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8th Annual North Umpqua Fishing - Tying Festival September 10, 2016 Glide

September means it's time for the 8th Annual North Umpqua Fly Fishing and Tying Festival, at the Glide Community Center, 20062 North Umpqua Highway, Glide Oregon.  Mark your calendars for Friday the 9th and Saturday the 10th, volunteers, tyers and vendors are invited to a BBQ-Potluck on Friday evening, as a thanks for setting up and then cleaning up, plus all of the activities in-between.  Friday morning volunteers start setting up the Casting Pond and in the afternoon others start getting the community center organized.  By 5:30 the work is done and we are ready for to relax with good food, and friends at the BBQ.  

Doors open at 7am on Saturday for last minute setup, coffee and breakfast burritos. This year we have over 20 tyers from Oregon, Washington, California and Idaho, they will be working on Steelhead, Salmon, Realistic, Traditional and flies of their own invention.  Sessions are from 9-noon and 1-4pm.    They are willing to share the expertise, for the novice or more seasoned tyer and there is always a great story thrown in.  Local suppliers of tying and fishing equipment will have merchandise for sale.  Can you think of a better way to spend the day for anyone who fishes?  What about those who don't fish...we have something for them too.  Woodcarvers, watercolorists, jewelry makers and other artists will have their wares for sale.  Dan and Kelly Brock will have vintage and antique fishing equipment for sale and be available for appraisals.   John Mathews can paint flies on cars, boats, or RV’s for a most reasonable rate- what a great way to show your passion for fishing.   There will be raffles and door prizes  throughout the day,  terrific silent auction items to bid on and a new member raffle for those that sign up on Saturday.  Sandwiches and snacks will be available through the day.  The Community Center has a new HVAC system, so rain or shine  we will be comfortable.  

Accommodations in Glide are limited (one), but within 20 miles to the east and west there are plenty of options.

This is a great way to spend all or part of the day, spending time watching other tyers and learning a new technique, or visiting with friends.    Admission is free, but we are collecting non-perishable food items for donation to the Glide Helping Hands food Bank, and we make a donation to the Glide High School Scholarship Fund.   If you have questions about the festival, or volunteering contact Tresa.  541-496-0770 or tresa01@intergate.com 

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Is you is, or is you ain't coming?

Attention SOFT Members

Tuesday, June 14th

5:00 Happy hour

6:00  We eat

At our normal meeting place; Madrone Hill Mobile Home Park

    We are putting on a BBQ dinner for our June 14th meeting. All the food and beverages will be provided  and spouses or significant others are very welcome. We only ask that you might bring a dessert or something interesting to share. We need your help ASAP to get a head count of those who will be attending so we have enough food for everyone.

    Please RSVP to  Dale at deheath504@gmail.com. Get back to us before  June 9th. Good food, good friends, and a great time. Be there.

WE got;  Ribs and Chicken

Baked beans

Potato salad

Green salad

Bread

Wine, beer, and soft drinks

We also got; plates, cups, napkins, and utensils

This is also the last chance to donate your flies to Water Watch.

More BBQ /// email address corrected

If you responded already, you may need to respond again.  I just received this message from Dale.  The original message has now been corrected.

Tom, would you please post the BBQ invite again and ask people who sent their response to the incorrect email address in the prior post, to send it to deheath504@gmail.com? We don't have very many responses so far.

Only: Dave & Cathy Hamilton, Steve Ostrander, Mike Barnum, The Tuesday Old Guys Fly Tying Bunch.

BBQ, RSVP, BBQ, RSVP

Attention SOFT Members

    We are putting on a BBQ dinner for our June 14th meeting. All the food and beverages will be provided  and spouses or significant others are very welcome. We only ask that you might bring a dessert to share. We need your help ASAP to get a head count of those who will be attending so we have enough food for everyone. We will be having ribs and chicken along with baked beans, potato salad, green salad and bread. Wine beer, and soft drinks will also be served.

    Please RSVP to Dan’s cell by text @ 541-200-4063 or you can e-mail Dale at deheath504@gmail.com. Get back to us before by June 9th. Good food, good friends, and a great time. Be there.

