Time to start a couple of times a week blog post for A.F.F.S. I think this may be the easiest way to handle social media for what goes up on the various websites we operate. americanflyfishingschools.com This Google product might be pretty good for letting me post on various outlets that we use with just a mouse click and not a whole lot of copy and paste or worse yet tedious rewrites for different outlets. Since I named this Blog our "REPORT CARD" for our Schools then I should use it for that purpose. Since I get a lot of reports from our affiliated Guides like Paul Healy, (A highly valued and fish active member of this Organization) the owner/operator of the JIM THORPE FISHING COMPANY (based in the Pocono regional town of the same name in PA.) with also seasonal operations in North Central PA. on the Pine Creek and other nearby waters and some guiding in New Jersey. Not to mention his personal fishing trips to western New York Rivers and Streams. Paul will provide lots of content for this blog and valuable information to fly fishers that want to fish the same waters as he does. Paul is so busy fishing and guiding he rarely has time to update and maintain his own blog let alone https://www.facebook.com/AmericanFlyFishingSchools/, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, etc. and all the other social platforms. I hope this helps him develop even more clients by reading his reports. We have several other Guides, Instructors, and Associates of A.F.F.S. in several other areas of the Country that are active on the water all the time whether they write about it frequently or not, they contact me about their activities so I will pass it along to our readers here as well. Now that I have Bill and Barb Haldaman moving down to our area of SW Florida and Bill's intention to become more active again in A.F.F.S. in his retirement. I think we will be able to handle the updates of all our activities a lot better starting right now. The bookings of trips with the affiliated A.F.F.S. Guides should be handled through our office as you will not get lower pricing by contacting the Guides directly, but you will lose out on the valuable fly fishing gifts and perks you will receive by handling our new way. We are now switching to handling the guided trip bookings in North America the same way we have been doing it with our International partner Lodges and Independent Guides for several years. YES, this is the same way that ORVIS, YELLOW DOG, FRONTIERS, LL. BEAN, BASS PRO and the rest of them do it this way, quite successfully, so we will now also do that at A.F.F.S. but will save our Members and Affiliates big Bucks with our commision structure. I tried to change this system of bookings but the old axiom "There are NO FREE LUNCHES" certainly applies to this matter. I tried to handle all our bookings of trips and casting classes, fly tying lessons on the "honor" system of having our affiliates reimburse A.F.F.S. a small 10% commission fee for clients we have sent to them which were acquired through our extensive methods of advertising our member services. In fact, we hand out more brochures for our members than any other Company does at Sportsmen Events around the U.S. and have for more years then I care to remember. YES, this is a relatively "small world" of fly fishers and reports come back to me from a multitude of sources that our readers and exhibit visitors have had a great experience at such and such a location but not a dime of proper reimbursement came back to A.F.F.S. from the clients trips there that we were the catalyst for it occurring. Booking amnesia I guess? Funny how clients inquire and then book trips with some Guides because of their literature that somehow? ends up in Chicago or Kentucky or Wisconsin at a Sportsmen's Event that the Guide from Florida or Massachusetts or New Jersey, etc., has never directly advertised at or participated at, Mmmmm? Oh YES, I'm sure they must have found you by going to the 10 or 12th page on GOOGLE where your website is listed because every client does that much research on the internet? How far do you look in the search results of BING or GOOGLE or other search engines for anything? This now said, it will now be our policy moving forward at A.F.F.S. All annual dues by Affiliated Guides, Lodges, Instructors, Manufacturers, Artists, Commercial Tiers and all others that wish to increase their fly fishing businesses that can benefit from our extensive advertising methods including our participation at many Sportsmen Events nationwide will pay a low $100 annual membership fee that is due now or before the First of January each year and 15% of the total booking fees for their services to A.F.F.S. Artists, Fly Tiers and Product Manufacturesrs will also reimburse A.F.F.S. this 15% reduced fee from their normal MSRP's for their goods sold through our Show exhibits, websites and all other A.F.F.S. Events and Appearances. I invite any of our current Membership and qualified Individuals and Companies that wish to promote and increase their business to join A.F.F.S. membership. We welcome you into our ranks with the lowest priced and most effective advertising and promotion program in the Industry and Sport "BAR NONE" Shop it and you will quickly see that it is the best advertising bang for your buck that exists in this business.
We welcome all our Students, Clients and Fly Fishing Friends to send us info and reports on your trips and fly fishing adventures, your product reviews, pictures and videos and we will post them here and through some of our other channels and platforms to pass them along for our readers to enjoy and to help educate all of us about our favorite sport or pastime. Here is the first one from Paul Healy this week from his Camp on the Pine Creek..
Monday 6/4... "Beautiful morning but no bugs appearing up on the flat water above camp where I wanted to find em but no, I just saw a boatman bug and that was it. It could be the ice this year was so heavy and thick it rolled the bottom of the stones which are now all different and there's a lot of sediment down in the campground pools. You know that right there above that spot it will blow it into the run, and swirled it around eddied up and I got a few tons of new gravel and settlement and it seems to come out of these rocks. By the way, we did not get the rain they were forecasting, so I'm calling the whole big storm to hit here horseshit. Was more like half to 11/2 inches. The creek is pretty clear and down about where it was before the storm broke up. And went around us. Thank God. Today I got 4 trout this morning, Not much in numbers but lots of little stuff is coming off now for them to be really choosy about what they eat".
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