It’s a shaken cocktail: equal parts social gathering and local fishing information mixed with a dab of environmental consciousness. All of the ingredients combined make for an enjoyable evening, where you get to share your passion with a group of like minded individuals. What is this magical elixir? The Local Fly Fishing Club I proudly belong to the Comox Valley Fly Fishers, a group of approximately 75 individuals blessed with varying degrees of skill, who enjoy getting together once a month to talk about “where to fish”, “the hot fly” with the occasional fish story sprinkled in. These clubs are the epicentre of fly fishing in a local area and form the heart and soul of a group who’s passion for a sport/hobby/obsession needs a place and reason to meet once a month. The attached picture is not “officialy” a club event, but every other Friday during the winter our group gets together at a rented hall to tie flies for a few hours. This week there were twenty-two of us, which is not a bad number for the first event of the winter. Often times it is more than thirty tiers gathered around the rectangle of tables, ostensibly there to tie flies. If the truth be told I think my record for a three hour session is six flies. But are we really there to tie flies?
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