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Ozark Fly Fishers Newsletter September 2017 General Meeting Thursday, September 28th, 2017 Greensfelder Recreation Complex - Queeny Park 525 Weidman Road, Ballwin MO 63011 Starting at 7:00 PM Tufts and Batson, makers of bamboo fly rods, are this month’s speakers. Amelia Tufts and Gabe Batson have a shop in Maplewood where the make some of the finest bamboo fly rods in the world. Please plan on attending their presentation on how they make these rods. Starting with the ordering of raw culms of bamboo from China to a finished heirloom fly rod. Amelia and Gabe have also agreed to meet everyone, who is interested, to cast their rods before our meet- ing. We will meet on the lawn at Queeny at 6 pm – Thursday September 28 th . If you would like to learn more about Tufts and Batson before the meeting visit their website at Tufts and Batson.com. “Tufts and Bat- son is the dream of providing fly fishermen of something disappearing in today’s world.” “Tufts and Batson is a level of service and consideration ensuring quality and satisfaction.” “Bamboo rods designed with lifelong performance and beauty as priority. Improving with age. An execution of balance—advanced envelope pushing, timeless technique and unending service.” “Tufts and Batson would like you to take a rod fishing for 30 days. When you decide you love it, it’s guaranteed for life.” Please join us for both the meeting and the casting on Sept. 28 th . It will be a fun and educational meeting.Tufts & Batson is a level of service and consideration ensuring quality and satisfaction. A commitment appropriate for the world’s premier heir- loom rod. Tufts & Batson is the dream of providing fly fishermen with something disappearing in today's world.

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Ozark Fly Fishers Newsletter September 2017

General Meeting Thursday, September 28th, 2017 Greensfelder Recreation Complex - Queeny Park 525 Weidman Road, Ballwin MO 63011 Starting at 7:00 PM

Tufts and Batson, makers of bamboo fly rods, are this month’s speakers.

Amelia Tufts and Gabe Batson have a shop in Maplewood where the make some of the finest bamboo fly rods in the world. Please plan on attending their presentation on how they make these rods. Starting with the ordering of raw culms of bamboo from China to a finished heirloom fly rod. Amelia and Gabe have also agreed to meet everyone, who is interested, to cast their rods before our meet-ing. We will meet on the lawn at Queeny at 6 pm – Thursday September 28th.

If you would like to learn more about Tufts and Batson before the meeting visit their website at Tufts and Batson.com. “Tufts and Bat-son is the dream of providing fly fishermen of something disappearing in today’s world.” “Tufts and Batson is a level of service and consideration ensuring quality and satisfaction.” “Bamboo rods designed with lifelong performance and beauty as priority. Improving with age. An execution of balance—advanced envelope pushing, timeless technique and unending service.” “Tufts and Batson would like you to take a rod fishing for 30 days. When you decide you love it, it’s guaranteed for life.”

Please join us for both the meeting and the casting on Sept. 28th. It will be a fun and educational meeting.Tufts & Batson is a level of service and consideration ensuring quality and satisfaction. A commitment appropriate for the world’s premier heir-loom rod.

Tufts & Batson is the dream of providing fly fishermen with something disappearing in today's world.

Fly of the month - September 2017

My Green Hare’s Ear Variant

Of all the traditional flies available to the fly fisherman, probably the most universal is the Gold-Ribbed Hare’s Ear Nymph. It has been around a long time and has been a tried and true fish catcher. We teach it in our fly tying classes, and it is one of the required patterns in the FFI’s Bronze Certification program. Just as importantly, though, there are a million ways to tie a non-traditional “hare’s ear” nymph. That being said, I specifically do not call mine by the traditional name if it is not the original fly. After working on my bronze and silver certifica-tions, I have a new appreciation for traditional fly patterns and their originators.

While this fly is made with hare’s ear dubbing, it is merely a variant at best. After Ed Heist’s presentation, I decided to try hot spots of a different color. Apparently green is more visible at depth, so this is my green hare’s ear variant. I must say, Ed, the green has been a very suc-cessful addition.

