Thursday November 17th, 2022
November 2022 Meeting is an OPEN HOUSE
Category: Event updates
Events
October 2022 Outing is ON! Carl Hanson Memorial Outing, Hillsborough River
Saturday, October 22nd
Carl Hanson Memorial Outing on the Hillsborough River is back on the calendar. It’s our almost-annual fishing event with the Tampa Bay Fly Fishing Club.
The fly fisher who catches the longest fish (bass or whatever) gets to keep the portrait of Carl Hanson for a year. The member catching the most fish (bluegills, anyone?) gets their name engraved on the Carl Hanson trophy.
Carl, who died in 1998, belonged to both clubs. He loved fishing fresh water and to honor his memory we have been meeting up and “competing” with TBFFC.
This is TBFFC’s year to host the event Here’s the plan from TBFFC President Walt Durkin:
• Meet up early at Rotary Riverfront Park in Temple Terrace.
• Best fishing is from a boat, kayak, or canoe but you can also fly fish from shore.
• Come early and fish until noon then meet up for drinks and conversation to remember Carl.
Also post them on our club’s Facebook. site….facebook.com/scff2020
September Outing is a go! Bay Vista Park and Lower TB
Saturday, Sept 17 Outing
The September outing at Bay Vista Park at 7000 4th Street South in St. Pete is always one of our more popular outings. It’s a three-fer. You can launch a boat there, you can launch a kayak there, and you can wade-fish from there, too.
But you’re not limited to fishing there. At this outing you can fly fish Tampa Bay anywhere inside of the Sunshine Skyway all the way up to the St. Pete Pier.
Fishing should be pretty good. We’ll have a nice outgoing tide and moving water. Anglers, boating or wading, will be able to cast to seagrass or to the sandy potholes here and there. A $10 gift certificate will be awarded to the member catching the longest spotted seatrout. Take a picture. Measure it. Show the image to outings chair Bob Burkard back at the Bay Vista Park pavilion.
We’ll meet up at the pavilion at 11:45 for a hearty picnic lunch. Coffee and cold drinks will be ready before that.
August Outing is a on!!! Ft. DeSoto With Brisket!
Saturday, August 20 Outing
Fish in the morning. Meet up at noon at Pavilion #3 on North Beach for a Low Country Boil picnic.
Best Brisket in the Bay Outing, Saturday, August 20,
Fly fish then picnic at noon at Pavilion #3 on North Beach on Fort DeSoto Park (FDP opens at 7 am)
• Celebrate the things that make our club great: Food. Fun. Families. Friends. And fly-fishing.
• All are welcome: your spouse, children, grandchildren, and fishing friends, too.
• Fish in the morning then meet up at Pavilion 3 for lunch. President Rick Warfel and Outings Chairman Bob Burkard will be slow cooking and smoking big beef briskets on grills all night long.
• Everybody will get a free raffle ticket for a drawing for fun door prizes..
• Fish the waters in and around Fort DeSoto Park. $10 gift certificates will be awarded to the members catching the longest snook, longest redfish, and longest seatrout. Measure them. Take pictures. Arrive at Pavilion 3 by noon and show them to an Outings Committee member
The park opens at 7 am. There’s a $5 entrance fee per vehicle. Park diagram and other info is on the FDP website..
July Outing: Lower Tampa Bay
Outing, Saturday, July 23. Lower Tampa Bay
Picnic, 11:30 am, North Sunshine Skyway Rest Area
• Fish Gulf or Bay waters anywhere south of 54th Avenue South (Florida State Road 682) in St. Pete.
• Wade fishers can join outings chair Bob Burkard and Bill AuCoin at 7:30 am at the North Skyway Rest Area.
• Fishers and non-fishers alike should meet up at 11:30 am for the outing picnic at the North Sunshine Skyway rest area.
• The outing tournament ends at noon. $10 gift certificates will be awarded for the longest snook, redfish, and longest speckled trout. Measure, take a picture, and show it to Bob Burkard or Bill AuCoin at the picnic pavilion by 1 pm.
