Education
Up your game!
Improve your casting | Explore fly tying | Ensure your safety

The FWFF club has an active education program available to everyone, with something for new, novice fly fishers to experienced anglers. Each month we have a Quick Clinic featuring a specific topic that provides insight and practical learning on a fly fishing-related topic, and quarterly we organize a local fishing outing, which we call Fly Fish 101, dedicated to helping first timers and those with little experience fly fishing. We teach them to how to cast, make contact with a fish, and land it!
Quarterly – Fly Fishing 101 Events
Take Advantage of Fly Fishing Educational Opportunities provided by the FWFF club. For those of you who are new to the club, we have an active education program that will help you through the learning curve from how to set up your rod, select flies, cast and present your fly to the fish. Once a quarter we organize a local fishing outing, which we call Fly Fish 101, dedicated to helping first timers and those with little experience fly fishing, and teach them to how to cast, make contact with a fish and land it.
If you’re a novice and want to take the full “tour,” we have casting help as well as instruction on tying on tippet and how to make fly choices for the types of fish being targeted that day. If you just want some tips, we will have mentors on location to help with that, too.
For those of you who are new to the club, you’ll be asking lots of questions about “how”, “when” and “where” to fly fish locally or get ready for that trip of a lifetime. We do our best to answer those questions, too.
Doc Thompson shares New Mexico, saltwater tips as January speaker on Jan. 8
The 2019 FWFF speakers lineup gets a strong start with Doc Thompson, an Orvis-endorsed guide in northern New Mexico. He started High Country Anglers in 1995 thinking he could make a living as a fly-fishing guide in New Mexico. Thousands of guide trips later, Doc is...
CANCELED: Fly-tying class with Spencer Seim
Due to a family emergency, the Dec. 4 fly-tying class with Spencer Seim has been CANCELED. If you registered and paid for the class, your credit card charge will be refunded. Refunds may take several days to appear on your statement. We apologize for the inconvenience...
Explore Florida saltwater fishing with Steve Bailey
Retired saltwater guide, summertime trout fisherman and longtime Fort Myers, Fla., resident Steve Bailey brings his wide experience as our November speaker. Steve has worked with some of the sport’s best-known figures, including the late Lefty Kreh and Walkers Cay...
Fishies and brewskis — a new Fly Fish 101 on Nov. 3
Please mark your calendars for Saturday, Nov. 3, for an upcoming free event. Fly Fish 101 will happen from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Trinity River behind the Martin House Brewery at 220 South Sylvania Ave., No. 209, in Fort Worth. Our host is member Vince Turley....
Put some salt on it!
Sean Polk, our speaker at the Oct. 2 membership meeting, presents a great primer on saltwater fishing in Texas. His presentation is titled Saltwater Travel: What You Need and Need to Know Sean is the Retail Sales Manager for Tailwaters Fly Fishing in Dallas. He grew...