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Tale Waters The Voice of the North Arkansas Fly Fishers North Arkansas Fly Fishers meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Meetings are held at the Van Matre Senior Center located at 1101 Spring St Mountain Home, AR 72653. Membership meeting starts at 7:00 pm. All members and guests are welcome and encouraged to attend. NAFF Board of Directors’ meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at 1:00 pm 1st Security Bank on 9th St. All members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Visit North Arkansas Fly Fishers Online at www.northarkansasflyfisher.org Officers President — Mike Tipton (870) 404 8845 Vice President — Susan Parsons (618) 791-3638 Secretary — Pat Smith (870) 404-0747 Treasurer — Cindy Lewis (870) 425-3968 Directors Conservation — Tommy Hagan (870) 430-2091 Property — Kevin Boddy (870) - 421-7804 Education — Ceil Gasiecki (219) 776-9620 Membership — Paul Ashton (870) 425-9230 Past President — Ken Sickels (870) 321-2661 Appd. by Pres. — Danny Barker (870) 424-4110 Tale Waters is published 2nd Tues- day of each month. Article deadline is 1st Tuesday of the month. Staff: Mike Tipton & Rita Billbe Contact: [email protected] North Arkansas Fly Fishers April 17, 2018 Tale Waters At the April NAFF meeting local fly fishing guide and NAFF member Danny Barker will talk about his life as a fisherman and as a guide. Danny has probably fished and guided long- er than most of us. He has many sto- ries and interesting tales, tall and oth- erwise! This should be an interesting and entertaining evening. Danny started fishing at a very young age. He was taught how to catch fish on a fly rod, spinning and bait casting equipment by his mother and father. After a forty-hour work week, fishing became the most important activity in their family life. They fished for trout, smallmouth and largemouth bass. They were taught to use artificial lures only. No live bait of any type was al- lowed. After moving to Virginia they did some salt water fishing in the Chesapeake Bay and off-shore fishing off Cape Hatteras North Carolina. They fished the Atlantic Intercoastal waterways in Virginia and North Car- olina for largemouth bass. Danny retired after Cont. next page Danny Barker - My Fishing Life Sowbug Roundup Big Success! Sowbug Roundup 2018, the 21st annual, turned out to be the best ever. We really raised the bar with this one. We had about $40k in gross proceeds from this show! We are still paying bills and haven’t yet gotten our check from the Moun- tain Home AP Commission, so we don’t yet know the net profit. But it looks pretty good. The other num- bers were also amazing: over 500 paid attendees, 92 membership re- newals, 43 new members, 140 fly tyers, 30 vendors, 80 NAFF volun- teers for a total of about 900 at- tendees. This is a real number. There is little inflation in it and it is probably conservative. The Sowbug Roundup brought in over 300 hotel/motel nights to Mountain Home. These numbers will encourage the continuing sup- port of the Mountain Cont. next page

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Tale Waters

The Voice of the North Arkansas Fly Fishers

North Arkansas Fly Fishers meetings are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Meetings are held at the Van Matre Senior Center located at 1101 Spring St Mountain Home, AR 72653. Membership meeting starts at 7:00 pm. All members and guests are welcome and encouraged to attend.

NAFF Board of Directors’ meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at 1:00 pm 1st Security Bank on 9th St. All members are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Visit North Arkansas Fly Fishers Online at

www.northarkansasflyfisher.org

Officers

President — Mike Tipton (870) 404 8845 Vice President — Susan Parsons (618) 791-3638 Secretary — Pat Smith (870) 404-0747 Treasurer — Cindy Lewis (870) 425-3968

Directors

Conservation — Tommy Hagan (870) 430-2091 Property — Kevin Boddy (870) - 421-7804 Education — Ceil Gasiecki (219) 776-9620 Membership — Paul Ashton (870) 425-9230 Past President — Ken Sickels (870) 321-2661 Appd. by Pres. — Danny Barker (870) 424-4110

Tale Waters is published 2nd Tues-day of each month. Article deadline is 1st Tuesday of the month. Staff: Mike Tipton & Rita Billbe Contact: [email protected]

North Arkansas Fly Fishers April 17, 2018 Tale Waters

At the April NAFF meeting local fly fishing guide and NAFF member Danny Barker will talk about his life as a fisherman and as a guide. Danny has probably fished and guided long-er than most of us. He has many sto-ries and interesting tales, tall and oth-erwise! This should be an interesting and entertaining evening.

