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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...
Get your tickets NOW for the September raffle!
On Sept. 10 Fort Worth Fly Fishers will hold an exciting new raffle featuring great tackle and a stay at one of the club's favorite lodges for members' annual foray to South Fork, Colo. The flyer below has all the details, so check it out and get your tickets now. (If...
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...
Explore Black Creek Lake in LBJ Grasslands in June
By Frank HuneycuttFWFF Director The club’s June 18 (Saturday) outing will be held at Black Creek Lake in the LBJ National Grasslands north of Decatur. The 20,313-acre LBJ Grasslands Unit is an underutilized nature area that is only an hour drive from downtown Fort...
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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2021 Holiday Party set for Dec. 11 at Wild Acre Brewing
Let's mark our calendars to attend the Fort Worth Fly Fishers Holiday Celebration scheduled for Dec. 11, from 3 – 6 p.m. at Wild Acre Brewing Co. This social event will be in lieu of our regular monthly meeting scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 4. Light hors d’oeuvres and a...