news and updates

Red Stick Day - Saturday, March 6
Glen Cormier, Events Chair

Our 19th annual conclave will be held Saturday, March 6, at the LDWF Waddill Outdoors Education Center on North Flannery Road.  Time is 8:30am to 3:30pm.  Speakers include Zach Matthews, Pete Cooper Jr., Jarid Malone, Brendan Bayard, Wes Miller, and Jon Deichert. The list of programs has somethign for everyone.  Our "Krewe of Vise" will be back doing fly tying demonstrations throughout the day - some of the best tiers on the northern Gulf Coast showing their latest or greatest.  We also have a great raffle (as usual), paddlecraft demos, rod demos, and free soft drinks and a great $5 jambalaya lunch.  And don't forget to bring your rod:  the bass should be biting in the West Pond!  Click on the "Red Stick Day" menu link for details on this great event.

March 8 meeting:  Ron Begnaud, "Fishing the Calcasieu Estuary"
by Dugan Sabins, Program Chair

For our March 8 membership meeting, we will have Ron Begnaud from Lake Charles as our featured speaker. Ron is a part-time guide, and proprietor of the website www.redchaser.com, the premier site for info on fly fishing for redfish. Check out the great articles and fly tying recipes. Ron will give us an update on spring fishing in the estuary, and what we might expect this year, as well as a few places to launch our kayaks close to the fish!  The meeting begins at 7:00pm. 

Starting in April, with Daylight Savings Time, and longer days, we will have casting practice outside beginning at 6:00pm, weather permitting. 

March 22 Fly Tying Session at Orvis: Marc Pinsel
by Jack Dial, Fly Tying Chair

Our next "Fourth Monday" fly tying session will be on March 22 at the Orvis store in Perkins Rowe.  The session begins at 7:00pm.  Featured tier will be Marc Pinsel.  Marc is one of the founding members of our club, and has been an invited tier at numerous conclaves and international tying festivals. He's created several patterns, and is considered a specialist at wool flies. His 3M fly is one of the top flies for speckled trout in the surf.  Please come and learn some great flies and techniques from one of the old masters!

Please note that there's been a change in the tying schedule.  The third monthly session will now be held at the Orvis store in Perkins Rowe.  

Cabelas - January, April, July, October
Bass Pro - February, May, August, November
Orvis - March, June, September, December

Please note that the date of the December tying session will coincide with the annual Orvis Christmas Open House, whatever date that happens to be.