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Oktoberfisch registration opens Oct. 1
Oktoberfisch, hosted by the Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers, will be held Oct. 21-23 at the Happy State Bank Expo Hall, Kerrville. Top regional fly casting and fly-tying instructors, professional guides, and outfitters come together in a weekend learning event that...
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...
Fall outing to Bill Ward’s Ranch is Oct. 28-30
It’s time for another of the club’s all-time favorite outings – the overnighter at Bill Ward’s Ranch near Mexia. The clear water of the quarry at the campsite is easily traversed and roads lead to many other lakes on his property. Bill’s friend, Kent Yelverton, offers...
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...
Texas coastal outing set for Sept. 8-11 in Rockport
The FWFF Coast outing is to the Rockport/Port Aransas area Sept. 8-11 (three nights). The base camp will be at Rockport's Drifters Resort. We have secured cabins, cabanas, bungalows and cottages, each sleeping 2-3 people. The cost is approximately $175 a person total....
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...
Nolan River white bass outing postponed
The club's annual Nolan River outing for the white bass spawning run, originally set for March 19, has been postponed due to low water levels. The lack of rain in recent months in North Texas has delayed the spawning run out of Lake Whitney and the Brazos River. We...
March 2022 Newsletter
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...
February 2022 Newsletter
February speaker Landon Mayer to offer online class
Landon Mayer will lead an online-only workshop in fly tying on Sunday, Feb. 6. (This event originally was planned as an in-person event, but Covid and travel issues intervened. Mayer, the club's Feb. 1 meeting speaker, will conduct a Zoom session that will tie six...
Fly Fish 101 canceled
The Fly Fish 101 outing set for Jan. 15 has been canceled due to rising Covid cases and a forecast of inclement weather.
FWFF heads to Oklahoma’s Blue River in February
Quite a few FWFF members have ventured north to Oklahoma's pretty Blue River, so in February the club will make it an outing on Feb. 19. Oklahoma regularly stocks rainbow trout in the fishery, and it's a smallmouth bass habitat as well. The state's own description of...
January 2022 newsletter available
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...
Winter’s the right time for fly tying
It's gotten colder (finally) in North Texas. Tougher, maybe, to venture out on chilly mornings, but perfect for settling in behind a vise with a new fly pattern. And the best way to learn new patterns is in a group, like the ones in Tarrant County that offer...
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...
December 2021 newsletter available
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