CHESTER – The Southern Hilltowns Adult Education Center (SHAEC) is hosting a free introduction to fly and spin casting on Thursday, May 31 from 6 to 8 p.m. The program will focus on techniques, skill/accuracy, safety and first-aid, and will include casting target games for kids. All equipment will be provided for this family friendly workshop taught by Tim Vogel of Tekoa Mountain Outdoors.
Learn fly fishing techniques at a free class on Thursday. (Photo submitted)
Vogel is a professional outdoor-adventure recreation educator, backcountry wilderness guide and owner of Tekoa Mountain Outdoors, located in Williamsburg. Vogel is an avid hunter, fisherman, trapper and wilderness guide who has been involved in teaching and facilitating adventure & outdoor education for better than twenty five years. He is a master educator for Leave No Trace, and participated in helping to write the 3rd Edition Guide Book for the Appalachian Mountain Club, AMC White Water Rivers of New England.
Participants will meet at the Village Enterprise Center, 25 Main Street in Chester and will walk to the practice casting destination from there. The workshop will be held “on dry land,” to learn and practice casting techniques.
All ages are welcome – children and families. This will be an outdoor event. Heavy rain will cancel event. Please call or 413 685-1052 or email SHAEC at [email protected] to let them know how many people to plan for- as they will be bringing all the equipment.
SHAEC is a program of the UMass labor/Management Workplace Education Program, and is funded by a Community Development Block Grant from the Mass. Dept of Housing and Community Development, through the lead town of Russell, in partnership with Chester, Middlefield and Huntington.