Danny started fishing at a very young age. He was taught how to catch fish on a fly rod, spinning and bait casting equipment by his mother and father. After a forty-hour work week, fishing became the most important activity in their family life. They fished for trout, smallmouth and largemouth bass. They were taught to use artificial lures only. No live bait of any type was al-lowed. After moving to Virginia they did some salt water fishing in the Chesapeake Bay and off-shore fishing off Cape Hatteras North Carolina. They fished the Atlantic Intercoastal waterways in Virginia and North Car-olina for largemouth bass.

Danny retired after Cont. next page

Danny Barker - My

Fishing Life

Sowbug Roundup

Big Success!

Sowbug Roundup 2018, the 21st annual, turned out to be the best ever. We really raised the bar with this one. We had about $40k in gross proceeds from this show! We are still paying bills and haven’t yet gotten our check from the Moun-tain Home AP Commission, so we don’t yet know the net profit. But it looks pretty good. The other num-bers were also amazing: over 500 paid attendees, 92 membership re-newals, 43 new members, 140 fly tyers, 30 vendors, 80 NAFF volun-teers for a total of about 900 at-tendees. This is a real number. There is little inflation in it and it is probably conservative.

The Sowbug Roundup brought in over 300 hotel/motel nights to Mountain Home. These numbers will encourage the continuing sup-port of the Mountain

Cont. next page

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April President’s

Message

The Sign Says it All

The Sowbug Roundup has come and gone, and it was a big success. The Sowbug could only be such a success through the efforts of the many NAFF members who helped. The volunteer sign in sheet lists the names of 80 NAFF members! The Sowbug Roundup committee meets year round to plan Sowbug and to recruit and coordinate the volunteers. I would like to recognize those folks.

Dennis and Amy Galyardt are the only NAFF members who have been part of Sowbug from the get-go. They coordinate obtaining items for raffles and auctions and the actual operation of the raffles and auctions. They are a very im-portant part of the whole Sowbug process.

Ron Beasley and Richard Thomas were Fly Tiers Co-Chairmen, which is one of the most im-portant jobs of Sowbug. They had to continually communicate, coor-dinate, and keep from strangling more than 150 prima donna fly

Barker — from page 1

tyers. If these guys didn’t do their jobs successfully, the show would be a failure! It was not!

Pat Smith is usually behind the scenes with Sowbug; but takes care of a multitude of nitty gritty de-tails that make the show so suc-cessful.

Cindy Louis is our club treasurer---one of those behind the scenes un-sung jobs that are really a lot of work! I will sing a bit! Cindy did a great job of handling the daily cashflow of the show. Then she figured out how much we spent and how much

Sowbug — from page 1

working for forty-one years as a tool and die maker with Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Compa-ny. He and his wife moved to Moun-tain Home and he became a trout fishing guide in 2008. He enjoys guiding and teaching people how to catch trout using ultra-light spinning gear and fly-fishing gear with artificial lures. He is grateful to his parents for giving him such a good education in fishing and catching techniques. He certainly enjoys sharing with others what was taught to him as a child.

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Home Advertising and Promotion Commission. They contributed about $2500 this year. At one point during Sowbug week, every available room in the River Rock Inn was rented by Sowbug attendees!

We had the busiest Thursday ever this year. We are not sure why we had the big increase in attendance. There were a couple things that con-tributed. There was the focus on Tenkara, which brought in some people who otherwise might not have attended. We really hit Face-book hard during the runup to the show. We posted a lot of info and pictures in an attempt to create a real “buzz”. It seemed to work. Hav-ing a theme for the show seemed to help. Next year we are thinking of perhaps having “warm water fly fish-ing” for a theme.

