Fly Fishers to hear about the Western Native Trout Challenge

The Fly Fishers of Davis will hear from Laurie Banks and Ken W. Davis, who will be presenting on the Western Native Trout Challenge via Zoom Webinar at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 27.

This presentation is designed to get people excited about pursuing this challenge and introduce fly fishers to this program. Participants will learn about the challenge, tips to complete all levels, locating and identifying fish, planning trips, and equipment and flies.

Banks and Davis have been together for 23 years and a fishing team for the last 15. They spend their summer vacations fishing and visiting family in Nevada, Idaho and Montana. Upon learning about the Western Native Trout Challenge, they decided to give it a try. Thinking it would take years to complete, they were surprised they completed the challenge in only 15 months.

Banks is a retired continuation high school teacher and was president of California Fly Fishers Unlimited in 2014 and 2015. She is a member of their board of directors and co-teaches their 101 class for beginning fly fishers.

Davis is an aquatic biologist who is working on several projects in Lake Berryessa and Putah Creek for Solano County. As a wildlife photojournalist, his images have been published in more than 5,000 periodicals. He has been fly fishing for more than 30 years. Ken especially enjoys fly fishing pursuits with Banks as they approach it as a team effort.

Although 75 fishers have completed the first level, the pair are two of the five to complete the third and final level and the first couple to do so.

To register for this Zoom webinar go to https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e075uXRSTESdIISOc2o4Fw.