation |
Mike is a fisheries biologist. He will be talking about the Trout Program in MO among other topics |
| July 16 |
Bruce Kessler |
Warm water fishing the Big Piney for Goggleeye and Smallmouth |
| August 20 |
Monet Drake |
A long time HOAFF member, Monet will share from his vast store of experience "How to Take a Guide Trip". Monet's talk will be accompanied with pictures from his May 2007 fishing on the Bighorn River in Montana. |
| September 17 |
Annual Picnic |
All details are in the following link: |
| October 15 |
Annual Club Auction & Raffle |
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| November 19 | Jeff Williams | Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) trout management biologist, Jeff will be talking about the Arkansas trout management program among other topics |
| Nov 30, Dec 1 - 2 |
Bennett Spring Outing and Annual Club Banquet |
2006 Meeting Schedule:
| January 16 | Members' Fly Tying / Social Night | Bring your own equipment and tie flies. |
| February 20 | Monet Drake | Chilean Adventure - Slide Show |
| March 20 | Phil Lilley | Some would say
scuds and sow bugs rule on upper Lake Taneycomo but would it surprise you
that midge patterns do as well or better? Come find out why....
Featured Fly Tyer - Jim Ohnemus |
| April 17 | Eric Pietz |
Colorado Outfitter on Fly Fishing the Green
River (Utah) and Fly Fishing Grand County (Colorado) Featured Fly Tyer - Mark Borserine |
| May 15 | Darrell Bowman |
Trout Biologist for the Arkansas Game & Fish
Commission (AG&F). Always
an entertaining and informative speaker. Featured Fly Tyer - Monet Drake |
| June 19 | Norm Crisp |
"Fly Fishing Strategies" http://www.streamsideadventures.com/seminar_strategies.html Featured Fly Tyer - Cliff Newton |
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July 17 |
Ron & Sheryl Knight |
Former HOAFF members now living in Texas, will be talking about designing/tying warm water flies and showing us "Spinnerbait" Flies
Featured Fly Tyer - Jim Bebb |
| August 21 | Craig Fuller |
Biologist with Missouri Department of
Conservation, will be speaking on the Niangua River/Bennett Springs area.
Featured Fly Tyer - Bruce Cochran |
| September 18 | Annual Picnic | Shawnee Mission Park Shelter # 4 |
| October 16 | Annual Club Auction & Raffle | More info to follow |
| November 20 | Joe Tomelleri | Kansas City’s world renowned trout illustrator on discovering a new species of trout in Mexico. |
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December 1 - 3 |
Bennett Spring Outing and Annual Club Banquet | Rescheduled to January 13th 2007 |
2005 Meeting Schedule:
| January 17 | Will Maloney |
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| February 21 | Members' Fly Tying / Social Night | |
| March 21 | Darrell Bowman | |
| April 18 | Paul Sodeman |
Kansas Golden Bones - Fly Fishing |
| May 16 | Olaf Borge | Silk Lines & Bamboo |
| June 20 | Kevin Kurz | Fishing Patagonia |
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July 18 |
Blane Heumann |
Niangua River watershed |
| August 15 | Bill Lindley & Gervis Beiriger |
Canada |
| September 19 | Annual Picnic | Shawnee Mission Park Shelter # 4 |
| October 17 | Steven Dally |
Fly fishing in Tasmania |
| November 21 | Annual Club Auction & Raffle | |
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December 2 - 4 |
Bennett Spring Outing and Annual Club Banquet | Click here for more info |
2004 Meeting Schedule:
| January 19 | Darrell Bowman | AG&F - Trout Biologist |
| February 16 | Fly tying, rod building & social night | |
| March 15 | Spence Turner | |
| April 19 | Fox Statler |
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| May 17 | Warm water fishing | Ask the Experts panel |
| June 21 | Fishing the White River | Bob Heine |
| July 19 | Members' Social Night |
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| August 16 | Dan Ward |
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| September 20 | HOAFF Annual Picnic | |
| October 18 |
Joe Tomelleri |
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| November 15 | Annual Club Auction and Raffle | |
| December 3 - 5 | Bennett Spring Outing and Annual Club Banquet |
2003 Meeting Schedule:
| January 20 | Florida, Yellowstone, Michigan | John Bell |
| February 17 | Fly Tying / Social Night | All Fly Tyers |
| March 17 | White River Panel Discussion | Tom James to moderate the discussion. |
| April 21 | backpacking the Rockies | Steve Fritz |
| May 19 | Clint Wilkerson | |
| June 16 | the best backcountry fisheries. | Rich Osthoff |
| July 21 | Annual Picnic at Antioch Park | |
| August 18 |
fly fishing the Texas Hill Country rivers |
Constance Whiston |
| September 15 | Darrell Bowman |
AG&F - Trout Biologist |
| October 20 |
Fly Fishing the North Fork |
Tom James of Black Dog Sports |
| November 17 | Annual Club Auction and Raffle |
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| December 5 - 7 | Bennett Springs Outing and Annual Club Banquet |
2002 Meeting Schedule:
| January 21 | American Rivers Association | Pete Carrel |
| February 18 | Taneycomo Guides | Stan and Caroline Parker |
| March 18 | Ozark Smallmouth Fishing | John Starks |
| April 15 | Fly Fishing for Bass & Bluegill | Tom Nixon |
| May 20 | Lakeside Nature Sanctuary | Vicki Richmond |
| June 17 | Fly Tying | All members |
| July 15 | Annual Picnic | |
| August 19 | Davey Wooton | |
| September 16 | Fishing Tips | Bill Brant |
| October 21 | Mo. Dept. of Cons. | Mike Kruse |
| November 18 | Yearly Auction | Jim Walker et al |
| December 6-8 | Yearly Bennett Spring Trip & Banquet | (this outing takes the place of a regular meeting) |
2001 Meeting Schedule:
| January 15 | Wyoming Wilderness | Jim Ohnemus & Dave Andrews |
| February 19 | Rainbow Lake Resort - Col | Fred & Kitty Brinkmans |
| March 19 | Mo. Dept. of Conservation | Mike Kruse |
| April 16 | SMSU Entomology | Steve Jensen |
| May 21 | Fly Tying - Show & Tell | |
| June18 | Kootenai River - Montana | Kelly Palmer |
| July 16 | Annual Picnic at Antioch Park | |
| August 20 | Pack trips in Wyoming | Monet Drake |
| September 17 | Salmon / Steelhead Fishing in Michigan | Bill Brant |
| October 15 | Fly fishing experiences | Steve Jenkins |
| November 19 | Yearly Auction | Jim Walker |
| December 1 | Replaced by Bennett Spring Outing |
2000 Meeting Schedule:
| January | WHITE BASS | Terry Tanner / Steve Fritz |
| February | HISTORY OF FLY FISHING | Clarence Peaslee |
| March | FISHING SOFT HACKLE | Royce Roberts / Malcolm Beck |
| April | FISHING IN WYOMING | Bud Gilmore / Bill Lindley - see http://www.beartrak.com/ |
| May | BIOLOGISTS US CORP OF ENGINEERS | Guest Speaker from Corp. of Engineers |
| June | FISHING FOR PAN FISH | Terr & Roxanne Wilson |
| July | ANNUAL PICNIC | |
| August | CANADA FLY FISHING | Gervis Reiriger & Bill Lindley |
| September | BIG HORN RIVER | Monet Drake |
| October | FISHING OREGON | Ray Fincke |
| November | ANNUAL AUCTION | |
| December | ANNUAL TRIP TO BENNETT SPRINGS | No meeting |