Category: Education

Here are some photos from lasts nights Fly Tying session at the Westside Community Center.  We practiced our dubbing skills by tying the Hare’s Ear.  A good Fly for Trout on the Guadalupe.  So many fly’s have dubbing, this is a skill that you will use often, not only when tying a fly for the Guadalupe, but pretty much anywhere. Our next session will be March 2nd (Thursday) starting at 6:00 pm.  Hope to see you there.

Minutes of NBFF Membership Meeting

01/25/2023 – New Braunfels Public Library

Dan Cone called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm at the New Braunfels Public Library.

Gary Nyland reported that seven people attended the last fly tying meeting.  The next meeting is scheduled for February 2^nd and the fly they will tie is a Hare’s Ear.

Pat McQuinn said that we had 39 members as of 1/18; plus, 2 new members that just joined this evening bring the total to 41.

Ron DeMeyer reported the outing on the Guadalupe at Action Angler was a success with 6 members fishing.  All caught fish.

Morgan Ferry continues to develop our Instagram account to give us the best opportunity to grow our club and showcase our activities.

The club booth at Troutfest can be set-up on Thursday, February 16 from 12 – 5 pm and Friday, February 17 from 9 – 4.  Ron asked that we set-up on Thursday around 2:00 pm.  Ron will communicate the schedule in the future.

William Townsend was our speaker.  William owns “Light and Fly” Fly Fishing in Corpus Christi.  He talked about the coastal fishery in general and then concentrated on the importance of good casting habits and that practice was the key to success when fishing the coast.

Dan adjourned the meeting at 8:50 pm.

NBFF Supports GRTU Youth Trout Camp

For the second year, New Braunfels Fly Fishers have supported the GRTU Youth Trout Camp by providing the youth with gift bags to further their fly fishing experience. The bags contained a fly box, a number of flies, two zingers, nippers, forceps, leader and tippet. The members of the
club donated more than three hundred flies to the youth. Special thanks to Umpqua for their donation of the leader and tippet. Pictured below are the youths with adults (left to right) Dakus Gesslin, GRTU Youth Initiative Chair, and NBFF members Pat McQuinn and Ed Finger.

The camp was a great success, they got to fish, learned about stocking, and how to care for fish, it was a full weekend.

The next picture is of a gift bag and contents.