Soundings (2/5/13)

Posted by G. Stowe Talbot 
on Feb 5, 2013
 
 

Flag Salute & Invocation by Paul Twedt 

Visiting Rotarians: none 

Guests: Mike McCallum 

New member applicants: Kendrall Pickerill, Asst Manager at the Bellwether Hotel, sponsored by Stan Dyer 

Announcements: 

  • Bill Geyer says Membership Committee will be meeting today;
  • Brad Cornwell Charitable Giving Committee also meeting;
  • Lance Calloway says our next felllowship event will be to see the Bellingham Blazers hockey team (date?); 
  • Bellingham Bay Rotary Foundation's current value: $196,886. Change from Dec 31:  $ 7,089!
 
Bucks in the Bay 
  • Glen Groenig with a long anecdote about a Ferrari and Stan; 
  • Steve Kimberly turned 64 with bucks for the Foundation;
  • Pete Rittmueller with IOU for 40th anniversary next week celebrate in Maui, and his father celebrating 100 year birthday; 
  • Eddie Hansen back from three weeks in Tortola on a catamaran with wife and three kids! Terrific vacation in a beautiful part of the world; 
  • Bill Gorman for wife's birthday; 
  • John Templeton back from vacation, grandson birthday; 
  • Bill Geyer for granddaughter birthday, vote no on prop. 1. 

Sergeant at Arms by Mark Turner 

Fines for no Rotary pins, John Sleeth, travelers to warm climes, misc. trivia. 

Program

Bob Moles introduced himself as today's speaker. His slide show was about a flyfishing trip he took last September (with Mike McCallum and Mike Hammes) to Katmai National Park in Alaska. He has been doing the trip in the fall for the last several years.  There is a beautiful lodge operation, very remote. They fly out of Seattle to Anchorage, then fly in to the heart of Katmai Nat. Park on Katmai Air, only about 90 min. The lodge is located on a lake.  The scenery and accommodations are spectacular, fantastic meals, 2-person cabins, etc.  The largest sockeye run in the world is there. Sockeye are red when spawning, and rainbow trout come to eat the sockeye eggs. Enormous Alaska Brown bears feast on the sockeye. The fishermen go for the rainbow trout. Fishing side by side with the bears.  They also do a few "fly outs" by float plane during the week to more remote locations. Silver salmon also really fun to catch. 

Respectfully submitted, 
Stowe Talbot