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They had a lot of fly tying as well as a youth tying area in Redding, but it was not well attended by kids from what I recall. If your son is interested in tying for a couple of hours, I can forward his name, etc to the one of the fly tying committee co chairs for consideration. They had casting instruction all throughout the event in Redding. I am sure that they will do the same at the Lodi location. This event is not really well attended for some reason, but the tying alone is worth the price of admission. Some pretty good tiers like Harry Mason from this board is always at these events. The dinner on Saturday night and live auction is a lot of fun as well. The funds raised go to a good cause. Our club directly received grant moneys for our Trout in the Classroom through the Federation's educational arm to help establish additional aquariums and chillers with local elementary schools. We were a little surprised to find that through one classroom, we had over 450 students participating in the program- essentially the whole school was following the progress of the trout eggs. Right now we have 15 scouts going through the Flyfishing merit badge program. This is the second batch of scouts to participate mostly through word of mouth. These are outreach programs directed toward youth trying to garner interest in not only fishing but conservation as well. If the information is exposed to them, they soak up the information like a sponge. This goes a long way in developing the mind set for conservation way down the line in more ways than originally thought. Entomology is not a bad idea, I would like to see that as well
Dustin, thanks for stepping up to the plate and co chairing the event. Hopefully we can garner interest in helping you out as well
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