Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will host the Flat Out Fishing seminar on February 2nd in Corpus Christi, at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. The event will be held at Bay Hall, Room 103, at TAMU-CC’s Ward Island campus.

The event will be a full day complete with seminars and presentations from noted guides and experts covering a variety of bay, surf, kayak and fly fishing techniques along the Texas Coast.

Check out www.girlonthefly.com, and then make plans to see the clothing line in person on September 18th. Girl on the Fly clothing will also be available for sale that evening at special wholesale prices. Visa and Mastercard transactions will be accepted.

Traditionally, fishing and fly fishing activities have attracted more men than women to the sport. Even membership numbers in the Alamo Fly Fishers will support that statement. Nevertheless, we want to reach out, and encourage female participation in fly fishing. The theme of our September meeting is about Women in Fly Fishing. With more women than ever before venturing out on the water, Susan Thoms-Bhatia and Jennifer Greenberg have recognized there is a lack of fashion-friendly fishing clothing for women. They believe that women shouldn’t be forced to wear men’s clothing when they went fly fishing, and so they did something about it. They will be showing their “Girl on the Fly” apparel on September 18th at the Alamo Fly Fishers meeting. The “Girl on the Fly” clothing line offers a variety of shirts and shorts in cool, tropical colors and patterns in a variety of materials.

Steve Flanagan will be tying some flies, and demonstrating the use of Tuffleye before the August AFF meeting on the 21st. Select "Read More" below for details.

Speakers will be Billy and Stacy Trimble on fly fishing the saltwater flats. There will be a swap meet before the meeting.

Our friends in the Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited club are sponsoring a river cleanup Saturday September 23. I hope some of you all can join. Here's an excerpt from their notice from Mick McCorcle, the chapter president, which gives time and location details:

It’s now September, the tubing and rafting season is almost over, and it’s now time to clean up the Guadalupe in preparation for our winter trout fishing season. The river takes a beating every summer, so despite the efforts of those hired to keep it clean, our favorite river could still use some serious TLC. And we could use your help.

As you may know, GRTU is co-sponsoring a river cleanup tomorrow, Saturday, September 23rd. We’ll meet at 8 AM at Cypress Bend Park in New Braunfels (check our website at www.grtu.org for a map) for some breakfast and instructions, then will head north to clean a section of river near the upper end of the Trophy Trout water. Specifically, we’ll be cleaning between Whitewater Sports and Rio Raft. That’s some great trout water and can certainly be improved if we give it a thorough cleaning.

So come on out and give us a hand – breakfast and lunch and free t-shirts will be provided, the weather should be good, and you’ll be doing the river some good as well.