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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:...
August outing set for Nolan River on Aug. 15
FWFF member Chris Patnode with a freshwater drum taken on the Nolan River in June. With the arrival of triple-digit heat in Texas, our August outing will move from the gravel banks of Brazos Point on the Brazos River to the shadier Nolan River near Blum. Blum is...
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...
FWFF Virtual Auction a Hit
The Fort Worth Fly Fishers' first-ever Virtual "Mini Auction" closed the night of June 21. The event was a huge success, raising more than $1,800 to support the club's activities (including outings, speakers, education, and charity groups). The successful bidders and...
Colorado trip on for July 18-25
FWFF's annual trip to the South Fork, Colo., area will take place this at a new venue. Host Russell Husted has contacted Cottonwood Cove, located between South Fork and Creede, regarding their cabins. They not only have vacancies now, but anticipate cancellations as...
June 2 meeting to be held online
It's a new world! Our June 2 membership meeting, featuring speaker Greg Welander, will be held online using the popular meetiong service Zoom. This change is being made because our regular room at the UNT Health Science Center is still closed and the FWFF Board of...
FWFF Virtual Auction a Hit
The Fort Worth Fly Fishers' first-ever Virtual "Mini Auction" closed the night of June 21. The event was a huge success, raising more than $1,800 to support the club's activities (including outings, speakers, education, and charity groups). The successful bidders and...
Colorado trip on for July 18-25
FWFF's annual trip to the South Fork, Colo., area will take place this at a new venue. Host Russell Husted has contacted Cottonwood Cove, located between South Fork and Creede, regarding their cabins. They not only have vacancies now, but anticipate cancellations as...
June 2 meeting to be held online
It's a new world! Our June 2 membership meeting, featuring speaker Greg Welander, will be held online using the popular meetiong service Zoom. This change is being made because our regular room at the UNT Health Science Center is still closed and the FWFF Board of...
June 2 membership meeting changes
We will not meet for our June 2 membership meeting at our regular venue in the UNT Health Science Center. We were notified the facility will not be available before August, so our July membership meeting is likewise affected. Our scheduled speaker, Greg Welander of...
April 4 auction postponed to fall; April and May membership meetings, outing canceled
Fort Worth Fly Fishers will push the annual auction, the FWFF Fundraising Festival, into the fall as a result of the ongoing virus pandemic. Additionally, the April 7 and May 5 FWFF membership meetings have been canceled, as has the scheduled White Bass Run outing on...
Register NOW for Landon Mayer Fly-Tying Class on March 1
FWFF members have already filled one fly-tying class with Colorado-based guide Pat Dorsey, and now it's time to do the same with upcoming speaker Landon Mayer. On March. 1 at Backwoods Fort Worth, Colorado guide Landon Mayer will also lead participants in tying a...
Make plans to attend or volunteer at Flyfest
Tarrant Regional Water District's fourth annual Flyfest is set for March 14 on the banks of the Trinity River in Fort Worth. That's barely a month away, and it's time to plan on your participation. It's a great learning opportunity, with seminars, demonstrations,...
Pat Dorsey tells how to fish western tailwaters in February
As a native of Colorado, Pat Dorsey has been guiding customers of all abilities for nearly 30 years. Pat spends well over 200 days a year on the water, a combination of guiding clients, hosting destination travel-trips and personal days on the water. He shares all...
January 2020 newsletter available
The first issue of the new year is now available. Check out the updated Outings Calendar and news on the upcoming Fly Fish 101 on January 18, Fly Fest in March and the FWFF Fundraising Festival in April. Click here.
January speaker Stephen Woodcock tells all!
Longtime FWFF member Stephen Woodcock, recently named fly-fishing manager at the new Fort Worth Orvis store, kicks off the New Year with a presentation titled: "Everything You Wanted To Know About Fly-Fishing Equipment But Were Afraid to Ask." Given his experience...
November speaker Meredith McCord is “The Record Chaser”
Meredith McCord brings her tales of globe-trotting record-setting to our November meeting, and you need to come hear her. Based in Houston, Meredith has traveled to 26 countries to land fish that represent 165 records recognized by the International Game Fish...
2019 Holiday Party program features New Mexico guide Spencer Seim
In 2011, New Mexico fly fishing guide Spencer Seim and his client, Kirk Wallace Johnson, were in the middle of a river when Seim recounted the story of the theft of feathers up to 150 years old from an English museum two years earlier. Johnson was enthralled, and...