RCFF Board President John Ross Past President Herb Drake President Elect Mike Grinwis Secretary Dennis O’Brien Treasurer Bob Bawden Education Chair John Ross Banquet Chair Vacant Conservation Chair John Ross Librarian Phil Stevens Newsletter Editor Mark Johnson Membership Mark Noel

you all Tuesday, remem-

ber we are in a different

room, just down the hall.

John R

Welcome to 2015! We

have turned the corner

and are looking forward

to the possibilities ahead

this coming fishing season.

Mike Grinwis has a series

of great programs lined up

for the next few months.

We are running out of

slots, so if you have a spe-

cial program you would

like to see let us know

very soon. There is a lot

of opportunity to volun-

teer, play, and federate in

the near future. We have

a cub scout tying event

this week, several shows

coming up, (a chance to

promote our club, the

GLC/IFFF, and sell tickets

for our raffle), tying

events at Piazano's, a Ban-

quet, and spring work

outing. Clear your calen-

ders and get ready for

some good times. Thanks

to all of the Board mem-

bers this year for making

this a fun and productive

year. Mark, Mike, Bob

and Dennis are a great

pleasure to work with and

have made this job easy.

Oh, by the way we will be

looking for volunteers for

next years board, so

please start thinking about

what position you would

like to fill. Hope to see

President’s Message

1981 McKenzie Cup Winners

The Red Cedar Fly Fishers is a Charter Club of the International Federation of Fly Fishers.

It’s purpose is to promote fly-fishing through Education, Restoration and Conservation

January 5, 2015

Tippets, Tapers & Tales

Inside this issue:

President’s Message

1

January’s Presentation

2

Fish Tales 2

New Trout Spe-cies

2

Celebration of Fly Tying

3

Cub Scout Fly Tying

4

Reminders 6

Remember, this month’s meeting and the remainder of the meetings this year that are out at MSU Natural Resources Building will be in

Room 223.

For January, we will have our grant recipient from last year, Joe Nohner coming to put on a presentation on his

research that he is doing. I don’t have any more details on the topic at this time, so you will just have to show up and watch the presenta-tion. This month starts our winter Sunday Tying Nights at Piazzano’s Restaurant in the basement banquet room from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. The first night is January 18th so bring all your tying

gear and come out for a fun night. You are also wel-come to just come out and watch as well. It is always a

good time.

Okay, I was perusing Google+ this evening, & saw a teaser and the link to a story on ScienceDaily about a new trout species, so I thought I'd pass it along. Thoughts? Comments? Road trip? A new trout species described from the Alakır Stream in Antalya, Turkey http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141212111655.htm A new fish species, Salmo kottelati, has been described from the Alak1r Stream draining to Mediterranean Sea in Anatolia. The new species is currently only known from this specific locality. It belongs to the Salmonidae family, which in-cludes salmons, trouts, chars, graylings and whitefishes.

January’s Presentation By: Mark Johnson

New Trout Species By: Mike Grinwis

Fish Tales By: Mark Noel

A couple of young guys were fishing at their special pond off the beaten track when out of the bushes jumped the game warden. Immediately, one of the boys threw his rod down and started running through the woods like a bat out of hell and hot on his heels came the game warden. After about a half mile, the guy stopped and stooped over with his hands on his thighs to catch his breath and the game warden finally caught up to him. "Let's see yer fishin license, boy!" the warden gasped. With that, the guy pulled out his wallet and gave the game warden a valid fishing license. "Well, son," said the Game Warden. "You must be about as dumb as a box of rocks! You don't have to run from me if you have a valid license!"

"Yes sir," replied the young feller. "But my friend back there, well, he don't have one..."

Page 2 Tippets, Tapers & Tales

Mark your calendars now for the Celebration of Fly Tying on February 28, 2015 in Wyoming, Michigan. This show is hosted by the Grand River Fly Tyers. If you would like more infor-mation on this show or would like to inquire about being a fly tyer at this show, contact Wolf Schrey at the number or email on the

flyer below.

