October is here and with it comes the cooler temperatures and welcome rains of fall. I am actually enjoying the need to pull the blankets up at night and…
Category: President’s Message
President’s Message – September 2021
It was a delight to see so many members last month at our annual August picnic at the casting ponds in Westmoreland. Our first in-person event was very well attended…
President’s Message – August 2021
Summer is Buzzing Away Although the calendar says we are at the midpoint of summer, for me, August is a bittersweet marker of the beginning of the end of my…
President’s Message – July 2021
July is starting out as a pretty good month already, with relief from the unbelievable record heat, the lifting of Covid restrictions as we cross the 70% statewide vaccination…
President’s Message – June 2021
May was a Big Month! Welcome to (almost) summer! A stretch of warm weather last week offered a preview of abundant sunshine and shirtsleeve outdoor dinners, but as I write…
President’s Message – May 2021
If your calendar didn’t remind you, the glorious stretch of sunny weather last month confirmed that it is indeed springtime in Oregon, and that means it is time for our…
President’s Message – April 2021
Tilting the Axis Toward Trout Although the chilly rains of late March feel more like late winter as I write this, the tilting axis of planet earth has passed through…
President’s Message – March 2021
After February’s snow and ice and the resulting power outages for many people in the Willamette Valley, it’s a delight see the sunshine on a comparatively balmy 56 degree day…
President’s Message – February 2021
That’s Winter Fishing! Happy February! Punxsatawney Phil has decreed another six weeks of winter, which appears to have been confirmed by the major nor’easter that dumped several feet of…
President’s Message – January 2021
Welcome to 2021. As I write, the U.S. Capitol Building is currently overwhelmed by political protestors who have shut down the Senate and the House proceedings and forced an evacuation…
