Creekside Anglers meets at 7:00 pm the first Tuesday night of the month January thru May and September thru December. Meetings are open to the public and are held at our

Martinsburg-Berkeley County Parks and Recreation Department facility
273 Woodbury Avenue, Martinsburg.
Guests and kids welcome!

DIRECTIONS TO PARKS AND REC BUILDING

From the west: WV Route 9 or I-81 to exit 16E (Queen Street). Exit onto Edwin Miller Boulevard going east. Continue until the road makes a sweeping right turn. You are now on Queen Street. Immediately look for Wendy's on the left. Turn left onto Woodbury Avenue between Wendy's and 7-11 stores. Proceed past Moose Club on left (about 0.1mile). Parks and Rec facility on the left at 273 Woodbury.

From the east: WV Route 45 towards Martinsburg to Woodbury Avenue (new traffic light and angle RH turn), there's a 7-11 across the street and a seafood sales place at the intersection. Proceed on Woodbury approx. 0.2mi look for Parks and Rec facility on the right.

30 March 2013, Riverbottom Park - Williamsport, MD

First Timers, Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Fly Casters - FFF CCI and MCI Continuing Education. Spey Casting. Demonstrations.
Riverbottom Park is on the Potomac River at the West end of Salisbury Street in Williamsport, Maryland.
Show Time - 7:00 AM for Club Members and Instructors for set-up and Coffee.
8:00 - Registration
8:30 AM Start Time
5:00 PM Closing
Fees: $20 for All Day

For the second year the BACC Welcomes Headliner
JIM VALLE, MCI, THCI, BOG

BACC Welcomes Back Last Year's Headliners
John Bilotta MCI, Craig Buckbee MCI, Daniel Davala MCI

Hands-on Instruction for all skill levels.
Bring your own equipment. Equipment provided for beginners. Bring rain-gear. Bring a sack lunch or grab lunch in downtown Williamsport (three blocks from field).
Water Provided.
Single and Two-Handed Casting Demonstrations and Skills Presentations

Single Handed Classes Offered:
Beginning Fly Casting (first timers and those wanting a brush-up), Trout Stream Casting (mends, curves, mended rolls and specialty casts), Distance Casting (20 things to learn), Intermediate and Advanced Casting Improvement

Spey Classes Offered: Beginning Spey Casting, Intermediate Spey Casting and Advanced Spey Casting. Standard Spey Equipment Preferred.

Introduction to Accuracy and Distance Fly Casting Competition. American Casting Association Competition format, equipment and events introduced and demonstrated. Scored practice competition.

For more information, contact Robert (Bob) Stouffer, FFF CCI, at rstouf@mail.com or by phone, 301 791 4594

The Bob Abraham Casting Club is an educational arm of the Antietam Fly Anglers, a Federation of Fly Fishers Charter Club. See us at antietamflyanglers.org for schedules of events. Push the Casting Club button for the casting club schedule and monthly training tip.

The club received notice that Didymo has been found in Big Hunting Creek. Didymo is an invasive species of algae that can ruin a fishery. It was found in Gunpowder Rive (north of Baltimore) and the Savage River (western Maryland) some years ago but apparently is now in our area. Please spread the word to all the fishers you know. Please take the time to use wader wash stations when available, wherever you are fishing. Please take a few minutes to maintain the wader wash stations when you are on a stream. There are instructions at each station. If you are fishing Big Hunting Creek, please inform any anglers you see of the situation and ask them to use the wader wash stations. We want to do everything we can to reduce the spread of this invasive species.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced today that didymo, an invasive non-native algae has been found in the Savage River below Savage River Reservoir.
Read DNR press release

An Unsightly Algae Extends Its Grip to a Crucial New York Stream - New York Times Article

This is an excellent article on Didymo, including concerns over its potential impact on water intake structures, in addition to fishing areas.
Read the Article

Creekside Anglers doesn't collect any dues at the club level. We simply ask those who want to be part of our conservation activities to become members of our national organization:
"The Federation of Fly Fishers" at the following website:
https://www.fedflyfishers.org/Default.aspx?tabid=4347"
We also have hard copies of membership forms available.

FFF Certified Casting Instructor Robert Stouffer
Information on the AFA web site