Welcome new members Nancy O'Meara, Steve Courtney, Gary Rogers, John Noble and George Kurhajec.

On august 5th an energetic group led by Bruce Moring met at the Chandler City Park across from the entrance to Georgetown Country Club to initiate the club's adopt-a-stream program on the North Fork of the San Gabriel. Armed with large trash bags and dowels with spikes at one end, nine intrepid volunteers set out to clean the riverbed and riverbanks from Country Club Road to Duke's. Numerous sacks of debris were collected and deposited by the hike and bike trail to be disposed of by the city on Monday.

After the work was done we met at Georgetown BBQ for a well deserved meal where members of the group were whispering among themselves about the location of fish they had seen and deep holes that will deserve further investigation later.

We were gratified that numerous hike and bikers stopped to tell us that they appreciated our efforts. Bruce is planning another day on the river to start a water monitoring program and to install signs to document our adopt-a-stream program. This was a very rewarding day for all who participated. Our thanks to Bruce Moring, Bob Brooks, Bob Bruner, Tommy Griffis, Don Johnson, Randy Johnson, Keith Lovin and Stan Mauldin for the good work.

Kudos to Kevin Hutchison for a spirited and entertaining program at the August meeting. he tied a couple of his favorite flies for Hill Country fishing and presented an interesting slide show. It is easy to see how much Kevin enjoys hill country fly fishing. I'm looking forward to spending a day on the river with him when the weather gets cooler.

Our guest speaker for September will be Jack Ellis of Woodville in the heart of East Texas. Jack is author of "Bassin' With a Fly Rod" and "The Sunfishes" and has contributed numerous articles to magazines and newsletters. I'm confident that after hearing Jack we will all have a deeper appreciation of the fish we catch most in our home waters . This program will have special appeal to those fly fishers making a transition from cold water to warm water fishing.

See you all at the September meeting, Brooks