• Hook: Hanak BL554 Size 14 or 16 • Bead: Gold Tungsten 7/64” or 1/8” • Weight: .015 Lead or Lead-Free wire • Thread: 8/0 Brown • Hot Spot: Fluorescent Green UniStretch or Floss • Ribbing: Olive Chrystal Flash • Body: Hare’s Ear Dubbing • Hackle: Hungarian Partridge • Collar: SLF UV Hare’s Ear Dubbing

Place bead on hook and secure in vise. Add 5 or 6 wraps of lead wire and shove up under the bead. Start thread behind bead and secure lead in place with several crossing thread wraps. Whip Finish. Start Uni-Stretch behind lead and wrap flat turns to the hook bend. Make a couple of flay layers at the hook bend to form a section about 2 hook-eyes long about as thick as the hook wire. Advance back to lead and whip-finish. Start brown thread again and tie in 1 strand of crystal flash, then form a dubbing loop just in front of the hot spot. Advance thread back to the bead. Add a sparse, tapered amount of dubbing loosely in the dubbing loop and spin tight. Wrap forward to just behind the bead – remember to leave it a bit sparse. Tie off the dubbing loop and trim excess. Brush out the dubbed body to make it fuzzy, then rib with the crystal flash. Tie off and trim ribbing. Tie in the partridge feather by the tip and remove the fibers from the far side. Make two wraps to form a soft hackle and tie off. Trim excess. Softly dub a small amount of the SLF Hares Ear dubbing in front of the hackle and behind the bead. Whip finish and trim excess thread. Brush out the dubbing a bit so that it is a little messy.

Remember to tie this fly sparsely – brushed out hare’s ear and SLF dubbing hold a lot of air bubbles and reflect a lot of light. The green butt and olive ribbing give it a subtle green glow in the water, and all that spikey dubbing and partridge legs add lots of wiggly parts. I added a couple of strands of crystal flash as a wing, but I cannot decide if I like it there or not. We’ll let the fish decide. This fly should be fished dead-drift and then let swing up and across in the current at the end of the drift. I know the Hanak hooks are a little pricey, but there are few better hooks out there with the right shape and no barb. I blend my own hare’s ear dubbing because most on the market is just not right. Let me know if you need to know how I do it.

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Fishing Pressured Water I cannot remember actually enjoying August weather in Missouri. This summer has been remarkable. We have had enough rain to keep the streams flowing and the temperatures and humidity have been comfortable. That being said, everybody and their brother has been out fishing throughout the normally unbearable dog-days of summer. Still being members of the working class, we find ourselves fishing mostly on weekends. Recently, Lorie and I took a weekend trip to the Current River on our anniversary weekend – along with half of the trout fishermen in Missouri.

Driving past the section just below the park, we had to weave around several cars pulled off the road adjacent to the cabins and spotted a number of fishermen enjoying that upper section. We pulled into the parking lot at Tann Vatt joining ten other cars already there. Still, looking upstream and down, we saw no fellow anglers. Wading boots and vests on and rods rigged, we headed out to the run right by the parking lot. Moments later, 5 cars pulled in and we were joined by seven fishermen heading downstream followed by three more headed upstream. It suddenly became a very park-like setting. I can honestly say that I have never seen the river so crowd-ed.

Fishing in crowds is nothing new here in Missouri, but not normally on the rivers. Trout Park fish are not terribly concerned by this, but Blue Ribbon fish don’t react well to this kind of onslaught. We deployed all those tips we’d either read or heard about fishing pres-sured waters. We started by trying to out-walk them. We crossed over, and began walking downstream looking for open water. Half-way to Baptist Camp, we abandoned that plan. Every hole, run, and pocket had at least two anglers already there. We decided to find the fish no one has been fishing for. We did find a few places to finesse a few fish out of the non-typical holes and runs, but were constantly interrupted by people passing through on their way to better water.

Once we found a quiet place to fish, we decided to wait them out. By mid-afternoon, most had grown bored, hungry, or thirsty and abandoned the stream. After resting the fish for a while, we headed to our favorite section of stream. The fish were still only marginal-ly cooperative having been assaulted all day long with glow-balls and mini-jigs. We started searching the fly boxes trying to throw flies they had not seen today. If you’ve seen my boxes, you know I have a lot of that. We eliminated or down-sized our strike indi-cators, downsized our flies, and lightened and lengthened our tippets. We focused on really covering specific sections of water and focused on proper drag-free drifts – the flies not the indicator.

