“Hello All Competitors! The 2009 US National Fly Fishing Championships are quickly approaching. It has been determined that we will be qualifying the top 5 finishers from the following regionals; New Mexico, Michigan, Oregon, Montana and North Carolina. If one of the last two regionals does not occur, we will be utilizing either the 2008 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 20, 2009
Hopefully one last clarification on the point system. The point totals for this year will be from the 2007 US National Championship through the 2009 US National Championship. The only reason there is a 2 year accumulation of points is due to the fact that we have not had a National Championship in that time. [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 20, 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen: There will be an adjustment to the latest email sent about World Team selection. Originally, we had wanted to be able to send a full team to Poland this summer to scout the water for next year’s championships. In order to do so we would have had to pick our team relatively [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 18, 2009
Thank you to all that followed Team USA this year at the 2009 World Fly Fishing Championships! As many of you know, this championships was truly a one-of-a-kind event. For the first time in it’s history, the Championships were predominantly a stillwater or loch (lake) championship. For those that have followed Team USA over the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 11, 2009
The competition is over! The World Fly Fishing Championship wrapped up some time today or yesterday – who can tell with these time differences. Ian Barr took top rod and catipulted a strong British team showing to Gold! France dominated much of the competition, but slipped to second in the last 2 sessions. And as [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 10, 2009
With 3 sessions in the books the 2009 World Championship Fly Fishing event is more than half done. It looks like Team USA and Canada will have to have extremely strong showings in the last day of competition to medal. Just scanning briefly through the individual results is looks like Mike Sexton of the US [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 6, 2009
I recently wrapped up the first leg of my mission to prospect the streams surrounding State College Pennsylvania which will possibly hold venues for this year’s National Fly Fishing Championship for Team USA. The first trip was an exciting mix of “easy as pie” Euro Style Nymphing on the Little Juniata and tough “head scratching” [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Team USA has once again departed for this year’s World Fly Fishing Championships. The 2009 Championships are taking place June 5 – 12th in Drymen, Scotland. After a great early season of US Regional Qualifiers, Team USA looks to be primed and ready for a very challenging championship. The venues for this year are 4 [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 24, 2009
It is my new hypothesis that the 1hour driving bubble surrounding State College, PA is hands down Fly Fishing Heaven! After one trip down there I’m thinking about packing up my little family, finding a nice little flat on Main St., and settling down to a long fruitful life of rising fish and gangbuster hatches. [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 29, 2008
Fly Fishing Youth Team USA recently fell just short of medaling with a well fought placement of 4th in the Youth World Championships held in Portugal. Leading the way to one of America’s best finishes in World Competition was Danny Marino in 8th followed by Matt Rose (12th ), Caleb Boyle (15th ), and Weston [...]
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Monday, July 27, 2009
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