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Great January Fly Sale of 2007 Announced

This annual Great Fly Sale is scheduled for our January 14, 2008 general meeting. Hundreds of flies will go on sale for only $5 per half dozen. That’s just 83 cents per fly! The success of the sale is due to the generous fly donations from PWWTU members whose skill at the vise easily ranks them and their work at the professional level. As in past years, there will be a wide range of traditional patterns to choose from – nymphs, emergers, attractors and dry flies – some of which the trout around here have never seen. So come early and bring extra money because like the kid in the candy store, there will be more “goodies” there to tempt you than planned to buy.

With the dreary winter days and nights now upon us, like most tiers you are probably spending more time at the vise and beginning to re-stock your fly boxes for next year. While you’re at it, please consider tying up some extra half dozens for our January Great Fly Sale. It’s an important chapter fund raising event. You select the patterns and sizes; the chapter will package them a half dozen per box and label them to give credit to the tier.

Flies Needed For the Fly Sale

PWWTU’s annual January Great Fly Sale has grown into one of the chapter’s major fund raising events thanks entirely to the generous fly donations by our members. The next fly sale will take place at our January 14, 2008 general meeting. Between now and then, flies are needed – lots of them. PWWTU recently purchased a new supply of the little plastic boxes in which the fly assortments are packaged. The minimum box quantity was 900! That means we have all of those empty boxes that need to be filled (or at least as many as possible) with flies.

As a reminder, the flies should be tied in ½ dozens. You choose the patterns and sizes. Bring them to any general meeting and give them to Joe Kline. The chapter will package and label each box with the pattern, size and the tier’s name. If you cannot attend the general meetings, call Joe at 412-761-9762 for shipping instructions. So get to work all you fly tiers! And thank you.