April 16th 6:00pm The Fly Fishing Film Tour: In just it's fifth year, The Fly Fishing Film Tour has become the fishing entertainment event of the year. The Film Tour will be seen in well over 80 cities in 2011 and will showcase some of the best independent outdoor film makers. The goal of the Fly Fishing Film Tour is to energize the industry and inspire film makers to create new cutting edge films to both entertain and educate outdoor enthusiasts. Tickets are $8.95 in advance and $10.95 at the door. West Branch Angler is proud to recognize our guest sponsor, NY Trout Unlimited's Trout Water Youth Camp during the fly fishing film tour at Hell or High Water this year. There will be a silent auction and all proceeds from the ticket sales would go to the camp. Ron Urban, past NY Council Chairman and committeeman of the camp, will be present to discuss anyone that may have a teenager interested in the camp this year. Tickets on now sale click here to purchase

Paul Weamer Book Signing: The trout that inhabit the Upper Delaware River are large, wild, and highly selective, with fighting skills so legendary that many well-traveled anglers consider them to be among the most athletic in the world. Fly-Fishing Guide to the Upper Delaware River provides detailed information about the 3 tailwater branches that constitute this vast and complex river system--the West Branch, the East Branch, and the Main Stem--with maps to exact fishing locations. Paul Weamer has just released his 2nd edition of his popular "Fly Fishing Guide to Upper Delaware". Paul will be available during the event to sign his new book.

Free Hardy Reel Maintenance:John Shaner of Hardy USA and resident Hardy expert will be set up at the fly shop with a work-bench where he can clean and lubricate any Hardy reel brought to him. He will also give out a free bottle of Hardy lubricant to each angler who brings in a Hardy reel. John will also be able to describe the history of each reel and answer any questions regarding the history of Hardy rods and reels.

RIO Gold WF5 Distance Challenge : RIO Fly Lines is hosting an exciting event the 2011 RIO Gold WF5 Distance Challenge. Each caster can make up to 5 casts, within 2 minutes of starting. After the 5th cast, or 2 minutes (whichever is sooner) the caster must hand the rod back to the person manning the competition, and their turn is finished. Lots of great prizes looking forward to this.

Learn to Fly Fish for Free with Orvis's Fly Fishing 101 & 201: This is an amazing program puty on by the Orvis company learn to fly fish with a professional instructor completely free. If you have done the 101 class you can also check out the 201 class which gives you more advanced tools and fishing techniques.

IMPORTANT You must sign-up in advance for these clases:
Fly Fishing 101 and 201 Sign-Up

JUST ADDED!! East Coast 5 Weight Shootout: East Coast 5 Weight Shootout: Hardy USA is sponsering a 5wt fly rod shootout. We will be providing all the top 5wt fly rods from Sage, Scott, Winston, Hardy, Orvis and others. Contestants will try all rods in the series and grade each on performance. The results will be published on our site the next day. A great way to get a feel for the new SINTRIX series of Hardy rods.

Orvis Access Test Cast : Tom Zemianek of The Orvis Company will have the full line of the new Access fly rods available for casting. Using proprietary tapers and actions developed in Helios, Access rods are incredibly lightweight and offer remarkably smooth, precise, and balanced casting performance at a price never before possible.

Test Float Outcast Ponton Boats : At Outcast, they believe access is everything. Any angler can choose to fish from the bank, but wouldn't you rather be in the game than on the sidelines? When you purchase one of thier float tubes or boats, you get worry-free access so you can concentrate on fishing. We will have a short 1 mile track where you can test out a new boats how they were meant to be.... on the river.

Delaware River Mayflies & Fly Fishing Patagonia with John Miller: John Miller resident head guide at West Branch will be putting on a few wonderful presentations. The first is an in depth look into the Mayflies of the Delaware River. Secondly John was lucky enough to spend a month in Patagonia this winter. His presentation will chronicle his amazing trip, through the Aisen Region, Chilean Patagonia the watersheds of the Rio Picacho and Rio Manihuales, plus other various Lago's and Lagunas surrounding Coihaique, Chile. John is an amazing photographer and a great speaker this will not be a something to miss.

Loren Williams Presents “Nymph Tricks” will take you beyond the perception of dead drift.  We have all encountered types of water, levels of angling pressure, or weather conditions that prohibit the effective use of our favored nymph fishing tactics.  In this presentation I will explain what I feel to be fly-fishing’s contemporary nymph fishing techniques, theorize why I feel it’s beneficial for anglers to look beyond them, and introduce several “nymph tricks” that are certain to produce fish when other tactics may fail. These techniques are all centered on the principle of contact, and I will dedicate time to explain contact and investigate ways to rig and cast in order to maximize contact with your flies. Each “nymph trick” will be discussed with full explanation given and plenty of time allotted to answer questions.  Preferred water types, rigging, flies, and strike detection will be addressed

JUST ADDED "Switch Rods for Trout Fishing" : will take you beyond the perception of dead drift.  We have all encountered types of water, levels of angling pressure, or weather conditions that prohibit the effective use of our favored nymph fishing tactics.  In this presentation I will explain what I feel to be fly-fishing’s contemporary nymph fishing techniques, theorize why I feel it’s beneficial for anglers to look beyond them, and introduce several “nymph tricks” that are certain to produce fish when other tactics may fail. These techniques are all centered on the principle of contact, and I will dedicate time to explain contact and investigate ways to rig and cast in order to maximize contact with your flies. Each “nymph trick” will be discussed with full explanation given and plenty of time allotted to answer questions.  Preferred water types, rigging, flies, and strike detection will be addressed

"Getting The Most & The Best" : Over the past four decades, Art Lee has earned a reputation as the consummate writer and angler. His presentation "Getting The Most & The Best" focus's on reading water, proper approaches to feeding fish, the importance of accuracy and using the correct tackle. He will also be on hand to sign on of his many books such as the Lore of Trout Fishing & Tying and Fishing The Riffling Hitch.

"Fly Fishing England" : John Shaner of Hardy USA will be putting on a beautiful slide show presentation followed by Q & A about fly fishing techniques and destinations in England.

Featured Artist Cole Johnson : Cole Johnson has lived in upstate New York his entire life and now resides in Deposit, New York, a small town in the Catskill Mountain region. Hunting, fishing, and spending time in "the woods" have been the preferred activities most of his life. Favorite subjects include the species he is intimately acquainted with in the field - the white-tailed deer, trout, turkeys, hunting dogs and waterfowl.