by Jim Fuquay | Mar 12, 2019 | Calendar Events, Club Event, Club Outings, News
It’s time for another of the club’s all-time favorite outings – the overnighter to Bill Ward’s Ranch near Mexia (pronounced muh-HAY-uh). Bill wants to remove some of the population of bass and sunfish/perch and we are just the group to do it. Bill’s clear,...
by Jim Fuquay | Mar 4, 2019 | Calendar Events, Club Event, Club Outings, Education, News
The March 2 Fly Fish 101 in Dinosaur Valley State Park offered trout weather (chilly and damp) along with an unexpected pack of Boy Scouts from near Houston. And it was all just fine. With casting and fly-tying instruction led by FWFF member Russell Husted and a...
by Jim Fuquay | Feb 18, 2019 | Calendar Events, Club Event, Club Outings, Education, News
Opportunity knocks! Texas Parks & Wildlife plans a special trout stocking on March 2 in Dinosaur Valley State Park on the Paluxy River near Glen Rose. We will make this a Fly Fish 101 event, but it is also open to the public, so feel free to tell a friend or...
by Jim Fuquay | Feb 6, 2019 | Club Business, Club Event, Education, Meetings, Monthly Speaker, News
Jokes about being “mistaken” for a movie star are many, but John Dietsch is one of the few who can really say he’s been there. He appeared in all the fly-fishing scenes of the film “A River Runs Through It,” where he also conceived and executed the famous...
by Jim Fuquay | Jan 16, 2019 | Calendar Events, Club Event, Club Outings, Education, News
The Jan. 19 FF101/outing on the Brazos below the Possum Kingdom dam has been canceled. Water flows are at dangerous levels, the weather outlook is atrocious and the state has not been stocking trout because of the high river flows. It’s a completed turnaround from...
by Jim Fuquay | Jan 6, 2019 | Calendar Events, Club Event, Education, News, Skills
Nationally-acclaimed fly tyer Fishy Fullum is teaching a halfday workshop from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9, at UNT Health Science Center (the same meeting room where the club meets monthly). Participants should arrive at 8:30 a.m. and be ready to begin at...
