Contacts

Registration
Tracie Maler

Conclave Chairman
Pete Greenan

Fly Tying Chairman
Tom Logan

Media - Advertising
Roger Maler

The Florida Council FFF invites you to join us at the Ramada Inn Resort in Celebration, Florida for a meeting of all Florida flyfishers. Join with other flyfishers to celebrate the wonderful fishing experiences of our beautiful state. Learn the latest techniques, the best places to fish, which flies to use and meet new like-minded friends.

You can see the best fly tyers in the country, cast with some of the best instructors in the world and hear all about fishing opportunities and locations. You will be able to hear seminars from the best flyfishing guides and celebrities statewide and recieve instructions from FFF Master Certified Casting Instructors.

This is a social event so bring the whole family and all your friends. There will be a gathering for bar-b-que on Friday evening and a huge banquet on Saturday. You are all encouraged to attend. A money saving raffle will help you bring home all the latest equipment, take that trip of a lifetime or aquire those wonderful toys all flyfishers need.

Accommodations are beautiful and Ramada has shown their support by offering heavily discounted room rates and free breakfast to all who can stay. In addition they will be donating to the council for everyone who rooms with them. So... your stay will assist the council in bringing the services of the FFF to all Florida anglers.
Mark your calendars, down load the registration form and mail it in now.

Return to this site for more info. We will be offering seminars and programs for everyone. Some will be free and some you will need to register for. Your support the Florida Council of the Federation of Fly Fishers is an important contribution to conservation and fly fishing education in Florida.

Programs and Seminars
The Council wishes everyone have a chance to go to the seminars or programs of their choice.  We are therefore not charging any set fee for these.  We ask that you donate an amount you can afford to defray the costs.  If you can not afford to donate you are still invited to attend. The council wants to bring the services of the Federation to you in a manner that shows our core values.  Those are education and the promotion of fly fishing.  No price or cost can substitute for the dissemination of good fellowship and a love of the sport.

Make check payable to: FFF Florida Council

Mail completed registration form and your check to:
Florida Fly Fishing Expo
3073 Gulf Winds Circle
Hernando Beach, FL 34607

Fly Tying Programs

Casting Programs

Casting Certification

Presentations

Seminars

Banquet

Raffle

North Florida native David Lambert is editor of OnWater Journal and Southerner's Journal.

He is a master casting instructor, an outdoor writer, a TFO and Patagonia pro staffer, and author of Smart Casts: The New Approach to Fly Casting & Practice.

He splits his fishing time between North Florida's salt and its spring rivers. Lambert would like you to know that paddles hard, returns fish, drinks little, and has generally a grand 'ol time.

See Workshops Friday Oct 22:

DAVID LAMBERT - TAILING REDFISH IN THE SPARTINA GRASS:  Learn ALL the Secrets of North Florida's Unique-in-All-the-World Wading Fishery

Jon Cave  is an author/photographer/lecturer and a USCG licensed guide.  He is the founder of the longest established fly-fishing school in the South and serves on the Team Sage Advisory Staff, Rio Fly Lines Advisory Staff, and Umpqua’s Contract Tyer Program.  Jon is only one of a handful of individuals to be honored with the prestigious FFF Silver King Award for his contributions to saltwater fly-fishing.
http://www.jonbcaveflyfishing.com/

See Workshops Friday Oct 22 and Sat. Oct 23:

CAPT. JON CAVE - PERFORMANCE FLY CASTING, POWER POINT PRESENTATION
* TO BE CONTINUED ON CASTING POND AT 11:00AM

Dave Johnson
1986 winner of the Federation of Flyfishiers, Collieander Cup for all around casting. Dave is credited with developing the Petti coat streamer.

Forty two years of fly fishing experience , thirty eight years of teaching fly casting . Beginning as a staff instructor with Fenwick fly fishing schools. Teaching casting with top casters, Lefty Kreh , Lee & Joan Wulff, and Jon Cave to name a few. Fishing experience Blue gills, to Tarpon.

He is affiliated with Temple Fork Outfitters

See Workshops- On the Casting Pond - Friday Oct 22 and Sat. Oct 23:

DAVE JOHNSON, CASTING CHALLENGES FOR FIELD & STREAM

Kathy Guindon has been in Florida for 15 years studying fisheries and habitats the last 8 of which have been spent observing and researching Atlantic tarpon. Her current projects focus on learning the effects of catch-and-release angling on tarpon survival, movement, and stress responses using ultrasonic telemetry, genetics and physiology.

To learn how this applies to the everyday angler, plan to attend her seminar. - Friday Oct 22 or Sat. Oct 23

Guindon is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science and works full time as an Assistant Research Scientist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.
(Photo Credit:FWC-FWRI, Carli Segelson)

Capt. Richard Keating is a Florida Native

Meet CAPT RICHARD KEATING, FISHING THE KEYS - See Workshops - Sat. Oct 23:

Captain Dane Law, is the owner/ outfitter of Southeastern Anglers. Dane began his guiding career in Illiamna, Alaska in 1987 upon graduating with a master’s degree from the University of Georgia, he currently resides on the banks of the Hiwassee River in Reliance, Tn.

Dane is a USCG captain and has fly fished and guided clients on most of the coldwater streams of the southeast as well as several other parts of the world. Dane’s favorite hatches are the big cicadas on our rivers, and Cantaria beetles of the Aisen region in Chile. Dane’s current specialties are tailwaters of the southeast and brown trout fishing in Patagonia.

FRIDAY, OCT.22, ROOM D- DANE LAW, FAVORITE TROUT WATERS

Jim Penrod is retired pediatrician and has been fly fishing for about 17 years. He is an MCI and am currently working toward getting certifited as a THCI. His particular interest in casting is improving one's back cast. Jim says, "While I fish mainly saltwater I get to North Carolina each spring for stream fishing on the Nantahala and Tuckasagee and to Michigan each fall to fish for salmon and steelhead on the Muskegon. I taught classes regularly in Tallahassee year round on a monthly basis for about ten years until I retired to St. Joe Beach. I continue to do occasional classes and individual lessons.
Looking forward to October ! "

Join Jim - Workshops - Fri. Oct 22 and Sat. Oct 23 at 3:00 PM EMERGENCY CASTING CLINIC

Sandi studied art in Orlando, Florida and went on to receive her Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design at the University of Central Florida.

Kathy started at an early age coloring outside the lines. She worked early with metal sculpture and went on to make a living in Visual Merchandising for store windows and store planning.

Sandi & Kathy are members of The Nature Printing Society and have studied and taught with leading Gyotaku artists from around the world.
Join them - Workshops - Fri. Oct 22 - 10:30 AM - GYOTAKU, THE ART OF FISH SCREENING