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The Wisconsin flyfishing message board I administer along with two
other Midwest based flyfishing websites are hosting a joint Conclave in Avalanche, WI on Sept19th - 21st. While the main activities will be fishing and drinking around campfires, the guiding purpose behind it all is to raise money via a resale table and raffle for the West Fork Sportsmans Club. They experienced two 100 year floods in the last year, with the last in June being especially devastating. Not only were the club grounds, camping, meeting room and cabins ( open to the public, BTW) severely damaged but many of the stream improvements were washed out. In one case the stream itself dug a new, shallow channel a hundred feet away from the old one. So some of us got together a month ago and started to organize this thing. Since the repairs to the buildings are mostly complete my guess is that most of the money raised will go for stream repair and improvements. For those who aren't familiar with the area, the West Fork of the Kickapoo was a put and take, low quality cow pasture stream 20 years ago. Through the work of the Sportsmans Club it was deepened and improved to the point where it is supporting natural reproduction of both browns and brookies. The man behind it all was a guy named Roger Widner, a self taught stream technician. Roger died of cancer two years ago. So I'm sending an invite to all ROFFians. Come over to the Driftless, fish the streams, come sit at the campfires and BS and generally enjoy yourselves. Its a fantastic time of year to be in the area. Fishing is picking up (the browns are going into their pre-spawn binge) and the local orchards are usually in full swing with the year's harvests. And if you decide to drop a few bucks on raffle tickets, all the better. Here is the event website: http://sites.google.com/site/2008avalancherendezvous/ Here is the West Fork clubs website: http://www.westforksportsmansclub.org/ Show up, find me and tell me you're from ROFF and I'll give you a beer. Such a deal. Geo. C. |
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