Casting for Recovery to attend Fly Fishing Festival
Casting for Recovery, a national non-profit support and educational program for women who have or have had breast cancer, will be attending the Virginia Fly Fishing Festival in Waynesboro, Virginia, April 16-17. Those interested in learning more about CFR or attending a retreat you are invited to visit.
Whether you have been recently diagnosed and going thru treatment or a double-digit survivor, all breast cancer survivors that apply for the CFR Mid-Atlantic October retreat will be entered for one of two chances to attend a fly fishing class lead by FFF Board Certified Master Casting Instructor Wanda Taylor. This women’s fly fishing class to be held Sunday morning, 8:30-11:30, will focus on casting and independent angling. The class will cover from knowing zero to becoming an angling hero.
Beau Beasley: Waynesboro festival combines trout and wine
Quaint and quiet Waynesboro, in Virginia’s bucolic Shenandoah Valley, is suddenly on the map. Fly anglers from across the Mid-Atlantic descend upon the small town each April when Waynesboro’s Main Street hosts the Virginia Fly Fishing and Wine Tasting Festival.
The town’s history is closely tied to the South River, which runs right through downtown—but that history isn’t without its blemishes. Plagued by pollution from poor industrial management and cursed by its local citizenry because of its intermittent floods, the South River hasn’t always been a favorite with locals. That changed in 1999 when Waynesboro Downtown Development Incorporated, a nonprofit group set up to promote local business growth, decided to convert the South River into a tourist attraction. Many found the idea laughable, and it was certainly without precedent in the Old Dominion. Nevertheless, WDDI members, none of whom were fly anglers, determined to focus their attention on attracting well-heeled fly fishermen to their underdog waterway.
Book signing for release of fly-fishing book
Stone Soup Books and Cafe in Downtown Waynesboro will host a book signing with Virginia Fly Fishing Festival director Beau Beasley to mark the release of Beasley’s new book, Fly Fishing the Mid-Atlantic: A No-Nonsense Guide to Top Waters.
The event is scheduled for Tuesday, March 29, from 2-5 p.m.
The book offers insight into fly fishing streams throughout the Mid-Atlantic, including Waynesboro’s own South River.
More details at stonesoupbooks.net.
Waynesboro to celebrate river, fishing with annual festival
Fly anglers from across the country will celebrate the 11th annual Virginia Fly Fishing Festival on April 16-17. Held on the banks of the South River in Waynesboro, the Virginia Fly Fishing Festival is the largest outdoor fly fishing event in the country that offers on-stream instruction. Only here can you learn all the latest techniques from the experts and then walk right over to the river and try them for yourself.
This year, our festival sponsors include Temple Fork Outfitters, Dominion, Subaru, Orvis, Hanover Fly Fishers, Augusta Health, DuPont Community Credit Union, Eastern Fly Fishing, the City of Waynesboro, Montana Fly Company, Blue Ridge Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Virginia Sportsman, Appomattox River Company, The Georgetowner, Mid-Valley Press, Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders, and Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc.
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