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TODD WILLMOTH 859-442-0806 – Join Todd Willmoth for a trip to just below Meldahl Dam where the Stripers, Hybrids and Skipjacks are plentiful.  We’ll be fishing from the shore or maybe wading out just a bit into the River.  Dress warm and be prepared for a spectacular bit of fishing.  

MIKE ARNOLD- 859-689-4294 – MIKE’S BEEN FISHING THIS CREEK PRETTY MUCH LAST FALL AND THIS WINTER AND WILL SHARE HIS FINDINGS. MEET AT THE BIG BONE LICK STATE PARK RESTROOMS PARKING LOT (ON THE WAY TO THE MUSEUM) AT 8AM. BRING WADERS, WADING STAFF AND A RELATIVELY SHORT (6-TO-7 ˝ FOOT) FLY ROD WITH A 3-, 4- OR 5-WEIGHT LINE. BRING ALL THE SAME NYMPHS YOU WOULD USE IN NORTH CAROLINA.

NORTH CAROLINA 'DELAYED HARVEST AREA' WEEKEND #1 - Thu-Sun - 3/27-3/30
JACK RANDALL is ON-TRIP COORDINATOR - FISHING ALTERNATIVE STREAMS IN NORTH CAROLINA FOR TROUT –WE'LL BE STAYING AT OAK PARK INN IN WAYNESVILLE, NC & FISHING THE MANY DELAYED HARVEST STREAMS WITHIN EASY REACH (LAUREL RIVER & SHELTON LAUREL CREEK, WEST FORK OF THE PIGEON RIVER, EAST FORK OF THE FRENCH BROAD RIVER, TUCKASEEGEE RIVER, NORTH MILLS RIVER AND, OF COURSE, THE UPPER NANTAHALA RIVER) AND, IF YOU WASN’T, THE TRIBAL WATERS OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN RESERVATION. NC LICENSE REQUIRED. WEEKEND WILL COST ABOUT $200. LOTS OF FISH. GREAT TROUT BEGINNER'S TRIP. Contact JACK RANDALL at (859) 512-5583.

ROCK CREEK & BIG SOUTH FORK CAMPOUT - Fri-Sun - 3/28-3/30
TODD WILLMOTH - 859-442-0806 - Located in the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and one of the most beautiful spots on earth.  The trip will be coordinated by Todd Willmoth and his dad, and do they show you a good time. It is a camping trip but there are motels in town. A great trip for beginners to get a feel for casting on a small stream with lots of opportunity to learn from the veterans. The trip is about 3.5 hours from Florence.

MIKE ARNOLD- 859-689-4294 -We’ll start the search for more smallmouth waters with one we know a little about. Mike Arnold has fished the "Little K" for years for trout and always enjoyed hooking a few smallmouth too. Meet at the parking lot in front of Shoe Carnival & Staples across Mall Road from Florence Mall at 7AM. We’ll get breakfast on the way. Waders and 4- or 5-weight outfits. We can catch lunch in Bedford. Map is already on the website.

SPRING MICHIGAN STEELHEAD TRIP - Thu-Sun - 4/10 - 4/13
ON-TRIP COORDINATOR NEEDED. – STAYING AT LOCAL MOTEL IN BALDWIN, MI AND USING THE GUIDES FROM INDIGO GUIDE  SERVICE. WADE THE FAMED PERE MARQUETTE RIVER AND OTHER WATERS FOR 8-20# FISH - EARLY SIGNUP MANDATORY. TOTAL COST WILL BE ABOUT $350-$400 PER PERSON.  $100 DEPOSIT DUE BY MARCH 1st.  Contact Tom Gier at (859) 331-2769.

HUNT FOR KY STREAM SMALLMOUTH - FLEMMING CREEK DAY TRIP  - Sat. -4/12 7AM-4PM ON-TRIP COORDINATOR NEEDED. It’s not that far to Flemming County (just a little past Maysville down the AA-Hwy). So let’s start looking where Lee McLellan (KDFWR) told us about.. Tom Gier (859) 331-2769.

