Welcome to 2020! I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday season and is enjoying the first few days of the new year. No fishing trips to report so far, although I purchased my new Oregon fishing license and the various endorsements and tags in hopes of putting them to use on a winter steelhead…
Tag: WaterWatch
Conservation Corner
Foundation Presents Check to WaterWatch Thanks to your generous donations at our annual auction’s Keith Hansen Memorial Paddle Raise, The Flyfisher Foundation presented a check to WaterWatch for $31,050 – A paddle raise record! Nehalem River Earns State Scenic Designation Governor Kate Brown signed the order on June 30th to designate 17.5 miles of the…
President’s Message – June 2019
Thanks to everyone who helped make the 2019 Flyfishers auction a great success. We raised a record amount of money in the paddle raise for Water Watch of Oregon to help with their work on the Crooked River restoration project. Janet Arenz will be providing a more detailed account but from my perspective, a…
Conservation Corner – Support WaterWatch!
As you know, WaterWatch is the recipient of this month’s Keith Hansen Memorial Paddle Raise at our annual auction. The paddle raise supports their work to improve streamflows in the Crooked River. If you take a look at their mission, accomplishments, and recent newsletters, you can see that they reach all corners of Oregon to…
2019 Auction –
From 2019 Auction Chair Janet Arenz – I’m very happy to be the newbie auction chair, officially installed 9 days after I retired. Thank goodness it was handed off as an extremely well organized package, making it easy for a quick start. I jumped in on the most popular oral auction items, and was thrilled…
Conservation Corner – Foundation Grantee for 2019
Flyfisher Foundation Announces This Year’s Recipient of the Keith Hansen Memorial Paddle Raise After careful consideration of several excellent conservation grant applications this year, your Flyfisher Foundation has chosen to award WaterWatch’s proposal to improve streamflow on the Crooked River in Central Oregon. WaterWatch states in their proposal that “The Crooked offers one of the…
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