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Monterey Peninsula Flycasters’ January 2010 NEWSLETTER  Our Lower Sac Fishmasters ... Can anyone guess if they were having fun yet? President’s Message: By John Weber The date of the dinner is January 15 (Friday) at the Bay Park Hotel in the Crazy Horse Restaurant at 6:00 p.m.  We elect our offices and show a  presentation of highlights for the year at this dinner that takes the place of our January meeting.  Please contact Doug. Chandler at 372-8612 to let him know how many you plan to bring and what main course they want from Beef, Fish or Chicken.   Here’s one of the raffle items that you’ll see at the Annual Dinner!!!  Tight lines, John Weber ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Vice-President’s Message: By Ed Kelleher   "The program for the Annual Dinner is a running slide show of slides provided to Michael Matica during the year, and those provided to Tom Pelikan before he makes the disk with the show on it. If you want much of anything besides an "Ed and Tom" show, get some digital pix to Tom Pelikan ASAP.   We are considering a "Basic Fly Fishing Knots" for the February Meeting, being run as a set of three stations, one or two knots taught and practiced at each station. Both instructors and students are needed. If there is absolutely no interest, we won't go to the bother. If you already know enough about fly fishing knots, how about helping some of our newer members learn?? Let Ed Kelleher know, at the Dinner, preferably." Ed Kelleher VP and SLDO ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Treasurer’s Note: By Bill Lauster As a club, we have limited funds, but we do support (donate to) some very worthwhile organizations. Here is a list of those organizations we are currently supporting: Carmel River Steelhead Association Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project California Sportfishing Protection Alliance California Trout ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Secretary’s Note: By Michael Matica At the Board of Director’s meeting held on Dec 1, 2009, we elected a new board member, Alan Bienenfeld, to replace outgoing member, Walt Kitigawa. All other members remain the same. The Board of Directors meeting starts at 6:30, 30 minutes prior to the general meeting. Sorry...mixup in my understanding. Stacey Murphy-Marchionni is going to be on the BoD...not Alan. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Editor’s Notes: The newsletter is published monthly and distributed free to anyone who subscribes to it. If you wish to subscribe, contact the editor. Contributions (articles, letters, pictures, event notices, comics, recipes, etc. ), anything & everything is encouraged and most welcome. Have you been fishing lately? Do you have some pictures you want to share with the club? Submit contributions to the newsletter editor @… Michael Matica 565 Sugarloaf Road Scotts Valley, CA 95066 bugchucker58@gmail.com Please try to submit your information by the 20th of the month preceding the publication month. I’ll try to get everything into the newsletter, even if I get it after the 20th, but the sooner I get it the more likely it is to make it into the next edition. *************************************************************** Newsletter comments: Unfortunately, many are not able to open the files I attach in the e-mail distributions. Sorry about that. I will try to copy the newsletters directly into the e-mail, but some of the formatting will be lost. It will be best to view the newsletter here on the web site if & when you can. Also, I already have a working version of the next newsletter uploaded...so you can see in advance what is coming..and I update it real time as I get new information... *************************************************************** The web site: If you have any ideas for other things you would like to see on the club web site, please let me know. I’ll admit that I am by no means a web developer guru. I am using a simple program with my Mac that builds all the code for me, and the program is limited in what is it capable of doing. