Well, my wish came true. One of our junior members, Rachael, was the recipient of the fly box. Funny part was that when my number was called, they reached in the box and pulled out MY flies and handed them to me. I recognized the wrapping paper and asked to swap it out. The next number drawn was Rachael's and she got the flies. Can you tell she's happy?
One of our members (and a FAOL member as well, Fly Tyer CC) creates a fly plate each year from all the flies tied by our guest tiers and our volunteer "Favorite Fly" tiers each month of the previous club year (2006-2007). Here's this year's plate that was raffled off tonight.
Accompanying the fly plate is a spiral bound booklet with a bio of each tier, and a full page recipe of the fly/flies tied by each person. These recipes also appear each month in our newsletter. You can check out recipes going back to 2002 in our newsletter archive at http://ncff.net/tln.htm
Joe