Membership Benefits and Activities
Why join the Badger Fly Fishers?
   If you enjoy fly fishing or would like to learn, the Badger Fly Fishers is for you. Whether you're a beginnner, a person who finds fly fishing your reason for living, or just want to add the fly rod to the tools you use for successful angling, you will find a friend in the Badgers with the same interests. Membership is $15 per year with membership in the International Federation of Fly Fishers optional.
  • 12 issues of club newsletter
  • Local fishing reports
  • Free trout fishing clinic each year
  • Free use of club video library
  • Monthly seminars from experts about fly fishing in Wisconsin and from around the U.S.
  • CLICK HERE for membership form
Club meetings
Come to one of our meetings and check us out.
   Meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the fourth Monday of each month at the Mapletree Restaurant on Highway 51 in McFarland, Wisconsin, about 15 minutes south of Madison. You may join us for dinner at 6:00 pm.
   Every year the club has fly tying meetings, an awards party in December, a member auction in November and similar fly-fishing related events that area enthusiastically received and very well-attended.

Projects that need your help
  • Conservation or education committee member
  • Fly casting, trout fishing or fly tying instructor
  • Bass, bluegill, muskie or pike fly fishing instructor
  • Madison fishing exposition liaison or volunteer
  • Badger fly fishers board of directors
  • Club newsletter reporter
  • Monthly raffle prize coordinator

Conservation efforts
   In 1996, BFF gave $4,000 to the West Fork Sports Club for stream bank improvement in catch and release areas. In 1997, BFF provided $1,000 to the DNR for a study to evaluate the effects of the early trout season on trout populations and an additional $1,600 for automatic feeders for rearing the offspring of wild trout.
   From 1994-1997, the Badger club purchased 425 copies of the FFF/Gary Borger tape, Where the Trout Are and donated those copies to Wisconsin public schools. This tape provides an important message with respect to saving trout habitat and respecting wild fish.
   An additional 50 tapes have been purchased for donations to private schools. In 1998, the Badger Fly Fishers supported the River Alliance of Wisconsin and the Verona High School Student Stream Project.
   In 1999, the Badger Fly Fishers spent $2,000 and received an additional $3,000 in grants for streambank restoration on Castle Rock Creek in Grant County. The club also participated in negotiations to retain a compromise early trout season in Wisconsin.