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
