Saturday August 16th will find a hardy group of volunteers building bank hides.  Starting at 9AM at the Manchester fish Hatchery the group will receive instructions and guidance on how-to build these structures.  Bank hides provide a safe place for trout to hang out.  For those of us that like to fish we know that […]

The Fly Tying & Fly Casting Event sponsored by Johnston Public Library, North Bear Trout Unlimited, & Central Iowa Fly Fishers was held on June 7, 2025.  There was a very good turnout of 18 participants and about 8 instructors.  The session started with the librarian welcoming all to the library and wishing them good

The Iowa State Fair will be held August 7 through August 17, 2025.  We will be holding the Fly-Tying competition once again this year.  I am sure everyone has practiced tying their favorite flies and are willing to enter them in the state contest. The Hawkeye Fly Fishing Association will again be sponsoring the Fly-Tying

  The Iowa State Fair Fly Tying Competition was held at the 2024 Iowa State Fair. This competition has been developed and sponsored by the Hawkeye Fly Fishing Association (HFFA) with support of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).  There were 19 entrants with 59 flies entered into the competition from across the state.  There

Kirk Rosenow will lead a group of HFFA members discussing fly fishing in Iowa. This presentation will be at 1:00 to 2:00 pm on August 16th at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources courtyard stage at the Iowa State Fair. This will be a great opportunity for those interested in learning about fly fishing in

  The 2024 Hawkeye Fly Fishing Association (HFFA) Annual Meeting & Show was a remarkable success, drawing fly fishing enthusiasts from across Iowa and beyond to the Hyatt Regency in Coralville from February 16-18. Even Mother Nature lent a hand with blue skies and clear roads. The three-day event featured an outstanding lineup of expert

Ronda Long, HFFA workday coordinator and Dan Kirby, biologist with IDNR set up a combined effort to remove vegetation from a section of Big Mill Creek near Bellevue, Iowa that had major restoration several years ago. On September 30, 2023 a persistent group of HFFA members and other volunteers armed with loppers and sturdy gloves,

Iowa Casting for Recovery retreat was held October 6-8, 2023 at Strawberry Point.  This is a nationwide free retreat for breast cancer survivors introducing them to each other and nature through the therapeutic sport of fly fishing.  The retreats are open to women with breast cancer of all ages, in all stages of treatment and