October 13th meeting - Favorite Saltwater Flies For The Marsh

The next meeting of the Red Stick Fly Fishers will be held Monday, October 13, 2014, at the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries building on Quail Drive in Baton Rouge.  Time is 7:00pm.  The public is welcome!

For October, the meeting will be dedicated to our favorite saltwater flies we use for reds, specks and flounder. This will be a great opportunity to learn which flies work best in our SE Louisiana saltwaters. The meeting is open to the public, so come join us.

The format will be an open forum where participants will describe their flies, talk about how and when to use them, and mention where to buy them, or if  not commercially available, how to tie them. Please bring copies of the recipe. All attendees are encouraged to participate. The more, the better.

If you are planning to present one or more flies at the meeting, please send an email to lafleurmf@aol.com so we can get an idea of how many presenters we can expect.

Fly Fishers Meeting June 9th

Come out for our monthly meeting on June 9th!  As a prelude to the annual Grand Isle trip, members of the club are teaming together to bring you a special meeting on Fishing Grand Isle.  You won't want to miss this meeting if you are going on the Grand Isle trip, or if you have any interest in saltwater fly fishing.

Topics include:

-Fishing on foot                                               Roger Del Rio

-Fishing from a canoe or kayak                        Mike Lafleur

-Fishing from a motor boat                              Dave McDougal, Randy Leonpacher

-It’s 30 minutes before dawn, what do I do?     Kyle Moppert

-Night time on the bridge                                 Glen Cormier

-Should I stay and fish or go eat?                    Gary Peterson

-Flies for the beach                                           Kyle Moppert, Roger Del Rio

-Flies for the marsh                                           Kyle Moppert, Mike Lafleur

-The water is murky, what color works best?     Kyle Moppert, Glen Cormier

The meeting will be held at 7:00pm at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries building at 2000 Quail Drive in Baton Rouge, but come out at 6:30 and cast some (I will be there casting).

Special thanks to Gary Parrish for coordinating this meeting, and to all the presenters who are making it possible.  It should be great!

May 12 membership meeting

Our next monthly membership meeting will be held on Monday, May 12 at the Louisiana Wildlife & Fisheries Buiding on Quail at 7:00 PM.  There will be a presentation by Jim Wright on the Lower Mountain Fork trout fishery located near Broken Bow, Oklahoma.  This is also the potential location for a club trip this Fall and we hope to gauge interest, so please plan to attend.  We will also have updates from the trip chairs and discussion regarding our two upcoming saltwater trips, the Spring Catch and Eat (May 16-18) and Grand Isle Weekend (June 27-29).  Hope to see you there.

March 10th meeting - DST Casting

Our next general meeting will be on Monday, March 10, at the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries building on Quail Drive in Baton Rouge.  Time is 7:00pm.  Guests are welcome!

Now that Daylight Savings Time is here, we'll initiate our casting practice sessions outside the LDWF building starting about 6:30pm.  Bring your rod.  Perhaps you learned a few new things - or many new things - from casting guru Tom Jindra on Red Stick Day.  Now is a good time to put them to use and let our club casting experts assist in making sure you practice as Tom preached!

Red Stick Day Conclave - Saturday, March 8th

22nd annual Red Stick Conclave
Saturday, March 8, 2014
8:30am to 4:00pm
LDWF Waddill Outdoors Center, 4142 N. Flannery, Baton Rouge
Cost: FREE
Open to all ages, families welcome!

The Red Stick Conclave is a celebration of fly fishing featuring programs, fly tying demos, casting demos, kayak demos, exhibitors, and more. Guest speakers this year include Tom Jindra, Pete Cooper Jr, Larry Offner, Richard Evans, and Roger del Rio. Guest tiers include Fred Hannie of Lake Charles, Bob Boese of Broussard, Stephen Robert of Houma, Kirk Dietrich of Arabi, Marc Pinsel of Hammond, Jerome and Dena Hebert of Henderson, Kyle Moppert of Baton Rouge, and Mike Jackson of New Orleans.

Backpacker of Baton Rouge will be onsite for free on-the-water kayak demos from 11am to 1pm. There's free refreshments during the day. A jambalaya lunch with salad for $7 will also be available.

For more details on this event, click on the RED STICK CONCLAVE page, or click here for the 2014 RSFF Conclave Leaflet.

February 10th Meeting - Red Stick Day Preparation

Red Stick Day is quickly approaching and we need EVERYONE to chip in to make it a success.   As you know Catch Cormier has been the events chair for many years and most of us have no idea of how much goes into this event to make it a success.  As the March 7th banquet and the March 8th Red Stick day are closing in I have prepared an action item list that should help us ensure we’ll have all the items covered. Be prepared at the Monday, February 10th, meeting to commit to the items you will be responsible for on Red Stick Day.  It might be cooking for the banquet, tying some flies or leaders, donating books and DVD’s, or contacting our sponsors for prizes.  Too many items to mention here, just be ready to jump in and help make our event a success.

Meanwhile back at the ranch I have contacted several tiers and am just a couple of folks shy of having our maximum allotment for the Waddill Center.  I have one speaker committed and others are being contacted to see if they will come share their knowledge with the club.  We may want to enlist a couple of Red Stick’s Finest to round out our speakers.

Please come and volunteer so we make this event the success that it has always been in the past.

Any questions email me, or text or call 225-335-4596.

Looking forward to seeing you Monday February 10.

-Emmitt Simmons