SPRING (OH,PA,NY) STEELHEAD TRIP - Thu-Sun - 4/17-4/20
TOM GIER 859-331-2769 – STAYING AT LOCAL MOTELS IN OH, PA OR NY AND USING THE GUIDES FROM DAFISHIN’FOOL’S SERVICE. WADE TOP STEELHEAD STREAMS IN OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA OR NEW YORK FOR 6-12# FISH - EARLY SIGNUP MANDATORY. TOTAL COST WILL BE ABOUT $350-$400 PER PERSON.  $100 DEPOSIT DUE BY MARCH 1st.

HUNT FOR KY STREAM SMALLMOUTH - SILVER CREEK DAY TRIP  - Sun. -4/20 7AM-4PM ON-TRIP COORDINATOR NEEDED. About a two hour drive south to just below Richmond, KY and then following lots of back roads we’ll find this gem of a stream that is just made for a lightweight fly rod. More info later. Tom Gier (859) 331-2769.

DON BECHER - 859-291-8405 - FISHING A SMALL STREAM NEAR LOUISVILLE FOR TROUT –OTTER CREEK TYPICALLY GETS RAVE REVIEWS FROM THE FLYFISHING COMMUNITY. WE'LL BE STAYING AT FORT KNOX CABINS AT A VERY REASONABLE RATE. GREAT BEGINNER’S TROUT TRIP … AND ONLY TWO HOURS FROM FLORENCE. 

MIKE ARNOLD- 859-689-4294 – MIKE’S BEEN FISHING THE INDIAN CREEK, EAST FORK OF INDIAN CREEK AND SWIFTCAMP CREEK FOR YEARS AND WILL SHARE HIS EXPERTISE. MEET AT THE FLORENCE MALL STAPLES PARKING LOT AT 6AM. WE’LL STOP FOR BREAKFAST IN WINCHESTER BEFORE CONTINUING ON DOWN THE BERT T COMBS PARKWAY TO THE SLADE EXIT. WE’LL STOP AT THE SHELL STATION ON THE HILL BEFORE CONTINUING ON THROUGH THE NADA TUNNEL TO THE STREAMS. BRING ALL THE SAME NYMPHS AND DRY FLIES THAT YOU WOULD USE IN NORTH CAROLINA.

WHITE BASS / WIPER RUN DAY TRIP to East Fork of Little Miami River near WilliamSburg, OH – Sun - 5/04 - 7am-6pm –

MIKE ARNOLD - 859-689-4294 - Mike returns to one of his old haunts of years ago by visiting the East Fork of the LMR as it flows INTO Harsha Lake at East Fork State Park. OH license required. Bring lunch, appropriate outfit (5-wt - 7-wt) with floating line and 2x or 3x tippet on a 9-foot leader and plenty of 2” to 3” long white or silver streamers and same color sliders/poppers.

EARLY BASS & BLUEGILL TRIP TO PEABODY WMA - Thu-Sat - 5/8 - 5/10 - Peabody WMA is an old strip mining property in Western Kentucky that was converted into a wildlife management area many years ago.  It has numerous small lakes and ponds that are stocked with bluegill, bass, & other species that are open to the public. According to Jim Wilmoth, it is a great panfish & bass location that has repeatedly delivered good numbers each time he's visited there over the past 20+ years. Additionally, Kentucky's state record bluegill was caught in the same general area of the state as Peabody. We'll do the 3 hour drive Thursday AM and fish Thursday PM, Friday, and Saturday & return late that evening.  Depending on weather conditions we'll either camp or hotel it in Beaver Dam, Ky. Jim Blasdel will coordinate this trip and Jim Wilmoth will come along on the trip to join us and offer up some expertise.   Cost: $15 WMA permit plus gas (shared), lodging (shared), & food.  Contact Jim Blasdel for more info (689-2124 evenings).

