Meeting location: Trini Mendenhall Community Center (1414 Wirt Road Houston, Tx.)

Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Ron Ridgeway Bio

Since picking up a fly rod, at the age of seventeen, fly fishing and casting has become a part of who I am. I casted poorly for years, no mentors, no YouTube and no instructional DVDs. When I began to attend fly fishing shows and get- togethers, in the eighties, things began to develop in a positive direction. You just don’t know what you don’t know…

Even today, as I work with a student struggling to get timing and coordination all together,  I like to assure them that all of us “casters” were right where you are at one point in our casting career. No one is born knowing how to cast. It’s a skill we all have to learn. 

I have been fortunate to fly fish in a lot of great destinations around the world. But, I find I’m just as happy casting to bream in a stock tank as I am standing on a flat in the tropics casting to bonefish and permit. 

I guided on the Kootenai and Bull rivers in Montana for thirteen seasons. I rowed a drift boat around seven hundred miles per season and making new friends with clients from all over the world.  It was while working with anglers in Montana that I developed my enthusiasm for teaching fly casting. 

I am a Fly Fishers International Certified Casting Instructor and regularly teach casting and guide for Redfish, Speckled Trout and Flounder through my guiding business,  Matagorda Loops, in Matagorda, Texas. I get to spend about two hundred-twenty days a year in my skiff or wading the Matagorda Bays. I live full time in Matagorda, with my wife Sharon.