We caught a number of fish on size 14 -18 very sparse nymphs (but not midges) – mainly on the unweighted dropper flies. We found that a lot of fish had moved out of the traditional holes in favor of more secluded lies seemingly right out in the open. We approached these fish with non-traditional flies – dry terrestrial patterns - presented downstream directly over them from far upstream. No line to spook them, no shadows in their peripheral vision, and no drag what so ever. Our resourcefulness and versatility was rewarded with a 16” brown that took a #18 BWO nymph followed by a 15” rainbow that took a #16 Bead-head Holo-Hare’s Ear Nymph. Nobody likes fishing in a crowd, but you can be successful if you think outside the box. If you’re not catching fish, you have to change some-thing. Change the way you think about the fish and their environment.

Mike Ott

Thank you!

Just wanted to recognize those who helped make the Serco 2nd Annual Picnic at 370 Lakeside Park a success. The Serco leadership Team were very impressed with us and would like to have us back next year if we have the availability. Please join me in thanking:

Al Bourisaw, Bob Hiney, Bob Temper, Mike Ott, Malcolm Royce and Duane Oheman

John L Tymony Director of Communications

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Outings

ELEVEN POINT RIVER @ ALTON, MO – October 20, 21, 22,2017

Our hoist is Brian Sloss of Eleven Point Canoe Rental in Alton, MO who will provide our housing in town in his renovated houses. I have reserved two Cottages for eight singles. Cottages are renovated houses with 2 bed rooms and other sleep areas. Housing is very limited around Alton. We will have full working kitchens for evening cookouts Friday and Saturday. Breakfast @ Grandma’s Saturday AM on your own.

Wade Fishing is available above and at the Hiway 19 bridge, but to fish the 5 mile Blue Ribbon section you need a canoe, kayak, belly boat or guide service. I have Brian ready to provide guides for hire for an all day float in the Blue Ribbon section for $350 plus tip for two includes rods, flies, lunch and drinks on Saturday. Let me know if you want to fish with a guide Friday or Sunday. ½ day is $250 plus tip. You will pay the guides direct.

Room and board is $75 each. Send checks payable to Ozark Fly Fishers to me. I need your reservation by 9/15 /2017. Website for Brian is [email protected]. I have recently booked an outing on April 20, 21,22, 2018 on the North Fork of the White River, Featuring an all day guided fishing float with area guides. We will be staying at the River of Life Farm full details later.

Edward Olander Outings Chairman

Casting Tip

By Bill Armon CCI

This month’s speakers, Amelia Tufts and Gabe Batson, of Tufts and Batson, make bamboo fly rods. In fact, they make some of the finest rods you will ever see and cast. Since we will have the opportunity to see and cast some of their rods before this month’s meet-ing I thought we should talk about casting bamboo. There are a lot of myths about bamboo. Is it as sturdy as graphite. Will it take a bend with time? Why are rods made with two tips? Will I have to “baby” my rod? All of your questions can be answered but casting one is the better way to get some of these answers.

Bamboo is more sensitive than graphite. This is why people say you have to slow down. I think a better explanation would be to say bamboo requires SMOOTH. Yes, timing is very important but even more important is that the rod not be shocked as this will be seen in the line. So, when casting bamboo do not try to apply extra power (let the rod do the work) and be sure and make your change of directions timely and SMOOTHLY. If you are getting more tailing loops when casting bamboo more than likely you are applying too much power too quickly.

If you come to the meeting and cast a Tufts and Batson rod I believe you will not think of them as slow. The rods that rodmakers are making today will surprise you. Yes, you do have to alter your casting stroke slightly but the time it takes to learn this is well worth the effort. There is nothing quite like the feel of casting, fighting, and landing a fish with a bamboo fly rod. Not better but different than using a “plastic” rod.

Some of this tip was first reported in 2011 when Bob Nunley spoke at our meeting. That meeting was very well attended so if you want to cast with Amelia and Gabe we will be on the lawn outside Queeny from 6 to 6:30 before the meeting this month.

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Southern Council Fly Fishing Fair

Well, it's almost time again, time again for another Southern Council Fly Fishing Fair! Time for another wonderful weekend of fly fishing, fly tying, fly casting, and many, many other fly related activities. Two full days of spending time with other fly fishers, listen-ing to their stories, their advice, tips, and techniques. And of course two full days of sharing your stories, advice, tips, and techniques. There'll be all kinds of fun new stuff to play with - new rods, reels, materials, tying tools, lines and leaders, and gobs of other fun stuff!

I'll stop now because I know I'm getting you too worked up. Just relax a little, take a deep breath. Okay, that's better.

