I don't tie for money either, and anything I tie at a show, I give away...we just finished our local conclave yesterday. We brought in Lefty Kreh to speak. We ended up losing about $300, but that's ok (we had a bout $4000 in the treasury profit rom previous conclaves). We realized we were competing with the FFF Southern conclave (but Oct 2 was the date we could get Lefty, so we went ahead). Our attendance was definitely hurt by the FFF conclave, but also by the Redfish Cup being moved here from Florida (I understand why they moved it, I just wish they would have chosen the 9th instead) and in the LSU football game on TV in the afternoon...they should have come to the conclave, LSU stunk it up!). And we didn't even charge admission! Some people defintely got some great deals in the silent acution as well. Lefty put on a great show for us, and we appreciated it. As far as organizations, I belong to our local club, and CCA. I don't belong to FFF, since I think the CCA does more for our area than FFF ever will. I don't belong to TU for the same reason, I rarely get to go trout fishing anymore, and I rather support conservation efforts here (there are NO freshwater troutin Louisiana, but tons of other attractive targets for a fly). Our local club, has a membership form for FFF on our website if people are so inclined to join, but no requirement of our members to join FFF. But our October meeting is going to be about drafting some mimimal bylaws...at the moment the local club has none, and we defintiely need at least a few things (I'd like to know how long my term as president is supposed to last for one thing...). I gues I'm not all that political, but I am picky about where & what I send my money to support.
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