The Red River Fly Fishers and Eisenhower State Park would like to invite you to join us for the fly fishing event “Texoma on the Fly III” at Eisenhower State park Saturday, June 21, 2008. This event will include fly tying demonstrations, fly fishing instruction, fly casting lessons, fly fishing seminars, and the opportunity to fish Lake Texoma. There will be an emphasis on Striper and warm water fly fishing in Texas. The entire event including entrance into the park is Free.

Eisenhower State Park is located on the shores of Lake Texoma. Lake Texoma is located on the Texas and Oklahoma border about an hour north of Dallas, TX.

The event will be from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, Saturday, June 21, 2008 at Eisenhower State Park.

We hope you will join us for a fly fishing day on Lake Texoma.

Directions to Eisenhower State Park: From TX Highway 75 north of Denison, TX. Take Exit # 72 west toward the Denison Dam. (The store “Dave’s Ski and Tackle” is located on this corner.) At the edge of the Texas side of the Denison Dam, turn left onto 1310. Follow 1310 to the park entrance.

More information is available on the club’s web site at http://www.rrff.org .

For the Red River Fly Fishers,
Rex

Had to make this sticky - the Tie-In was a blast so this has to be a stick of dynamite as well.

Rex that sounds awful FUN. Thanks for letting us know.

What will be happening?

We're just getting into fly fishing and fly tying

KBW, we'll be adding more details and a schedule for the day's activities from now until the event as we firm up the details.

Here's the link to last year's Texoma on the Fly. This summer's event will be similar. I hope you'll come up and join us.

http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1352764#Post1352764

Rex

We discussed this at the RRFF meeting Tuesday night. There'll be some presentations by local experts, fly casting instruction, fly tying demonstrations, a raffle of many items, food and drink, etc. It should be a low key but fun and informative day, just perfect for someone just getting started either fly fishing or fly tying. Lots of helpful folks willing to share their knowledge and passion for fly fishing with others.

my wedding day so i will miss this one but REALLY wanted to attend.

Priorities, man, priorities! Where are your priorities?

So is the location of the reception set in stone?

Hello Everyone, this year we will have three seminars in the afternoon. Here is information on the speakers and their topics:

"Fly Fishing in North Texas"
Orvis Dallas Fly Fishing Manager Sean Polk (214-265-1600) has an unsurpassed knowledge of fly fishing in North Texas. His seminar will teach you about finding and fishing productive water in this area

"Fishing Sink Tips & Sinking Lines"
Rob Woodruff (903-967-2665; www.flyfishingfork.com ) is an Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing Guide on Lake Fork and the Lower Mountain Fork River in Oklahoma. His seminar will help you learn how to catch stripers and bass when they are not hitting poppers.

"Texoma on the Fly"
Steve Hollensed (903-546-6237; www.flywaterangling.com ) is an Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing Guide and a FFF certified casting instructor. His seminar will describe strategies and techniques he successfully employs in putting clients in fish on Lake Texoma.

We hope you will join us for a day of fly fishing on Lake Texoma.

For the Red River Fly Fishers,
Rex

Rex those are all gonna be great seminars, hopefully they'll be concurrent. But the sink line and sink tip seminar has me especially intrigued. But who knows what all I'll learn. I may walk away with some brand new attitude on fishing. That happens when most excellent speakers preside.

Robin, they will run back to back starting at 1:00 and each speaker has 45 minutes. The current plan is to go in this order, Sean, Rob, and then Steve. We'll have the full schedule posted soon.

Rex

It's be there or be square!

You know I'm round. LOL

Hey TCF,
Give me a call tomorrow (or asap) at Bass Pro Garland Fly Shop. (469) 221-2600 ext 4045. I have a good lead on the info you were requesting. There is a new Promo Manager and I think he should be involved.
Tight Lines!

Bill,
I'll get with you Thur or Fri.
We are praying for your wife.

What will the kiddo situation be? I want to being Evan if it will be kid-friendly at all.

YES IT IS A KID FRIENDLY EVENT!!!

Kids are welcome in any of the casting classes, but we will have a "Fly Casting for Kids" class this year. This class will be lead by Al Crise, FFF Master Casting Instructor, and Taylor Walker, a 15 yr old that is a member of TFO's Advisory Staff. And of course the demo fly tier's love to work with kids.

The one item to be aware of, is that due to building space limitations the primary activity after lunch will be the fly fishing seminars and that may not appeal to all kids. However, in past years, some parents have taken a break to go down to the docks to fish for a while before going to the seminars. Catching a fish seems to increase any kids interest level in learning how to catch more fish. Amazing how that works isn't it?

Robin, bring Evan along, he will be very welcome. Helping to get kids interested in fly fishing is one of the goals of this event.

Rex

Thanks Rex

I wish I could get my son interested. He just thinks it is too much work. (he just turned 15)He doesn't want to LEARN, he wants to DO. If the fish aren't biting, he is BORED.

Kelly,
We will be doing a lot of things that should be interesting for 15 YO boys. If he sees Taylor cast (she puts most seasoned adults to SHAME) he might get interested. She taught me more in my 1st class than anyone else because she has patience (and is hard headed like her dad, sorry Rex). The RR group is very family oriented and tends to draw people in to fly fishing because they pitch it as a family type sport. We'd love to see you guys (since I've yet to meet you).

I met Taylor, and I guess because of that I must of met you, but don't know your real name. She was a real nice young lady. I met her at the Bean and Burger, or Burger and Bean...after Athens fly event this year. I heard she was a great fly angler! I would love to come to the event, I just really hate the idea of facing that awful traffic. I went there in Jan I think this year...and the traffic was a nightmare for me. (not as bad as my Cabelas trip though...) I may take the long route and avoid the main traffic, but it will take a really long time to get there if I do. My son was at the Athens Tx Freshwater Fisheries fly event with me. He thinks learning to cast a fly rod is too much work. He thinks the same thing about using a bait caster...lol. Oh well...I think he will come around one of these days. I am trying to get him to LOVE fishing. He does when the bigger fish bite. But he doesn't like it when things aren't too hot if you know what I mean.

Hello Everyone, we just posted a copy of the event's schedule on the Red River Fly Fisher's web site.

http://www.rrff.org/

Hope you can join us for a day on Lake Texoma.

For the Red River Fly Fishers,
Rex

For the longest time, I thought I was gonna have to work next Saturday, but now I don't. I missed the event last year, but now I'm planning on attending it this year. On the rrff site, it seems there shoud be some fly fishing from 6 - 9am before the event begins. Who would I meet up with and where would I go, should I want to attend this pre-gathering?

Kube, the fishing is an informal activity this year. We tryed to organize some fishing groups the first year that we did this event, but the results were mixed. The biggest problem is that everyone helping with the event is busy with the "last minute scramble" trying to ensure that everything will be ready at 9:00.

There is some great fishing available within the park and we hope that everyone will take time to wet a line while they are there. There is a copy of the park's map on the club's website that has a few "fly fisher friendly" spots marked on it. There are also some fishing tips listed. A couple of spots that are easily accessble from the bank and have room for a backcast are the old boat ramp area and the current boat ramp, but the current ramp can get crowded in the summer.

For the Red River Fly Fishers,
Rex