Alamo Fly Fishers will be hosting a casting clinic at the Bass Pro Shop from 10:00 until noon Saturday, July 7th. If you would like to volunteer to be a casting instructor, please contact Todd Fleming or come to one of our regular meetings on Tuesday nights.

Notice to all Alamo Fly Fishers members: Saturday May 12th is a club supported Fly Casting Clinic at the San Antonio Bass Pro Shop from 10:00am till noon. Everyone is invited to attend and participate. Come out to get some instruction and casting practice before you find yourself standing forty feet from a tailing redfish and you discover that you need ten more feet to reach him with your fly. If you are just beginning to cast, or if your casting form needs a little polishing, come out to Bass Pro Shop on Saturday morning. We want to help everyone make some improvement to their fly casting.

Earth Day Celebration at Colorado Bend State Park. Volunteers needed for casting and fly tying demonstration at the park. Come to the meeting for more details.

Before the Big Shell CleanupAfter the Big Shell CleanupAttention all Padre Island National Seashore Fishermen! The annual beach cleanup with local celebrity Billy Sandifer is next weekend. If you have time and are able, this is a great way to give back to our fishing community and make the beach as pristine as possible!

From the Caller Times:

The annual Shore Fishing & Casting Club International Billy Sandifer Big Shell Beach Cleanup is scheduled for 7 a.m. March 10. The 2006 cleanup removed an estimated 44 tons of debris from a remote 12-mile stretch of Padre Island National Seashore. The most urgent need is manpower. But they also need four-wheel-drive vehicles and utility trailers. Rides down the beach will be provided to volunteers without four-wheel-drive vehicles. For info, visit www.CorpusFishing.com or www.BillySandifer.com. Call 991-8910.

The full article by David Sikes from the Caller Times is here:

Annual Big Shell Cleanup Will Be Here Soon

Hope to see you there!

Just after its grand opening ribbon cutting, the new Bass Pro shop in San Antonio is hosting an Evening for Conservation event. The ribbon cutting ceremony is at 5:30, and the event starts at 6:00. The Alamo Fly Fishers have been invited and are looking for volunteers to help man the table. If you have time and are interested, please contact Lloyd Mathews. We hope to see you there.

The Bass Pro shop is located in the Rim shopping center, at the intersection of I-10 and Loop 1604.

Our friends in the Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited club are sponsoring a river cleanup tomorrow morning. 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.