Our schedule June speaker having canceled, we were lucky to get Jim Schollmeyer as our June Speaker.  His topic will be: Chasing Western Hatches.

 

Did you know gigantic hatches of insects that trout love pop up throughout the Western United States all year long?  And that those hatches include midges, baetis, march browns, green drakes, and golden stones and that they occur in different places and during different months in not only the U.S. but Canada?  And did you know that you could also that you could follow these hatches and fish 12 months of the year?  Well, you can.

 

The man who has followed, studied, and photographed such bugs and the fly fishing that accompanies them is expert guide, professional fly fishing photographer, and author Jim Schollmeyer. 

 

His presentation will be a seasonal look at the important Western hatches and some of the waters where they occur, from the San Juan River in New Mexico to the Provinces of Canada.  Of course, included in this will be details on how to locate and catch all the fish that want to eat all those bugs.

 

Jim was born in Minot, North Dakota where he started fishing at the age of four.  He has been chasing hatches, tying flies to match them, and fishing for trout in Western North America since the late 1960’s. Today he lives in Salem, Oregon where he learned to become a steeley-eyed guide in Central Oregon.  Jim tells us he took up photography to fill up the slack time between hatches.  He sold his first photo to Field & Stream magazine in 1981.  His first book, Hatch Guide for the Deschutes River was published in 1994.

 

Besides his first book mentioned above, he is the author of Hatch Guide for Western Streams, Hatch Guide for Western Lakes, Nymph Fly-Tying Techniques, and with Ted Leeson, co-authored The Fly Tier’s Benchside Reference, Tying Emergers and the acclaimed The Benchside Introduction to Fly Tying.

 

Also, we will be having a silent auction for the donation from our May speaker, Conway Bowman.  As you remember, he donated a discounted full day charter for up to three anglers for 50% off ( a $300.00 savings) for Fly Fishing for Mako Sharks, guaranteed to get your blood racing. 

 

 So bring your checkbook and see you there.

 

Bob Habereder