Category: Event updates

April 18th Meeting: Panel on Freshwater fishing

April 20th Outing: Trout Creek Conservations Park Hillsborough River

April Everglades Outing Meetups: See the newsletter

Weekly in person Fly Tying Classes have moved back to Mondays – Check the newsletter for details.

Saturday, April 20th Outing

Saturday, March 23 Outing

The park opens at 7 am. There’s a $5 entrance fee per vehicle. Park diagram and other info is on the FDP website..

This is a combined event with other local clubs and a great Chilli Cook off.

Also post them on our club’s Facebook. site….facebook.com/scff2020

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 16-17

• 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!

Saturday, September 23rd

Saturday, 23, it’s our club’s annual fly fishing competition against the Tampa club. This is our memorial outing to remember Carl Hanson, who belonged to both clubs.
Two winners will be determined. The fly fisher catching the most panfish (aka bream) captures the Carl Hanson trophy for this club. The fly fisher catching the longest fish of any species (mudfish anyone?) gets to keep the drawing of Carl Hanson for a year until next year’s club-to-club contest.
Where? The Hillsborough River. You can fish anywhere on the Hillsborough River that you want to fish but meet up by noon for the picnic and awards “ceremony” at a shelter at Trout Creek Conservation Park in Thonotosassa.
Carl was a fly fisher and fly tier and, more importantly, a fly fishing teacher. On Tuesday nights he taught fly casting in his backyard. Come one, come all. Carl died in 1998 and he will long be remembered, especially by old timers at his two fly clubs, Suncoast Fly Fishers and Tampa Bay Fly Fishing Club.
Check the leaders on the tournament chart below. Maybe you can take the lead in the bream and bass categories.

Also post them on our club’s Facebook. site….facebook.com/scff2020

Picnic location: Kayak launch, too. Trout Creek Conservation Park address is 12550 Morris Bridge Road, Thonotosassa. $2/car fee.

Okay, the board decided the Saturday, July 22 outing will not be Picnic Island Park because there was a concern that the water quality would not be the best in Mid-summer. So, instead the outing location will be the I-275 Sunshine Skyway. You can fish either side, north or south. But we’ll all meet up at noon for a pavilion picnic at the North Skyway Rest Area.

The member catching the longest redfish will be the big winner. (Okay,  it’s a $10 gift certificate.)

 Remember: measure your redfish. Take pictures. Also, do the same with your longest snook, seatrout, and ladyfish because they might take the lead in the annual tournament. See below.

I love to wade-fish the flats on either side of the Sunshine Skyway causeway and from either the North or the South Rest Area Exits. The North Skyway rest area has lots of pull-off-the-road shoreline suitable for wading or kayak launching.  Fishing on the west side of the South Skyway exit is good and there are one or two wade-