Rivers Edge Outfitters Grand Opening Saturday April 17th

[T.E.Shuler]

Come by Rivers Edge Outfitters in Cherokee this Saturday April 17th for our Grand Opening!

Rivers Edge Outfitters has recently opened a 4,000sqft fly shop and outfitters in Cherokee North Carolina and we wish to invite everyone to come by and check out the new shop and wet a line.

We're located on HWY 441 across from the Food Lion and Waffle House. We're in a big log building with a red metal roof on the banks of Soco Creek.

Festivities start at 9am.

The North Carolina Fly Fishing Team will be here teaching classes and seminars every hour on many fly fishing and casting techniques.
Master Fly Tier Larry Hoffelberth from the NC Fly Fishing Team will be doing fly tying demonstrations and showing you how to tie some of his favorite proven patterns.

Food and refreshments available from 11:00am until 3:00pm

The Swain County Chamber of Commerce, and the Smokey Mountain Times will be there for a ribbon cutting ceremony.

Register to win a Guide Half Day Fly Fishing Trip!

Here's the complete schedule of seminars

9:00am: Basic Fly Casting and Roll Casting with Eugene Shuler and Chris Lee

10:00am: Tail Water Techniques with Kevin Lowe

11:00am: Fly Tying with Larry Hoffelberth

12:00pm: Streamer Fishing Small Creeks with Nick Johnson

1:00pm: Czech Nymphing with Eugene Shuler

2:00pm: Fly Tying with Larry Hoffelberth

3:00pm: Nymph Fishing Rigs and Tactic with Paul Colcord

4:00pm Dry Fly Fishing with Chris Lee

5:00pm Distance Fly Casting with Eugene Shuler

6:00pm Spey Casting with Paul Bourcq

See you there!!

[pbourcq]

To give a little background on the guys that are presenting

Kevin Lowe- operates Hatch Hunters on the Watauga and South Holston river and is my normal fishing partner in comps. He has the best midge game I have ever come across and his dry dropper is very unique but effective. The nature of his water has tuned his midge game light years ahead of mine. Ask him to see his black fly nymphs......didnt know they made hooks that small.

Larry Hofferberth-Larry is the team tyer and has been an engineer for 30 years. His attention to detail and tying skill is second to none although I have seen some nice ties from some of you felllas. Larry ties all of our competition flies and works dilligently to keep us on the cutting edge of fly design and effectiveness. Larry also ties commercially for several shops in the southeast.

Chris Lee-Chris Hails from Bryson City and is one of the most decorated anglers on our team. Chris made the US National Championship in Pennsylvania last year as well as smoking it in tons of other comps. Dont let his modesty fool you he is a machine. His dad Jim Estes and Chris are legends on deep creek and have one of the best pocket nymphing games on the team. Furthur Jim and Chris can fish slick water with sipping fish almost as good as kevin Lowe. Chris is a very very good dry fly fisherman and i plan to sneak into his class.

Eugene-Well most of you guys know Eugene. He is the most decorated angler on our team and our captain. Eugene forgets more than most of us know and is the person that taught me to czech nymph originally. Make sure you get a peak into his czech nymph box.....pretty impressive. His distance thing should be good. I have no lie seen Eugene chuck a 5 weight over 120 feet. Dont believe me come down....there will be a tape and i guarantee at least 100 will fall.

Paul Colcord-One of the original members Paul beat an army of talented fisherman to make the national championship last year with Chris Lee. Paul has a phenomenal dry dropper game and I know the reason he is so good is plain old time on the water. This guy fishes.

Nick Johnson-Nick as well as being a personal friend of mine is a great fishing partner. When you call hiim and tell him we are going fishing in 5 minutes he is always ready to go. He is the only guy I know that literally fishes almost everyday. Not sure how he affords it but he fishes hard.....EVERYDAY. He has one of the most deadly and unique streamer games out there and is deadly with it.....although i dont tell him that lol. For those guys that I was showing the "hand twist wiggle retrieve" the other day on the tuck, well it came from Nick. His streamer clinic should be cool.

Me-well you guys know me. I like to fish alot and am doing a thing on spey casting techniques for small streams. Hopefully Ill see you guys there....either way we are fishing that evening!