2012 RMF Fly Fishing Day Camp

Applications Now Open

Dave Piske overlooks Bram at Fisherman’s Cove on Pinewood Lake in 2011 On February 6th the Application window opened for the 2012 Rocky Mountain Flycasters’ Youth Fly Fishing Day Camp. This year’s Day camp runs from July 30-August 4, 2012. Application packets are available now for download.
Download the Application Packet (2.3MB PDF)
 
The Day Camp program is designed for 15 campers (ages 14-18) and we expect that all openings will be filled. The daily schedule is from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. The daily schedule is from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. Equipment and transportation between activity venues will be provided. Campers will bring lunches and rain gear. Equipment and transportation between activity venues will be provided. Campers will bring lunches and rain gear.
 
The Day Camp is a fast paced six days of instruction, participation, and great fun. We’ll learn how to fly fish, including learning about watersheds, riparian habitat, river ecology, fly fishing equipment, knots, and regulations, water safety, local and regional conservation issues, trout anatomy and behavior, casting and line control, while we spend lots of time on the water.

Application Packet Time on the water includes casting practice on some warm water ponds with eager bass, reading the water and electro-shocking trout on the Big Thompson, and then chasing some finicky hungry trout on the Poudre River. Other days we’ll be catching bugs and learning how to tie flies that look like them…to fool more fish. We look forward to have some great students this year, just as in past years.

• 2010 Youth Camp pictures, video, and articles.