DUE TO CONCERNS FOR THE CORONAVIRUS AND PUBLIC HEALTH ORDERS TO SHELTER IN PLACE, THE FOLLOWING EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO A DATE TBD. THIS DECISION BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS IN EFFECT AT LEAST THROUGH THE END OF APRIL, 2020.
Scientific Anglers/Orvis Demo Event
Hosted by Golden Gate Angling & Casting Club
Saturday, April 11th, 9am-3pm
Sponsored by SA/Orvis
Schedule for the day:
9am – Event opens
9-11am – Open casting with SA’s B.Y.O.R. kit and Orvis rods
11am-11:30am – “Loving Your Fly Line”…Fly Line Care – Jeff McGowan
12:30pm – Lunch sponsored by Orvis
12:45pm – Lunch Raffle
1:00pm-3pm - Open casting with SA’s B.Y.O.R. kit and Orvis rods
3:00pm –Grand Prize Raffle and wind-down
Featuring Scientific Anglers “Bring Your Own Rod Kit” – Bring your favorite fly rod (or rods) and test drive Scientific Anglers fly lines with this impressive demo kit that includes 150+ reels loaded with ALL of SA’s different tapers and lines in the most common line weights including all of SA’s new for 2020 fly lines. You’ve never seen anything like 150 loaded reels (plus a full spey and spey lite kits) with everything from 2wt to 12wt lines rigged and ready to be strung up on your rod.
Jeff McGowan (National Sales Manager) will be on-hand to help facilitate the BYOR kit and to answer any questions regarding SA’s wide breadth of line tapers. Darin Elmore (local SA/ORVIS sales rep) will also be available to help you find the perfect ORVIS rod to match. Representing Costa sunglasses, Capt. Maury Hatch will be available to talk about and help you select the highest performance fishing eyewear for your pursuit.
Don’t want to pack a rod…no problem. Just show up and grab an Orvis sample rod off the rack to cast and check out. Since 1856, Orvis has been improving the experience that people have in the outdoors. Cast-an Orvis…Win an Orvis. That’s right, simply come to the event and cast one of the supplied Orvis samples and automatically get entered into the "Helios 3 rod-of-your-choice" raffle at the end of the event. A full assortment of Orvis rods will be available to demo including the Helios 3, new for 2020 Recon, Clearwater, Mission Spey, and Superfine Glass.
Questions? Contact Darin Elmore (local sales rep for SA/Orvis) at dmelmore@att.net or call 775-742-1968 or email Xavier Carbonnet xcarbonnet@yahoo.com