Of course, none of the show would have happened without the efforts of the platoons of NAFF volunteers that turned out. We will praise them in other articles!

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you do want to obtain them, then Dally’s fly shop has them in stock; or contact me for your caddis sea-son fly selection.

The tying for this fly which is the DW Emerged caddis is as follows.

Thread - whatever you choose.

Hook - Wapsi Lightning strike NW1 sizes 12/14

Body - Is hares ear with a reverse wound tan ostrich herl with after a forward wound gold rib wire or a strand of gold Flashabou.

Legs - Two pairs of knotted pheas-ant tail fibers.

Wing - First is doubled folded tan swiss straw over which is tied a tan colored CDC puff.

Hackle - Brown partridge, you can also use hen pheasant neck or a light tan speckled hen hackle

Fly of the Month Two Caddis from Davy

Caddis season is about to happen, or at least we hope so. I have seen some sparse hatches recently. Many have been interested to know the fly patterns that l use. There are a number of them based on how l wish to fish, or have my clients fish. I am aware of the fact that you can get away with some simple fly patterns such as the Grannom green tail or partridge and hares ear soft hackle. That said there will be others that will work better and this is one of them.

Generally, l fish this pattern in combination with my SLF caddis trans caddis pupa, a deadly combi-nation, flies spaced 4 ft. apart on a longish leader 12 to 14 ft. You need the separation from the fly line both for animated movement of the flies and visual of the fly line to the fish, a factor that many do not consider and the relative distance from the fly line to the flies. Further l personally do not use WF line profiles, as they cause exaggerated drag. Either a DT pro-file is best or at least a line weight in the 3 or 4 weight class.

Granted it’s not a fly that the be-ginner tyer will find easy to tie. If

Tail - A short tag of tan CDC puff.

Body - SLF dubbing of either an olive or tan shade. You may also use light shade hares ear dubbing, but will not create a translucent effect for the body. With a reverse wind of tan ostrich herl, ribbed forward with gold or silver wire or a strand of gold Flashabou over this and a doubled strip of tan swiss straw.

Hackle - Brown partridge, hen pheasant neck or speckled brown hen hackle

The DW SLF trans caddis pupa emerger.

This is more of an updated version of my original from the 80s, in fact l would say a better fly.

Hook - Wapsi Lightning strike NWI 12 or 14.

Bead - Silver 2 mm

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Sowbug Tyers Recap

From a tier’s and tying viewpoint, the 2018 Sowbug Roundup was the biggest and best yet. We host-ed over 140 tiers who came from as far East as New York and New Hampshire and as far West as Cal-ifornia. They came from as far North as Michigan to as far South as Texas and Louisiana. We again had tiers from around 40 states and with an enlarged table and seating arrangement, tiers were able to tie as much as they wished. As has been noted before, these tiers are The Stars of the Show! Grant Carter was a great help in placing tables and arriving at the successful final seating design and capacity. A crowding issue with the arrangement has been identi-fied and the solution is apparent.

The Tiers Party was a big success with the attendance accurately esti-mated at about 100-150 people. The Grilling Team did a great job of keeping the hamburgers, brats, and hot dogs coming for the at-tendees and their wives helping in the Lodge. This group, led by Richard Thomas, were greatly ap-preciated, and they know who they are.

The Featured Tiers were very pop-ular, with a new arrangement and plenty of room. Leslie Wrixon, Paul Hoelscher, Fred DuPre’, Peg-gy Brenner, Son Tao, and Reid Benton were featured and drew people to that area as much as three deep at times. These tiers are congratulated and thanked for accepting as Featured Tiers and demonstrating their talents for us at Sowbug.

The Tying Classes were also popu-lar and were all around capacity at class time. The variety of tech-niques taught by Jack Harford on “House Fly Foam Techniques; Tom Bullock, “An Easy Method for Woven Flies”; Scott Hen-dricks, “Methods for Tying Better Dry Flies”; and Fishy Fullum “Creative Flies using Traditional and Non-traditional Materials” gave plenty of variety to choose from and they were appropriately popular and well attended.

