CCFC next meeting Tuesday, January 14

Happy New Year Casters! 

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, January 14th, 6:30pm, Westside Baptist Church hall.   Rusty is demonstrating a fly.  Casting prior to the meeting, bring your rods if you want to cast.   We will also be discussing upcoming Expo 2014.

Sandwiches on the menu.  We need a couple of bags of chips.  Sunny is making tuna sandwiches, if anyone would like to make a different kind, please let me know.  Burley is bringing a dessert.

See you there!

CCFC next meeting Tuesday, December 10th

The next meeting of the Cane Country Fly Casters will be on Tuesday, December 10, 2013, at the Westside Baptist Church Family Life Center in Natchitoches. Time is 6:30 pm.

This meeting will be "Dinner and a Movie".  We'll watch a video, and dinner and drinks will be provided. Bring a dessert if you wish.

Also, bring your rod to brush up on a cast, learn a new cast, or just learn to cast!
Please call or email if you have questions.  Sunny.

CCFC next meeting Tuesday, November 12

The next meeting of the Cane Country Fly Casters will be on Tuesday, November 12, 2013, at the Westside Baptist Church Family Life Center in Natchitoches. Time is 6:30 pm.

The focus of this meeting will be tying flies.  Bring your vise if you have one....if you don't..no problem!
Everyone will have the opportunity to learn to tie "something" that you can use!

Also, bring your appetite!  We're having GUMBO!

We look forward to seeing you Tuesday.

Tight Lines,  
Burley, Vic, Sunny

Make plans for Toledo Bend Rendezvous Nov 1-3

What is Rendezvous?  Twenty-five years ago, a group of fly fishermen from Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and elsewhere decided to get together for a weekend to fish and tie flies.  They found the facilities at North Toledo Bend State Park to be ideal.  Since then, the tradition has continued and grown.  There's no planned activities, but plenty of fly tying, food, fly casting and fishing, with only a minimal fee to cover lodging and meals.  The activities take place at the park's group facility, which features a commercial kitchen and dining hall, and lodging available for up to 150 people in 5 heated log bunkhouses (30 beds each). There's also a heated central shower and restroom building with nice night lighting on all the sidewalks and a large main log building with A/C, picnic tables and a large barbeque trailer.

Held the first weekend of November each year, the Toledo Bend Rendezvous (aka Southern Fly Fishers Rendezvous) is co-sponsored by the IFFF Texas and Gulf Coast Councils.  It remains one of the top tying events in the country, with many of the attendees featured at regional and national expos. Members of Cane Country Fly Casters - and anyone else with interest - are invited to Rendezvous.

For complete details, go to the Toledo Bend Rendezvous home page

CCFC next meeting Tuesday, October 8

The next meeting of the Cane Country Fly Casters will be on Tuesday, October 8, 2013, at the Westside Baptist Church Family Life Center in Natchitoches. Time is 6:30 pm.

Vic McClain will be showing a great video on fishing for nymphs.  After the video, he will demonstrate tying nymphs.  The YouTube link is a sample of the video, it's a good one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvKhMO8Leyk

Bring your vise if you want to give a nymphs a try.  We look forward to seeing you there!

Cenla National Hunting and Fishing Day - Sat., Sept. 28

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) will renew it's celebration of National Hunting and Fishing Day on Saturday, September 28, 2013.

NHFD is a national event on the fourth Saturday in September.  It was created in 1972 when Congress passed two bills establishing a specific day to celebrate the conservation contributions of our nation’s hunters and anglers. LDWF introduced its first NHFD event in 1982 at the Monroe district office.  In the following years, three more locations were added in Baton Rouge, Minden and Woodworth.  Today, more than 10,000 people statewide attend the celebrations.

This free event offers activities for the entire family such as archery, fishing, fly casting, fly tying, shooting, canoeing, biking and much more. Visitors can learn about coastal restoration, bird watching, turkey hunting, game tagging, and much more from various organizations, agencies, and sponsors. 

The Cenla NHFD Outdoors Festival held at the LDWF Woodworth Education Center is the largest in the state with about 2,000 attendees.  There's free food and refreshments as well, courtesy of Burger King, Coca-Cola and Woodmen of the World.  New this year is the inaugural Woodmen of the World Team Barbecue Cookoff Contest. 

For 2013, the Woodworth event will feature fly fishing courtesy of the Cane Country Fly Casters and Kisatchie Fly Fishers.  There will be casting, fly tying, knot tying.  Kids and adults will get the opportunity to hands-on lesson in casting, tying, or knots. If you are interested in anything related to fly fishing, or even the sport of kayak fishing, be sure to look for our booth at the Woodworth NHFD Festival.

Click on this link for the Cenla NHFD Flyer  in legal format  (pdf, 512kb) 

CCFC next meeting Tuesday, September 10

The Cane Country Fly Casters resume their regular meeting schedule this month after our annual vacation period.  After a long hot summer we're ready to get together again!  The next meeting will be:

Tuesday, September 10 at 6:30pm
Westside Baptist Church
6834 Hwy 1 Bypass, Natchitoches, Louisiana 71457

For our new members, that is located on the by-pass in Natchitoches.  Click on this Google Maps link to find the location.

On the agenda:

• Tony is going to walk us through several knots, including the nail knot. 
• Catch will talk about the upcoming National Hunting and Fishing Day in Woodworth, Sept 28
• Other upcoming activities
• Fishing Reports
• Burley is cooking hamburgers and hotdogs. Members are asked to bring sides. Let us know what you can contribute.

See ya there!