Great turnout at tonight's MCFF Tying Night! Capt. Frank Brownell started us out with a presentation on the Eyes on Seagrass grass tracking app to fulfill an assignment for his Master Naturalist studies. Then, Bob Dillon led the tyers in tying one of his amazing flies, the BD Shrimpoon!!
Tying Night is the third Monday of each month, following our regular meeting on the second Monday. All are welcome, and as always, I'll be glad to save you a seat!
Fun meeting tonight with the Mid-Coast Fly Fishers!! New members, visitors, returning members, fishing reports, fish tales, fishing in the news, and some book and film suggestions! You never know what you'll get at MCFF, but you'll always learn something!! We meet the 2nd & 3rd Monday of every month. As always, all are welcome, and I'll be glad to save you a seat!
Tying Night at MCFF saw Bob Dillon leading us with his interpretation of the late Bob Popovic's Hollow Fly that he dubbed the Spye! As per usual, mine was tied far too heavy, but this is a great technique that's open to lots of customization to suit your fishery! Tying Night is the 3rd Monday of each month! All are welcome, and as always, I'll be glad to save you a seat!
Excellent turnout for tonight's MCFF Tying Night! Members Guy Faherty and Bob Dillon are running a refresher course on some of the knots to know when setting up a new fly line, and Guy will be finishing the evening with showing his version of the McVay Gotcha Fly! MCFF meets the 2nd and 3rd Monday of each month. As always, all are welcome and I'll be glad to save you a seat!
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Wonderful day for the Mid-Coast Fly Fishers' annual open house! Huge thanks to all who came out and made it an excellent event! The morning started out on the cool side, so hot coffee was definitely required! Thanks, too, to the vendors who joined us! Floyd Skiffs, RCI Optics, Cortland and Riverside Conservancy. Always so much fun to share a meal and the passion for fly fishing with so many great folks! I clearly didn't take enough pictures, but I'm proud and thankful for how well the day went! Come out and join us next year, it promises to be bigger and better yet! MCFF meets the 2nd and 3rd Monday of each month, plus Saturday Casting Practice! All are welcome and, as always, I'll be glad to save you a seat.
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| Starting things off with lots of coffee! |
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| Casting instruction! MCFF is a Teaching Club first and foremost! |
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| Members sharing the hot spots on a Mosquito Lagoon area map! |
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| Burgers, dogs, lots of sides and Members and Guests sharing a meal! |
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| Awards from our First Annual Redfish Tournament were handed out at the Open House. |
A challenging morning on the water has turned in to a beautiful day for a cookout at our first annual MCFF Redfish Tournament! Fantastic turnout and great to see our members come together for a fun event!
Awesome seasonal novelty tie at tonight's MCFF Tying Meeting that lead many to believe we were tying a Tarpon Toad variant right up until completion! ( and, really, we were!) Many thanks to Carl Sanders, our fly-tyer extraordinaire for ending the year with such a fun and challenging fly, but also for all his service to the Club and the many incredible ties and techniques he shared with us during his tenure. He will be missed, but we wish him the best and hope he'll drop into the Club any time he's able! MCFF meets the 2nd and 3rd Monday of each month, with tying night on the 3rd. As always, all are welcome and I'll be glad to save you a seat!
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Tonight's Mid Coast Fly Fishers meeting featured former club president, and current FOP Lodge liaison, Mark Patterson, who presented the club with a thank you letter for the members who helped clean up the lodge property after this year's hurricanes, and also to relay stories of the early days of MCFF, a fly pattern design credited to members of the club and to show his amazing rodbuilding handiwork! Another great meeting in the books, so I hope you'll join us for the next one! Second and third Monday of each month. All are welcome, and I'll be glad to save you a seat!
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Jordan Kohn
Dec 14, 2008
Friends of the club, Kelli McGee and Dr. Art Litowitz of the Riverside Conservancy, joined us tonight for an update on their restoration work and water quality in the Mosquito Lagoon as well as new and upcoming projects. There was a great turnout, a fantastic report from the Treasurer and several new members in attendance! As always, everyone is welcome and I'll be glad to save you a seat!
Tonight's MCFF Fly Tying meeting was presented al-fresco! Carl Sanders walked everyone through tying the Simpson's Shrimp, which utilizes an inverted tying technique, working from the eye to the bend. Lots of learning tonight! As always, all are welcome, and I'll be glad to save you seat!
A great night of fly tying and camaraderie at MCFF as Carl Sanders demonstrated 5 different ways (and a couple variations) to add a weed guard and tail support to our flies. After the demo he led the membership, new and tenured, in tying a simple Crystal Schminnow in which each tier added the weed guard technique of their choice! Many thanks to Carl for taking on the fly tying leadership role and the monumental task of reorganizing the club's tying materials and tools!! As always, all are welcome and I'll be glad to save you a seat!
It was great to be back at the MCFF general meeting last night! We had a good, late-summer turnout that led to great discussions of the state of the Mosquito Lagoon, the upcoming Annual Open House, fishing reports, fly selection and even some casting on the lawn! Looking forward to Tying Night next Monday. As always, All are welcome and I'll be glad to save a seat for you!
Mid-Coast Fly Fisher's monthly fly tying meeting had a great group of varied skill-level tiers working on some new techniques with the Po Boy fly as tied by Carl Sanders. Consisting of craft fur with backing, rubber legs and dubbing brush tied to a jig hook with a barbel eye, should make for very lifelike movement in the waters of Central Florida! As always, all are welcome and I'll be glad to save a seat for you!!
