Fly Casting: Learn & Practice
Description
Sunday, June 2, 2024
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Tuition: $30
**This class will be held at White Side Park. Participants should meet in the green space by the playground.**
Join this class for a fly fishing and fly casting workshop for beginners and intermediate. Did you know you can chase any fish on any water with a FLY? That's right, from 4" minnows to giant swordfish, 200 lb tarpon and 58" muskies have all been caught on flies with a fly rod. The history goes back 3000 years.
We will cover the basics of equipment, where and how to fish with emphasis on casting. Our main goal is build confidence in each participant, so you can have success fly fishing around Ely or wherever you choose to fish. Ely is a great place to fly fish for pike, bass, trout, sunfish.
Equipment is provided but if you have a fly rod with line please bring it along. Youth under 14 must have an adult with them.
**This class will be held at White Side Park. Participants should meet in the green space by the playground.**
About the Instructors: Bob and Val Wagner have been teaching fly fishing for over 20 years. They not only love the sport but really enjoy sharing it with others.
Bob Wagner says, "I feel privileged and blessed to have grown up on the edge of the woods next a lake. Spent my formative years fishing, hunting roaming swamps and woods learning everything about nature. Spent a few college years in wildlife management and graduated with a teaching degree in Science. Designed and taught environmental, biology and life science. Did nature hikes and evening programs as park naturalist. Spent the last 22 years as a Trout Unlimited volunteer and board member. Designed, coordinated and taught youth fly fishing program going on 20 years. I believe building a students confidence in fly tying and or fly casting can open a door of opportunity for that student to find appreciation, joy and respect for their new skills and knowledge. All of this focused on a great activity, hobby and art form in nature's great outdoors."
Val Wagner grew up in the woods enjoying nature and using it for various art forms. Val's beginning job employments were working with youth. She has worked for camps and YMCAs doing youth programs and was a community education director for 9 years followed by a job as a paraprofessional with special ed students. Val and her husband own a small business that involves various art forms. Their art revolves around nature, our hobbies and the outside.