Next Monthly Club Meeting & Program
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
7:00 p.m. (Doors Open at 6:30 p.m.)
Heather Farms Community Center
301 N. San Carlos Drive, Walnut Creek
Fly Fishing Stillwaters with Hal Janssen
Hal Janssen will present a talk on fishing stillwaters from knowledge gained from fly fishing over 50 years throughout North and South America.
Hal has fly fished for nearly every species of fresh and salt water fish. In the 1950s he was adopted by the old timers of the Golden Gate Casting Club, who set him up with a shooting head and taught him to cast. Since then, he's gone on to become a fly fishing writer, artist, lecturer, and video personality.
Hal has had a hand in developing fly fishing equipment and concepts in use today. He and Scientific Anglers founder Leon Martuch developed S/A's wet-tip fly line. In 1979, he was one of the first in the Umpqua Feather Merchants contract tyers program and today over 70 Janssen fly patterns are manufactured. Hal's series of 
three videotapes titled "Fly Fishing Secrets" was among the first collections of instructional fly fishing videos. Hal founded the Hal Janssen Co. in 1979 as one of the first fly fishing-only equipment distributor. He and his wife Jane worked with fly shops around the world until they retired in 2007. During the past 10 years Hal has been involved in carving fish, mostly of trout in special woods. Hal has written over 25 articles for leading fly fishing magazines and was inducted into the California Outdoor Hall of Fame in January 2010.
