Ted Trueblood Chapter Calendar

FEBRUARY 9 MEETING
The joint meeting of the Ted Trueblood Chapter of Trout Unlimited and the Boise Valley Fly Fishermen will be at 600 N. Curtis, across from West Junior High School. Fly tying at 6:30 p.m., meeting at 7:30 p.m.

PROGRAM
by Rick Prange

We will have a very unique program at our February meeting. Club members Bob Glenn, Phil Anderson and Martin Landholm are going to combine their efforts in a slide presentation on a trip they took last September to Mongolia to fly fish for the world's largest known trout - the tiamen. During their 5 days of river fishing, they landed fish probably weighing in the 30 - 40 lb class. Larger fish were hooked but not landed. No fish were allowed to be killed. These fish fought hard, jumping and making long runs. They were taken using mouse patterns on the surface with 9-weight outfits. The fish were aggressive, sometimes missing the fly and returning to strike again. Samples of their patterns will be shown. The party of 7 anglers booked the trip through Frontier Anglers spending some time in China during the trip. Another smaller rainbow type of trout species, the Siberian Lenok was also caught on more tradition fly patterns. This will be a great program. As usual, a fly tying demonstration will start before the meeting at 6:30 p.m.

March 9 meeting program - Marv Taylor will be returning to us to give a program on his new book, Guide to Aquatic Entomology, and to preview some new reservoir fishing waters in northern Nevada and eastern California plus East Newton Reservoir near Cody, Wyoming.

SATURDAY APRIL 3 -- 8th Annual Trout Unlimited Conservation Banquet. Doubletree Riverside. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., dinner at 7:30. Tickets $30 for one or $55 per couple.