Now I know you have made your hotel reservations and scheduled the day off from work (for those of us working stiffs). But it would be a really good idea if you went ahead and sent in your pre-registration. It will save you some time standing in line, and will even save you a little money. Plus, it will make our lives a little easier - everything we can get done before the Fair, is that much less we have to get done at the Fair. Go online to http://www.ifffsoc.org and click on the link for the 'Pre-registration Form for the 2017 FFi-SOC Fly Fishing Fair'. It's a pdf file. You can print it out and mail it in, or scan it and email it in with your credit card info. Due date for Pre-Registration is September 15th.

We are anxiously awaiting your form!

Ron KnightPresident, SOC

TWENTY SIXTH ANNUAL CATCH AND RELEASE OUTING PLANS

Second call for the November 9-10-11 opening of the winter catch and release season at Bennett Springs. Many have already made their reservations, with requests for particular room locations or neighbors. As rooms get booked, it gets more difficult to juggle these requests, so your best bet is to reserve early. Basically this is LAST CALL, as the next newsletter doesn’t come out til late October, the reservations may already be turned in by then. Please give me all to time you can to help get you in with the accommodations you prefer. We still have all classes of rooms available, but will go fast. Let me know if you’re a single and don’t mind sharing a room, we will try to work it out and you can save a little money. See the August newsletter or the club website for details on the packages avail-able. If you haven’t attended this event before, give it some thought this year, especially if you’ve enjoyed the other club outings as this is our biggest one. After the buffet on Sat. the conference room will be available, as in the past, for those who want to get together and tie flies and tell stories. This is a great opportunity for those new to fly fishing or to our parks to pick up some tips from old timers. (we have plenty of those) Remember there are very limited choices for breakfast in the area this time of year. Most people last year brought something with them. Mark your calendar and get out your checkbook, winter catch and release is coming quicker than you think.

We are again inclosing a Reservation Request with this newsletter, or print one from the website. Any questions, call Steve Antonic @ 314-401-8874

Looking forward to a great weekend. - Steve

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26th ANNUAL CATCH AND RELEASE OUTING OPENING WEEKEND AT BENNETT SPRINGS

NOV. 9-10-11

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IMPORTANT:THE CLUB IS CHARGED THE SAME AMOUNT WHETHER THERE ARE 1 OR 2 OCCUPANTS IN THE DOU-BLE BED ROOMS, IF YOUR BUDDY CANCELS, YOU WILL BE CHARGED THE LISTED FULL PRICE MINUS THE COST OF 1 DINNER. THE TWO OF YOU WILL HAVE TO DECIDE HOW TO APPORTION THE COST. Packages; All packages include the Sat. dinner.

Sat. Evening dinner only (no lodging)…………………………………………………………………$19.00

ADDITIONAL PERSONS AND PETS: Pets: $15/night Rollaway bed: $10/night Cancellations: If you cancel before Oct.30, you will receive a refund: thereafter refunds will be made only if we can sell your room.

Sat. Evening Dinner: Bennett Springs Gathering Place, HWY 64, 6:30 PM. There is plenty of parking, but use a DESIGNATED DRIVER if needed.

Mail this form with your check payable to Ozark Fly Fishers, to Steve Antonic, 5612 Greenton Way, St. Louis, MO 63128. Accommo-dations will be booked only when received with a check for full amount of the package selected. I will confirm receipt of your check by e-mail or post card. Call me if you don’t get confirmation of your check in a reasonable time.

Call 314-401-8874 for special needs or questions etc.

BENNET SPRINGS ACCOMODATIONSPackage Sat. Nov. 11th Fri . & Sat. Nov. 10 - 11 Thu. - Sat. Nov. 9-11Singles:

1 Bed / 1 Person $66.00 $112.00 $159.00

Couples: 1 Bed / 2 People $96.50 $155.00 $213.00

Deluxe Couples: 2 Dbl / 2 People $101.75 $165.50 $229.25

House Keeping: 2 Dbl / 2 People / Kitchen NA $180.55 $251.50

Triple: 3 Dbl / 3 People NA $234.00 $324.00

Third Person: 2 Dbl + twin / 3 people NA $207.00 $280.00

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A Colorado Adventure

Mark and Jo Thalhammer

Our adventure started in Rocky Mountain National Park. We stayed in Estes Park, at an RV park, on the Eastside just a couple of min-utes from the RMNP, Beaver Meadows Entrance. We were booked their form July 24th — August 6th. Then we moved to the Westside of RMNP for and additional stay of six days at Grand Lake.

