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.
Get ready for the third annual Flyfest on the Trinity River in March
Tarrant Regional Water District photo The third annual Flyfest sponsored by the Tarrant Regional Water District is coming up Saturday, March 10, with 1,200 pounds of rainbow trout being released along with 3,000 native Texas fish. Check out the link above for all the...
Fly Fish 101/January outing draws a crowd
More than 60 members and non-members enjoyed a gorgeous day on the Brazos River during the club's combined Fly Fish101/January outing on Saturday. And by the count of Kay and Les Jackson, close to half the attendees were women and young people, two groups that we'd...
June meeting is casting class at Capp Smith Park in Watauga
Remember that this month's membership meeting on Tuesday, June 6, is a special casting class and food at Capp Smith Park, 5800 Robin Drive, in Watauga. Jim Bass leads the event, with help from our own Fort Worth Fly Fishers members who excel in casting. There will hot...
The Single Hand Spey Cast
By Bob Garber, MCCI Single Hand Spey Casting I'm sure most have heard of Spey casting and wondered what it is all about. Visions of long rods, long lines and wide rivers and fisherman holding the rod with both hands may come to mind. While that vision is true there...
Casting Tips from Bob — December 2015
Roll On! The thing that comes to the mind of many when thinking of a roll cast is a circular motion. Most often the result of a circular rod tip motion is a wide open loop and in the case of a roll cast the line crashing in a pile a short distance in front of you....
Casting Tips from Bob — November 2015
After The Cast Mend! Mend! Mend! I'm sure if you have fished with a guide either wading or in a drift boat you have heard this once or twice. Often the more you hear it the louder and more frantic it gets. The guide wants you to catch fish and have a good trip but...