Denver ‘Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing‘ wants to expand what we can offer our Disabled Veterans this coming year.  I’m asking anyone, in the Denver area, who would like to volunteer their services, time, expertise (whatever you’ve got), to meet us at the Rock Bottom Brewery, County Line Rd and I-25, next Tues, December 29th at 6:30 After 3 meetings, we are considering holding a Pro-Am Fly Fishing Competition.  Details are to be worked out, but some things decided are to have a Fly Casting competition and auctions on Friday and Saturday evening in mid June and then the Fishing Competition featuring 10 rafts floating the Colorado River each with a Professional from local Fly Shops and an Amateur fisherman on Sunday.  Media rafts with representation from ESPN and local TV stations covering the event.  There will be auctions with products from Fly Fishing manufacturers all to raise money to send our soldiers on Fly Fishing trips as well as teaching them how to tie flies and fly casting.  This weekend event will culminate in either Vail or Silverthorne, CO.

Let’s brainstorm what we can offer our soldiers and how to best achieve some lofty goals for 2010.  One thing we want to try to implement is rod building.  We just received a donation of about 70 fly rod blanks from Terry Johnson of  T.L. Johnson Rod Co. to start our rod building classes.  We’ll throw some other ideas against the walls and see what sticks.  Let’s show all those guys who have given a part of themselves, so we can enjoy freedom in this great country, that we appreciate them and have their health and well-being in our hearts.

If you want to help out this year, contact me so we can get you involved.

Larry Snyder
FlyFishingCRAZY.com
Phone: 303-755-2105
email: larry@flyfishingcrazy.com