What struck me first about our time at RMNP was the weather. Remember, this is in the two hottest months of the year and it turned out to be the coldest hot months that we have experienced. Although we did not expect it to be cold, we were prepared for it. The tem-perature ranged from the very low 40’s at night to the low 70’s in the day. Have you ever heard of MONSOONS in the U.S.? Well, apparently, we have them as the local weathermen were reporting that we were in monsoon season. During our time in RMNP we got two strong storms that lasted from ten to thirty minutes each day — something the guides never tell you about. We also noted that as cold and wet as it was on the Eastside of the park it was colder and wetter on the Westside.

The time of year that we were there has to be considered the parks BUSY season. We found the town of Estes Park, the roads and main hiking trails to be packed as you might expect. But, to our surprise there were times on the streams when there may have only been one or two other fishermen in sight. Now, this puts the term “pressured” into a completely different ballpark when local guides are talking about volume of fisherman per mile. Our home waters have a lot of “pressure” by comparison; here, not so much.

The guidebooks show dozens of streams and creeks in the park. Most of these require a mile or two hike up a mountain (remember we are flatlanders) and when you get there you have to fight the brush and willows and rock-hop from bolder to bolder to fish for fish that you cannot see, that may or not be there. Don’t get me wrong, we would love to be able to go after these elusive fish but we are no longer twenty years old, we are “out of shape” and we are a mile and a half above sea level, so we settled on the easier streams.

The Big Thompson River (Big T) was right at our backdoor so we spent most of the time there. The Big T in the park is a beautiful stream that averages eight to fifteen feet across and meanders through the meadows of Moraine Park, RMNP. It has easy access with lot of parking nearby. It has a surprising current when you consider how level Moraine Park appears to the eye.

Even though the Green Drake hatch was pretty much over I chose to use only dry flies and found that #14-#16 Green Drakes and #16-#18 Adams worked just fine. The Big T has, browns, brooks, bows, and greenbacks. I wasn’t able to land any bows but did get several browns, a brook and my prized catch was a ten-inch greenback (the Colorado State fish.)

The other main water shed on the East side of the park is Fall River which runs through Horseshoe Park. This is the area where a damn broke a number of years ago and I believe it is still recovering. This area had heavy hiker traffic. The part of the river that we checked out had a very silty bottom so we decided to join everyone else on the hiking trails instead of the fishing trails.

The Westside of the park has one main drainage the Colorado River. The Colorado flows for several miles through the park and has good access with several turnouts as it flows very close to the Trail Ridge Road. Although we were on that side of the park for six days we only got to fish it one afternoon as it was blown out most of the time from the intermittent storms. It did appear to clear-up quickly and at times one part would look clear while another part muddy. If there were fish larger than a couple inches on the part of river that we were on, we can’t prove it as we couldn’t find them and went away fishless.

Part II next month. . . fishing gets better.

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History of Mill Creek - Part 3 George Bohigian, MD

Early settlers in the Mill Creek Valley. During President Thomas Jefferson’s tenure, (1801 to 1809) three-fourths of Americans lived within 50 miles of the Atlantic seaboard. Many settled in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania or New York and then migrated through the Cumberland Gap--settling in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. The second greatest migration occurred after the Civil War (1861 -1865). Many migrated after the Civil War from Kentucky and Ten-nessee and then to Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. The Yelton family originally was from Wales. Both brothers settled in Mill Creek Valley in 1869 because of good bottom soil, water, springs and pasture. The original oak log cabin was situated in a north-south axis to catch the eastern rising sun so as to warm up the cabin in the morning and then the setting sun behind the western hills would also help cool the house. In addition, a spring on the upper side of the hill would also help cool down the cabin in the hot summer be-cause the colder denser spring air would fall through the dog run and porch.

Depression Years. Along Mill Creek Road, which is now Phelps County Road 7550, there were 10 to 15 families all into farming. However, during the depression which was finally winding down in 1939 many families could not afford to feed their children. One of the Yeltons who worked on the railroad and had a steady job took in some of these children and total of 10 children resided on the property. There was even a Yelton school within a quarter-mile of the present log cabin. We purchased property in 1981 and added to the property over time to almost 400 acres. I met one of the daughters of the Yelton family who remembered living there in the mid-40s and she related to me that the family moved from the cabin into Rolla. One day her mother was sitting in front of the sink with the water on and when the daughter asked, “Why do you have the water on?” the mother replied, “I'm just watching the water run.” Electricity came to that part of the Ozarks in 1947. The daughter also added when she turned on the first light “it was brighter than the sun.”

