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January 12, 2019 >SWCFFI > INTERMEDIATE CASTING CLINIC (Part 1)

January 12 & 26, 2019 / Saturdays
Pasadena Casting Club
Southwest Council
Intermediate Casting Clinic

Rain or Shine – It’s a “go”.
** As of Thursday, Jan 10 – there are still open spots according to event leader Eric Callow!  : D

Casting Chair, Eric Callow, in conjunction with Pasadena Casting Club, will be teaching up to 40 casters at the Intermediate Casting Clinic to be held on January 12th and 26th  2019 at PCC’s casting pool & clubhouse.

  • Registration is required by January 11, 2019
  • Payment In Advance Only
  • Fee: $50.00
  • Limited to 20 spots.
ALL PERSONS MUST Log-in / RSVP to register for this class. 

If you have difficulty with registration please contact Eric Callow via email at: casting@swcffi.org

THE EVENT:

Once again, a team of the very best instructors in Southern California will be assembled for the benefit of qualified students. The class is structured for casters who can throw a three foot or tighter loop, with roughly parallel legs, for thirty feet.

  • The clinic starts with the question “What does it mean to be an intermediate caster?” The answer, in a word, is “control”.
  • This clinic will first explore how to add control to your casting in terms of loop shape, distance, plane and angle.
  • Secondly, these principles and skills will be applied to a series of fishing presentation casts.

Location – click here for map 
Please note that there is no street address for the Clubhouse
LINK map indicated above

MORE INFO – click here

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INTERMEDIATE CASTING CLINIC 2019

SOUTHWEST COUNCIL SPONSORED EVENT / January 12 & 26th

Casting Chair, Eric Callow, in conjunction with Pasadena Casting Club, will be teaching up to 40 casters at the Intermediate Casting Clinic to be held on January 12thand 26th  2019 at PCC.  

Sign up quick because it appears there may only be 7 spots left. This is an outstanding opportunity to get rid of old bad habits and develop new better habits to improve your casting.

Event link – click here

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Owens River Annual Clean Up > Feb 9, 2019

 

Owens River Annual Clean Up 
PLEASANT VALLEY CAMPGROUND
Bishop, Ca
February 9, 2019
8:00am to 12-noon

MEETUP TIME: 
8:00am | ** Baked goods and coffee will be provided to volunteers

MEETUP LOCATION IN THE CAMP:
0800AM @ the metal bridge at the Pleasant Valley Campground.

GOOGLE MAPS:
Pleasant Valley Campground – CLICK HERE

CAMPGROUND RESERVATIONS:
If you are planning to camp or RV at the location, it is recommended you make reservations online at – CLICK HERE

  • DETAILS:
  • Bring gloves.
  • Trash bags will be provided.
  • Waders & wading stick // Wading may not be an option as water levels could still be too high. Please check the flows before coming up. Safety first!
  • Volunteers will divide and conquer different parts of the river.
  • Lunch Break:  12-noon > food provided!
  • Invite friends to come help!

RSVP appreciated via Facebook or contacting Chris Leonard

SWAG AND STUFF RAFFLE
Several sponsors are donating some great swag to be raffled off to participants.

TENKARA CLINIC
Luong Tam, Chris Leonard, and Jarrett Coons will have a free clinic on fishing tenkara rods after lunch. Please join Luong, Chris, and Jarett. Rods provided.

All questions should be directed to:
Chris Leonard @ 818.288.3271

Please join us to give a little love to this blue ribbon fishery.

CLICK  HERE FOR WEATHER FORECASTAbout our host Chris Leonard

Chris Leonard is a teacher at Mammoth High School. His greatest passions are education and fly fishing, making him a choice fly fishing instructor and on-water guide. He guides through Kittredge Sports during the summer, also weekends and holidays during the school year.

Rivers and lakes. Tenkara and traditional rods.

He has lived in Mammoth full time since 2004. His favorite waters to fish and guide include the Owens River, Hot Creek, Rush Creek, Rock Creek, San Joaquin River, and Crowley Lake.

A seasoned traveler, he has chased trout as close as the Western US, as far away as the Midwest, Eastern US, Central America and South America. He has hooked chrome in the Pacific Northwest, redfish in NOLA, and bonefish, permit, and tarpon in Belize.

Ask Chris about the Mammoth High School Fly Fishing Club. He takes local Mammoth kids out on the water to teach them how to fly fish!

2019 Sponsors include:
California Deer Association; California Waterfowl Association
Caltrout; Ducks Unlimited; Eastern Sierra Fish Reports
Erick Schat’s Bakery; Great Basin Bakery; Golden Trout Lanyards
Inyo Recycling and Waste Management; KIBS Radio
Kittredge Sports Guide Service; KMMT-KHVS Radio
Preferred Septic and Disposal; RIO, Redington, and Sage
Sierra Mountain Trout Guide Service
Silver Lake Resort; Southwest Council, Fly Fishers International
Tenkara Tanuki Fishing Rods; Trout Unlimited; Virginia Lakes Resort

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Pyramid Lake December 8th & 9th 2018

PERFORMANCE ANGLERS
Pyramid Lake
December 8th & 9th 2018
*NEW! (6 ) ladder chair spots available!

Don’t have a fishing buddy?  Don’t worry, we have individual or group spots open for both dates!

Home of the World’s
Largest Cutthroat Trout!
World record 42 lbs

What Do you get with the NEW
Performance Anglers ladder chair spot?

