What We Have Been Up To...

Fly Tying and casting practice at Mayberry's and a Conservation Project!

Learning a new knot the made Mrs. Unema VERY excited!

Adventure #1

The Girls had their first adventure at Northwest Trout Ponds.  Casting instruction provided by volunteers from the Fourth Corner Fly Fishing Club, Mrs. Sue Swetman and Mr. Frank Koterba.  Everyone practiced tying the Improved Clinch Knot before tying on their first fly for fishing! We lost a few flies…caught a few trees but not too bad for our first time out.  Yajie landed the first (and only) fish of the day.  We could see them cruising right by our flies – we tried woolley worms, scuds, dry and beaded woolley worms – no luck.   We enjoyed a  sunny day and picnic lunch together.  The day ended with election of officers.  A great day overall.

It's a new year!

We started off the new school year with our recruiting meeting this past Thursday evening.  We met at Bender Fields near the Bocci Courts.  Our first adventure will be this Saturday September 24.  We will be trying our fishing skills out at Northwest Trout Ponds.  FISH ON!

Final Outing of the Year

The final outing for the Girls Club was to the Outback Kangaroo and Wallaby Farm in Arlington followed by a picnic and fishing.  We got up close and personal to wallabies, big red kangaroos, llamas, tortoise, peacocks and a whole menagerie of  exotic animals.

Each girl got to kiss a llama – not kidding – see photos!  And snuggle with a baby kangaroo (a “joey”).  We had a blast!  We had a picnic in the drizzly rain at Twin Lakes Park followed by fishing in the North Lake.  There had been a fishing derby in the South Lake so it was shoulder to shoulder on “our” lake while the parents waited for the planted trout to be released into the North Lake…it never happened and we saw nary a soul catch a fish.

The girls attracted quite a lot of attention – including boys.  The usual fishing mishaps – knots, lost flies, trees grabbing our lines – but the girls cast like pros.

We had a great ending to a year of adventure and fun!