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Monday October 16th, 2023 meeting starting at 7 PM

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Monday September 18th, 2023 meeting starting at 7 PM

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Monday May 15th, 2023 meeting starting at 5 PM

7 Fox Hill Dr., Wilbraham, MA. Contact # 413-579-199 wmffclub@gmail.com

Monday May 15th 2023 is our last meeting before we go on summer break. We had another great year and got through another WMFF Expo.

Our May meeting will be the Ludlow Elks Club, 69 Chapin Street in Ludlow MA at the Pavilion for our close of the season cookout. We will be starting at 5:00 pm the meeting will commence after the cookout outside in the Pavilion area. Anyone wanting to help with the cookout please see Dan at 4:00 pm to assist him with preparations and cooking.

We will be starting back up in September on Monday the 18th at 7:00 PM. Our regular September Meeting will be held at the Ludlow Elks Club, 69 Chapin Street in Ludlow MA.

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Monday April 17th, 2023 meeting

7 Fox Hill Dr., Wilbraham, MA. Contact # 413-579-199 wmffclub@gmail.com

It’s April and Spring is here. The days are getting longer, and warmer, Mass Wildlife has been stocking our streams, rivers ponds and lakes, it’s time to get out flex the muscles shake off the winter rust and throw a line.

We will conduct our April meeting at 7:00 pm right after the Fly-Tying Demo, at the Ludlow Elks Club, 69 Chapin Street in Ludlow MA.

Guest Speaker

April’s guest speaker will be Karl Meyers, Society of Environmental Journalists. The topic will be “LIVING RIVERS FLOW DOWNSTREAM: A History of Fish Passage on New England’s Broken Rivers”

Fly Tying Demo:

Dan will be demonstrating how to tie the following fly’s at our meeting on Monday night before the meeting.

(7:00) Thanks Dan!

IRON MIKE STREAMER

HOOK – size 6 – 2 xl nymph/streamer

BEAD- silver tungsten 5/32

THREAD – 6/0 black UNI

TAIL – white marabou with mallard flank or teal feather

BODY- pearl wing & flash, or ice wing or secret stuff

WING- pearl wing & flash with mallard or teal feather

HEAD- med pearl mylar collar

LANDON MYER BLACK MINI LEECH

HOOK – Jig hook size 10

BEAD – black tungsten 1/8

TAIL- black pine squirrel

BODY_ red mylar tinsel

LT. HENDRICKSON  DRY (CATSKILL STYLE)

THREAD – 8/0 uni

HOOK – standard dry size 14

Tail – dun (gray) hackle fibers

BODY_ Hendrickson dubbing (pink/gray/tan mixture)

WING wood duck flank

HACKLE – Med. blue dun (gray)

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Fly Fishing Expo

The Western Mass Fly Fishermen club wants to thank everyone that came out to support our March Expo!

Tim Flagle with WMFF club president Harold Norman and vice president John LaFrancis
Tim Flagler observing Jaxon Flynn tying a fly.

The following images were provided by John Calhoun. Thanks John!

Tim Flagler and Dan Trela
John Wilks with the “casting for recovery” table.
A nice crowd showed up to listen to Tim’s talk on Patagonia.
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Monday March 20th, 2023

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Fly tying class Thursday 3-9-2023

We will be holding our 8th and last fly tying class next week. I tip my hat to Manny DaSilva for his excellent instruction over the past 7 classes!

Lead Instructor Manny DaSilva

Students in the class

Jaxon Flynn working on his Gray Ghost
Evelyn Trela tying with Dan Trela observing
Students listening and tying along. Lisa Zajac in the foreground
Tim with Tony Ouimet
Helper Dennis Dube looking on Nora and Codi Ackley
WMFF President Harold Norman with Derek Darley
Helper George Dunham with Doug Mattoon
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Monday February 20th, 2023, Meeting Notice

I hope everyone survived the cold weekend we had at the beginning of the month without any frozen pipes or dead car batteries!

We will conduct our February meeting at 7:00 pm right after the Fly-Tying Demo, at the Ludlow Elks Club, 69 Chapin Street in Ludlow MA.

Guest Speaker

We will not have a guest speaker at our February meeting due to the time required to discuss our March Expo plans and other club activities.

We will have representation at the Springfield Sportsman’s Show at the Big E February 24th – 26th. We are in need of volunteers to man the booth at this event. You can tie fly’s or just be there to talk about the club. We want to have coverage all three days so please sign up to help. A sign- up sheet will be at our next meeting. Here is a link to this event https://www.osegsportsmens.com/index.html

As a reminder we are rapidly approaching the time to renew our individual membership. For individuals that are looking to join the club the membership dues are $20.00 a year. The annual renewal date for the 2022-2023 season is March 31, 2023. I have included a mail in renewal form with this meeting announcement.

Hope to see many of you at this coming meeting.

January Meeting Minutes:

At this time of this publication we do not have the January meeting minutes.

John LaFrancis – Vice President

Fly Tying Demo:

Dan will be demonstrating how to tie the following fly’s at our meeting on Monday night before the meeting.

(7:00) Thanks Dan!


IRIS CADDIS

Hook – standard dry 18-14
Thread – Tan
Tail – tan z-Lon or  (antron)
Body – Lt. hare’s ear
Wing – loop of white z-Lon or antron

X CADDIS

Hook – standard dry 18-14
Thread – black uni
Tail – brown uni 6/0
Tail – brown antron
Body – tan superfine dubbing
Wing – nat deer hair-   short and fine by wapsi

ADAMS CRIPPLE

Hook – standard dry 18-10
Thread – black uni 8/0
Tail – brown antron
Body – gray superfine dubbing
Wing – white EP fibers or any white poly yarn
Hackle – brown and grizzly mixed  or 1 grizzly hackle, 1/2  of which is colored brown
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Monday January 16, 2023, Meeting Notice

7 Fox Hill Dr., Wilbraham, MA. 413 579 1994

Welcome to 2023 I hope everyone is well and have survived the Holiday’s. WMFF is ready to start the 2023 season.

We will conduct our January meeting at 7:00 pm right after the Fly-Tying Demo, at the Ludlow Elks Club, 69 Chapin Street in Ludlow MA.

January’s guest speaker will be Brian Comfort of the Deerfield Fly Shop

As a reminder we are rapidly approaching the time to renew our individual membership. For individuals that are looking to join the club the membership dues are $20.00 a year. The annual renewal date for the 2022-2023 season is March 31, 2023.

Fly Tying Demo:

Dan Trela will be demonstrating how to tie the following fly’s at our meeting on Monday night before the scheduled meeting.

Thanks Dan!

BUNNY MIDGE
Hook – gamagatshu c12 BM 26.28,30
Thread -8/0 black uni
Tail- midge pearl krystal flash
Body – black uni thread
Wing – natural snowshoe rabbit
AMY’S ANT
Thread – tan mono-cord or any heavy tying thread like UTC 140
Hook- 2 xl nymph hook 10 or 8
Body- 2 mm tan foam  and 2 mm brown foam Cut width to hook gap.
Wing -white macrame yarn
Legs – speckled sili legs
RAY CHARLES BEADED
Thread- hot orange 8/0 uni
Hook- standard nymph hook size 16
Bead;- 1/16 fl. orange bead
Covert – med pearl tinsel
Body- dun (grey)  ostrich herl
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Fly Tying Classes – 2023

We had 21 students at our class last week. It is not too late to come to this weeks class! If you are interested you are more than welcome to join the group!

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