Celebration of Fly Tying By: Mark Johnson

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The bitter cold couldn’t stop nine members of the Red Cedar Fly Fishers from convening at Holt’s Washington Woods elementary school on Wednesday evening to spend a few hours with 12 cub scouts. Mark Noel organized the get togeth-er to help the scouts fulfill their requirement of constructing something from materials other than wood. What better

things to make than flies?

Mark gave a brief presentation about fly fishing then we split up and worked with individual scouts on tying a wooly bugger and a foam spider. Although there were many levels of dexterity among the scouts, all tied at least two flies and were

pleased with their accomplishment. Quite a few parents showed up and seemed as interested as the scouts.

And in the interest of federating (one of the goals of the Red Cedar Fly Fishers) several of us volunteers met at Buddies in

Holt to debrief and share some beverages after the meeting.

Cub Scout Fly Tying By: Bob Bawden

Page 4

From August 1980 Ed: Daniel Cogan

NEXT MEETING: September 12, 1980 at 7:30 PM. Meeting will commences with socializing and fly tying with a busi-ness meeting (short) at 8:00 PM. Annual dues in the Red Cedar Fly Fishers, of $5.00, is due and payable at the meet-ing. Your dues in the RCFF is not included in your annual dues to the Federation. We will be discussing and planning

a fall salmon fishing trip. FROM OUR PRESIDENT: As I look forward to a new season, I cannot help but look back through the past year and

reflect upon a few of the accomplishments of the RCFF. We started the year with the membership falling to twenty two, by summer of this year, our numbers are back in the

thirties again. Around the first of the year we started our now annual fly tying class. This year the class was much improved under the leadership of Harry Barnes. Those of us who attended any number of the classes really came to appreciate all of

the good things that Harry had to pass on to us as well as our new fly tiers. Sometime last winter there were two very heroic trips taken by two small groups of our members. The first of these was to Ohio to help some of our fellow Federators plant Vibert boxes in the Mad River system. The second was the first of two trips by our members to the Bamboo Rod Revival in Detroit. These trips were very instrumental in our club winning the 1980 Mid-West Council FFF Membership Award for recruiting more Federation members than any

other club in our council. I feel that this award is due for the most part of the efforts of Jim Jarrett and Tony Petrella. Another important step taken last year was the upgrading of our monthly newsletter. The initial job was tackled solo

by Bob Juluis and is now in the capable hands of Dan Cogan. The success of the last year was enhanced by the leadership of John Wylie. Things ran smoothly because John was

always two steps ahead making sure that they did. It was with this brief look back that I begin to look to the future. Our conservation committee under the leadership of John Ecklund has begun to formulate a project under the watchful eye of Ray White. We can only hope that the new board of directors, with the enthusiasm that they have shown me and with help from us all, can turn this year

into one as successful as the last. CONSERVATION COMMITTEE: Anyone interested in being involved in an electrofishing project should reserve the weekends of October 11 and October 18. We are going to try to estimate a local fish population and gather data for possible future study. Everyone is guaranteed to catch their limit if they use the right fly pattern. The will be more

details at our first meeting. FROM THE EDITOR: Contributors are welcome. We will try to convince Harry Barnes to write a monthly fly tying

column. I will try to include a book review, and will also try to include a summary of the board of directors’ meet-

ings.

Files from the Past By: Bob Bawden

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One of our contributors to last years banquet, Glissen Gloss Fibers, asked us to

share the information below with our members.

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RED CEDAR FLY

FISHERS

February 1st: Sunday Fly Tying Night at Piazzano’s Restaurant in the basement Banquet Room.

6:30pm to 8:30pm 10th: RCFF Monthly Meeting, 6:30 P.M. Room 223, Natural

Resources Building at MSU 15th: Sunday Fly Tying Night at Piazzano’s Restaurant in the basement Banquet Room.

6:30pm to 8:30pm 28th: Celebration of Fly Tying, Wyoming, MI. Details inside

this newsletter.

January 7th: Cub Scout Fly Tying In-struction. 6:30pm., Washing-

ton Woods School in Holt.. 13th: RCFF Monthly Meeting, 6:30 P.M. Room 223, Natural

Resources Building at MSU Note new meeting room to-

night 18th: Sunday Fly Tying Night at Piazzano’s Restaurant in the basement Banquet Room.

6:30pm to 8:30pm

Refrigerator Reminders

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