Another year of fly fishing is ahead of us. This is an exciting time in fly fishing as women are becoming more recognized in the sport of angling. If you’re interested in women and fly fishing, you have found the BEST website. I welcome you to Georgia Women Flyfishers. Our club can help you along your lifelong adventure in fly fishing.

We offer assistance in your pursuit of fly fishing through the spirit of fellowship.
Here is a brief look at what we have coming up this year! We start the year off with a Mardi Gras-themed Fundraiser in February. View the Holiday Party tab for details about our yearly fundraiser. Our new Mentor Program is officially launched this year. Please contact our Education Director: Deb Bowen if you are interested in participating in the program throughout the year. The club will be conducting a Beginners Fly Fishing Class on March 22nd and an Intermediate Class on April 26th of 2008. In May, we will be camping at Tremont Campground in Townsend, TN. Check out the Spring Charter Trip tab for information. Casting for Confidence is our day to introduce Breast Cancer Survivors to the sport of fly fishing. This year, CFC will be at Noontootla Creek Farm in the North Georgia Mountains in early June. Later into the summer, look for us catching trout on dry flies as we are floating down the Hiwassee River in TN. Florida’s Mosquito Lagoon is where you will find us fly fishing for redfish to support Hunt for Redfish and the Alzheimer’s Association in November. Visit www.huntforredfish.kintera.org for information on Hunt for Redfish. You will see why we chose this great event as our club trip for 2008.

Come join us at our monthly meetings. We have variety of speakers from the fly fishing industry come talk to us and share their fishing tips. We have “match the hatch” and raffle items at the end of the each meeting. Look under the Calendar tab on our website for updated details about meetings. July is the only month without a meeting because we having our LUAU for the Summer Party. Beginners to Experienced Anglers are always welcomed at our After Meeting Fish. Every Saturday after our monthly meeting we gather to fly fish. Members travel to picturesque freestone and tail water streams from Georgia to North Carolina. Carolyn Wilder is our club Ghillie. She will have information about After Meeting Fish available at the meetings.

I hope this letter gives you some insight into our year at GWFF. We will be volunteering at various functions throughout the year such as Unicoi Outdoor Adventure Days. We look forward to seeing you at one of our meetings or events. Come share your fly fishing stories and fish pictures with us. If you see a Georgia Women Flyfisher on the stream, say hello. We might just tell you what we are catching all those fish on.

Looking forward to seeing you on the stream,
Becky Hulsey
GWFF President 2008

“And if ye angler take fysshe; surely thenne is there noo man merrier than he is in his spyryte.”
Dame Juliana Berners: The Boke of St. Albans (1496)