At our regular Club meeting on June 21st, Dean Hendricks, the “We Mak’em & You Catch’em” guy from Florence, and his partner Leroy Shotwell, gave a great presentation on their special hand made lures. Dean brought a great display of his selection of lures. He also gave a quick class on making your own personalized, special lure. We ended up with some real works of art. Also, we would like to give a special note of thanks to Dean for donating a rod and reel combo to include in our inventory of fishing equipment going to the troops in Iraq. (By the way, the shipment of fishing gear and dvd's has now been delivered by Wayde to the radio station in Albany and will be shipped to our troops next week).

We also voted to make Wayde Dudley “Special Projects Officer” and a member of the Board. Congratulations, Wayde.

We had a great meeting, as usual, and would like to give special thanks to:

• All who donated time, money, or equipment to the 2nd (and last) Time Around Shipment to our troops in Iraq;
• Bill Furgason, for placing 3 Experimental ODFW Mono-Filament Line Recycling Stations at locations on the Big Creek Reservoir Complex;
• Kevin McCarthy (K&M Construction) for donating 3 new Pressure Treated 4X4's, which made the above project possible.
• Mac Andrew for his special "gift" to Big Fish (grappling hook/Ninja, very hush-hush . . .);
• Greg Harlow of Northwest Steelheaders, who took time out of his busy schedule to come to the meeting to thank LVH Fishing Club for their involvement in the Kids's Fishing Day at Big Creek.
  

(We have become such an active club, if I have missed any "honorable mention" of anyone, please let me know so I can include them on our list. We do the best we can, but sometimes things slip by.)

First Lady