If you’re an FFF Certified Casting Instructor, and living in the PNW, and feeling the need to be continually educated, I thought that I’d let you know that I’m doing a continuing education seminar for FFF Certified Casting Instructors in Albany, Oregon on March 13th (how convenient, huh?). If you are indeed an FFF Certified Casting Instructor and haven’t yet gotten the official propaganda informational email from the NW Expo, here’s the deal:

A four-hour workshop with Jason Borger on Presentation.

This workshop with Jason Borger is intended to provide a “presentation workout,” and will cover a range of mends, cast/mends  and casts that are designed to deliver a fly with slack, with curves, or with a combination of the two. Some of the skills will also be reversed to demonstrate how to present a fly with action. The workshop will cover the key presentation directions (up, down, and   across current), and explain what skills are best-used when and where. The workshop is also intended to give instructors a way to teach all of the covered skills to clients, versus simply being a “how-to” exploration.

If you are feeling the need to hang out, talk casting and aerial mends, compare teaching horror stories, and abuse the grass, this is the event for you. The damage runs $150 (you get fed and watered, I do believe), and the contact number is 541-760-6057.

Barring pouring rain (what, in Oregon?) or crazy wind, the seminar should be a good time, and we’ll cover some ground when it comes to skills.

Also—If you’re not an FFF CCI or MCI (or even if you are), you might want to consider showing up at the NW Fly Tyer & Fly Fishing Expo on Saturday the 12th. I’ll be doing a 90-minute casting clinic (update: filled), plus a leader-design seminar and a short (20-25 minutes) casting demo, too. There will also be a pile of other casters and tyers (a serious pile of tyers) at the show to hold your attention.