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A club for people
who love flyfishing and
the outdoors!
The Long Island Flyrodders is a social club for people who share a passion for flyfishing and the beautiful places it brings us to. We meet at 7:30 PM on the first Tuesday of each Month, at the Levittown VFW Hall, 55 Hickory Lane, Levittown, NY. (North of Hempstead Turnpike ). *New members are always welcome, come to a meeting and see what we're all about! Never flyfished? No problem, we offer free casting, and fly tying lessons before our meetings in the warm weather months and lots of advice.
Questions: email shawnsul@optonline.net
For a membership application, please click button
To mail in an application, make a check out to Long Island Flyrodders and send to: Peter Harris, 6 Clafford Lane, Melville, NY 11747
or bring completed application to one of our meetings.
Next LIFR Meeting :
Tuesday, November 5, 7:30 P.M.,
Agenda: John Shaner
"The Beautiful Beaverkill"
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John Shaner has been an avid angler for as long as he can remember. He caught his first trout on a fly he tied himself in 1965. He is well known in the Catskill rivers area and has been involved with the Catskill Museum of Flyfishing. He has worked as a sales representative for Hardy reels. He has a particular fondness for discovering and fishing with traditional wet flies.
Upcoming Events:
10/1 LIFR Meeting 7:30, pre-meeting barbecue 6:30, Casting Instruction 6:30, Used Tackle Sale 6:30
10/5 Connetquot State Park Centennial Celebration
10/5 Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery Family Day
10/21 Connetquot Club Day
11/5 LIFR Meeting
10/21 Connetquot Club Day
JOIN THE Long Island Flyrodders : Be our guest at our next meeting!
The Connetquot River is our home water every third Monday of the month! Club members have full access to the entire river.
Recent Pictures
Beaverkill Trip at the Riverside Cafe Lodge
New Members Meeting Fall Beaverkill Trip
Check out our Instagram Page
Caught the fish of a lifetime and you'd like to show it off? Send pics to our Instagram coordinator Shawn Sullivan shawnsul@optonline.net
Please don't send a large file, include some info, general area, flies used, etc; Pics don't have to have fish in them, landscape shots are welcome!
LIFR Favorite Flies
Click the image Below to view
photos and recipes of our
Member's favorite flies.
 gils deceiver |
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 mackerel candy |
 green beadhead caddis pupa |
 Smallmouth Gurgler |
 power worm |
 fancy moosehead bell |
 PA Sparkler |
 Partridge and Orange |
 Lees Sikadelic Sally |
 Jeffs Black Angus |
 pink puff |
 pink bugger |
 orange bead |
 mikkleson |
 moosehead belle |
 Lite Bright White Fly |
 Jims Fly Pin |
 Ladygail |
 Lee's foxy gotcha |
 IrisCaddis |
 Ghwfly |
 Frasers Caddis Pupa |
 Cropsicle |
 Craft baitfish |
 Conehead Rabbit Leech |
 Clauser crawfish |
 Carolina belle |
 Bonefish Giant |
 Bonefish belle |
 BigEye Bugger |
 Polyarn Beetle |
 White Beadhead Rabbit Zonker |
 Anthonys bugger |
 Poppingperch |
 Serendipity |
 TootsieRoll |
 AP Emerger |
 Peconic Paddler |
 Schabby's Sculpin |