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Upcoming 2010 Calendar of Events: January 15 Annual Dinner February 2 Monthly General Meeting March 2 Monthly General Meeting April 6 Monthly General Meeting April 15, 16 & 17 Fishout at Pyramid Lake (contact Doug Leach for more info) May 4 Monthly General Meeting June 1 Monthly General Meeting July 6 Monthly General Meeting August 3 Monthly General Meeting September 7 Monthly General Meeting October 5 Monthly General Meeting October ? Lower Sac Fishout November 9 Monthly General Meeting November 6 Dan Blanton’s Striperfest at the Sugar Barge Marina & Resort on the Delta December 7 Monthly General Meeting ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* What is that ‘sheep skin’ you see on the raffle table at the club meetings? Answer: It’s a fleece. The fleece is sort of a tradition with our club. Throughout the year, members donate flies to it which are raffled off at the annual dinner in January. The fly collection is growing, but we still need loads more. I encourage you all to donate some each month, even if it’s only 1 or 2. Just think what a nice collection we would have by the time the annual raffle rolls around! Do you tie your own flies, consider bringing some to the meeting and donating them. It’s fun to watch the collection of flies increase over the coarse of the year leading up to the annual dinner. Have some extras? Feel really generous? How about doing 2 nice things? Visit Geoff Malloway at Central Coast FlyFishing, buy a fly (or 2, 3, 5… ) and donate them to the fleece. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* No Monthly Meeting in January - instead, we have our Annual Dinner When: The Monterey Peninsula Flycasters Club (MPFC) meets the 1st Tuesday of every month at 7PM. Where: The dinner will be at at the same place as last year,the Crazy Horse Restaurant in the Bay Park Hotel, the restaurant is on the 2nd floor.  The hotel is behind the Union gas station at Munras and Soledad in Monterey. The address is  1425 Munras Ave., Monterey. There is handicapped access at the back of the building near the top of the parking area. Dinner starts at 6:30. Doug Chandler is coordinating the event. Doug needs to know ASAP what your choice of dinner entre is. You have a choice of Halibut, Tri-tip or chicken. Dinner includes veggies,salad and dessert. The price is the same as last year, $28 per person. Contact Doug at 372-8612 or pegndoug@redshift.com Please include you phone number. Board of Directors Meeting: The Board of Directors meeting starts at 6:30, 30 minutes prior to the general meeting, every month, at the same location. At the Board of Director’s meeting held on Dec 1, 2009, we elected a new board member, Stacey Murphy-Marchionni, to replace outgoing member, Walt Kitigawa. All other members remain the same. All members are invited and welcome. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Fishing Reports: I don’t have any recent fishing reports... :((( ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Please support our local fly shop! See/visit Geoff Malloway @  Central Coast Fly Fishing 7172 Carmel Valley Road Carmel, CA  93923 (831) 626-6586 info@centralcoastflyfishing.com Stop by and see and talk to Geoff. He’s got a great shop and is always willing to help with whatever your needs might be. ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* For Sale / Trade / Donate: Have something to sell, trade/swap? Bring it to the meeting! & let the editor know… He’ll get a notice into the newsletter to inform others… *************************************************************** “Monterey Peninsula Flycaster’s Club Luggage Tags” Luggage tags sporting the club logo are now available. Order yours today and support the club.  Orders must be in multiples of 5 to minimize the cost/waste of paper. Cost is $10 per order of 5. • $5 is donated to the club general funds • $5 covers the cost of materials Contact Michael Matica @ bugchucker58@gmail.com to order yours! ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* TO REPORT ILLEGAL FISHING, CALL CAL TIP at 1-800-952-5400 ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************* Send questions, comments, information requests, corrections, concerns, everything & anything to the new rookie newsletter editor: Michael Matica bugchucker58@gmail.com http://www.carmelriverwatershed.org/crsa.htmlhttp://www.mbstp.org/http://www.calsport.org/http://www.caltrout.org/mailto:bugchucker58@gmail.com?subject=MPFC%20Newslettermailto:bugchucker58@gmail.comhttp://www.centralcoastflyfishing.commailto:pegndoug@redshift.comhttp://www.centralcoastflyfishing.com/http://www.centralcoastflyfishing.com/mailto:info@centralcoastflyfishing.commailto:bugchucker58@gmail.commailto:bugchucker58@gmail.comhttp://www.centralcoastflyfishing.com/shapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1shapeimage_3_link_2shapeimage_3_link_3shapeimage_3_link_4shapeimage_3_link_5shapeimage_3_link_6shapeimage_3_link_7shapeimage_3_link_8shapeimage_3_link_9shapeimage_3_link_10shapeimage_3_link_11shapeimage_3_link_12

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