Reminder: Jimmy Green Memorial Fly Fishing Fair (Sat. June 19th)

This is a great opportunity to see a variety of demos and seminars, cast rods from lots of different manufacturers, and meet your local fly fishing community. This event is hosted by Washington State Fly Shops, Guides, Clubs and Reps; including All About the Fly, The Avid Angler, Orvis, Kaufman’s, Pacific Fly Fishers, Creekside Angling Company, Red Shed Fly Shop, Puget Sound Fly Company, Arch Anglers, Emerald Water Anglers, Steelhead Fly Anglers, Griff’s Fly Fishing Adventures, Worley Bugger Fly Co, Scott Fly rods, Sage, TFO, Winston, Guideline, Northwest Fly Anglers, Fourth Corner Flyfishers, Overlake Fly Fishing Club, Washington Fly Fishing Club, Kirk Werner and Olive the Woolly Bugger, Skatethefly.com, Federation of Fly Fishers, Project Healing Waters, Wild Fish Conservancy, Wild Steelhead Coalition and Casting for Recovery. The hours will be from 9AM to 4PM. This event will host a free lunch. If you want to donate, the Sultan Food Bank and Sky Valley Food Bank will be on hand taking food and/or cash donations.

Fly Fishing Film Tour Gala @ the IGFA

On Friday night April 23rd Hell's Bay Boatworks,
 The Fly Shop of Miami and ESPN Outdoors will be hosting
 a dinner viewing of the Fly Fishing Film Tour at the IGFA.

The event will begin at 6 P.M. with cocktails and appetizers during the silent auction. Visit with attendees and fishing celebrities including Flip Pallot, Chico Fernandez and Jose Wejebe. Will Benson and Dave Teper, the producers of "High in the Lowlands" one of the featured films, will be in attendance. Watch clips of "Pirates of the Flats" and slides by Pat Ford in the IGFA Theater. At 7:30 they will be serving a dinner of Guy Harvey approved sustainable seafood and showing the Fly Fishing Film Tour.

Tickets can be purchased through the Hell's Bay Boatworks Online Store.
Or reserve your ticket by calling Hell's Bay Boatworks'main office
at 321-383-8223 or The Fly Shop of Miami at 305-669-5851
Pricing is $150 per ticket or $1,500 for a table of 10.
We accept Visa, Mastercard or a check.

This is a benefit dinner for the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust and the IGFA. All proceeds from the dinner ticket sales and the silent auction will be split between the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust and IGFA.

The Man who Flies with the Fishes

May 5 is Children’s Day in Japan, a national holiday. In the weeks leading up to this day, large flags shaped like carp called koi nobori begin to appear, hanging from city apartment balconies, flying atop poles in farmhouse gardens, and strung in long lines across country rivers. In honor of Children’s Day, PingMag visited a hundred year-old koi nobori workshop in Kazo City, Saitama, and spoke to the third generation proprietor, Mr. Takashi Hashimoto.

LINK (Via: PingMag)

Fly Fishing Film Tour, Cleveland: March 30th, 7pm

Buy your tickets at Chagrin River Outfitters and save 3 bones for your first beer.

Fly Fishing Film Tour - Gig Harbor - This Thursday Night

If you missed the Fly Fishing Film Tour stop in Seattle, or want to see it again on the what could be the largest screen of the entire tour, get your tickets for the Gig Harbor show Thursday night.

This stop of the tour is being hosted by the Gig Harbor Fly Shop and will be screened at the Uptown Galaxy Theater.  Not only will some of the best new fly fishing films be on tap but 7 Seas Brewing Company will be  serving up suds for $3.

Tickets are $12 in advance at the Gig Harbor Fly Shop, $15 online here, or $15 at the door. The show starts at 7:00 Thursday the 18th, doors @ 6:30pm.

Please Note: This is a 21 or older show so leave the kids at home.

2010 Troutfest

Troutfest is a Fly Fishing Exposition and Fundraiser held in Townsend, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains. Proceeds from this event are donated to Great Smoky Mountains National Park Fisheries Department, Friends of the Smokies Fisheries Scholarship Endowment or other youth educational conservation projects. The Little River Chapter of Trout Unlimited sponsors this event as our major fundraiser and annual festival. This year the event will be one of the largest venues for fly anglers in the Southeast United States. learn more at Troutfest.org