National Women’s Fly Fishing Day – The crew at Emerald Water Angers is launch-ing National Women’s Fly Fishing Day on June 27, 2020. The goal is to create a sin-gle day dedicated to encouraging the presence of female fly fishers every-where. Women are invited to link up with other female anglers in their communities and fish together, learn together and sup-port each other. Emerald Water applied to the online National Day Archives and was granted the last Saturday in June this year to begin the recognition. 

NWYCFFAcademy – June 21-27 – The 2020 Academy is cancelled due to the virus. Applications submitted for this year will be held to 2021. Jim Brosio and Mike Clancy have led the academy for years. They have recently selected three, solid new co-directors to take over. Brosio and Clancy will support them during the tran-sition. 

FFI –Fly Fishers International – July 21-25. The FFI Expo in Bozeman, MT. has been cancelled for 2020. This was going to be the last National event to be conducted of this type. The National Board has decided to conduct regional expos around the country in conjuncti