Flies contributed by the tiers were used in two plates auctioned off on Friday and Saturday and the remaining flies were auctioned off in bulk at the Sowbug Shindig with 25 flies to be framed by Steve Jensen. A display case containing flies donated by the Featured Tiers was also sold at auction at the Shindig. Winners in John Berry’s Fly Tying Contest were an-nounced and featured more partic-ipation and a variety of new win-ners.

We had a great group of tiers and great support from local NAFF members and all contributed to a very successful 21st Sowbug Roundup in Mountain Home, Arkansas.

Ron Beasley

2018 Sowbug Tying Chair

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Can you say caddis? On warmer days in the afternoons when the sun is shining, the caddis are pop-ping. In fact, they were actually on time this year and were hatch-ing a bit before and during the Sowbug Roundup, which I know made lots of folks very happy. The Sunday after the Sowbug I found myself up at the dam with the sun shining and the caddis popping and the fish taking my nymphs. Using two with the top one a size #14 and a smaller #16 below it with a Palsa indicator. Later in the week further downstream fish-ing mostly on top of rock piles, (which is where those little crea-tures like to hang out) the catching continued. Bruce creek hole as well as the area above the Narrows and below the Narrows and in Tucker Shoals are some prime are-as to catch good fish. For some wade in action, Three Chutes is also productive.

The caddis should continue through April with the afternoons being more productive than the mornings. It would also help if

Jimmy T’s Fishing Report — April the flows stayed below 2 units or

ideally at minimum flow. I know the lake has come up several feet and is now up to 665.44 as of Tuesday morning. This is much better than last year; but then April has just gotten started. If we can get some lower flows for the rest of the month, especially in the afternoons, these fish will take flies on dropping water which nor-mally they will not do. As May ap-proaches, we get closer to the may-fly action; so get prepared for that action too.

This guide is also preparing for the terrestrial action of the summer and we are bringing in some inter-esting leg materials for hop-pers. We also have some foam cutters in, so you can make your own bodies. To make those foam flies float higher than a basketball full of air, we are also loaded up with Mucilin in both colors.

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The April raffle will include a vari-ety of goodies. Including:

Cortland pro cast 9-foot five weight two piece fly rod and reel

wide range of saddles

Rio Superflex Tippet

San Juan worm kits

Egg pattern flies and small scuds

Fly Tyer magazines.

Blue ribbon hat

April Raffle Membership Report

Membership at this year's Sowbug was our best year ever in terms of memberships. 43 new members in comparison to 38 in 2017 and 29 in 2016. Nine-teen of the new memberships were families and eleven were from out of state. 92 members pro-cessed their renewals and eight expired members renewed. A spe-cial thank you to the volunteers that handled the front desk and mem-bership table for your outstanding support and promotional efforts. Introductions of the new members will begin next month after we have verified all the correct contact in-formation. Total membership are now at 576 members and 409 memberships.

Thank you to all the members that renewed at Sowbug and the recent club meeting; It greatly simplifies our renewal

used for education, conservation, community projects and club activ-ities.

Believe me we needed every one of these people to pull off this show. It is with extreme gratitude that we thank them for their help and par-ticipation. There would be no Sowbug without them.

Dennis and Amy Galyardt

ie Stumpf, Cindy Louis, Ceil Gasiecki, Pat Smith, Mike Enger, Stan Suszka, Bill Osbourne, Rich-ard Baruch, Susan Parsons, Den-nis and Amy Galyardt.

Then came the three days of Sow-bug. Helpers appeared as if by magic and the raffles, silent auc-tions, live auctions and free table stuff were set into motion. Cash-iers, ticket sellers, organizers that ran the auctions and raffles as well as ticket counters and even an-nouncers were all a critical part of this monumental task. The Auc-tion/Raffle Show Helpers include: Dave Hussey, Vern Berry, Mary Jacobsen, Bonnie Davis, Rueben Swenson, Ceil Gasiecki, Carol Beasley, Regina Manning, Mary Lou Maples, Fred Stumpf, Mike Enger, Cindy Louis, Tommy Ha-gan, Pat Smith, Rochelle and Randy Zimmerman, Mike Stout, Mac Caradine, Bill Osburn, Mark Burgess, Carla and James Dennis, Bruce Burr, George Mil-ler, Colin Carr.

