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In July, the club
holds its meeting on the North Fork of the
Stillaguamish River to coincide with its summer
steelhead outing, There is no regular meeting in
December because of the Christmas Party, awards
ceremony and year-end fund-raiser. In addition to
gathering on the North Fork each July, the club
holds a number of other group fishing outings,
including a winter steelhead fishout, a spring lake
fishout, and a fall cutthroat fishout. Along with
these official club fishouts that have organized
meals and awards, we also have some scheduled
unofficial fishouts throughout the year where
members simply meet to go fishing.Members also get
together regularly for such projects as the June
cleanup of the North Fork, a storied summer-run
steelhead river that the club considers its home
waters.
Each winter, members conduct a series of
flytying classes featuring proven patterns, Rod
building classes have been conducted in the past as
needed. The club also supports a number of
conservation related activities. We try to keep up
on legislative issues affecting our sport and make
our opinions known to the Legislature or state fish
and wildlife officials, In addition to the river
cleanuup, the club sends four children to a summer
conservation camp each year and donates to various
non-club projects and sponsors projects of our own.
In the spring of 1999 for example, the club spent
two weekends planting trees along North Fork feeder
creeks to support young salmon and steelhead. During
2000 and 2001 a historical monument was conceived
and built on the north fork of the Stillaguamish
River.
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