Next Monthly Meeting:
Thursday, January 9, 2025 7:00PM
December Monthly Program
The Annual Christmas Pot Luck Dinner December 12,2024
The annual club potluck dinner will occur on December 12th. The clubhouse doors will open around 5:30, and dinner will start between 6:00 and 6:30. Get there early—latecomers will be assigned KP duty. Here’s what you bring based on the first letter of your last name:
A-E: Entrees
F-K: Appetizers
L-Q: Salads
R-Z: Desserts
Here are some helpful hints:
• Bring an extension cord – with your name marked on it – if your dish needs to be kept warm (slow cooker; crock pot; warming plate, etc.).
• Same thing with serving plates and utensils: mark them, too – this is a rough crowd.
• The club will provide napkins, paper plates and plastic utensils.
• The club will also provide hot coffee, sugar/sweetener, bottled water and some sodas.
• A limited amount of spices – think salt and pepper – will be available.
Check your email for any late breaking news or email.
TinaLyn Sell has volunteered to lead; please give her a call at 916-765-9265 if you have questions or can help with set up.
Leader’s Line
Help the club, get rewarded
The days are getting cold and short, Time on the water is limited; we turn to tying our flies for next year or thumbing through catalogues to earmark gift ideas and needs.
As a club, we are doing much the same. We have lots of important, but non-fishing items on the agenda. Chief amongst these are the preparations for the Annual Dinner. Dave Stolecki is the main organizer, and he needs lots of help. Please call him as many needs require a little time, but no real expertise. Another big event is the Pot Luck Dinner in-lieu of the December General meeting, We need a leader to help coordinate this. Other scheduled events are the Swap Meet/Chili Cookoff.
This is a good time to buy your Annual Dinner ticket and raffle tickets. Also pay your dues renewals now, rather than in Jan.
I want to issue a big thank you to all the core volunteers who are making a big contribution. We are always in need of new leaders; Jeff Goodwin stepped up this year to lead the Conservation group, but has had a health issue. So we need a replacement for Jeff. We also need an Education coordinator, and a Stillwater outings manager. Please consider joining the ranks of our fine leadership team. Call me, Mike McKinley, 408-807-4340, or any of our board members to help out.
To purchase your 2025 Annual Dinner tickets, please click here.
Let’s meet on the water.
Mike McKinley, GBF President 
New on the GBF site:
- A reminder that all historic FLY TYING JAM recipes back to May of 2017 are available here in a single location under the Fly Tying menu tab. New to fly tying? Check out the educational links at the top of that page.
- Check out the new Rod Building videos (at bottom of page) found here!
- A list of all GBF past presidents all the way back to 1985 can be found here.
- A list of GBF member achievers for the Fly Fishers International Fly Casting Skills Development Program is now available here.
- Collectors and aficionados of vintage rods and reels will now find contact info for long-time expert Jim Adams of Adams Angling on the GBF Links page under Vintage Fly Gear, Books and More. A good source to check the value of granddads vintage fly gear.
To join GBF, please click here.
To renew your 2025 Membership, please click here.
To purchase 2025 Annual Dinner tickets, please click here.
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“The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.”
― John Gierach “Fly Fishing the High Country”
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