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 12, 2019 | Education, Fly of the Month, Meetings, News
Why didn’t we do this sooner? Now you can watch FWFF member Bill Hodges tie February’s Fly of the Month, a March Brown Wet Fly. Bill wrote the Fly of the Month article in the club’s February newsletter, and here he takes the process from start to...
by Jim Fuquay | Feb 7, 2019 | Calendar Events, Education, News, skills
Tarrant Regional Water District’s fourth annual Flyfest is set for March 9 on the banks of the Trinity River in Fort Worth. That’s barely a month away, and it’s time to plan on your participation. It’s a great learning opportunity, with...
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...
