WHAT’S GOING ON, AND WHO WE ARE….

FFFC February General Meeting

When: Thursday, February 5th, 2025 from 7 to 9PM

Where: Provost & Pritchard office building

Topic: Bass On The Fly

Presented By Our Very Own Gil Hassen!

This month we have Gil Hassen from The Merced Fly Fishing Club sharing his knowledge of fishing for bass with a fly rod. He grew up bass fishing in rural potholes and small ponds—“little lakes,” as he calls them—and that early love of warm-water fishing never faded. Here in the Valley we have many ponds and lakes full of bass that often times get overlooked as we singlemindedly pursue trout in streams. Gil is here to open the possibilities that still waters present.

Gil has spent the better part of sixty years with a rod in his hand, and nearly forty-five of those years have been devoted to the art of fly fishing. After more than three decades in education, he retired with one goal in mind: to make the most of those long summer breaks by exploring waters across California, with occasional escapes to Idaho and Montana.

He cast his first fly in Idaho behind a beaver dam, armed with an automatic reel and a sense of adventure that never really left. Over the past decade, he’s found a new passion in chasing steelhead on the Trinity River and dreams of taking that pursuit farther north—maybe all the way to British Columbia and Alaska.

See you at the meeting!

Our Mission

We are a FEDERATION OF FLY FISHERS ffiliated club, a national organization whose goal, like ours, is to promote the wonderful sport of fly-fishing as well as protect our natural resources. We promote catch and release, education, conservation, and above all, encourage and help those who desire to learn more about all aspects of fly-fishing.

Fly Fishers for Conservation (FFFC) was organized in 1961 by a group of devoted fly fishers deeply concerned with the preservation of trout and all game fish, their environment, and the quality of fishing. Our club has maintained two goals since that time: To foster and promote the sport of angling with artificial flies. To protect, conserve and increase our angling resources.

Fly Fishers for Conservation is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit organization. This means you can use your contribution as a tax deduction. The club gets revenue from member-ship dues and the annual fundraiser dinner. We try to contribute to conservation issues in the area and to our youth with our Trout in the Classroom program, the No Child Left Inside program and by holding a Youth Fly-Fishing Academy annually. The club is al-ways in need of funds. Please consider donating. You may send a check to Fly Fishers for Conservation at PO Box 1192, Clovis, CA 93613. Your donations will be greatly appreciated and they will help the club fulfill its obligations.