Long Beach Casting Club

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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Games for this event are: 1/4 oz, 3/8 oz, and 5/8 oz Plug; Trout Fly, Dry Fly, and Bass Bug. This is the ACA Winter Registered Tournament.

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When ancient cartographers ran out of known world on a map, they would mark the unknown edges with “Hic Sunt Draconis” or “Here Be Dragons” to signify the home of the unknown or mythical beasts. Myths still exist in fly fishing today–some true and others not. Our own mythbuster Jeff Sadler will be speaking on myths in fly fishing and will attempt to bring modern scientific enlightenment to bear on them. Bring your own myths and mysteries for discussion and/or busting.

Note the meetings are held on Fridays at 7:00 p.m. in the Recreation Park Social Hall, which is South of 7th Street and a little west of the clubhouse. Just look for the parking lot with all of the SUV’s and trucks in it.

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The casting games have returned. Games for this event are: 5/8 oz plug,Trout Fly, and Wet Fly (WTCA Scoring).

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The club will be running the second Lower Owens trip of the season on Feb 15 to 17, 2008. On the morning of the 16th, everyone will meet at the bridge in the campground to pair new members with more experienced ones. Most people meet at Jack’s for breakfast on Saturday and The Pizza Factory for dinner Saturday night.

The pre-trip meeting will be held on Friday, Feb 8, 2008 at 7:00 p.m. in the Rec Park Social Hall.

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