Please join us on May 1 for a Kiap-on-Tap chapter social at 6:00-8:30 PM at Rush River Brewing in River Falls. Volunteers have been planning away and it’s bound to be a great night to gather, catch-up with old friends, make new friends and enjoy the final chapter meeting of 2018-2019. Then it’s time for spring and summer and making new memories to share at the next chapter meeting in September. Please join us!
We will meet at 8:30 am to sign up for locations along the river and then disperse from there. Lunch will be provided afterwards.
Join us streamside for our next book club meeting on May 23. We will be meeting at a residence near River Falls and carpooling to a location on the Trimbelle River to meet, eat, and discuss our next book, Killers of the Flower Moon.
This year’s Fly Fishing Clinic, sponsored jointly by Kiap-TU-Wish and River Falls Parks and Recreation, is set for Saturday, June 1st, from 1:00-9:00pm in Glen Park, River Falls. We’ve been conducting this clinic for years and we know that it’s always popular; we expect about twenty students. The clinic will cover casting, knot tying, entomology, fishing strategies and wading safety. The Chapter will provide supper during a break at 5:00pm, and guided fishing in the evening.
Our chapter members are invited to join us as instructors, mentors, guides and supper servers. Mark your calendars for June 1st and volunteer by contacting Mike Alwin at mikealwin@gmail.com or Brian Smolinski at brian@lundsflyshop.com. I guarantee you’ll have fun.
—Mike Alwin
Randy Arnold, Kiap’s habitat volunteer coordinator, will be hosting a trout movie night. Come check it out.
Dinner at 6pm (your dime)
Meeting (Movie) starts at 7pm
Erik Helm, a fly fishing guide based in Soldier’s Grove, Wisconsin, will be speaking at our next chapter meeting. Erik is a guide, writer and teacher who has spent countless hours fishing for trout in the Driftless, as well as pursuing
steelhead on the west coast and the Great Lakes tributaries with traditional spey casting. Erik owns Classical Angler Fly Fishing and produces the fly fishing blog “The Classical Angler.”
Hope to see you there!
Dinner at 6pm (your dime)
Meeting starts at 7pm
4:30pm Doors Open
6:30pm Dinner
7:30pm Award
Oshkosh, WI
WIDNR Presentation on Trout
Management Plan
Dinner at 6pm (your dime)
Meeting starts at 7pm
R4F – River Falls Flyfishing Festival
Friday, February 28th. Doors open at 5pm, with films beginning at 7pm.
University Center Riverview Ballroom – UWRF Campus
More details here: 2020 R4F Details >
