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.
Casting Tips from Bob – October 2015
October 2015 Telling Tails First, let's define what a tailing loop is. I'm sure many, if not all, have heard the term "wind knot". This term leads many to believe that the tangle or knot in the end of a leader or line is caused by the wind. The wind has little to...
Casting Tips from Bob – September 2015
Accuracy Made Easy! In previous articles we have talked about loops, false casting and distance but have not mentioned an important aspect of our casting. As in almost all sports there is one thing that we strive for and it can determine success or failure. It...
Mini-Expo in Houston this Saturday!
From the Texas FlyFishers: Our speakers for August, 2015 will be presented as part of the annual club Mini-Expo scheduled for Saturday, August 22nd to be held at Terrace United Methodist Church, 1203 Wirt Road, Houston, Texas. Speakers will be making presentations...
Casting Tips from Bob – August 2015
Casting Big Flies and Heavy Stuff When casting big flies, sink tips, sinking lines, tandem fly rigs more than likely we will need to consider how we will do this. When we teach fly casting we always seem to focus on narrow loops and this is okay. This is because...
Casting Tips from Bob – July 2015
Air in Motion There is something that is always around that can effect our casting that we cannot control. We have to resign ourselves to the fact that we will have to deal with it and make the best of the situation. No, it's not your fishing buddy that was...
Casting Tips from Bob – June 2015 **Also–Casting Clinic Tonight**
Casting Tip- Lay it Down! **Casting Clinic TONIGHT** Details HERE Have you ever wondered while watching someone cast, are they ever going to lay it down or get the dog whipping done? It seems that some casters feel that there are a required number of false casts to be...