Meetings and Events

Calendar

Upcoming events

Past presentations/events

2023-2024

• June 7-9: MSFC Howie Ness Memorial Kid's Fly Fishing Camp

• April 27: Creamer's Field Spring Migration Celebration fly casting instruction

• April 7: International Fly Fishing Film Festival at the UAF Pub, cohosted with Backcountry Hunters and Anglers

• February 21: Colin McKenzie (Fairbanks Soil and Water Conservation District): Aquatic Invasive Species and proper practices for fishermen to avoid spreading them. Ross Novak: Fly Fishing for Bull Trout in British Columbia.

• January 26: Jim Brashear (MSFC): Alaska -> Lower 48 Trout Fishing Road Trip

• December 11: Hunters and Anglers for the Brooks Range Presentation and Discussion with Jen Leahy from Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

• November 29: Kevin Fraley (MSFC, WCS): Northwest Alaska Sheefish Research and Fishing

• September 30: Chena Hot Springs Road Adopt-A-Highway trash cleanup
  
  

2022-2023

• June 9-11: MSFC Howie Ness Memorial Kid's Fly Fishing Camp

• May: Preseason Fly Casting tune-up at the Pump House

• May: Fly tying and casting instruction for students at Pearl Creek Elementary

• April: Creamer's Field Spring Migration Celebration fly casting instruction

• April: Stian Stensland (Norwegian University of Life Sciences): Fishing and Fishery Management in Norway"

• April: International Fly Fishing Film Festival with Trout Unlimited, BHA, and UAF Pub

• January: Nate Cathcart (ADFG): "Documenting Prince William Sound’s Coastal Cutthroat Trout"

• December: Oliver Ancans: "Float Fishing for North Slope Dolly Varden"

• October: Dan Hoffman (MSFC): "Bristol Bay Trout Fishing"

2021-2022

• June 10-12 MSFC Howie Ness Memorial Kid's Fly Fishing Camp

• May 26 Preseason Fly Casting tune-up at the Pump House

• May 21 Adopt-A-Highway litter cleanup of Chena Hot Springs Road MP 45-46 and MP 45.5 ADFG stocked ponds

• April 24 International Fly Fishing Film Festival at the UAF Pub cohosted with Alaska Trout Unlimited and Alaska Backcountry Hunters and Anglers

• Oliver Ancans (TU): "Alaska Steelhead Fishing Tips and Tactics"

• Andy Gryska (ADFG): "Minto Flats and Chatanika River Whitefish Ecology"

• Alex Garnier (MSFC): "Proper Fish Handling and Catch-and-Release Techniques"

• Fred DeCicco (MSFC): "Flyfishing Argentina for Golden Dorado and Trout"

• Steve Lanford: "History of the Fortymile River Country and Alaska Native fishing methods"

• Dan Hoffman: "An Alaska Flyfisher's Odyssey" Book Talk

• September 18 Adopt-A-Highway litter cleanup of Chena Hot Springs Road MP 45-46 and MP 45.5 ADFG stocked ponds

2020-2021

• Alex Garnier (MSFC): Spey casting clinic

• Fred DeCicco (MSFC): Fly casting tuneup

• May 22 Adopt-A-Highway litter cleanup of Chena Hot Springs Road MP 45-46 and MP 45.5 ADFG stocked ponds

• Dan Hardy (D Ray Personal Guide Service): "Fly Fishing Kiritimati (Christmas Island)"

• Randy Brown (USFWS): "Sheefish Research in Northern Alaska"

• Kevin Fraley (MSFC): "Beyond Trout: Fly Fishing New Zealand"

• Will Samuel (MSFC): "Chena River Salmon Conservation and Cripple Creek Stream Restoration"

• Mike Lunde (Muskie Mike Flies): "Fly Fishing for Chinook Salmon"

• Oliver Ancans (MSFC): "Fly Fishing for Lake Trout"

• Kevin Fraley (MSFC): "Float Fishing the Kobuk River" 

• Chena River and Badger Slough Virtual Stream Cleanup with UAF American Fisheries Society Student Subunit

• Delta Clearwater Fishing meet-up and BBQ

2019-2020

• Fred Decicco (MSFC): "Fishing the Nome area with Twin Peaks Adventures" 

• Heather Scannell (ADFG): "Biology and Management of Interior Alaska’s Grayling"

• Nate Collin: "Fishing the Chilkoot"

2018-2019

• Will Samuel (MSFC):  "Flies and Tactics to Catch Arctic Grayling"

• John Morack (MSFC): "Fly Fishing for Sheefish on the Kobuk River in Northwest Alaska"

2015-2016

• Fly casting practice at the Pump House with FFF certified instructor Fred Decicco

• Ken Alt and Russ Smith: "Fishing Opportunities in Cuba"

• Ross Novak: "Trout Fishing in New Zealand'

2014-2015

• Fly casting practice with FFF certified instructor Fred Decicco

• Whitney Gould: "Guiding on the Kanektok River in Western Alaska"

• Reinhard Neuhauser: "Rainbow Trout and Salmon Fishing on the Gulkana and Talachulitna Rivers"

2013-2014 and earlier

• Jon Covich: "Winter Fly Fishing Destinations"

• Michael Schoder: "Fly Fishing Opportunities for Arctic Char and Sheefish"

• Dennis Musgraves: "Parks Highway Fishing Opportunities"

• Tony Weaver: Presentation

• Brian O'Keefe "International Angling and Photography"

• Steve Zabel: "Do It Yourself Yucatan Trip"

• Pudge Kleinkauf: "Pacific Salmon Flies: New Ties & Old Standby"

• Dave Ames: "Why Fishermen Lie"

• Jim Teeny: Presentation

• Dr. Thomas Kline: "Life Cycle of Salmon in Freshwater"

• Nanci Morris Lyon: "Rainbow Trout on the Naknek River"

• James Savereide: "Kobuk River Sheefish"

• Upper Chena River Clean-Up