Western Massachusetts Fly Fishermen

This page last updated May 25, 2010.

Welcome to the Western Massachusetts
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Next regular meeting is February 20, 2012

The Public is welcome to attend our regular monthly meetings.

Western Massachusetts Fly Fishermen

Next Regular Meeting
Tying Demo
Dan Trela will tie Loop Flys (saltwater pattern), Goldies and Pearlies. Word is, a number of lakers and salmon have come over the Quabbin spillway and are providing some real action in the Swift River catch and release area. Goldies seem to work. At the February meeting Dan will have material available to tie these very productive flys.

Guest Speaker
(No Information on guest speaker.) Our guest speaker will be announced prior to our Februay meeting.

Our meetings are open to the public, Please join us at any meeting. Dan begins tying at 7:00 pm. Our regular meeting begins at approx. 8:00 pm. Following or regular meeting generally have a raffle of some fly tying mateials, a speaker or show a film on some aspect of fly fishing.
Ludlow Elk's Club
69 Chapin St., Ludlow, MA
7:00 pm

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ALGAE THREAT

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Some streams in New England are threatened with algae.

Didymosphenia geminata (known commonly as “didymo” or “rock snot”) is now present in the Farmington River. If you fish the Farmington try to have a set of gear you use exclusively for that river.

Click on (Coming to a Stream Near You !!) below to see what the threat is and what you can do to help prevent this from happening to our local streams.

(Read This) Coming to a Stream Near You !!

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Western Masssachusetts Fly Fishermen is an organization that promotes all aspects of the sport of Fly Fishing in New England and throughout the world.

On this home page, we'll introduce our club and give some examples of the types of activities we're involved in. Other pages will show examples of recent trips our members have taken.
Be sure to get in touch to offer comments, join the club or join our mailing list. As soon as the site is organized we will continually update club activities to keep you abrest of the latest Fly Fishing news.

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Please contact us with comments or suggestions about our web site. We are working to improve the site and to include items of interest to our members and others who enjoy fly fishing. You can e-mail us at clubcontact@wmflyfishermen.org your comments will be forwarded to the proper club contact.

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2011 Fly Tying Classes were a great success. Total enrollment for the classes, 43 participants. Once again many compliments about the quality of the training were received by the instructors.