From 2009...

First and foremost I have to thank all the Usual Suspects for their programs and fly tying demonstrations! This wouldn't be much of an event without them! Ya'll contact them and say hi and thanks too!

Paul Lawler (left) visits with Bill Heugel and Ashley Berry while tying... Fred DuPre fishes out materials in the background>>>>>

The Usual Suspects:
Fred DuPre - Dallas, TX
Johnny McJunkins - Mineral Springs, AR
Larry Offner - Baton Rouge, LA
Dick Waldrep - New Boston, TX
Eddie Driskill - Shreveport, LA
John Scarborough - Shreveport, LA
David Chin - West Monroe, LA
Rex White - Stonewall, LA
Richard and Diane Blair - Dallas, TX
Gordon Shaw - Shreveport, LA
Ashley Berry - Little Rock, AR
Bill Heugel - Hemphill, TX
Wes Traister - Pennsylvania / Riverside
Diane Blair - Dallas, TX
Richard Blair - Dallas, TX
Don Lawler - Shreveport, LA
Paul Lawler - Shreveport, LA

Thanks, certainly, go to everyone who brought food - all the NLFF bunch - Mary Scarborough, Carmoleta White, John Fatherree, I hate to start naming names because I'm going to forget someone! Marcey Berry, Dick Waldrep - who else???

<<<<<   Having fun! Some of the bunch, I think, trying new technology to figure out what's in my Little Mo' Wooly blend!!!!

My thanks to Bubba Smith, Texarkana, TX for showing us his shots from fishing in Slovenia, not to mention his pot of venison chili! "Mon Oncle" Larry Offner for his talk about the Rio and fishing New Orleans City Park! And to Gordon Shaw and his Fishing Farm Ponds program. I think this was the first time Gordon has done a presentation here!

The most studious Bill Heugel (at right) presented a quite informative discussion of Fish Senses, what fish see smell and hear, that if any of you get the chance to see again at any other fly fishing event you will definitely want to check it out!

And in what has become a bit of a tradition Trout Program "head" biologist Jeff Williams returned to give us the latest reports and intentions of the AGFC as far as the fishery is concerned. Most enlightening, once again!

Jeff indicated that the Skinny Water Project may be a reality this summer or fall (2009) and discussed the beginnings of the plan for the access trail from Hind's Bluff upstream past River Ridge! Also, that there should be another batch of Browns heading this way in the coming weeks! Great stuff from the AGFC!

Our great thanks to Don Jackson of Ouachita Outdoor Outfitters as, not only did he bring his usual stuff from the store, but he kindly donated a TFO rod which we raffled off with proceeds going to the Friends of the Little Mo! We raised $380 for the Friends and the rod was won by my old buddy John Fatherree of Shreveport!

<<<<<   Eight folks came out for the "Can You Take It" casting clinic on Sunday morning at Riverside!

And I was so pleased that Dan Bogler of the Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Development Co was here to be a part and bring all of those River Ridge prints that he graciously allowed to be door prizes just for being around! I hope everyone who recieved or bought one outright truly appreciates what they took home with them!

Actually, I hope everyone appreciates whatever they may have taken home with them - new knowledge, techniques, gear, flies, new friends,