By Bob Randall on Sunday, November 27th, 2016 in Meetings, Social Events, No Comments
We will have our MTFA Christmas party and annual meeting on Thursday, December 1, at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center at 6pm. We will have both class rooms with the dividing wall pulled aside. We decided to cater the dinner even though the cost exceeded the budgeted amount. We decided we would divvy up the excess […]
By Bob Randall on Monday, November 21st, 2016 in Meetings, Social Events, No Comments
The next Branson meeting will be on December 6, 2016. We will be meeting at the Lions Club Building, located at 1015 East State Highway 76. We will gather at 6:00 pm for fly tying and fish stories. Our program will be Carolyn Parker from River Run Outfitters. We will also be having a Christmas Party […]
By Bob Randall on Saturday, November 19th, 2016 in Fishing reports, Fishing Trip, Fishing Wisdom, Flies, No Comments
Remember that it’s catch and release season in our state trout parks. Special regulations apply. Six of us went on the first cold, blustery day of this fall/winter season to Roaring River State Park. We’re tough! From Branson we had Fred Lauher and Ron Ward. From Springfield it was Dennis Stead, Rick Merritt, John Bush, […]
By Bob Randall on Wednesday, November 16th, 2016 in Fishing Trip, Social Events, No Comments
Kansas City Chapter of MTFA plans a winter trip to Branson in January to fish Taneycomo. Weather permitting they are scheduled to fish on January 14th and 15th. Plan on meeting at the shelter house below the dam, behind the Shepard of the Hill Hatchery close to outlet #2 around 9:30 AM. Get your cold […]
By Bob Randall on Thursday, November 10th, 2016 in Conservation, Fishing Wisdom, No Comments
I have a couple of college degrees in biology. It doesn’t make me smart but it has made me think. I once said to the professor who called himself “Mr. Bird and Mammal of the Pacific Northwest” (Earl Larrison at the U of Idaho) while observing a couple of owl chicks in a nest that […]
By Bob Randall on Sunday, November 6th, 2016 in Fishing reports, No Comments
November 5, 2016. We had hoped to fish for trout at Jolly Mill/Capps Creek Conservation Area but a maintenance project at that location caused us to reconsider. So instead, nine of us went fishing at Stockton Lake where Hwy CC crosses the lake. If we had been able to plan our trip based on the […]
By Bob Randall on Friday, November 4th, 2016 in Meetings, No Comments
Casting practice is important. You can spend hours practicing on the lawn and fish better, or you can practice your cast on the water and scare the fish. Last night at the beginning of our meeting Kim Schultz, a certified fly casting instructor, gave some of our other members tips about their casting techniques. It […]