  • First, you will meet your guide at a location disclosed to you the day before our trip on Dec. 7th.
  • Your custom ladder chair set up comes with access to two 8 wt. rods:  1 sinking and 1 floating line, plus our custom tied Pyramid flies.
  • Hot fresh beach coffee brewing all day, a shoreline gourmet sandwich and ice cold bottled water!
  • All you have to do is show up and be ready to fish! This is concierge beach fishing at its best!

    The cost for your spot is $225.
    Hurry these spots are going fast!
    Contact us to secure your spot AT:
    760-965-6527
    http://www.performanceanglers.info/

 “November fishing has been good to great with more 10 lb. + trout being landed than in the last two previous seasons! The 20 lb. + fish have been showing up this season and December looks like its primed for monster trout waiting for your fly!”
-Joe Contaldi, owner and lead guide.

  • RECOMMENDED ROD WEIGHT AND LINE:
  • 8 wt. sinking line or shooting head for retrieving
  • 8 wt. floating line for indicator or “no-cator” fishing.
  • RECOMMENDED FLY PATTERNS:
  • Retrieving Popcorn Beetles and a Woolly Buggers or Boobies.
  • Popcorn Beetles #6 in white chartreuse
  • All black woolly buggers #6 & #8 Black Brown, White and Olive
  • Balance Leeches #8
  • Black, Bronze-Peacock. Peacock, White, Brown and Olive
  • Midges #8 & #12
  • Snow-Cone, Copper-Black
  • Red 49’er.

More on our website at:
https://www.conejovalleyflyfishers.com/2018/11/30/pyramid-lake-december-2018/

 

 

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TENKARA FLY ROD CLINIC

TENKARA FLY ROD CLINIC
SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 2018
HOSTED BY THE LONG BEACH CASTING CLUB

https://www.tenkararodco.com/


Long Beach Casting Club / Courtesy Listing:
 
Fly Anglers –  There is a growing interest in Tenkara fly fishing. Luong Tam and I are hosting a clinic this Saturday, March 31 at LBCC. The clinic this Saturday, March 31 is free. I believe there are still some afternoon seats left. Information will be found on the LBCC website.
 
There is also an on the water clinic coming up May 5 and 6.
Please share this attached information with your club members.
 
Tight lines – Chris Leonard
818.288.3271
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“Secrets of Casting” March 24 & 25, 2018

 

 

Courtesy of SWC-FFI
Casting Chairman Eric Callow,
you are invited to the following
“FREE EVENT”:

CHRIS KORICH’s
“Secrets of Casting”
Sat/Sun March 24 & 25, 2018

Tournament Casting has been around for a long time: the first recorded contest having been in 1860. The American Casting Association has been around for 110+ years, so it’s a different tradition from the FFI Certified Casting Instruction program that began some thirty years ago.

Now Southwest Council members have an opportunity to draw on the deep tradition of the ACA by spending one or two sessions with champion tournament caster Chris Korich.  Chris has been a dominate contestant for over forty years and takes great pride in having coached casting phenomenon Maxine McCormick to world championships.

Chris will be at the Long Beach Casting Club on Saturday, March 24th for a 7:00-9:00 PM classroom session and Sunday, March 25th on the pond for practice and coaching at 10:00 AM.

Titled “Secrets of Casting“ the sessions will give participants insight into how to develop a precise and repeatable casting stroke for improved accuracy, and better fishing too.

THE SESSIONS ARE FREE!

For questions, contact Colin Kumabe at ctkumabe@gmail.com.

  • More about Chris at the American Casting Associate website – click here
  • Watch Chris’ young student, Maxine McCormick,”nail” casting targets in strong winds on video – click here
  • More of Chris’ videos on Vimeo – click here

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OCC Member To Be Inducted Into California Outdoors Hall of Fame

 In case you missed the SF Chronicle article, OCC member and Director, Chris Korich, just became the top vote recipient for the 2017 California Outdoors Hall of Fame.

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Non-fly fishing event > Free Paper Shredding / Sunday, March 4, 2018

Image result for paper shreddingPierce Brothers Valley Oaks will host a free Community Shred Event, Sunday, March 4, 2018
10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

 
  • Residents from around the Conejo Valley are encouraged to bring up to four boxes of paper documents to be shredded at no charge.
  • Paper of any kind will be accepted, even with staples and paper clip.
  • Binders, CDs, DVDs or other media, however, will not be accepted.
 

For more information or questions, call 818-889-0902. 

** Newbies to the club and our area will appreciate this info!
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Cast Into Spring Event – March 10, 2018

“Cast Into Spring”
Hosted by Woman Anglers, Simms, and Sage

NO RSVP need but why not RSVP on Facebook to “BOOST” the event at:  https://www.facebook.com/events/779970965537598/

Saturday, March 10 at 11 AM – 4 PM

Heather Hudson will be co-hosting the event with three incredible and well accomplished Southern California Women Anglers. John Sherman and Tod Suttle (Simms and Hatch Outdoors) Reps, Alex Ramirez of Sage and Eric Neufeld with Winston and Echo Rods will also be there. We’re encouraging everyone to bring their significant others, friends and family. This will be a great way to “Cast into Spring!”

Bob Marriott’s Flyfishing Store
2700 W Orangethorpe Ave
Fullerton, California 92833
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