NORTH CAROLINA 'DELAYED HARVEST AREA' WEEKEND #2 - Thu-Sun - 5/15-5/18

MIKE ARNOLD - 859-689-4294 - FISHING ALTERNATIVE STREAMS IN NORTH CAROLINA FOR TROUT –WE'LL BE STAYING AT OAK PARK INN IN WAYNESVILLE, NC & FISHING THE MANY DELAYED HARVEST STREAMS WITHIN EASY REACH (LAUREL RIVER & SHELTON LAUREL CREEK, WEST FORK OF THE PIGEON RIVER, EAST FORK OF THE FRENCH BROAD RIVER, TUCKASEEGEE RIVER, NORTH MILLS RIVER AND, OF COURSE, THE UPPER NANTAHALA RIVER) AND, IF YOU WASN’T, THE TRIBAL WATERS OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN RESERVATION. NC LICENSE REQUIRED. WEEKEND WILL COST ABOUT $200. LOTS OF FISH. GREAT TROUT BEGINNER'S TRIP.

DAY TRIP ON THE OHIO, LITTLE MIAMI OR GREAT MIAMI RIVER - Sat - 5/24 7AM-5PM - DETAILS WILL FOLLOW

HUNT FOR KY STREAM SMALLMOUTH - PAINT LICK CREEK DAY TRIP - Sat. -5/24 7AM-4PM ON-TRIP COORDINATOR NEEDED. A little further below Richmond, KY and then some more back roads we’ll get to another  stream full of smallmouth waiting to be caught. More info later. Tom Gier (859) 331-2769.

FFF/SEC CONCLAVE / GEORGIA BASS AND BLUEGILL TRIP - Wed-Sun - 5/28-6/1
MIKE ARNOLD - 859-689-4294 - THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL OF THE FFF WILL HAVE ITS CONCLAVE AT CALLOWAY GARDENS IN ROME, GA.  SEMINARS, CASTING DEMOS, PROMOTERS AND 50 OF THE TOP FLY-TYERS IN THE UNITED. YOUTH PROGRAMS, CASTING CLINICS, SEMINARS BY THE GREATEST FLY FISHERS IN THE COUNTRY. ALL COMBINED WITH POTENTIALLY GREAT BASS AND BLUEGILL FLY FISHING IN THE LAKES. SPECIAL RATES. CAMPING AVAILABLE NEARBY. COST ESTIMATE ABOUT $300.

OHIO BRUSH CREEK WADING TRIP - Sat - 6/7 7AM-5PM - NKFF Smallmouth Bass Day Trip to long-time secret OHIO BRUSH CREEK near Peebles, OH – 7am-6pm – Little is known about this stream other than it's one of Ohio's best smallmouth habitat. OH license required. MEET AT THE EASTGATE MALL TOYS-R-US PARKING LOT AT 7AM. Bring lunch, appropriate outfit (4-wt - 6-wt) with floating line and 3x or 3x tippet on a 9-foot leader and plenty of wooly buggers, minnow patterns and poppers/sliders. ON-TRIP COORDINATOR NEEDED - Contact Tom Gier at (859) 331-2769.

BROOKVILLE TAILWATER TROUT / WADING TRIP - Sun - 6/8 7AM-5PM

DAVE DeVITA – 859-344-0951 - FLYFISH FOR BROWN AND RAINBOW TROUT ONLY AN HOURS DRIVE FROM FLORENCE.  AN INDIANA LICENSE AND TROUT STAMP ARE REQUIRES – DAILY PERMITS ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE AND AT THE 52-PICKUP GAS STATION (ON ROUTE 52 ON THE RIGHT AS YOU ENTER BROOKVILLE).

