The PFF Celebrates the Holidays
December 15, 2005

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February 2006

Every year around the holidays I always have unrealistic expectations that I'm going to tie a bunch of fly boxes for the annual holiday dinner. As usual, the holidays get busy and I end up frantically tying flies the weekend before the dinner. I'm lucky if I can eke out two boxes. This year was no different. In fact, since I was busy putting together my little year-in-review multi-media presentation (which broadband users can download here) things were even more compressed. But as you can see from this montage, somehow everything comes together, largely due to the astonishing work of a crew of volunteers. For those of you who missed it, here's how PFF'ers kicked off the holiday season.

Jim and Sheree
Jim and Sheree in pre dinner conversation
Alan with flies
Alan stakes out his prey for the silent auction.
Raffle and hall
One way to get everyone's attention is to hold a raffle!
Stage with silent raffle boxes
More views of the raffle loot. Boxes and boxes of hand tied flies (no thanks to the author).
Camp cook and his crew
Les the camp cook and his crew. Les naturally prefers the cooler to a folding chair.
Leafa with new hat
Leafa models her new hat.
Rod raffle
Mandy, Dennis, JC, Lee, and Ken
Sheree and Richard
Sheree, Richard, and Jeanie. Somebody nabbed another hat.
Alan as raffle chair
Allen convincing members to buy just a few more tickets.
Dale and Debra
Debra and Dale.
Group scene
Roger, Jim, Diane, April, and Chris.
Thanks to the cook
And a huge thanks to Les Junge, the PFF Camp Cook (wihout his 3-D fish hat this year).

The success of this dinner was, once again, made possible by a group of generous volunteers. Thanks to all of you who helped set up and take down, tied flies, donated auction items, and just plain showed up. Most of all, thanks to the heroic efforts (again) of Les "Camp Cook" Junge and his dedicated crew who slaved over the Highland Club's balky oven all afternoon to create a wonderful evening. You all deserve a round of applause and have the club's unending gratitude.

Although we're still in the middle of the winter doldrums, the Peninsula Fly Fishers wishes everyone an exciting and fishy 2006! It could be worse. We could be standing in two feet of snow on the East Coast.

– Rodney Chun