The 2025 Southwestern Casting Tournament will be hosted by the Long Beach Casting Club and held the weekend of February 15th at 8:30 AM and 16th at 8:30 AM.

Make plans to join us as either a participant or a volunteer. Casters will be demonstrating their skills that simulate fishing situations. All members are encouraged to participate, either casting or working the event.

Watching the casters, including world and national champions, will enable you to see great techniques.

Volunteers are much appreciated and will be needed to help with setup, score keeping, setting the lunches out, setting up the casting board and checking in equipment. Email MarkCFlo@yahoo.com with any questions or to volunteer.

Friday, February 14th – 9:00am

All skill levels are welcome.

LBCC would like to invite you to come early to this year’s Southwestern Tournament to enjoy – by casting and/or watching – a few additional games on Friday, February 14th at 9am.

Since we anticipate that the ICSF Fly Casting games will become more important to us in the US, we have scheduled a selection of those games for that Friday:

Starting 9 AM:

• 15′ Spey event (standing in the water – though likely not regulation depth, LBCC has boots to share) followed by:
• Salmon Distance (15′ overhead with 55 gram shooting head)
• Trout Accuracy (5wt accuracy)
• Trout Distance (5wt distance with SA MED line)
• If time allows: Seatrout Distance (with 27 gram shooting head)

RULES – CASUAL

• While we plan on applying strict rules while actually casting, the overall process is likely to be casual. This is a chance to try out those games and to get a bit of practice in.
• The Spey event will block virtually the entire pond (don’t expect to be able to cast while this event is going on).
• During the other events there should be some room for practice of those events or even the Saturday/Sunday events.
• There is currently no plan to provide lunch on Friday, but that might change.

We hope to see you in Long Beach. Please spread the word!
Mark Flo, LBCC Casting Captain