Wild Rainbow Trout Mill Creek has wild self-reproducing rainbow trout, one of the creeks in Missouri with wild self-reproducing McCloud rainbow trout. They were introduced 100 years ago. The fish were stocked from McCloud River federal hatchery in Northern California. The history and genetics of the McCloud strain is murky. Other streams and creeks with wild trout are: North Fork of the White River, Blue Springs Creek, Barren Fork Creek, Eleven Point River, and Little Piney Creek. Mill Creek, Spring Creek and Crane Creek have the McCloud strain.

In 2007, our family decided to do a donation/sale to Missouri Department of Conservation, which included almost 1 mile of Millcreek. Then, in 2017, the remainder of the property, including cabins and an outbuilding, was donated to University of Missouri Science and Technology to develop a biological research station. Newburg, Missouri Newburg was a thriving railroad town and was serving as a halfway point between St. Louis and Springfield Missouri, where refuel-ing, crew changes and repairs were done. And many of the railroad workers would stay overnight at the Houston House Hotel. Since our children have grown and moved away, it was decided to make it an educational and scientific endeavor by developing, along with the Missouri S&T, a biological research station. No one knows if there was a mill on Mill Creek. If you have time treat yourself to the best ice cream in Rolla the “South Central Creamy” on Bishop Ave., near the university. To be continued …

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Communications

Ozark Newsletter Want to become more involved, have a knack for writing and would like to share information, tips or likewise subjects on fly fishing with the rest of the club. Another benefit of membership is our monthly newsletter. Newsletter articles are due for consideration on the 1st Thursday of each month. As space in the newsletter fills up fast. Please limit your proof read articles to 500 words or less in 10 pt Times New Roman. If interested please contact John Tymony at Cell: (314)303-3012 or submit your article for consideration to: [email protected]

Yahoo Group

One of the benefits of being a member of the Ozark Fly Fishers is the Ozark Fly Fishers Yahoo group. The Yahoo Group is a direct line of communication with all who choose to join. Like any other club function, the more members participating the better. The OFF Yahoo group is reserved for Current Members Only to keep spam and other issues that go hand and hand with the internet under control. TheYahoo group is a great avenue to receive or post fishing reports, big and little fish pictures or thoughts and ideas on club functions as well as to seek advice from a vast wealth of knowledge on just about anything fly fishing. To become an Ozark Fly Fishers Yahoo member is easy.

If you are interested in joining the group, please contact Mike Swederska Cell: (314)-799-1998 Office: (314)-645-5440. Email [email protected]

A Call for Photos Here is an opportunity to share with the group and others, pictures of the big one you put back and to capture that moment of time in the Ozark Fly Fishing Archives. Please, send any photos/videos you’d like to share to [email protected]. In your email, please list the date, location, fly, and fish species, or any other information you wish to share (e.g., rod type, guide’s name, tippet size, etc.). I hope to see a lot of your pictures and videos!

-Jake Voss

O.F.F on the Web by Mark Thalhammer

Use the following to access the Ozark Fly Fishers website from your phone.

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Board of Directors

Ozark Fly Fishers Objectives Founded 1971

To promote fly fishing as the most sportsmanlike and enjoyable way of fishing and the method most consistent with the preservation and wise use of our game fish.

To practice conservation of natural resources and to support efforts for environmental quality and pollution control.To provide advice, education, and assistance to promote the art of fly fishing.

To demonstrate applied techniques in fly fishing, tying, casting and related subjects Ozark Fly Fishers meet at 7:00 PM on the fourth Thursday of each month at the Queeny Park Rec Center

(Unless noted differently – see Calendar)

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Officers Directors Chairman

President: Steve Antonic Communications: John L Tymony Casting: Brian Ellis

Vice President: Bill Armon Conservation: Scott Darrough Fly Tying: Mike Ott

Treasurer: David Crawford Education: Jim Gera Stream Team Coordinator:

Scott Darrough

Secretary: Dan Elhmann Membership: Al Bourisaw

Past President: Marlan Graham Outings: Ed Olander

Ways & Means: Jerry Kneipman

Stream Team 31

Coordinator / Current River Scott Darrough

Blue Springs Creek Glen Bish

Mill Creek Bill Leslie

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