If you have been thinking about taking a Fly Fishing Casting class here in Idaho, now’s the time to get signed up.

Remember, classes are limited to a handful of students and can fill up quickly. If you have any questions, feel free to visit our Contact page and we’ll get back to you asap.

Time and Location Details are on our Registration Page. 

The 2012 Fly Fishing Classes Schedule: 

We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for supporting DreamCastIdaho.com in 2011. We truly enjoyed meeting everyone at the events we hosted and attended.

Here are a few highlights:

In January we exhibited our booth at the Boise Valley Fly Fishers Expo, good job.  Look for us again this year. We kicked off our season with our OPEN HOUSE EVENT held at Cabela’s in May.  A special thank you to Cabela’s for hosting our classes and workshops. We especially enjoyed the opportunity to give featured presentations to the local fly fishing clubs in Boise and in the surrounding area. Our Outreach Programs were very successful this year for companies holding their corporate meetings and events in the community. The Henkel Corporation and The Bayer CropSicences Division enjoyed the Fly fishing Team Building events they booked with DCI. Thank you to our team of casting Instructors that enjoyed themselves as well.  We couldn’t offer the quality or individual instruction without their assistance.

We were also able to share our expertise with several men’s ministry groups in the local area.  The Solid Rock Outfitters are a large group of outdoor enthusiast who enjoy fly fishing and the Life Church Men’s Ministry Man Camp Event held in Cascade, Idaho were all able to enhance their casting skills.

My wife and I were blessed to be able to attend  the FFF Federation of Fly Fishers Conclave in West Yellowstone in August. I am currently going through their certification program and have really enjoyed the adventure. In conjunction to the seminars and events we experienced, I was fortunate enough to co-instruct a single-hand spey casting workshop with Carl Zarelli.

We will be expanding our workshops, classes, and events this year due to the ever increasing response of fly fishing interests locally, in the valley, and outside the state. Along with our continued Beginning Fly Fishing and Casting Classes, our Intermediate Fly Fishing and Casting Classes, Advanced Single-hand and Single-hand Spey Classes, and Casting the Spey Classes, we will be introducing our Complete Angler’s School. We will be posting this on the website early this spring. We are planning many events this year and you can follow us on our website, as well as Facebook for upcoming events in 2012.

Our year will start out in January at the Western Idaho Fly Fishing Expo January 13 & 14, 2012.  The Beginning Fly Tying Classes will start the first of January.

We are looking forward to 2012. Hope to see you along the way or on the river.

Topics of discussion will be rods, reels, lines, flies, and casting techniques used for single hand fly rods. We will cover fishing strategies, i.e. swinging flies, nymphing techniques, and skating flies, along with the types of water to look for and how to fish them. We will discuss the use of sink tips, shooting heads, and weighted flies, and when to use them.

If you are interested in catching steelhead with a fly rod this will be a great opportunity to have your questions answered

Please call Cabela’s at 208-672-7900 to register for this seminar.

Michael Bantam of DreamCastIdaho.com will be giving a seminar on how to select the right gear to get started. Topics of discussion will be selecting the right rod, matching up a reel, and how to select a line based on the style, and type of fishing you will be doing (i.e. Skagit, Scandi, or Traditional techniques). Each casting style will be discussed to help you determine the right setup that will get you started out right. Then we will be addressing what a Spey cast is, how it works, and the advantages of learning these wonderful casting techniques. We will introduce you to the basic casts (i.e. Switch Cast, Double Spey, Snap “T”, and Snake Roll) to help you get started on your own.

Cabela’s of Boise Idaho will be hosting this seminar on the 19th of November 2011 in the Sawtooth Conference Room at 3 pm until 4 pm. This will be a great opportunity to ask your questions and find out more information before you make that choice in a spey rod, reel, and line.Please call Cabela’s at 208-672-7900 to register.

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For a comprehensive look at how all the knots come together, click here to download the Knot Connection Chart .

For a comprehensive look at how all the knots come together, click here to download the Knot Connection Chart .

For a comprehensive look at how all the knots come together, click here to download the Knot Connection Chart .

For a comprehensive look at how all the knots come together, click here to download the Knot Connection Chart .

For a comprehensive look at how all the knots come together, click here to download the Knot Connection Chart .

For a comprehensive look at how all the knots come together, click here to download the Knot Connection Chart .