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AFF Casting Clinic with George Cook

GEORGE cook and CHAR

Need a casting tune-up before the season gets under way in mid June? Join the Alaska Fly Fishers for a FREE Casting Clinic covering everything from the fundamentals through advanced techniques. George is an FFF Certified Casting Instructor and has been a long-term fixture in our sport as a manufacturer’s rep, casting instructor, guide, and supporter of our Club.

Bring your favorite rod rigged with a floating line to the front lawn of the BP Center at Seward and Benson on Sunday, June 3rd from 1-4pm.

The Clinic will consist of a front end demonstration followed by individual help sessions as George strolls around to help members One-On-One.

This is your chance to work out casting quirks or unlock mysteries of technique as your 2012 season unfolds.

May 08, 2012 | Categories: Events | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

AFF May 7th Meeting – Get Kids Involved!!!

Henry Garbowski teaches a camper to cast a fly rod

Henry Garbowski teaches at Kids Camp

Our speaker for the May 7th meeting of the Alaska Fly Fishers is Henry Garbowski from Midnight Sun Fly Casters in Fairbanks. He has been a member of their organization for 20 years, is a Past President, and is currently their Vice President.  We all recognize that the future success of our sport and the welfare of our fish and streams depends on developing a love and understanding of fly fishing by our children and grand-children. Henry will be speaking about Midnight Sun’s successes in teaching kids to fly fish.

One of their accomplishments is the Fly Fishing Kids Camp held at Twin Bear Lake at the 31 mile marker of Chena Hotsprings Road. They have held the camp for the last 16 years and have brought many new fly fishers into the fold. Henry will provide a commentary of their successes and suggestions we might use to accomplish a similar goal.

 

The meeting will be held on Monday, 7 May at 7:00 PM in the Redington Room at the Alaska Millennium Hotel on Lake Hood in Anchorage. In addition to the presentation by Henry, we will get an update on the Annual Auction from last month and a report on our Spring Seminar (which still has 1 class – Casting – to go and you’re all invited to come help teach.) We’ll have Fly-Of-The-Month drawings, and some good Ghillie Auction prizes to look forward to. We’ll see you there!
Campers at Midnight Sun Fly Casters Kids Camp

Campers at Midnight Sun Fly Casters Kids Camp - photo by Sherry Hilton-Scheffler

Apr 29, 2012 | Categories: Meetings | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

Die Hard Kenai River Clean Up – Cancelled

by Keven Kleweno, Cleanup Organizer

2011 was very hard on me both mentally and physically.  I was looking forward to starting this spring with a day of picking up trash along the highway and Upper Kenai River on April 28, 2012.  With record snow falls in Southcentral Alaska that increased the safety concerns for anyone attending and my continued physically ailments along with those of the great individuals that agreed to assist me with the Die Hard Clean, I have to announce that the proposed “Die Hard Clean Up” for April 28, 2012 has been cancelled.

When I first started to talk about the record snows, one good friend’s first comment was not as “Die Hard” as you thought.  I will admit that I am not as young as I was once was and do not heal as well.  If the weather is back to normal this fall, AFF will have the 2012 Kenai River Clean Up.  Looking forward to seeing everyone at the 2012 Kenai River Clean Up in September.

Apr 23, 2012 | Categories: Events | Tags: | Leave A Comment »

It’s Auction Time!

We’re coming down to the wire for our big Annual Auction, on Friday the 13th of April, and we still need donations and volunteers. We’ll be meeting every evening this week, beginning at 5:00 PM on the 9th, in the KTUU conference room on the 2nd floor, to accept donations or sign-up volunteers. We especially need folks to help us move auction items from the KTUU storage area to the Millenium Hotel, early in the afternoon of the 13th. If you have a donation but can’t come to the KTUU building, you can make arrangements by contacting Mike Zavosky (503-871-6487, zavo496@gmail.com) or Damond Blankenship (907-351-6810, damondent@gci.net).

Remember – this is the club’s largest fundraising event of the year, and we’ll auction items from fly lines to numbered prints, new stuff and used. There will be trips ranging from a 2-hour float on the Upper Kenai to an 8-day excursion at a full-service lodge in the Bristol Bay area. Rods, reels, float tubes, flies…and steel fish. Great bargains, hors d’ouevers, a cash bar, and Lots of Fun!!

Even if you can’t volunteer or donate, don’t forget to attend and enjoy yourself for a couple of hours.

SEE YOU THERE THIS FRIDAY, APRIL 13!!

Apr 12, 2012 | Categories: Events, Meetings | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

2012 Fly Tiers Retreat

Info for the 2012 Fly Tiers Retreat can be found here. New venue this year and date changes. Check out the page and contact Dick Long. Spaces are going quickly!

Mar 21, 2012 | Categories: Uncategorized | Leave A Comment »