Silvertip Ranch 2019
FVTU Helps with Annual VSP Trip Earlier this month FVTU Veterans Service Partnership Coordinators Jim and Jo Borowski, along with three other volunteer guide/companions, took five veterans and their spouses into Silvertip Ranch, north of Yellowstone National Park. Located on the uppermost reaches of Slough Creek, Silvertip is a...
2019 Tie-A-Thon a Success
The 2019 Tie-A-Thon in support of the Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation was another success. As in 2018, TU chapters around the state were asked to donate flies to the Warriors and Quiet Waters Foundation (WQW) in Bozeman. Since 2007, WQW had been bringing injured post 9/11 combat veterans...
Flies for Vets
2019 Tie-A-Thon in support of the Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation TU chapters around the state are being asked to donate flies to the Warriors & Quiet Waters foundation. For over ten years Warriors & Quiet Waters has been bringing injured post 9/11 combat vets to Montana and using...
FVTU On Slough Creek
FVTU Veterans Service Partnership (VSP) Coordinators Jim and Jo Borowski just returned from another successful trip to Slough Creek assisting the national VSP program. This is the sixth year that TU’s VSP has taken veterans into Silvertip Ranch, a private holding bordering Yellowstone National Park and adjacent to...
Remembering Jim Johnson
Long time FVTU board member and master fly tier Jim Johnson passed away late last month. Jim was a fixture at FVTU functions and taught the advanced fly tying classes for many years. I always considered him a “semi-professional” fly tier. While you and I have a fly tying...
FVTU Second Annual Veterans Fishing Day
On Friday, July 20, 2018, FVTU took a group of veterans fishing on the lower Flathead River as part of our Veterans Service Partnership (VSP) program. TU chapters around the country use the VSP as a means of connecting with their local vets to show their support and appreciation...
Veterans Fly-A-Thon Challenge
On March 7, FVTU Veterans Service Partnership Coordinator Jim Borowski presented 6,817 flies to Emily Sather of the Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation (WQW) in Bozeman. The flies were donated by FVTU members and friends as part of the Veterans Fly-A-Thon Challenge. TU chapters across the state were asked...
Tie a Fly – Help a Vet
The Westslope Chapter of TU in Missoula is challenging all other TU chapters in the state to tie flies in support of the Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation (WQW). WQW is a Montana based non-profit that brings combat injured Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to Montana for a week of...