The next club meeting is Wednesday February January 18th at Centennial Golf Club
1900 N. Phoenix Rd. Medford, 97504
Wet fly 5:30 – 6:30pm
Dinner and meeting at 7:00 pm
Raffle precedes Program

BUFFET DINNER is $25 per person

Menu: Taco Bar, Flour & Corn Tortillas, Beef & Chicken, Beans, Fiesta Rice, All the Fixins, Desert.

RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED

RSVP’s need to be in by Saturday (February 14th) preceding the meeting.
Please email your RSVP to [email protected]
(give your name and how many for dinner)
For those who cannot do email,
call (661)742-5835 afternoons only.
Pay when you arrive. We take cash or checks only.
Special dietary requests: email Steve Day at [email protected] or call (661)742-5835
by Tuesday preceding the meeting

PROGRAM:
Mike McCoy

Swinging Soft Hackles:

* Swinging soft hackles for trout and steelhead
* "The Tug Is The Drug"
* Pondering on WHY and how we fish * Flies, lines and techniques

Background
* Life long Oregonian enjoying both still and moving waters in the Pacific Northwest. Also enjoy fishing warm water oceans and rivers around the world
* Drift boat enthusaist for 60 years
* Graduate of the University of Oregon in education where com­mercial tying for Poulson’s Flies out of Portland was a helpful work option to stay afloat and fed
* Fly tying habit going well past sixty years, still alive and well from an unusually messy tying station overlooking the lovely North Umpqua River
* Writer/photographer for outdoor/sporting magazines, in the (long) past
* Physical Education teacher and coach in Oregon for about 35 years out of Eugene
* Guide for twenty years for trout / steelhead / smallmouth bass on rivers all over Oregon
* Guide for twenty years for trout / steelhead / smallmouth bass on rivers all over OregonCasting / rowing instruction ongoing passions

Current
* President of Umpqua Valley Fly Fishers in Roseburg Ore­gon. Happily residing for the past twenty years just downriver from Glide
* Board Member of Oregon Fly Fishing Council

Other Interests
* Woodworking, watercolor painting, cooking, writing poetry