Lefty Kreh Seminar
sponsored by Heart of America Fly Fishers
Featuring: Lefty Kreh, America’s fly fishing expert
Date: Saturday, March 29, 2003
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Continental Breakfast to start at 8:30 a.m.
| Location: |
MO Dept. of Conservation Discovery Center 4750 Troost Ave., Kansas City, MO |
| Cost: |
Club members: $40.00. After February 20, 2003: $45.00.
Nonmembers: $50.00 |
Registration Fee includes a lunch catered by Alpine Catering
| Questions? |
Call Don Grundy @ 816-781-9019 or Dick Martin @ 816-781-9557 |
| Send checks made payable to HOAFF, to: | Frank Neal 9138 Reeder Dr. Overland Park, KS 66214 |
Lefty Kreh’s Programs and Clinics for this Seminar
How to strike and fight fish: Learn how to set the hook with different equipment on different fish species and REALLY learn the importance of the rod to setting and fighting the fish.
Knots and leaders: Factors involved in selecting and using the correct knot and understanding the well – tapered leader.
Fly fishing Tips: Learn the common sense tactics employed by one of America’s greatest fishermen for catching more and bigger fish and doing it more comfortably and safely.
Advanced Fly Tying: Thoughts and demonstrations on designing and tying salt water flies.
Fly Casting: Learn Lefty’s basics and fundamentals suitable for all fly casters.
Partial Angling Biography of Lefty Kreh
An active outdoor writer for 50 years, Lefty holds a staff position with several outdoor magazines and is the retired Outdoor Editor of the Baltimore Sun Newspapers. Hehas written a host of books well known to the fly fishing community. He has received many honors and awards, including the “Angler of the Year” for 1997 by Fly Rod and Reel Magazine. He has earned the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the American Sportfishing Association, the “Lifetime contribution Award” by the North American Fly Tackle Trade Association and is named to the Hall of Fame for Freshwater Fishing and the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame. He is a Senior Advisor to Trout Unlimited and the Federation of Fly Fishers. Lefty has fished in all fifty states, all the Canadian provinces, over much of South America, the South Pacific, Europe and Iceland. He has been married to his best friend Evelyn for more than fifty-five years and resides in Hunt Valley Maryland.
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