Meeting, new location: 2026-04-28, Getting ready for the John Scarborough Sunfish Spectacular

The TFF monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday 28 of April, 2026. Our topic will be on fly fishing for sunfish at Damon 7 Lakes. This may help you in preparation for our annual Sunfish Spectacular. This is our annual fun family fishing event Saturday, 2nd of May 2026, at Damon Seven Lakes.

St. Thomas Presbyterian Church PC(USA), 14100 Memorial Dr, Houston, TX 77079

Fellowship hall, see the map below:

Topics covered include gear for sunfish, our favorite flies, how to fish them, a review of Damon Seven Lakes and the different options to fish.

During the socializing pre-meeting we will have some fly tying going on.

Howard is also planning to bring books from storage in an attempt to re-home them.

MEETING UPDATE: April 28th, 2026, change in location, date, and time

Because of the noise issues we have had in the last 2 locations we tried, we have a NEW MONTHLY MEETING LOCATION, DATE, and TIME FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE starting with the April 28th, 2026 monthly meeting. The new details are:

Date: Last Tues of each month
Time: 6-9pm (6-7: Social hour; 7-9 Meeting)

Location:
St. Thomas Presbyterian Church, 14100 Memorial Dr. Houston, TX  77079 Google maps

Social Hour: 6-7 pm
We will have a “social hour” from 6-7. Time to reconnect with friends, tell stories about life, fishing, etc. WE also plan to have some of our local fly tiers on hand demonstrating some tips and tricks.

Meeting Start Time: 7-9 pm
The meeting will begin promptly at 7pm and run no later than 9pm (most likely 830pm). The format will remain the same. Meeting will start with introduction of new attendees, reports outs from the various chairs (outings, finance, membership, etc), then the guest speaker.

We will continue to announce the monthly speakers with “posts” prior to the meeting.
Look forward to seeing you there.

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