Welcome!
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To Benefit:
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"First Cast"
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Come out next June and join anglers from throughout the country at the annual FFIM spring conclave. This year, we are planning quite the expo. Events to be included are things like:
Seminars
Fly Tying Instruction
Casting Instruction
Casting Competition
Book Reading w/ Jim Babb
Manufacturer Demo Products
Incredible Equipment Raffles
and much more!
If you want to learn to fly fish or tie flies, try out some new equipment, meet other like-minded fisher-folks, or just hang out and fish, come on down and bring a friend or two. This is the event of the year not to be missed.
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Commercial Participants
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Demo Equipment From:
Hexagraph
Orvis
Sage
Thomas & Thomas
Temple Fork Outfitters
Raffle/Auction Items:
(2) L.L. Bean Travel Rods
Thomas & Thomas 40% off certificate
Thomas & Thomas fishing hats
Scientific Anglers T-Shirts
Guided Trip with OldGuide on a Montana Spring Creek
Weekend at Bass Harbor Campground (Acadia)
"FFIM Edition" Fly Rod by Allard's Custom Fly Rods
Dan Bailey's Outfitter Wading Boots
Gold Grade Ginger Dry Fly Cape ($100 value)
Fly boxes from Millstream
Hodgeman fishing hats
Complete set of FlyReelDots
Guided Fishing or Hunting Trip for 2 in NH w/ All Seasons Guide Service
Signed First Edition copies of Kathy Scott's Moose in the Water/Bamboo on the Bench & Headwaters Fall as Snow (Due out in May)
Furled Leaders prepared by Kathy Scott
2 night stay in Rangeley, ME Condo
30% off certificate from Hexagraph Fly Rods
Guided trip 1 adult w/ child w/ Medawisla Guide
Service (donated by cap)
(2) signed copies of Fly-Fishing with Trout-tail -
A
Child's Journey by Kimberly Lucas
(2) Patagonia Hats
(2) Patagonia T-shirts
(2) Patagonia Wool Shirts
Patagonia SST Wading Jacket
Gift Certificate for Lamey Wellehan Shoes
Stay tuned, more items to come...
Do you have items for demo/raffle? E-mail FFIM!
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Schedule of Events
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Friday Evening:
Set up Camp
Meet and Greet at Casey's
Evening Fishing!!!
Saturday:
Early AM Fishing!!!
9:00 AM - Moosehead Fishing Opportunities Slideshow w/ Dan Legere -
Big
Cabin at Casey's
11:00 AM - 3:00PM - Old Guide Tying Class - Big Cabin at Casey's
12:00 PM - 4PM - Demo Rod Casting...Casey's (Organized by tim_s)
(exact
location TBD)
4PM - 6PM - Casting Competition (Organized by DeadDrifter)
5:00 PM - 7PM - Bean Dinner Served (till we run out)
Evening Fishing!!!
8:00 PM - 9PM - Jim Babb Campfire book reading
9:00 PM - Raffle Drawings!!!
Sunday:
Early AM - Fishing!!!
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM - OG Streamside class (East Outlet Beach Pool)
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| Register
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Register in advance and be automatically entered into a raffle!
76 people have
signed up so far
 Sign up for the tying class with OldGuide!
(space is limited) 
Sign up for the streamside fishing class with
OldGuide!
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| Featured Guests
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R W Brown - (aka: "OldGuide") of
Livingston, MT has been a Fly Fishing outfitter and guide for
more than 35 years. He was a fly tying consultant with one of the largest
fly fishing retail and wholesale business in the country for more than 9
years. He also tied the flies for the movie "A River Runs Through It". He
has done many fly fishing shows across the west, midwest and Canada.
Mr. Brown does shows and classes on fly tying and fly casting. He is known as
one of the best all around fly tyers in the country, tying every type and
style of fly. Mr. Brown was ACA Registered for a number of years and has given
many casting clinics and casting demonstrations.
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James R. Babb was born and raised in
the mountains of East Tennessee. In 1972 he moved to Maine, and he is
currently Editor and Angling Columnist for Grayıs Sporting Journal, best described as a cross between
The New Yorker and Field & Stream and widely regarded as North Americaıs most prestigious outdoors publication.
Library Journal called Crosscurrents:
A Fly Fisher's Progress, his
collection of fly-fishing stories published in 1999 by The Lyons Press,
"the best fly fishing book of the year." His most recent book is River
Music: A Fly Fisher's Four Seasons, published by The
Lyons
Press in 2001,
about which Publishers Weekly said, "Babb has successfully carved out a
niche, alongside Norman Maclean, as a superior fly-fishing writer, and moreover as a keen observer of human comedy."
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