The Sowbug was a great success and records for attendance and cash receipts were broken for each day. The incredible amount of preparation paid off with the show grossing over $40,000 that will be

Big Thanks to Solicitors and Auction / Raffle

Helpers!!

The number of man-hours that go into the preparation for the Sow-bug Roundup is unbelievable. The solicitation of local merchants and the gathering of their contri-butions is a task that takes concen-trated effort for several weeks. This year seven individuals divided the Mountain Home area into zones and collected nearly $7,500 in merchandise, cash and cou-pons. Our Sowbug solicitors were: Ron Beasley, Mike Tipton, Dave Cornue, Tommy Hagan, Mike Enger, Mac Caradine, Rich-ard Baruch.

Sorting and placing a huge num-ber of donations from Local Mer-chants, Club Members, National Donors, Show Vendors and Fly Tyers was accomplished by the Sowbug Super Sorting Squad. Beginning the first of January, 13 dedicated club members met week-ly to record, distribute and display the huge number of items that went into the auctions and raffles. Susan Parsons provided her spa-cious basement for our work space. When the crew was in full swing, it was busier than Santa’s workshop the day before Christ-mas. The Super Sorters were: Rueben Swenson, Fred and Cork-

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Fly Tyers Wanted

The Springfield Chapter of the Missouri Trout Fishermen's Asso-ciation will hold its second annual Fly Fishing Exposition this year on July 27th and 28th. It will be a celebration of everything fly fish-ing and it will be held in one of the premier trout fishing areas of the Ozarks, Branson, Missouri. We have a fine venue at the Bran-son-Hollister Lions Club Commu-nity Center at 1015 E. State High-way 76.

The purpose of this letter is to re-quest your help as a fly tying de-monstrator. We're hoping to have tiers in four-hour shifts: from 9 am to 1 pm and 1 pm to 5 pm on both days. If you can help during any of these shifts, we would great-ly appreciate your company and you can expect to have a good time.

Spots are filling up fast. Contact us by email at [email protected] or by phone at 417-379-0545. Check us out on the web at MTFA-SPRINGFIELD.org or on Face-book at MTFA-SPRINGFIELD.

Front Door Volunteers Were

Busy

Thanks—Club Donors!!

Nobody at the Sowbug Roundup sat on their rear ends and twid-dled their thumbs. But the folks in the two teams at the front door were really busy. The Front Door team under Karen Tipton sold over 500 tickets, sent about 130 folks to the Membership Team, and answered a zillion questions. The team members were Shella Hagan, Janey Buck, Mike Nighbert, Suzanne Griscom, Bob Waldeck, Ollie Waldeck, Susan Parsons, Frank Gerritson, Bob Krause, William Weingart, and Jerry Brenner.

The Membership Team was equal-ly busy. The team, led by Paul Ash-ton, renewed memberships, sold new memberships, and updated membership data for 143 NAFF members. The team included Bob Karr, Rick Goudelock, Sue Badzek, Steve Wilson, Ron Burk, Eddie Dean, Joe Salisbury, and Basye Holloand.

The various Sowbug “Teams” and their members are described in the newsletter. But there are a lot of NAFF members who did not nec-essarily belong to a team, but who nevertheless were there to pitch in when needed--especially during setup and take down. These folks contributed just as much to the success of the show as the various team members. It takes every one of the 90 Sowbug volunteers to make the show a success.

