CLUB MEETING | NEW NYMPHING TACTICS

• Tuesday, June 13, 2023

• 6:15 - 9:00 PM

• Goleta Valley Library

• 500 North Fairview Avenue

• Goleta, CA, 93117 (map)

George Daniel:  Author, teacher, competitor and champion

My father introduced me to fly fishing when I was five. He was a skilled angler but had zero patience for teaching me. I lived in a small remote northern PA “village” called Germania. We were a one-car family, living at the poverty level, but luckily a small brook trout stream ran through our property. The stream was called Germania Branch and that section was a Kids Only Section. I was the only kid in a 20-mile radius so for the next 8 years I had my own private brook trout stream all to myself. There was nothing else to do and my family couldn’t afford the first generation Nintendo so I spent all my free time flailing my 7 ½’ Fenwick Fiberglass along the stream.

Eventually, in the mid-’90s, our family moved to central PA. I knew about Joe Humphreys and George Harvey teaching the Penn State Angling Program, and Joe’s Trout Tactics book was my first fly fishing literature. That book inspired me to become a better angler and also created a goal of eventually teaching fly fishing at Penn State. I was 13 years old at the time. I had lots of ups and downs in my angling career but I never steered away from my goal to teach at the collegiate level.  Finally last year, at age 40 I began teaching one class and now I teach all the fly fishing courses at Penn State.