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 Target Talk for details and contact info.
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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 workshops, the instructors will need to attend the casting workshops, starting on Tuesday, April 15, 2008.
If you are interested in pursuing the FFF Certified Casting Instructor, these workshops are a great way to get started down that path. Most of the leaders of this workshop are either already certified, are Master Casting Instructors, or are on the FFF Board of Governors.
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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 fly rod.
There will be a two week break to allow the students to acquire their equipment and the classes will be held April 15, 22, and 29, and May 6 and 13. These sessions will be held at the casting pond, starting at 7:00 p.m.
All casting instructors are reminded that they have to attend the Instructor’s Workshop.
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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 and there will be a variety of outdoor courses over the course of the weekend. Note that this event is open to women only! For more information, including Bettye’s contact info, see the March Target Talk.
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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 incorporate some picture to the page. Now that the gallery software is updated, I will start adding pictures to the album and adding them to the mainline posts.
I am still tweaking the finer points of the new theme, with changing the colors of the links the next little tweak to be made.
The next major event will be the server migration behind the scenes at the hosting company. The page will be moved from a the older Textdrive BSD server to the new Joyent OpenSolaris server, which should increase page performance. The timeline for this migration is T.B.D., but I will post prior to any major server outages, if any.
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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 of the show). Come by and visit the booth! If you have volunteered to man the booth, Paul Burgner will be contacting you about your tickets. The show hours are:
Wed - Fri 2:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Hope to see you there!
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The March 2008 Target Talk has been posted.
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This will be the final Sunday cast until the games resume in the Fall. Games include: 3/8 Plug, Trout Fly, Dry Fly, Wet Fly, and Bass Bug.
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