These volunteers include: Danny Barker, Terry Briggs II, Schuyler Brower, Wayne Buck, Tom Emer-ick, Ray Emerson, Bill Enger, Kev-in Fink, Chuck Gahl, Frank Geir-itson, Duane Hada, Mike Jirka, John Maples, Bill Mechelker, Eric Moody, Dave O’Gorman, Chuck Orvis, Michael Paquette, James Penns, Duke Smith, Bob Spangler, Sue Spangler, Boyd Tillotson, Al Vekovius, Grant Vekovius, Bob Verboon, and William Weingart.

Thanks!!

Club member donations are a very important part of the auctions and raffles at the Sowbug Roundup. Our members dig deep into their fly tying materials, fishing gear, garages, attics, basements and root cellars to find items to contribute to the show. The club members who tie dozens of flies for the Auc-tions and Raffles make so many visiting anglers happy. Not every-thing looks like a treasure to every-one, but you can bet that some-body at Sowbug will want to take something home. We get: rods, reels, flies, boxes, bedspreads, art-work, apple pies, wine, beer and bubble bath. It all goes into the auction/raffle mix and it all leaves the fairgrounds in the hands of a happy show attendee. These are the club members who donated to Sowbug 2018 and we appreciate them very much. We couldn’t do this without you.

Bob Jensen

Rueben Swenson

Fred DuPre

Dennis Galyardt

George Peters

Amy Galyardt

Mike Tipton

Naif Khoury

Susan Parsons

Pat Smith

Judy Jensen

Ron Hulstein

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And More Volunteers!!

President — from page 2

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Stan Suszka

Jim Bowerman

Cindy Louis

Bob Kern

Peggy Brenner

David Fulghum

Tom Emerick

Diane Mikrut

Henry Seay

Ron Beasley

John Berry

Jerry Felts

Michael Schraeder, Jr

Richard Ramsey

Danny Barker

Carol Beasley

Terry Briggs

Bob Krause

Karen Tipton

Jim Ethier

Kym Petray

Mary Kay Caldwell

Arno & Angela Justman

Clarence Winans

Mary Lou Maples

we made!

Grant Carter is the Sowbug ven-dor chair. He found and coordi-nated vendors before the show and then kept them happy during the show. Grant did a great job!

Kevin Boddy managed the NAFF table and coordinated the setup and teardown of the Sowbug Shin-dig. I was really happy that I could bail out at the end the Shindig knowing that Kevin had it under control!

Tommy Hagan is much more than being the guy behind the camera and holding the microphone. As the publicity chair for Sowbug, he did the necessary coordination. The banner over the highway in Gassville, setup our “appearances” on the local radio stations and schmoozing with the local govern-ments for Sowbug

Steve Blumreich was the program chair. He had to identify and con-tact possible presenters. Then co-ordinate the programs during the show and fix such problems as when the video projector died.

Paul and Lynn Ashton handled the Membership table. During the show they and their assistants took care of the membership details for almost 150 new and renewing members!

Terry Briggs is our Kids’ Program Chair. He coordinates the kids’ activities and shakes the trees at merchants like BassPro for goodies for the kids.

Ron Hulstein is our table wran-

gler. He coordinates the young muscular guys who bring in and setup the heavy tables that we bor-row from the FFI Southern Coun-cil. His efforts have made the work to set up and take down the show much more pleasant!

Susan Parsons, Vice President of NAFF, made the basement of her home available to the auctions and raffles sorting team. They greatly appreciated a heated area with running water and a clean bath-room!

Ed Hakesly has, for years, done a great job as the guy who coordi-nates and teaches the walk-in fly tying class by the front door.

John Berry runs the Sowbug Roundup Fly Tying Contest. The contest adds luster to the show and the auction of the shadow box with the winning fly really helps our bottom line!

There are several NAFF members that I especially want to mention and thank. Jim Walz took it upon himself to sort out and fix the traf-fic jam in the parking lot. He was very successful and this is a task that was certainly above and be-yond the call of duty! Keith Hens-ley, Randy Zimmerman, and Ro-chelle Zimmerman are NAFF members that live out of town. They made special treks to attend Sowbug and then made special efforts to volunteer.

