June 2004 Speaker

Rachael Connery

This month’s speaker is Rachel Connery. Rachel was recently married. She and her husband have just returned from their honeymoon in Venezuela where they spent their time on the flats, chasing big bonefish. Needless to say Rachel was the kind of woman that young single fly-fisherman dreams of meeting when she still was single. Sorry guys, you missed your chance.

But Rachel is more than just another pretty face; she is a very talented angler that has been with The Fly Shop for half her adult life. This lady has been Director of the Mel Krieger International School of Fly Fishing, and single-handedly created FishCamp, The Fly Shops wildly popular summer fly-fishing camp for kids.

As a travel specialist for The Fly Shop, Rachel focuses on saltwater destinations and has spent at least a month, each of the last several years, visiting TFS lodges in Mexico, the Bahamas, Tahiti, Venezuela and the Caribbean. Her university and angling education are a source of pride. She's bench-pressed trout in Alaska, Russia, Canada, Chile, and Argentina; dead lifted tarpon and bonefish in Cuba, and she knows Tierra del Fuego’s sea trout.

Not only an expert flyfisher, she is also fully certified by The Federation of Fly Fishers as a casting instructor. Rachel teaches for the Mel Krieger School of Fly Fishing and has been a guest instructor at the International Women's Fly Fishing Festival in San Diego. She can also be found giving presentations and programs at many fly-fishing club meetings and sports shows in the west.

As the founding member of the Shasta Mayflies, Rachel's involvement within the community includes teaching fly tying and casting clinics. She has been published in Northwest Flyfishing and The Women's No-Nonsense Guide to Favorite Waters.

Rachel’s presentation at this month’s meeting will be a tour on Fly-fishing the local waters of Northern California.

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