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No Liars Club and General Meeting Scheduled for June!  We've Gone Fishing!
The Liars Club originally scheduled for June 16th and a BFC General Meeting originally scheduled for June 9th have been cancelled but never to fear, as we'll be beginning Liars Club again in September.
We have been overwhelmed with activities this past spring and, quite frankly, we're tapped out. We held Half hitchers Tying Nights, starting last December and ending in May. The Personal Float Clinics beginning in January and culminating with a trip to Delaney Butte Lakes this past May 21st through 23rd (sadly, we were blown off the water by high winds and gave up the fight on May 22nd).
All these get togethers were very well received by all that attended. Especially, the float clinics where we had up to 40 attendees and were greeted with very enthusiastic support.
We're planning on another float outing later this summer once the weather settles down some. As we all know, May and June are very questionable for afternoon thunder storms and we'll be waiting for calmer weather before venturing out with our boat buddies.
Be sure to watch the blog for a notice as to when we'll be planning the outing.
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Boulder Creek Watershed Map & Angling Guide Are Now Available 
That's Right! The New Boulder Creek Watershed Map & Angling Guide is now available for sale at your local fly shop. Front Range Anglers, Rocky Mountain Anglers and McGuckin Hardware here in Boulder, Laughing Grizzly in Longmont and Charlies Fly Box in Arvada.
You can also purchase them from the Boulder Chamber of Commerce and for you out of state anglers, you can purchase them directly from Boulder Flycasters. Suggested retail price is $12.95 plus tax. Purchasing them directly from Boulder Flycasters . . . please add $5.00 shipping and handling.
The Guide is 12 pages of full color maps and angling information that covers both Middle Boulder Creek from the Continental Divide all the way down to 55th street. The center spread is one continuous map from Barker Dam to 55th street and has an exploded map of the Boulder Creek Path and it's unique characteristics! Nederland to Divide is the other map which includes all the trails, trailheads and lakes that make up the Middle Boulder Creek drainage.
South Boulder Creek is covered in three maps . . . Continental Divide to Rollinsville, Pinecliffe to Eldorado Springs, including an exploded map of the Walker Ranch area and all trails, trailheads and mileages from trail to trail. Since the Walker Ranch area is so important to local anglers, we've made it a point to be very complete in the maps in this area!
The final map in the South Boulder Creek drainage covers Eldorado Springs to Baseline Road and it's 5-6 miles of angling waters. The maps generally are designed to show the important areas of private property. If you're not sure where private property begins and ends, please ask!
Historic photographs covering the building of Barker Dam and the 100 year flood in Boulder in 1894 are detailed. Different species of trout found in the waters of both drainages and fly patterns useful while angling it's waters are also covered.
Email Bob Bush at bdbush@comcast.net to order your map ($17.00 delivered) or visit one of the shops listed above to purchase one today!
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FINAL WORK TO COMPLETE THE ROGERS PARK PROJECT
We are about to complete the final portion of the Rogers Park project that we've been working on for the past three years. We have submitted the completed Conservation signage to the sign manufacturer to do his work in completing the construction of the signs for placement at the Rogers Park upper and lower parking areas.
All four different signs; WELCOME TO ROGERS PARK, SAVING THE CREEK, ANGLER ETHICS AND WHATS SWIMMING IN THIS CREEK? will be erected in the lower parking area and two of the new signs, WELCOME TO ROGERS PARK & SAVING THE CREEK being repeated and placed in the upper parking lot.
Todd Ballantine of Ballantine Environmental Resources, Inc. and board member, Bob Bush work together to design the four signs. The signs are in the neighborhood of just under $13,000.00 including installation costs. Originally, the cost was just under $17,000.00 but Bob agreed to do the final design work at no charge allowing the sign project to be completed.
If you'll notice at the bottom of the Saving the Creek sign we have listed all of the grant funding entities along with other community organizations that help in a number of ways to support the project's completion.
The signs are scheduled to be in the ground by July 1st, 2010.
Many thanks go to Chairman, Roger Svendsen and his committee members for all their efforts in completing this award winning club effort.
We don't want to forget the angling model, board member Mark Riley, who posed for the Welcome to Rogers Park
sign that really introduces all anglers to the park (photo by Bob Bush).
We committee members agreed that drawing the short straw gave Mark the long
lasting image that will be viewed by thousands of visitors for the next twenty years!
(We're hoping that no one will be pulling the image of Mark out of the ground with a Dodge Hemi an time soon!)
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Boulder Flycasters Board of Directors
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