NKFF / DCCF / LTU ELKHORN CREEK SMALLMOUTH FISHING CAMPOUT - Fri-Sun - 6/13-6/15
???????????? (NKFF) - 859-???-???? AND LARRY DRAKE (DCCF) – 502-964-6887 AND BARRY MORRIS (LTU) – 502-585-4562 – COME JOIN MEMBERS OF NKFF, DCCF AND LOUISVILLE TU IN FLYFISHING FOR BRONZEBACKS ON KENTUCKY'S PREMIER SMALLIE STREAM - BRING A CANOE TO FLOAT IT OR JUST WADE. CAMP OVERNIGHT FRIDAY AND / OR SATURDAY AT ELKHORN CAMPGROUND. BRING SOMETHING FOR POTLUCK DINNER SATURDAY NIGHT.

Contact Tom Gier at (859) 331-2769.

Mike Arnold (859) 689-4294. NKFF hasn't fished Pennsylvania since the late 1990's when, for some reason, after having fished it every year since 1991, we stopped. Plans are to fish the mid-North section of the state for trout hooking up with guide George Daniels (speaker at an NKFF meeting last year) and then relocating for one day of glorious smallmouth wade-fishing in the famed Susquehanna River north of Harrisburg, PA. Trout AND Smallmouth ... what could be better. Plan to camp or get with the coordinator to book a motel.

EXPLORE KENTUCKY – LOCUST CREEK WADING OUTING  - Sat -6/21
STEVE MOERMOND - 859-291-2125 OR TIM GUILFOILE – 859-331-0565. JOIN STEVE & TIM IN EXPLORING MORE PLACES TO FISH IN KENTUCKY – WE’RE DOING A ONE DAY WADING TRIP TO A GREAT LITTLE PANFISH AND BASS STREAM IN BRACKEN COUNTY.

HUNT FOR KY STREAM SMALLMOUTH - CLAY WMA LICKING RIVER FLOAT TRIP - Sat. -6/28 7AM-4PM ON-TRIP COORDINATOR NEEDED. – Back to Flemming County past Maysville to do an all-day float trip on the Licking River – We’ll pass long slow pools and pound the riffles and cuts. Pack lunch and plenty to drink. More info later. Tom Gier (859) 331-2769.

INDIANA STREAM SMALLMOUTH WADING OUTING  - Sat - 7/5 - On Trip Coordinator Needed -Smallmouth Bass Day Trip to Indiana's famed Upper Laughrey Creek near Versailles, IN–  Another of those always heard of but rarely fished (by NKFF as a group) streams that we really need to start paying some attention to. IN license required. Bring lunch, appropriate outfit (4-wt - 6-wt) with floating line and 3x or 3x tippet on a 9-foot leader and plenty of wooly buggers, minnow patterns and poppers/sliders.

CUMBERLAND RIVER WADING TRIP #1 - Fri-Sun, 7/11-7/13
On Trip Coordinator Needed - We can’t think of a better way to spend a weekend than wading the low waters of the Cumberland River while the dam is being repaired. Fish Kentucky's finest trout waters for rainbows and browns (and skipjack and stripers, too). We'll be camping and lodging it at the Cumberland River State Resort Park just up US-127 from the dam so we'll have easy access to the dam flow-ways, Helm's Landing and Winfrey's Rock and (a bit further away, to Crocus Creek, Burkesville and CLoyd's. Contact Tom Gier at (859) 331-2769. 

EXPLORE KENTUCKY – A J JOLLY LAKE BOAT OUTING  - Sat - 7/26
STEVE MOERMOND - 859-291-2125 OR TIM GUILFOILE – 859-331-0565. JOIN STEVE & TIM  IN EXPLORING MORE PLACES TO FISH IN KENTUCKY. DOWN AND BACK IN ONE DAY – NEED BOATS OR FLOAT TUBES.

EXPLORE KENTUCKY – CORINTH LAKE BOAT OUTING  - Sat - 8/16
STEVE MOERMOND - 859-291-2125 OR TIM GUILFOILE – 859-331-0565. JOIN STEVE & TIM  IN EXPLORING MORE PLACES TO FISH IN KENTUCKY. DOWN AND BACK IN ONE DAY – NEED BOATS OR FLOAT TUBES.

