Beginning Fly Casting with John Rivera and Fabia Fuenzalida with the Fly Rod Company

Description

• Location – Meet at the Main Entrance of the Mountain America Center
• Saturday Afternoon, March 21st, 1:00pm – 4:00pm
• Rods and Reels Available for Those with No Equipment

This workshop is for the beginner caster or as a review for the intermediate caster. The goal of the class is to provide students with a good foundation of the casting mechanics. The workshop will introduce casting fundamentals covering the pick-up lay down cast, the false cast, the roll cast and mending. John Rivera is a Certified Casting Instructor with Fly Fishers International and has taught casting workshops California, Idaho, and Chile. In June, I’ll be teaching fly casting at Cat Island Lodge in Ontario, Canada. He is well known for his ability to teach beginners and has a reputation for being a gracious and patient instructor. Please join John and his wife, Fabia, for a truly unique experience in learning to fly cast.

John Rivera grew up in the Hollister California. He attended the University of California, Berkley where he met his wife, Fabia Fuenzalida who was born and raised in Santiago Chile. John earned his degree in anthropology but then went on to post graduate study in print technology. It was in this field that he spent the next 30 years earning a living. Most of his career was spent in San Francisco Bay Area, the CA Central Valley and Honolulu, HI. It was in California that John and Fabia started their fly rod building business, The Fly Rod Company (www.theflyrodcompany.com), before moving to Idaho Falls. John is a highly accomplished rod builder, but his true love is the construction of extremely high quality bamboo rods. John is a certified casting instructor with the International Federation of Fly Fishers and has taught casting workshops both in California and Idaho. Fabia is an accomplished fly fisher in her own right. She earned her BA degree from UC Berkley in languages, linguistics and art history and a Master of Education from Harvard University in Cambridge MA. Fabia is multilingual speaking English, Spanish and French.

Rods and reels will be available for those with no equipment.