20th annual Red Stick Day - Sat, March 5

Each year, the first Saturday of March is "Red Stick Day", a fly fishing festival hosted by the Red Stick Fly Fishers. Location is LDWF's Waddill Outdoors Education Center on 4141 Flannery Road in Baton Rouge. Time is 8:30am to 4:00pm. The largest annual fly fishing event in the eastern part of the council is free and family-friendly. Activities include: Programs, Fly Tying demos, Casting demos, Kayak and Canoe demos, Cooking demos, Exhibitors, Fishing on premises, Free refreshments, a Jambalaya lunch, raffle with nearly 100 items, and more! For their vigintennial celebration of this event, special guest will be Gary Borger. For over 40 years, Gary has been involved in our sport as an author, teacher, lecturer, magazine writer, photographer, conservationist, and more. He combines his knowledge as a Ph.D. professor of aquatic biology with a lifetime experience of fly fishing (he grew up on the banks of one of Pennsylvania's trout waters). Gary pioneered the first fly fishing and fly tying videos, and written a half-dozen books, and written and photographed for numerous magazines, and served on the board of the Federation of Fly Fishers and FFF Casting Board of Governors. For more details, go to the Red Stick website at http://www.rsff.org/ and click on the Red Stick Day.