5 Pacific Salmon Species on a Fly Milestones Completed

John Hjort and Dan Reynolds each completed their lifetime goals of catching each of the 5 Species of Pacific Salmon (Coho, Chinook, Chum,Pink and Sockeye) on a fly rod.

Raffle Winners for 2009

Below are the raffle winners for 2009. Thank you to everyone who purchased raffle tickets this year:

• 1st prize - Puerto Vallarta Trip - Cliff Gullings - Tacoma, Wa
• 2nd prize - Pontoon boat - Cathy Cripe - Maple Valley, Wa
• 3rd prize - Kootenai fishing trip - Cameron Otopalick - Yakima, Wa
• 4th Prize - Fethastyx Rod - Jeff Muramatsu - Pullman, Wa
• 5th Prize - Printer - Tim Gavin - Yakima, Wa

General Meeting moved to Wednesday Nov. 18th

The general meeting as been moved up a week to the 18th so as not to conflict with Thanksgiving. Our guest speaker will be Mark Baltzell with WDFW. Mark’s primary duties within the agency are coordinating and conducting mark-selective fishery studies for Chinook. We have 4 of those fisheries ongoing in our area right now (Marine Areas 9, 10, 8.1 and 8.2). Mark will talk about those, and summer fisheries, and results from these fisheries since 2005.

Please join us for Mark's presentation, the raffle, elections for the Board of Directors for 2010 and a chance to catch-up with your friends.

General Meeting Tonight October 28th

Don't forget the general meeting tonight at the South Snohomish Senior Center at 7:00 PM. We will have two speakers, to talk about smoking and preserving fish and the other is our local WDFW officer for everyone to meet and greet and get his take on what is happening on the local waters that is of concern to the Dept of Fisheries. As usual we will also have another great raffle.

Willow Creek bank reconstruction 10/4/2009

A recent early fall rainstorm caused some of the logs that were reinforcing the east bank of Willow Creek to become dislodged. Several volunteers worked to move the logs back into position, reinforce with stainless steel cables and a bunch of heavy rocks. The work should help to keep the stream in it's banks during the upcoming rainy season we always get in the late fall and early winter.

General Meeting Wednesday Sept 23rd

Reminder to all members that it's time for our next General Membership meeting on Sept 23rd at the South Snohomish County Senior Center. We will have a great speaker to tell us all about fishing in the North Puget Sound and another outstanding raffle. Please mark it on your calendar and plan to attend

Hatchery Manager Walter Thompson on Coho Patrol