Mike and I made plans to go to Bishop this coming weekend for a little R and R. He let me know this morning rooms are expensive and hard to come by because the Southwest Council FFF Fly Fishing Faire is going on there.
I was a member of FFF for years and received notices by email of all the events and attended as much as I could. Now I’m older and don’t belong to any clubs and don’t get to fish as much as I would like to, I felt like they were intruding on my time.
After breakfast and coffee I came to the conclusion that it will be fun and I am going to enjoy myself. I’m going to bring my 6’ 6" 3 wt and my 8’3" 5 wt home built rods and my Bishop Creek fly box with about 30 of my favorite flies. Hopefully I can watch and learn from some masters, and maybe I can teach some juniors.
At any rate, I am going on an adventure but at least it’s not unknown territory. Maybe we’ll see some FAOL members there too. Jim
http://southwestcouncilfff.org/faire
I hope you have a great time at the Southwest Council Fly Fishing Faire. Some really good people belong to the SW Council of the IFFF. I see Wasatch has a booth there. Make sure you swing by there and if Bob or Bunny Blount (owners) are working the booth make sure you stop and talk with them, tell them Larry Gibbs says ‘Hi!’. They are very good people and really strong supporters of fly fishing. I see the website doesn’t have a spot listed for an IFFF booth nor a Fly Tying Group (FTG) booth, so look for a table with some signs that indicate they belong to the FTG. The FTG has some great fly tyers that belong to it. I see Faire has a nice selection of seminars and workshops that cover fly casting, fly tying, fly fishing techniques, various destination places for fishing, all kinds of good stuff. Check out some of the fly tyers, sit down and have a talk with them, they love it.
Hope you have a great time.
Larry —sagefisher—
Sounds like fun; I would imagine Schat’s will do some serious business.
Regards,
Scott
I thought that I’d pass on that about one-third of all the members of the IFFF do not belong to a club… Guys like you are very, important to this organization that we all love so much.
I know that the folks in the SWC have worked hard to put on a great show.
Hope you have a great time at the SWC Fly Fair.
Kyle Moppert
President
Gulf Coast Council - IFFF
I was in Bishop last week with my brother. I absolutely love the area. Jim, I know you’ll have a great time.