The 2016 Florida Fly Fishing Expo has announced an expanding list of top-tier professionals to share their fly casting and fly tying secrets at Plantation on Crystal River Nov. 4-5. The two-day Expo will feature indoor and outdoor seminars, demonstrations and workshops for fly fishers of all skills levels and ages, male and female. It will also feature resource-awareness exhibits and indoor and outdoor displays of the newest fly rods, reels, lines, clothing, kayaks, flats boats and more.
Six more seminar presenters join three others that were announced earlier — tarpon tournament champion Andy Mill, Jon Cave of the Jon B. Cave Complete Fly Fishing School, and trophy guide and fly tier Blane Chocklett. The Florida Council of the International Federation of Fly Fishers, which presents the annual Fly Expo, announced the following presenters and subjects for the two-day event:
– Dave Olson will demonstrate and share his tips for making longer fly casts. Olson has won long distance fly casting competitions with casts of more than 130-feet.
– Capt. Pete Greenan of the Boca Grande Fly Fishing School, an IFFF-certified Master Casting Instructor, will present seminars on two subjects — Distance Fly Casting and Introduction to Fly Casting.
– Brittney Novalsky of Melbourne, Florida will present two programs – Women’s Outreach and DIY Traveling. Novalsky travels the country teaching inshore and offshore fishing classes just for women.
– Master Casting Instructor Capt. Pat Damico of St. Pete Beach will teach his Emergency Casting Clinic for on-the-spot solutions for a variety of casting challenges.
– Jimmy LeMert of Seattle will teach participants how to execute the Double Haul fly cast. LeMert owns the oldest fly shop in the Pacific Northwest and twice won the Champions Distance award at the Northwest Fly Casting Exposition.
– David Lambert of Atlantic Beach, Florida, a Master Casting Instructor, book author and editor, will share his secrets for catching big redfish in marsh grass and demonstrate the fly casts necessary for success.
– Master Casting Instructor Jim Valle of New Jersey will present seminars on Casting Two-Handed Rods. Valle teaches both Single Hand and Two Hand Spey Casting.
Admission to the family-friendly expo is $25 which includes admission on both days including a pizza dinner event on Friday, Nov. 4. Admission is free for those 16 and younger when accompanied by an adult.
Florida Council for the International Federation of Fly Fishers
The Plantation at Crystal River
A Passion for Tarpon, by Andy Mill
Jon B. Cave’s Complete Fly Fishing School
FishingadventureswithBrittney.com
Source: www.thefishingwire.com.