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NBFF Minutes from 5/22/24 meeting, lots of info

Minutes of NBFF Membership Meeting

5/22/2024

Pat McQuinn called the meeting to order at 6:10 pm at the New Braunfels Public Library.

Treasurer’s report = Brien John reported a club has a positive balance.  Brien also reported that he has developed a draft budget.  Brien reported the primary expenditures for the club are the GRTU Youth Camp, FFI insurance premium, website renewals and guest speakers.

Fly-Tying report = Gary Nyland reported the last class had 11 in attendance.  The next will be June 6th at the West Side Community Center from 6 – 8.  He is planning that we will be tying a chubby chernobyl.

Membership report = Pat McQuinn reported that the club roster was unchanged from last month with 48 active members.  Leon Bishop has decided to drop out of the club which dropped the membership to 47.  However, Mark Fillman has joined the club which brings the membership back up to 48.   Pat reminded folks to check their FFI expiration dates and renew as needed and to please let him know so the club roster can be update.

Education = Chris Long was not in attendance so we did not have an education report.

Website = Ed Sweet was not in attendance but did report earlier that the website and Facebook are working properly.

Outings = Ron DeMeyer was not in attendance but did report earlier that the outing on Wednesday May 15th at #5 was a success.  Ed Finger, Tom Yonko, Bo Lewis, Gary Nyland, Pat McQuinn and Ron attended.  All attendees caught fish and the burgers at Horseshoe Grill were good.  The second outing on Saturday May 18th at Rio Guadalupe was not well attended.  Jerry Horton reported that he along with Gary Nyland and Ron were the only attendees.  Ron caught a couple at the midway ripple and they lost a couple.  They were then joined by a bachelor party of 12 and 4 guides.  At that point they decided to go have a BBQ lunch.

No future outings are currently scheduled.

Club Survey = Pat reported that Eric Weissgarber had done some research on the local Boy Scouts and their Fly-Fishing Merit Badge.  Before NBFF members can assist the Boy Scouts they first must be certified counselors.  This will take some research to determine the requirements.  Eric did provide the phone # of the local Scout Master.  Pat is going to contact this person to see if we can get some guidance on the way forward.

Fish Feeding Program = The feeding program is now working.  We are seeing lots of fish  We are also seeing blue herons at all the feeding locations and a bald eagle.  It has been reported that there is a pair of bald eagles nesting on the river.  We currently have 14 volunteers.  Volunteers are booked for May & June.

Speaker = Cassio Silva of All Water Guides was our guest speaker.  Cassio’s topic was the Guadalupe Bass, the Texas state freshwater fish native to Texas.  Cassio presented how to identify a Gudalupe Bass from large mouth, small mouth and spotted bass.  Cassio went into detail about the habits of the different bass, where to find them and the flies he uses to catch them.  Cassio’s presentation was very interesting, entertaining, and well received.

You can contact Cassio at:

www.allwaterguides.com

www.cassiosilvaflyfishing.com

Fly Raffle = Jerry Horton conducted the fly raffle.

June’s club meeting = Wednesday June 26th will be our next club meeting.

NBFF Fly-Tying session will be this Thursday May 2nd.

 

Our next Fly-Tying session will be this Thursday from 6-8 pm at the Westside Community Center, 2932Ssouth Interstate 35 Frontage Road, New Braunfels.  This month we will be tying the Elk Hair Caddis Fly.  They can be seen in great numbers during a Caddis hatch and a favorite Trout Fly.  We will start promptly a 6 with an educational video on tying on nymphs, then a video on tying the Elk Hair Caddis.  If you have your own tying equipment, please bring them, if not we have several club sets available.  The club will supply the needed materials for tying this fly.  If you have a hair stacker, please bring it as we will need to use it for this fly.  I will have a few for use also.   Come out and learn or practice tying this fly and tie a few for yourself and some for the monthly fly raffle at the club meetings.  Hope to see you there.

NBFF Meeting Minutes of 4/24/24

Minutes of NBFF Membership Meeting

4/24/2024

Dan Cone called the meeting to order at 6:00 pm at the New Braunfels Public Library.
Dan presented the Spring 2024 River Cleanup which is being sponsored by GRTU with Texas Fly Fishers and Texas State Fly Fishers support. We are to meet at Rio Guadalupe Saturday May 11 th at 8:30. Dan asked for volunteers to participate by going out to the designated locations early to organize those folks at each location. At 1:00 we are to meet at L&;L for lunch.
Treasurer’s report = Brien John reported that the club had a positive balance Brien reported that the annual FFI report had been submitted
Fly-Tying report = Gary Nyland reported the next class will be May 2nd at the West Side Community Center from 6 – 8. He is planning that we will be tying elk hair caddis flies.
Membership report = Pat McQuinn reported that the club roster was unchanged from last month with 48 active members. There are three new members pending submittal of their information. Mark Fillman was attending the meeting and had submitted his FFI application that day. James Ramos and Kyle Lenz are the other two perspective new members but they were not at the meeting.
Education = Chris Long was not in attendance but had reported to Dan that he had received a donation from Scientific Angler of new fly lines for the club’s training rods; and reels. Chris was in the process of installing the new fly lines.
Website = Ed Sweet reported that the website had 2,154 followers. There had been 350 views in the past 30 days.
Outings = Ron DeMeyer reported that he had scheduled two new outings. One for Wednesday May 15 th meeting at #5. He asked that those planning on coming to please let him know as there is a five car limit at #5 so we may need to carpool. The second outing is scheduled for Saturday May 18 at Rio Guadalupe. We will fish till lunch and then meet at the Horseshoe Grill.
Club Survey = Pat had updated the survey results since our April club meeting. We had discussions on how to proceed with implementation.
 Suggestion was made to prioritize the top 5.
 Pat will get with Chris Long to discuss proceeding with Education.
 Pat will also get with Jeff to discuss Mentoring.
 Ron addressed some of the concerns with outings about giving more notice and scheduling a weekend outing. With the current two outings scheduled for May 15 and; 18 this addresses this concern. Dan’s presentation on river access gave some ideas of future outings possibly on the Llano.
 Eric is going to contact the Boy Scouts to discuss the possibility of NBFF assisting them with one of their merit badges. Brien reported the last involvement NBFF had with the Boy Scouts was in 2015.
 It was suggested that the Board put the recommended budget together. Brien agreed to create a budget.
Fish Feeding Program = The feeding program is now in place for 2024. We currently have 14 volunteers. Volunteers are booked for May and; June.
Speaker = Dan presented the www.tpwd.maps website. This site has all of the leases that TPWD has in Texas and all of the fishing access locations. The presentation gave the club several locations to consider for outings both locally in New Braunfels and several on the Llano. He also provided some pointers for bass fishing with leaders and flies.
Fly Raffle = Ron conducted the fly raffle.
May’s club meeting = Wednesday May 22 nd will be our next club meeting. Our guest speaker
will be Cassio Silva and his focus will be bass fishing on the Guadalupe. Cassio is with All Water Guides. You can preview Cassio at www.allwaterguides.com.