Well, we don't have any streams to adopt, but our club has adopted a local state fishing lake. It was recently drained to repair the dam and we''ll be out in the morning helping the fisheries biolgist with habitat restoration. Mark, you need to check out our web site, freestateflyfishers.org
--- Mark Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --------------------------------- Two things guys.....first, i dunno how many of you are aware of, or even interested in, the FFF's new Adopt-A-Stream program???????? BUT, it's a very cool program where a club takes on a river as their's, so to speak. They sponser it, or sorta step up to the plate to protect it. A sign is erected at a location compatable (usually public water) with eveyone involved and from that point on the club is responsible to do river clean-ups, water montoring, tree plantings, rock rolling on the tribs so the fish can get up to span, etc., etc., etc. The underlying purpose of the sign is to let folks know (fisherman and others) that they are being expected to conduct themselves with respect for the river and the fish therein. You can go to the FFF web-site www.fedflyfishers.org and check it out yourself. Then get off you duffs and get your club to do the righ thing. TGF (Theodore Gordon Flyfishers) has taken on the Beaverkill as their special project, and my wife's club World fly Fishing of Japanm is going to do the same for the Willowemoc. We're getting our sign done now. The FFF pays for the first $100 of the cost of the sign and i think the totall sign cost is $250, something like that. It's a very worthwhile program, because it just let's the public at large know that there's an organization taking responsibility for a river and that everyone is expected to act accordingly. Very positive. Second, the FFF is also sposering a new fly tying contest with 39 different catagories. You can find out all the details at the FFF web-site. It's a really cool deal. I'm entering, just for the fun of it of course. It's basicaly a fund raiser and a membership drive. Pretty cool huh? mark __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
