Long Beach Casting Club

The April 2008 Target Talk has been posted

On Friday, March 28, 2008 the March meeting, a.k.a. the Past President’s Meeting, will be held at the Recreation Park Community center at 7:00 p.m. The speaker will be John Tavenner, who will be speaking on techniques for the San Juan River in New Mexico. He will be covering tackle and techniques not only applicable [...]

On Saturday, March 29,2008, Maggie Merriman will be holding her “10th Annual Basic Entomology Workshop for Fly Fishers” at the Long Beach Veteran’s Administration Hospital Campus. Her workshops emphasize the the common names of insects and how to match the hatch. The fee for the workshop is $45.00 and you must pre-register. See the March [...]

All instructors for the Beginning Casting Workshop are reminded that they will need to attend a separate instructor’s workshop, starting on Wednesday, March 26, 2008, and running for two additional consecutive Wednesdays. The purpose of the workshop is to ensure that the instructions given to the students is uniform and consistent. In addition to the [...]

It’s that time of the year again! The beginning casting class for 2008 will start on Friday, April 4, 2008 (note day is Friday) with the orientation lecture to be held in the Community Center at 7:00 p.m. The first meeting will cover equipment needed for the class and introduce the concepts of casting a [...]

The Sierra Sisters, Bettye Swart, Carol Murphy, and Wanda McCarger want to announce a great fly fishing opportunity for women fly fishers. On the weekend of May 2-4, 2008, the National Turkey Federation will be hosting “Women in the Outdoors” at the Fort Tejon Ranch north of Los Angeles. The fee is a nominal $75.00 [...]

In addition to updating the look and feel of the web page, a significant software update was performed. All major modules of the site were updated, including Wordpress, punbb (message forums), and Gallery2 (picture gallery). Additionally, modules supporting these pieces of software were also updated. I have changed the default theme of the page to [...]

The Long Beach Casting Club will once again have a booth at the Fred Hall Fishing Tackle, Boat and Travel Show at the Long Beach Convention Center. The show runs March 5 - 9, 2008. Unlike previous years, the club booth is in the Ice Arena on the east side of the show (opposite end [...]