Category: Event updates

SAVE THE DATE: Joint BANQUET March 29th 2025 —Spearker BOB CLOUSER!!

2024 Calendar update

No meeting in December
December 21 Outing. Walsingham Park. Ft. Desoto is closed til further notice
January 11 Casting Clinic with Dayle Mazzarella–Northeast Mini Park 875 62nd Ave St Pete
January 16 Trash ‘n’ Treasures Meeting
January 18 Outing Weedon Island

Weekly in person Fly Tying Classes are ON HOLD til we cleanup from the storms – Check the newsletter for details.

Saturday November 23rd

Saturday, December 21, Walsingham Park

Chili Extravaganza and Member Tribute to Layne (Smitty) Smith and to Alan Sewell, long and treasured members of the Suncoast Fly Fishers

December 21 Outing. Walsingham Lake in Largo. 12615 on 102^nd Avenue. You can also enter at the North end on Walsingham Road.

• The park opens at 7 am. Fish anywhere inside the big lake or the smaller surrounding lakes.
• This is freshwater, of course. Club gift certificates will be awarded to the member catching the longest bass and the most panfish.
• This is our chili extravaganza picnic. Meet up at Shelter 01 on the Eastern shoreline.  Food will be ready at 11:30 AM. Coffee and donuts will be available starting at 10:00 AM for those of you who arrive earlier.
• The December outing has been our Don Coleman Invitational. Starting this year we’re calling it Suncoast Fly Fishers Member Tribute. 
• For this year’s Suncoast Fly Fishers Member Tribute Outing we are paying tribute to our departed Layne “Smitty” Smith and honoring our current member, Alan Sewell. 
• Even if you do not plan to fish, our SFF board members invite you to please attend this outing where we gather to celebrate our past and current members, share stories with friends and family, and sample great chili and sides.

Saturday November 23rd

We are still fishing! 10/19/24

Due to the very high water on the Hillsborough River, we are changing the location of our October outing to Old Tampa Bay which is Gandy, anywhere south of RT 275 to Snell Isle.  We will meet at the Crab Shack

The very first annual Suncoast Fly Fishers Women’s Tournament. This is an inshore fishing tournament. There is a maximum of 75 teams for the tournament, 1-2 anglers per team.

After tournament we will have an awards dinner at the Tiki Docks Skyway in St. Petersburg, FL. Live music, food, drinks, and more!

Target Species:

• Snook
• Redfish
• Spotted Seatrout

Tournament Boundaries:

• West Coast of Florida only, from the Southern tip of Sanibel Island to the Southern Edge of the Crystal River Power Plant Main Channel

Scoring:

• 1 point per inch
• Longest length for two fish in the approved categories measured (Combined measured length)
• Calcutta: Largest Ladyfish

Prize Categories:

• Cash prizes for top 3 teams for longest length measured ($1,000, $500, $300)
• Cash prize for team closest to 24 inches ($250)
• Prize for top youth angler (12 and under)
• Prize for smallest trout measured
• 50/50 Calcutta Ladyfish

List of Captains:

Our June outing is our long-standing and much celebrated docklights
outing, and now it’s our Docklights AND Beaches outing.

JUNE OUTING, Friday-Saturday, June 21-23

• Fish from 6 PM Friday to 9 AM Saturday, then from 6 PM Saturday
to 9 AM Sunday.

• The outing prize goes to the fly fisher catching the longest snook.
Measure it and take a picture. Email it to Bob!

• Fish anywhere in Pinellas, Pasco, Hillsborough, or Manatee
Counties.

Largest Snook wins!

Don’t forget to submit any annual tournament!