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Curious if others have noticed this with the Columbus Parks?
It appears the metro parks are trying to acquire a new piece of land in Columbus…an old quarry.
It may benefit us to get involved? Seems like it could be a great place for outings, education, and a great place to fish.
Another link to the possible new park.
I hope your summers are rounding out nicely! We’ll be back in Sept (9/12) with a great presentation on the world class spring creeks fishing in the Driftless Area by Tim Schultz! In the meantime…
CFR is enlisting river helpers for this year’s Casting for Recovery retreat. Helpers are needed on Sunday, September 17from about 8:30-2:00 at Indian Bear Lodge in Walhonding, OH. Chuck Holmes (Land of Legends Fly Fishers) is the coordinator this year. Interested COFF members can email him directly at cholmes27@windstream.net to learn more.
Ohio Casting for Recovery will be hosting a premier of Costa’s film SLAM at Smokehouse Brewing next weekend. Come enjoy food, drink, raffle prizes, and footage of beautiful turquoise water! We all know it’ll be too hot to fish 2pm in late July anyway…
Only 50 tickets available. Buy yours here: https://goo.gl/4AhmHa (https://donate.castingforrecovery.org/events/-/e135482)
Unprecedented and seemingly rash moves are being made under the leadership of ODNR Director Zehringer. After receiving the support of Ohio sportsmen and sportswomen to bolster the Division of Wildlife’s (DOW) budget by increasing tag and license fees (which was strangely against the director’s wishes), he has fired or demoted much of the Division’s leadership. Read more from the Sportsmen’s Alliance website. There’s also an active forum with some good info here (but, it’s a forum… so step carefully!)
We’ll let you know here if there’s something you can do (other than write our governor -the person who appointed the director in the first place…)
A longtime friend of fishermen and fisherwomen in Ohio passed away this week. Phil Hillman, 30+ year ODOW employee and avid fisherman will be missed by many – and certainly all who had the pleasure of working with him. A strong supporter of and advocate for the development of steelhead alley. Phil helped make the North Coast a great place to fish. Tie one on in Phil’s memory.
Obit: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ohio/obituary.aspx?n=phil-hillman&pid=186072616&fhid=3304
Do you want your picture shared with other COFF Members? C’mon you know you are proud of that fish! Feel free to forward your photos to paulfbutler+coff@gmail.com. If they are front page worthy, I’ll put them up. We also have a photo gallery that we can post photos to as well. Let’s see what everyone is doing? -Paul