This is also the last chance to donate your flies to Water Watch.

SOFT Meeting and BBQ

The May 10th SOFT meeting will feature the tying skills of Ed Morphis. He will demonstrate a few of Alec Jackson’s “Spade” series. This is how Ed describes the demo.

I keep trying to improve my tying, and I find that, having my own style of tying gets in the way of doing so. Therefore, I decided to follow chosen “experts,” tying exactly as they do. It is difficult to do this, as it is easier to follow my own way of doing a process, but if I want to end up with the exact product as theirs, it is essential to use their processes.

This is what I did with Alec Jackson’s videos of how to tie the Spades.  Alec is famous for his style of tying (as well as the style of his hooks), especially for his variations of the Spade pattern. This line of variations is his favorite for fishing steelhead in different seasons and conditions. (It seems not to be as popular in Southern Oregon, but I think it is probably because we haven’t given it a good try. Again, probably because it is not very colorful.) There is the Costal Spade, Inland Spade, Fancy Spade, Claret Guinea Spade, Woolly Spade, and Dry Spade. I will demonstrate his style of the Coastal, Inland, and Fancy. There will be a handout for everyone with pictures and recipes.

Alec has this to say; "Bob Arnold's Spade is, in my opinion, the perfect fly for Greased Line Fishing for steelhead. First it is a three-dimensional fly and thus easily seen by fish regardless of the relative positions of fly and fish. Second it has a very strong silhouette because it is predominantly dark in color. Third, because of the materials used in its construction, it is easy to fine tune the amount of material applied to the hook.”

Ed has also agreed to share some of his ideas on how to be a better demonstration tier. It shapes up to be a very educational evening, so pencil it in on your busy social calendar.

    Last month we voted to have a delicious BBQ for our June meeting. All food and beverages will be provided except deserts. We will ask our members to bring something special and sweet. That could mean your wife or girlfriend/husband or boyfriend, OR a pie cake or cookies. In order to make sure we have enough food for everybody, I will need a RSVP for those attending. The date is June 14th. Lets have a big crowd.

Material Sale and SOFT Meeting, Tuesday, April, 12

 The April meeting will feature a tying demonstration by Paul Wolflick. If you have watched him demo before you know that he always come up with patterns that are innovative, very effective and easy to tie with common materials. He actually fishes these flies before claiming that they work. I have included the recipe for each fly below.

Black Sparkle Carey Special 

HOOK--Size 10 2XL

THREAD --black 6/0

BODY--black peacock ice dubbing

HACKLE--black dyed pheasant rump

HACKLE--black dyed pearl crystal flash

Callibaetis Nymph

HOOK--size 14 1XL

THREAD--pale yellow 8/0

TAIL--wood duck fibers

BODY--tying thread

TOP OF BODY-- olive waterproof marker

THORAX--built-up ball of tying thread

LEGS--Partridge hackle

WING CASE--UV Knotsense

WINGCASE COLORING--olive waterproof marker

2nd WINGCASE COVERING--thin coating of UV Knotsense

    Don’t forget to bring a couple flies for the raffle fly box and any flies you have tied up for Water Watch or our other special project. This should be another great evening with good friends.

The RFF club has had several donations of fly tying materials and have too much inventory for the upcoming RFF auction in May. So, we've decided to have some blow out sales to reduce inventory and give you a chance at some great bargains.

It will be mostly fly tying materials, tools and hooks, with a few fishing items here and there.
This month will be Dick Bonamarte's and Joel Tobias' items.

DETAILS:
Big fly tying materials blow out sale at SOFT.
Tuesday, April 12, from 4 PM until 6 PM, just before the regular SOFT meeting.
Prices will be adjusted so that everything will sell, but please remember that it all goes to a good cause.
The regular SOFT meeting will begin at 6 PM, or earlier if we sell out.

    

    The Bonemarte fly tying material collection will be on sale from 4 to 6 pm. Lots of great items left so come early for best selection. See you there.