Saturday, July 12th, 2025 - Club Meeting Texas Hill Country Fly Fishers
When: 07/12/2025 9:45 AM, CST
Where: Dietert Center, 451 Guadalupe St, Kerrville, TX 78028
Carp Rodeo Results
Forrest West will update the Club on Carp Rodeo results and announce winners and prize awards. See Carp Rodeo Event Page
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Capt. Ron Ridgway and Casting Clinic
Plan to attend the July 12th Club meeting, where the THCFF guest speaker will be Capt. Ron Ridgway who will speak on fly fishing the Texas Gulf Coast. Ron will also host a casting clinic after the meeting.
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.
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.
Thanks, Captain Ron Ridgeway
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Meeting Leader: Jim Hines jimhines@thcff.org
AGENDA
1. Opening Comments - Jim Hines, President
2. Oktoberfisch Committee Update - Patrick Bartell
3. Trout Lease Update - Don Anderson
4. Carp Rodeo - Forrest West
5. Speaker - Ron Ridgway - Gulf Coast Fishing
6. Door Prize Drawing
7. Closing Comments - Jim Hines, President
8. Casting Clinic, bring a favorite rod, if desired.
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The Club 2025 calendar promises to be an exciting time for THCFF. We are starting the year off with 136 members strong. With an emphasis on fishing and fellowship, we are working hard at planning a full slate of club events that will span the entire 2025 year.
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 I can assist or 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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