Monthly Meetings
First Tuesdays
@ 7:00 PM
Guest Speakers
Kristian Cole of Tailwaters is November speaker
Before Kristian Cole returned to his hometown of Dallas and joined the part-time staff at Tailwaters in January 2016, he spent time fishing on the Texas Coast while attending Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi. The store says Kristian has since evolved into...
Charlie Cravens is October meeting speaker
By Reid WingerSpeakers DirectorAfter mysteriously losing all of his dad’s lures in a single day, Charlie was gifted a fly-tying kit by his parents for his eighth birthday. He’s tied flies pretty much every day for the forty-some years since then and has figured out a...
Limber up your casting arm at Sept. 6 meeting
Our Summer Learning Series concludes Sept. 6 with a casting session that offers tips to beginners and experienced fly fishers alike. NOTE: We meet at Monticello Park in Fort Worth. The address is 3400 Dorothy Lane South, which is a three-minute drive north of our...
Mike Morphew leads fly tying demo at Aug. 2 meeting
By Frank HuneycuttFWFF Fly Tying Director If you are a fly tyer or interested in fly tying, you will not want to miss our Summer Learning Series membership meeting at 7 p.m. on Aug. 2! Our guest tyer will be Mike Morphew. A few years ago I attended a fly fishing event...
Summer Learning Series kicks off July 5
Every year in July, August and September, Fort Worth Fly Fishers holds its Summer Learning Series. July surveys general skills and safety, August is all about fly tying, and September focuses on casting. There is an article about the August session in this newsletter,...
Join us June 7 for “Destination: Saltwater on the Fly”
FWFF Director Reid Winger has fished in some great locations, and on June 7 he will share some of his experiences with a program on saltwater fly fishing. Reid is an accomplished amateur photographer as well, so it should be a colorful presentation. We will meet at...
Learn about water insects at the May 3 meeting
Robert Younghanz, a.k.a The Bug Guy, joins us May 3 for a little science class in fish food titled Aquatic Entomology For The Fly Fisher. Arguably the most common blind spot for the fly fisher is an understanding of aquatic insects, which is the key to fly selection,...
Robert McConnell talks about fly fishing in East Texas on March 1
Join us March 1 at our usual UNT Health Science Center venue to hear our speaker, Houston resident Robert H. McConnell, share his experiences fishing East Texas. Robert was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania. It was in the woods of the Appalachian foothills where...
Landon Mayer returns as February 2022 speaker
Meeting UPDATE: This is a ZOOM meeting and is on Feb. 8. Watch your email for the link. Join us Feb. 8 as one of the club's favorite speakers returns to Fort Worth. Colorado-based Landon Mayer’s angling success is fueled by an addiction to pursuing large trout with...
January speaker is Stephen Weaver of Good Fly, Inc.
Stephen L. Weaver, president and co-founder of Good Fly Inc. and a lecturer with the Hollingsworth Center for Ethical Leadership at Texas A&M University, kicks off 2022 as our speaker at the Jan. 4 membership meeting. As of now, this meeting will be held at UNT...
Garrison Doctor is Nov. 2 speaker
Please join us at our longtime meeting venue, the UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth, for a combination in-person/Zoom presentation. Our speaker, who will make his presentation drawn from his world travels via Zoom, is Garrison Doctor, founder of Rep Your Water,...
Learn to take better photos at Oct. 5 meeting
Jonathan Trieu Nguyen When you make a memory, you'd like to get a good photo of it as well. But that doesn't always happen. Join us Oct. 5 for an in-person membership meeting featuring professional photographer Jonathan Trieu Nguyen as our speaker. An "ambassador" for...
Sept. 7 membership meeting offers fly casting in Fort Worth’s Monticello Park
Join us Sept. 7 for a beginner, refresher or fine-tuning session in fly-casting skills in the fresh air of Monticello Park in Fort Worth. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Watch your email and the website for more details. A map of the Monticello Park area is below. See...
Summer Learning Series features fly tying on Aug. 3
The second session of our Summer Learning Series, a fly-tying demonstration on Tuesday, Aug. 3, returns to our old stomping grounds at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in the Research and Education building located along Camp Bowie Blvd. between...
In-person fishing update on the Trinity River, VIP awards on July 6
Join us Tuesday, July 6 at 7 p.m. for the July meeting of Fort Worth Fly Fishers. This month's in-person presenter will be Tina Nikolic from the Tarrant Regional Water District, who will update us on TRWD initiatives and resources for fishing the...
June Speaker: Odom Wu of San Antonio Tackles Carp
Texas Hill Country fly fisherman Odom Wu caught his first fish, a carp, at the age of 13 when living in Tennessee. Since moving to Texas, he has fallen in love with the Hill Country and quickly adopted fly fishing as one of his passionate hobbies. Odom brings his...
May Speaker: Chris Taylor, Fisheads of the San Juan River
Last September, 16 Fort Worth Fly Fishers members enjoyed a memorable visit to northwestern New Mexico's famed San Juan River below Navajo Dam, a stretch pictured above in a photo from that trip. On May 4, Chris Taylor, owner of Fisheads of the San Juan River, will be...
April 6 speaker: Chris Johnson, Fly Fishing the Texas Hill Country
Our guest speaker for the April 6 FWFF membership meeting is Chris Johnson, owner and founder of Living Waters Fly Fishing, a fly shop and guide service based out of Round Rock, Texas. Chris has guided the Texas Hill Country since 2006 and has fly fished the heart of...
Anthony Caruesco is March speaker
March speaker Anthony Carruesco features Northern California fishing Join us online March 2 as Californian Anthony Carruesco, owner of AC Fly Fishing in Redding, Calif., shares the bounties of his home state. Anthony found a passion for fly fishing at a young...
FWFF favorite Landon Mayer is February speaker
Join us online on Feb. 2 for Landon R. Mayer's presentation, Mastering the Short Game, in which he points out that 80 percent of trout are caught within 20 feet or closer. Watch for an email from FWFF President David Hooper for the Zoom link as the meeting date nears,...
Jeff Currier talks bass and other warm-water species on Jan. 5
Jeff Currier was born in Massachusetts in 1965 and grew up fly fishing throughout New England. After graduating from Masconomet Regional High School, his search for new fly fishing adventures led him to Northland College in...
Brazos guide Pat Vanek joins FWFF live or online on Oct. 6
Pat Vanek will present “Fly Fishing on the Brazos River” at the Oct. 6 Fort Worth Fly Fishers monthly meeting.This month’s meeting will be at Backwoods Fort Worth and there will also be a simultaneous webcast. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Pat will display some of the...
Aug. 4 membership meeting moved to Backwoods
The August membership meeting, typically our annual fly-tying workshop, will be relocated to Backwoods Fort Worth this year and will have limited seating. Come and learn from two of the best fly tiers in the country, Dutch Baughman and Kyle Hand. Here are the details:...
July meeting will again be online via Zoom
FWFF member Les Jackson with a bass from one of his urban waters. In June Fort Worth Fly Fishers held our first membership meeting via Zoom, and your Board of Directors thought it was a real success. Nearly 50 members were watching as President David Hooper launched...
Fort Worth Fly Fishers normally meets at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month. Members hear nationally known speakers and professional guides from Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, and elsewhere, and watch fly-tying demonstrations.
UNT Health Science Center, Room RES114 | Education & Research building
3500 Camp Bowie Blvd. | Fort Worth, Texas
