Latest Club Updates:
Come check out the Cabin Fever Reliever Show this Weekend!
Come on over to the World Famous Brewer Auditorium this weekend to check out the sights and sounds of the Cabin Fever Reliever! Doors will be open Saturday from 10am-5pm and 10am-3om on Sunday. Admission is free, so stop by! For more information see the flyer attached at the link below!
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March Meeting Date Switch and Auction
The March meeting of the Penobscot Fly Fishers has been moved to the second Wednesday of March (3/11) to accommodatethe Penobscot County Conservation Association's preparations for their annual Eastern Maine Sportsmen's Show which will be held March 6-8 at the University of Maine's New Balance Field House. We will return to our normal meeting schedule of the first Wednesday of the month in April.
The program for the March meeting will be a slight departure from our usual guest speakers. We have received a fair amount of donated fly fishing and fly tying items that we need to get back out into circulation among the fly fishing community. We will use our March meeting to hold an auction do that. A sample representation of the items that will be auctioned off is provided below.
Items will be available for perusing starting at 5:30 pm and the bidding will start approximately at 6:30. As usual , a family style dinner will be served at 6:00 for those members who would like to purchase one.
Take this opportunity to stock up!
The program for the March meeting will be a slight departure from our usual guest speakers. We have received a fair amount of donated fly fishing and fly tying items that we need to get back out into circulation among the fly fishing community. We will use our March meeting to hold an auction do that. A sample representation of the items that will be auctioned off is provided below.
Items will be available for perusing starting at 5:30 pm and the bidding will start approximately at 6:30. As usual , a family style dinner will be served at 6:00 for those members who would like to purchase one.
Take this opportunity to stock up!
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February 4th Meeting - John Holyoke
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Join us at the PCCA clubhouse in Brewer on February 4th for another great meeting with another excellent speaker, John Holyyoke.
John grew up in Brewer and graduated from the University of Maine in Orono. Since 2002, he has been an outdoors columnist at the Bangor Daily News. He is an avid fly fisher and avid (but thus far unsuccessful) deer hunter. He is also a proud graduate of the Penobscot Fly Fishers beginners fly tying class. John will be joining us again for and hopefully will be bringing us up to date on things happening outdoors which we may or may not have been aware. It has been far too long since we've had John with us! John is always an interesting speaker and we have a good time each time he comes to see us. He may even give me a little more insight as to what he will be focusing on during his talk. Stay tuned to the website for more information! The Dinner will be chicken and all the fixins. |
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The Grey Ghost Award 2015
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The Grey Ghost Award is an award presented to that individual who has demonstrated unusual devotion and commitment to PFF and through that person’s outstanding contributions and achievements Penobscot Fly Fishers has benefited in its purpose to promote fly fishing and conservation through education, volunteer services and personal conduct.
Certainly the choice of the Ghost Committee of Alan Gray for the 2015 Grey Ghost Award meets those prerequisites by a long shot. Alan has always given tirelessly of his time and talents to the Penobscot Fly Fishers. Over the years Alan has been involved a number of programs including fly tying, kid’s tying at the sportsman show, work on the Cabin Fever Committee and at the show to mention a few of his efforts. Alan has also served on the board of directors and as a past President of the club. Congratulations Alan on your selection as the 2015 Grey Ghost Award Winner. |
Previous Award winners Bob Blatz (seated)
Standing left to right Ernie MacDonald, Harold " Brownie" Brown, Hank Metcalf and 2015 Winner Alan Gray
January 7th Meeting - North Woods Law comes to PFF
You heard right, our speaker for the January meeting will be Alan Curtis, one of the game wardens from the hit show North Woods Law on Animal Planet. It will give you a chance to talk with a warden whose celebrity status is tied to his love of his job and the outdoors. Here is a brief piece of info on Alan from the Animal Planet website.
I was born and raised for the most part in Machias, Maine. I was the typical outdoorsy kid growing up, hunting, fishing and camping. After high school, I fought fires out west for two summers and worked at a hardware store during college. I was hired by the Machias Police Department and worked for them for two-and-a-half years until becoming a game warden in 2006. I now live with my wife, very soon-to-be-daughter, four dogs (including Cruizer) and a few chickens in a house I just built. When I’m not working, I like spending time fishing, hunting and trapping. And now I will be able to spend time with my little girl.
This promises to be a great time! Come to the PCCA around 5:30 and optional purchased dinner served at 6:00.
I was born and raised for the most part in Machias, Maine. I was the typical outdoorsy kid growing up, hunting, fishing and camping. After high school, I fought fires out west for two summers and worked at a hardware store during college. I was hired by the Machias Police Department and worked for them for two-and-a-half years until becoming a game warden in 2006. I now live with my wife, very soon-to-be-daughter, four dogs (including Cruizer) and a few chickens in a house I just built. When I’m not working, I like spending time fishing, hunting and trapping. And now I will be able to spend time with my little girl.
This promises to be a great time! Come to the PCCA around 5:30 and optional purchased dinner served at 6:00.
PFF in the News!
Check out the article below published by the Bangor Daily News on December 4th showing the great work of the volunteers of the Penobscot Fly Fishers offering their expertise to the youth of the greater Brewer community.
BREWER, Maine — When in Maine, tie flies. That’s what Brewer high school students have been doing over the last few sessions of their outdoors education classes.
As Penobscot Fly Fishers member Hank Metcalf demonstrated how to tie flies, about 20 students listened carefully along, while also watching an overhead projection of Metcalf’s tying.
“My grandfather fly fishes and I’d like to start,” said student Brian Brown as he tied the last bit of black thread around his woolly booger.
Freshman Jaime Burgess and seniors Ashley Shirland and Brooke Richards sat close together and helped each other with their tying. The three girls each had a tying vice in front of them along with a variety of feathers, hackle and thread, among other materials. They quietly snickered about their tying efforts as Jere Armstrong, also a Fly Fishers member and one of several other members in the school’s lecture hall, hovered overhead helping the students with their meticulous work.
“They’re a great bunch of kids, attentive and enthusiastic,” said Fly Fishers president Ed Dailide.
BDN writer Ardeana Hamlin contributed to this report.
The full article can be seen by following this link:
http://bangordailynews.com/slideshow/penobscot-fly-fishers-give-brewer-students-a-lesson-in-fly-tying/
BREWER, Maine — When in Maine, tie flies. That’s what Brewer high school students have been doing over the last few sessions of their outdoors education classes.
As Penobscot Fly Fishers member Hank Metcalf demonstrated how to tie flies, about 20 students listened carefully along, while also watching an overhead projection of Metcalf’s tying.
“My grandfather fly fishes and I’d like to start,” said student Brian Brown as he tied the last bit of black thread around his woolly booger.
Freshman Jaime Burgess and seniors Ashley Shirland and Brooke Richards sat close together and helped each other with their tying. The three girls each had a tying vice in front of them along with a variety of feathers, hackle and thread, among other materials. They quietly snickered about their tying efforts as Jere Armstrong, also a Fly Fishers member and one of several other members in the school’s lecture hall, hovered overhead helping the students with their meticulous work.
“They’re a great bunch of kids, attentive and enthusiastic,” said Fly Fishers president Ed Dailide.
BDN writer Ardeana Hamlin contributed to this report.
The full article can be seen by following this link:
http://bangordailynews.com/slideshow/penobscot-fly-fishers-give-brewer-students-a-lesson-in-fly-tying/
