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.