The Kisatchie Fly Fishers, an FFI-GCC affiliate club based in Alexandria, LA, will hold their annual “Fly Fishing 101” workshop on Saturday, March 30th at the Booker-Fowler fish hatchery in Forest Hill. Time is 9:00am to 12:30pm.
The workshop is free, but pre-registration is required. An online registration form is available on the club’s website at www.kisatchiefly.org. Click on the “Fly Fishing 101” page, then on the “Registration Form”.
This is the fourth year for the workshop, held each Spring. Attendance at each one has exceeded the previous year. As of this writing, 21 have registered. The workshop maximum is 30.
The last two years, students have been treated to a private tour of the hatchery prior to the workshop. But now Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, which operates the facility, has announced a public touring all day, starting at 8:00am and running until 2:00pm.
Hatchery visitors who wish to learn about fly fishing are encouraged to sign up for the workshop while there is still room. The fly group will be on one of the early tours (8:00am or 8:30am) prior to the workshop start.
Booker-Fowler is the department’s primary fish production facility. This facility produces freshwater sportfish fingerlings to assist LDWF Inland Fisheries managers with achieving statewide management objectives. Since its first year of fish production in the spring of 1997, the hatchery program has released over 125 million fish into public water bodies throughout Louisiana.
