Casting

The club has an active competition casting program which all members can participate in. There are participation awards, encouragement awards and prizes for place-getters, as well as the winners.

The competitions are lots of fun and can really improve your fly casting skills. Don’t feel inhibited if you aren’t an expert; plenty of the others aren’t either and the atmosphere is informal. If you indicate that you would like advice and tuition, the more experienced casters are happy to help.

Here is the magnificent trophy for the Club Casting Championship:

The happy winner in 2002 was Stan Stamatis, pictured below with Ross Rowe (left) of Pro Angler and former ACT FF President, Rod Newnham (right):

Competition in progress--reflections in the Reflection Pools in front of Old Parliament House. You can get in some practice while others are in the hot seat:

More action at the ACT Flyfishers Club Competition:

In 2007, the Club Competition will include a Ladies’ Section ; we need plenty of entrants.

The casting calendar is included below. For more information about the events and the competitions simply follow the links below or contact Danny Spelic via phone on (02) 6264 3426 (w) or email capitalfishing@ozemail.com.au or danny.spelic@immi.gov.au

The Casting Calendar, 2008

In 2004, the Australian Fly Casting Champs will be held in Geelong on the ANZAC long weekend. All the other events listed above will be held at the Reflection Ponds, Old Parliament House, Canberra.

The first link below gives further information on the competitions organized in Canberra by our club, the second explains what you have to do in the individual events (dry fly accuracy, distance, etc. ) that make up the competitions.

• ACT Fly Casting Competitions (including the Brunn Shield)
• General Rules for particular events

Another useful link is the Sunshine Fly Casting Club (Melbourne)

http://members.optusnet.com.au/sunshineflyclub/index.htm

The ACT Fly Fishers casting program is proudly sponsored by:

ACT Distributor, Ross Rowe, is a keen supporter and sponsor of the ACT Fly Fishers. Check out the Pro-Angler website www.proangler.com.au and contact Ross at rossrowe@hotmail.com or phone 6296 3727, 0415 880 902 for catalogues and other specials. Club members are entitled to 10% discount on orders (other than specials) placed through Ross. All Pro-Angler gear has the famous 110% money back satisfaction guarantee.