Thankx Jeff, i'll do that. mark
From: Jeff Frye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [VFB] the FFF and You
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:14:28 -0800 (PST)
>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:
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>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
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