Oct 3, 2026 - Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers Club Meeting

Saturday, October 3, 2026 - Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers Club Meeting

Diedert Center 451 Guadalupe street, Kerrville, TX 78028

Club Meeting Events Summary

Sunrise to Meeting Start:  Bring your fly gear and catch panfish, and bass before the meeting! FLY FISH ON THE GUADALUPE RIVER (at Diedert Center River Bank)  

Bring a snack or sack lunch and drinks as needed 

10:00 AM: CLUB MEETING BEGINS - Assemble in Meals on Wheels area in the Diedert Center

Club Meeting Items:

• an update on the club activities, 
• have a presentation on Redfish fishing at the coast
• a silent auction!

Make plans now to attend this outdoor fishing + club meeting.   

Meeting Leader: DAVID HAWK, THCFF Vice-President, davidhawk@thcff.org

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AGENDA

Trout Lease update - Purchase order Approved

Trout Lease Registration now open

Upcoming 2026 Meeting - Dates and Locations

4. Presentation Redfish Fishing
     Ron Ridgeway - Matagorda Loops

    See Ron's Bio Below

5. Silent Auction - THCFF gear and Merchandise

6.  Closing Comments - David Hawk

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The remainder of the 2026 calendar will be an exciting time for THCFF with meeting and fishing opportunities.

I look forward to meeting and fishing with those I have yet to meet.  Feel free to reach out to me at jimhines@thcff.org if you have ideas for meeting speakers or club activities.

I wish you “tight lines” and remember to “Leave it better than you found it.”

-Jim Hines, President

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  Ron Ridgeway Bio

Since picking up a fly rod, at the age of seventeen, fly fishing and casting has become a part of who I am. I casted poorly for years, no mentors, no YouTube and no instructional DVDs. When I began to attend fly fishing shows and get- togethers, in the eighties, things began to develop in a positive direction. You just don’t know what you don’t know…

Even today, as I work with a student struggling to get timing and coordination all together, I like to assure them that all of us “casters” were right where you are at one point in our casting career. No one is born knowing how to cast. It’s a skill we all have to learn. 

I have been fortunate to fly fish in a lot of great destinations around the world. But, I find I’m just as happy casting to bream in a stock tank as I am standing on a flat in the tropics casting to bonefish and permit. 

I guided on the Kootenai and Bull rivers in Montana for thirteen seasons. I rowed a drift boat around seven hundred miles per season and making new friends with clients from all over the world. It was while working with anglers in Montana that I developed my enthusiasm for teaching fly casting. 

I am a Fly Fishers International Certified Casting Instructor and regularly teach casting and guide for Redfish, Speckled Trout and Flounder through my guiding business, Matagorda Loops, in Matagorda, Texas. I get to spend about two hundred-twenty days a year in my skiff or wading the Matagorda Bays. I live full time in Matagorda, with my wife Sharon.

Thanks, Captain Ron Ridgeway

Follow Ron on Instagram: @MATAGORDALOOPS

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Places to fly fish:

• Llano TX; Grenwelge Park, Llano River:  See Map
• Llano TX; Llano Park Lake, Llano River:  See Map
• Kerrville TX; Louise Hays Park, Guadalupe River:  See Map
• Kerrville TX - G Street Bridge, Guadalupe River:  See Map
• Junction TX; South Llano River State Park:  See Map
• Stonewall TX; LB Johnson State Park, Pedernales River:  See Map
• Blanco TX; Blanco River, Blanco State Park Lakes:  See Map
• Mason TX; James & Llano Rivers Confluence:  See Map
• Castell General Store, Llano River:  See Map
• Center Point TX; Center Point Lake, Guadalupe River:  See Map
• Kerrville-Centerpoint TX; Brinks Crossing-Monkey Island:  See Map

• Cibolo Center for Conservation - Boerne, Cibolo Creek:  See Map

Got an idea for a program?  Submit your ideas to, THCFF Programs Director  -  contact@thcff.org

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