Community Outreach Programs

	Casting for Recovery
	Boy Scouts
	Project Access
	Handicapped Fishing
	Women’s Casting Clinics
	Junior Fly Tyers' Sessions
	River Clean-ups

Under the motto “There is more to life than fishing”, the Long Island Flyrodders are involved with several projects that benefit the communities they live in.

Casting for Recovery 
CFR provides fly fishing retreats at locations around the United States. The retreats are specially designed for women who have or had breast cancer. 
To enhance the lives of breast cancer survivors, CFR offers no-cost retreats tailored to promote and support mental and physical healing, shared experiences, and the hope that comes from learning new skills. 
Through various fund raising activities, and as river guides to the participants, the Long Island Flyrodders actively participate in several retreats on Long Island each year.

Boy Scouts
We work with Boy Scout troops to help them become familiar with the sport of fly fishing. We teach them the necessary skills, including fly tying, to be able to complete the requirements to earn the newly established badge for fly fishing.

Project Access
Each spring, the Long Island Flyrodder, along with other clubs, travel to the Catskill area to help restore paths and platforms to streams which allows handicapped individuals to fish. Winter damage and high water erode these access points each year, and to allow everybody the opportunity to enjoy our sport, we put our backs and shovels to work, giving everyone a chance to appreciate the fly fishing experience.

Handicapped Fishing
During the summer fishing season, we invite our young friends from the United Cerebral
Palsy and AHRC to spend a few hours with us at Connetquot State Park. We help them to catch and land some trout and to enjoy a few hours in the sunshine.

Women’s Casting Clinic
For the past several years, we have held a casting clinic, open to all women at Eisenhower Park. The topics cover such basics as rod and reel set up, leaders and tippets, basic knots, and of course casting. At the end of the session, and as an added bonus, we serve a gourmet lunch to all participants. We hope to teach women how to use a flyrod and encourage them to participate in fly fishing.

Junior Fly Tyers' Sessions
In the spring, we hold a Jr. Fly Tyers' session. For 3-4 hours, young people from the ages of 10 to 16, learn the basic skills of fly tying.

River Clean-Ups
Our club, together with Trout Unlimited,  participates in several River Clean-Ups.
Wantagh Lakes, the Housatonic River and the Carrls River had some of their habitat and beauty restored as a result of our clean-up activities.