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.
March Local Outing–Fly Fishing 101
March Local Outing-featuring beginner class Fly Fishing 101 Where: Southwest Nature Preserve, 5201 Bowman Springs Road, Arlington, TX 76017 Meet at the parking lot off Bowman Springs (highlighted in yellow) http://tinyurl.com/southwestnp When: March 7th @ 9AM....
March Guest Speaker–Rex Walker
Rex Walker is an IFFF Certified Casting Instructor, a member of TFO Rod’s Pro Staff, and he is the casting instructor for the Dallas Fly Fishers and the Red River Fly Fishers. Rex’s presentation will cover fly line differences and selection. There is a wide variety...
Fatal Attraction
Fatal Attraction Fly of the Month / February 2015 Original Pattern by Dan Blanton / Tied by Mark Kolanowski The Fatal Attraction is the fly fisherman's answer to the spinnerbait. Back in my days of throwing hardware in pursuit of bass a spinnerbait was a...
Casting Tips from Bob–Feb 2015
Straight and Smooth In the last issue the importance of the straight-line path of the rod tip for a narrow loop was discussed. The principle of matching the rod arc to the rod bend for a straight-line path of the rod tip was the topic. There is also another...
Custom Rod Building Workshop
This looks like a great workshop! It is a VERY affordable way to learn about rod building. Many members have expressed an interest in learning more about rods building, this is a great chance. Check their website for more details about the weekend.
Casting Tips from Bob–Jan 2015
January 2015 Casting Tips from Bob: A “Good” Cast Sometimes casters worry about their casts and I’m often asked what is a good cast and my answer is always, “Well, it depends”. The response is usually “depends on what”! It depends on does your cast, go where you...