CUMBERLAND RIVER WEEKEND TRIP #2 - Fri-Sun, 9/12-9/14
On Trip Coordinator Needed - We can’t think of a better way to spend a weekend than wading the low waters of the Cumberland River while the dam is being repaired. Fish Kentucky's finest trout waters for rainbows and browns (and skipjack and stripers, too). We'll be camping and lodging it at the Cumberland River State Resort Park just up US-127 from the dam so we'll have easy access to the dam flow-ways, Helm's Landing and Winfrey's Rock and (a bit further away, to Crocus Creek, Burkesville and CLoyd's. Contact Tom Gier at (859) 331-2769. 

CAVE RUN LAKE BASS & MUSKIE CAMPOUT TRIP - Fri-Sun - 9/26-9/28
MIKE ARNOLD – 859-689-4294 - DRIVE DOWN EARLY FRIDAY, STOP FOR BREAKFAST, SETUP CAMP AND HAVE A LATE LUNCH THEN FISH TILL DARK. UP EARLY, FISH TILL 10AM, BACK TO CAMP FOR BIG BRUNCH & DINNER AT 5PM. BACK TO THE WATER TO FISH TILL DARK. QUICK BREAKFAST ON SUNDAY AND BACK TO THE LAKE TO FISH TILL NOON  AND THEN HEAD HOME.  COST IS ABOUT $50.

FALL MICHIGAN SALMON TRIP - Sun-Wed - 10/12-10/15
MIKE ARNOLD – 859-689-4294 – Staying at CRONK'S motel in Newaygo, MI and fishing using KEVIN MORLOCK'S INDIGO  guide sERVICE and our own experienced members we'll fish the Muskegon and the Pere MarquetTE Rivers for 20-to-40-POUND fish. Michigan license required. Early Signup Mandatory. Total cost will be about $450 per person $100 DEPOSIT DUE Aug. 15th.

ROCK CREEK & BIG SOUTH FORK FALL CAMPOUT - Fri-Sun - 10/17-10/19
TODD WILLMOTH - 859-442-0806 - fall TROUT FISHING IN THE BIG SOUTH FORK NRRA IN KENTUCKY. CAMP AT ROCK CREEK IN GREAT MEADOWS CAMPGROUND OR MOTEL IT IN  NEARBY STEARNS OR  WHITLEY CITY. ABOUT $35 - $60 FOR TRIP.

FALL OH/PA/NY STEELHEAD STREAMS - Thu-Sun - 11/13-11/16
JOE MOHLENKAMP - 513-245-9026 – STAYING AT LOCAL MOTELS IN OH, PA OR NY AND USING THE GUIDES FROM DaFISHIN'FOOL'S SERVICE, WADE TOP STEELHEAD STREAMS IN OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA OR NEW YORK FOR 6-12# FISH. EARLY SIGNUP MANDATORY. TOTAL COST WILL BE ABOUT $50-$400 PER PERSON. $100 DEPOSIT DUE OCT 4TH.

FALL NORTH CAROLINA / SMOKY MOUNTAIN PARK TRIP - Thu-Sun - 11/20-11/23
On Trip Coordinator Needed - FISHING ALTERNATIVE STREAMS IN NORTH CAROLINA FOR TROUT –WE'LL BE STAYING AT OAK PARK INN IN WAYNESVILLE, NC & FISHING THE MANY DELAYED HARVEST STREAMS WITHIN EASY REACH (LAUREL RIVER & SHELTON LAUREL CREEK, WEST FORK OF THE PIGEON RIVER, EAST FORK OF THE FRENCH BROAD RIVER, TUCKASEEGEE RIVER, NORTH MILLS RIVER AND, OF COURSE, THE UPPER NANTAHALA RIVER) AND, IF YOU WASN’T, THE TRIBAL WATERS OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN RESERVATION. NC LICENSE REQUIRED. WEEKEND WILL COST ABOUT $200. LOTS OF FISH. GREAT TROUT BEGINNER'S TRIP.  Contact Tom Gier at (859) 331-2769.