Archuleta County 4-H Project

Sportfishing

Project Leader/s: Ken Jones, Bill Newell, Larry Baisdon, Bill Weiland

Shooting Sports will meet every Wednesday, 4:00 p.m., starting February 13, 2008 at the Extension office unless otherwise specified by the project leaders.

General E-Record

Sportfishing E-Supplement

Learning Experiences:

I. Introduction to flyfishing
1. History of flyfishing
2. Pictograph in the pyramids in Egypt
3. Flyfishing beginning in England
4. Flyfishing Today

II. Fly rods developments
1.. Bamboo fly rods
2. Fiber glass fly rods
3. Graphite fly rods

 VI. Advance fly tying
1. Clouser Minnow
2. Lefty Deceiver
3. Crazy Charlie
4. Bent Back's
5. Crawfish- Shrimp
6. Hellgrammites
7. Close Cell Foam
8. Brasse
9. Royal Wolf
10. Freelance

III. Fly lines
1. Horse hair
2. Silk line
3. Braided line
4. PVC -Braided line

 

 

VII. Fly Casting
1. Novice
2. Advance

 

IV. Fly tying vises
1. Hand
2. Clamping type vise (stationary/rotary)

 

VIII. Field trips
1. Lake flyfishing
2. River flyfishing
3. Small stream flyfishing
4. Catch and release
5. River and lake safety

V. Flies for novice fly tying
1. Dead Chicken-woolly worm 2. Renegade
3. Bibio 4. Humpy
5. Elk Hair Caddis 6. Stimulator
7. Hairs Ear 8. Prince Nymph
9. Pheasant Tail Nymph 10. Woolly Bugger

 

IX. Annual 4-H projects

 

 

 

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Last Updated: February 12, 2008