Mike Tipton—President

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Sowbug Thanks These Local Donors

Each year some donors give cash gifts to the Sowbug Roundup. This year our event received $1300. We used this money for food and drink at the Sowbug Tyer’s Welcoming party on Wednesday, March 21st and at the Shindig, a Thank You dinner for all those involved in producing the show. By underwriting these activ-ities with this money, we are free to use the auction and raffle re-ceipts for conservation and educa-tion. The generosity of these cash donors cannot be overstated. We certainly appreciate their support. They include:

Broyhill, Inc. – Dakota City, NE

Walmart – Mountain Home, AR

Tyson Foods – Clarksville, AR

Harps – Mountain Home, AR

First Security Bank - Mountain Home, AR

Centennial Bank - Mountain Home, AR

Angie’s Closet - Mountain Home, AR

Plumlee Tire - Mountain Home, AR

62 East Auto Repair - Mountain Home, AR

Underwriting Sowbug

178 Club 62 E Auto Repair 9th Street Grill Aditas All Pet & Equine Supply Angie's Closet Antiques and Uncle Junk Arena Sports Grill Auto Zone Bamboo Garden Buffalo Shoals Guide Service Buffalo Wild Wings Butler Furniture Car Care Carl Wayne Nursery Carter's Jewel Chest Casa Montana Centennial Bank Chen's Garden Chili's Grill & Bar Colton's Steak House Comfort Inn Connies' Café Copper John's Resort Country Club Liquor Crystal's Pet Salon Dairy Queen Diamond Head Restaurant Dinky Diner DJ Fitness Studio Domino's Pizza Driftwood Lanes Dusit Thai Cuisine Edward Jones Investments El Chico First Security Bank Fred's Fish House Fujiyama Steakhouse Gastons Genuine Care Pharmacy Gift-Tiques Gregg Farm Services, Inc. Gregory Jewelers Hardees Harps Market Heidi's Ugly Cakes Hodges Marine Inc Holly Jewelry/Keith Coin Image&Things/ABC Print Italian Gardens Dining Joe's True Value Judicious Spirits Kent Chevrolet KTLO KT's Smokehouse BBQ

Little Caesar's Pizza Locker Room Sporting Goods, Inc Look Etc. Salon & Spa Lowes MarMar Resort & Tackle Moranz Lawn & Garden Mudbusters Car Wash Nabatak, Inc Natures Way Old Tyme Restaurant O'Reilly Auto Parts Orscheln's Farm Supply Outback Banner Papa John's Parkview Pizza Petco Pizza Inn Plumlee Tire Ponder Health/ All Care Pharmacy Popeyes Porter's Pawn Ramada Remember Me Quilt & Fabric Shop Remember When Antiques & Collectibles Rim Shoals Riverview Emporium Rusty Rooster Salsa's Grill Sears Roebuck & Co Sew Smart Sewing Center Sew Smart Sewing Center Sew Unique Sherwin Williams Shirt Shop Simply Beautiful Skippers Sleep Mart Sonic Steve's Satellite Service The Back Forty Restaurant The Corner Joint The Cotton Company The Garden Spot The Meat Shop Town & Country Truck Patch Twin Lakes Golf Club Two Rivers Fly Shop Walmart Wendy's Western Sizzlin Whispering Woods

PO Box 1213 Mountain Home, AR 72653

North Arkansas Fly Fishers

Events of Interest to NAFF Members

April

4/2/2018 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Trout Unlimited Meeting, El Chicos

4/3/2018 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM NAFF Board Meeting, 1st Security Bank, 105 E 9th St

4/10/2018 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Sowbug Roundup meeting, Baxter County Library

4/17/2018 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM NAFF Membership Meeting, Van Matre Senior Center

4/19/2018 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM Fishing outing to Country Oaks B&B Mountain View

May

5/1/2018 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM NAFF Board Meeting, 1st Security Bank, 105 E 9th St

5/7/2018 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Trout Unlimited Meeting, El Chicos

5/8/2018 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Sowbug Roundup meeting, Baxter County Library

5/20/2018 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM NAFF Picnic, Lower Pavilion, Bull Shoals State Park