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Get ready for the annual Fly Fishing Fundraising Festival auction, March 3
It's just a couple of weeks from the club's 2018, the Fly Fishing Fundraising Festival, set for 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 3. We've got a great new location, Wild Acre Brewing in Fort Worth, where you'll get three beer tickets and trip through the Mexican food...
Get ready for the third annual Flyfest on the Trinity River in March
Tarrant Regional Water District photo The third annual Flyfest sponsored by the Tarrant Regional Water District is coming up Saturday, March 10, with 1,200 pounds of rainbow trout being released along with 3,000 native Texas fish. Check out the link above for all the...
Register now for the annual Fly Fishers Fundraising Festival on March 3
Our club's biggest fundraising effort of the year is fast approaching. Please register now so we can plan food and other preparations for the Fly Fishers Fundraising Festival and auction to be held Saturday, March 3, at Wild Acre Brewing, 1734 E. El Paso St.,...
Fly Fish 101/January outing draws a crowd
More than 60 members and non-members enjoyed a gorgeous day on the Brazos River during the club's combined Fly Fish101/January outing on Saturday. And by the count of Kay and Les Jackson, close to half the attendees were women and young people, two groups that we'd...
Easy volunteer opportunity in Arlington
The Southwest Nature Preserve in Arlington celebrates its 4th anniversary on Oct. 28. Among the activities planned is a fly fishing demonstration, which basically means you just show up and wow the visitors with your technique. Easy, and there’s even hot dogs and...
October newsletter is here
Attached is our October newsletter, full of great information. Don't miss our November speaker AND, read the last page to find out about our December meeting which is a Christmas Gathering for our members. Also, you'll read about the places and summer adventures of...
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...
30th Anniversary of the FWFF
It seems serendipitous that Sandy Jarrell was drawn at random to be our February member of the month. During his interview he shared with us first hand information about both versions of the club. The information included how and why the first club disbanded and...
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...
Joint Outing with the Dallas Fly Fishers–Lake Athens
Because of low water in the Colorado River, our planned March trip to Colorado Bend State Park has been cancelled. We will now join the Dallas Fly Fishers in a joint excursion to Lake Athens on March 28th. I had the opportunity to fish this lake in December with...
February Guest Speaker–Stephen Woodcock
Stephen Woodcock will be our guest speaker at our February meeting and his presentation will be on "Fly Fishing Alaska". Stephen has fly fished for over 20 years. His passion for fly fishing has taken him to the Caribbean, Europe, Australia, North America, Canada and...
Destination–South Fork, Colorado
The Colorado outing this year is from July 18-25, if you would like to stay with the other members of the club, contact Russell at russellhusted@sbcglobal.net. If you have never been on...
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...
Destination–Beaver Island
Mandy and I traveled to Michigan last summer in order to catch some monster carp. Evan Muskopf from FeatherCraft in St. Louis hosts some trips each summer up to Beaver Island in the middle of Lake...
Alaska 2015 Trip
When: September 5th to 12th 2015. We fly into Anchorage on the first Saturday (9/5/15) stay in Anchorage that night. Sunday we take a charter flight to Pedro Bay on Lake Iliamna, shuttle to the cabins on the Iliamna...