• Check the lengths on the annual outing tournament, too. Your longest fish could take the lead on one or more of those categories.
Don’t forget to submit any annual tournament!
June Outing: DOCK LIGHTS!!
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 17-18
• 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!
May Outing is a Go! Cypress Point Park
Saturday May 21st
Fish in the morning. Meet up at 12:30 for lunch!
Fish in the morning. Be done by 12:30
Our May outing is Saturday May 21 at Cypress Point Park in Tampa. This park fronts a wide sandy flat that’s great for wade fishing and kayak fishing. (It even has a kayak launch area.) Depending on the sun position, it can be terrific for sight fishing.
tournament must be caught before noon. Measure them and take pictures. Arrive at the picnic by 12:30 to officially announce your catch.
April Outing is a on!!! Skyway North Rest Area
Saturday, April 23rd
Fish in the morning. Meet up at noon at Pavilion #8 for a picnic lunch
Fish in the morning. Be done by Noon
Our April outing is Saturday April 23 at the Sunshine Skyway North Rest Area. It is also known as the Blackthorn Memorial Rest Area, and it gives us one of our best shots of the year for catching the famous big three – snook, redfish, and spotted seatrout. Yeah, that’s the inshore slam.
Fish anywhere in Lower Tampa Bay in sight of the Sunshine Skyway. You can wade in or launch your kayak at the rest area. Or you can circle under the bridge and wade fish or kayak fish the other side of the Interstate. Nearby boat launch locations include Fort DeSoto Park, Maximo Marina, or Bay Vista Park.
The longest of each species caught by members earns them a $10 gift certificate at our local fly fishing stores.
You can fish as early or as late as you want but the longest fish entered in the tournament must be caught before noon. Measure. Take pictures. Arrive at the picnic by 12:30 to officially announce your catch. You know the thing.
March Outing is a on!!! Walsingham Lake With Lunch!
Saturday, Marchj 19 Outing
Fish in the morning. Meet up at noon at Pavilion #8 for a picnic lunch
Fish in the morning. Meet up at noon at Pavilion #8 for a picnic lunch
We’re going back to Walsingham Lake, one of only two freshwater outings we have each year. The other one is October’s Carl Hanson outing on the Hillsborough River
Walsingham Lake has all of the amenities we need – a boat ramp, convenient access, good shoreline fishing spots, picnic pavilions with grills. Oh, and I can’t leave this out — restrooms.
You can launch your motorboat but you can’t use the internal combustion engine.
Outing prizes will go to the members catching the longest bass and the longest panfish including crappie, bluegill, redear, and sunshine bass. Measure your longest fish. Take a picture. You know the thing
February Outing is a on!!! Ft. DeSoto With Lunch!
Saturday, February 19 Outing
Fish in the morning. Meet up at noon at Pavilion #4 on North Beach for a Low Country Boil picnic.
We didn’t have a club picnic at the January outing so, Covid willing, we’ll meet up in person at the February outing at Fort DeSoto Park.
Fish any of the water in or around FDP. Ten dollar gift certificates will go to members catching the longest redfish, longest snook, and longest seatrout. Measure your longest fish and take pictures. Email them to BOB. You know the thing.
| Where will you fish? The Gulf shoreline is on the left. The Tampa Bay shoreline is to the right. Bunces pass is along the top. Some like to crash through mangrove shorelines and fly fish the warmer backcountry water, too. Some waders like to park at the boat ramp and wade west into Mullet Bayou. You can start fishing there before the park opens. |
If you want your longest fish to be entered into the contest be sure to meet up at Pavilion #4 by noon. That’s when the longest fish winners are determined.
Low country boil, you ask?.
Gobble up shrimp and sausage and sweet corn on the cob. Yeah, the low country boil. It’s a terrific tradition started by the Craig family and we can’t let it go.
The park opens at 7 am. There’s a $5 entrance fee per vehicle. Park diagram and other info is on the FDP website..
