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The Mohican Fly Fishers Club is a group of men and women from the Mid-Ohio area who enjoy the sport of fly fishing. We operate to promote and foster fly fishing, fly tying, casting, and other related fly fishing activities. We are an affiliate club of Fly Fishers International. Our home water is the Clear Fork River.
Thanks to everyone who helps keep our rivers clean. ESTABLISHED IN 1994, LOUDONVILLE, OHIO |
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Monthly Meetings are the second Wednesday of each month and are held
at the American Legion in Bellville, Ohio
unless otherwise noted on the calendar.
The meetings start at 6 pm. Visitors are always welcome!
at the American Legion in Bellville, Ohio
unless otherwise noted on the calendar.
The meetings start at 6 pm. Visitors are always welcome!
The Upper Clear Fork River is one of the few rivers in Ohio that stays cool enough to support trout population year around.
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Mohican Fly Fishers Club is a group of anglers who enjoy the sport of fly fishing. We operate as a nonprofit organization to promote and foster fly fishing, fly tying, casting, and other related fly fishing arts such as rod building or net making. The club encourages fly fishing for all fish in all waters and focuses on the diversity of fishing as the seasons change.
The Mohican Fly Fishers was started in January 1994 in Loudonville, Ohio and the first meeting was led by Walt Dutka. During the second meeting, officers were elected: Ron Kyle was the first President; Brian Odenkirk was Secretary; Dan Mosher was Treasurer; and Jim Hineman wrote the newsletter. The meetings were held at Rader’s Restaurant in Loudonville, but before the end of the first year, the club relocated to the Gorman Nature Center in Mansfield, Ohio. In early 2008, the club relocated to the American Legion in Bellville, Ohio. After all these years of existence, our club is becoming more well known and membership is growing. One of the club's goals is to be more active with club members participating in a variety of events throughout the year. We are an affiliate club of Fly Fishers International through the Ohio Council. We provide a voice for fly fishers and act unilaterally and in conjunction with other conservation organizations, including the ODNR, to protect, promote, and improve the Mohican Valley Fishery. We promote adherence to Ohio’s fishing regulations, club rules, and sound conservation principles and ethics. We are establishing strong relationships with landowners along the waterways through the positive actions of our club's members and activities. Before and after conducting each monthly business meeting which includes an educational program, you might find members tying flies, watching videos, or participating in on-stream activities. Occasionally, we will meet at ponds or rivers for casting practice. Club members represent all levels of experience from beginners through veterans, and someone is always available to answer questions or teach new skills. The club has a book and video library for its members' use and the club is always interested in expanding its collection if someone wishes to donate such items for this cause. From spring through fall, members have assisted the ODNR in its stocking program and temperature monitoring, built rock dams for trout, and assisted in river clean-up days. We do aquatic macroinvertebrate surveys for Richland Conservatory Soil and Water to help monitor the water quality. For the past few years, the club's home fishing water, “The Clear Fork of the Mohican River,” has been defined by the EPA as being one of the cleanest rivers in Ohio. We need your help and support to keep this river pristine. The most publicly fished area of the Clear Fork River is inside the Mohican State Park between Pleasant Hill Dam and State Route 3. This area is known to club members as the “Lower Clear Fork.” The river had been stocked with brown trout yearly since 1992 and since 2018, has been stocked with harvestable rainbows. It can be fished all year long if water level permits. Bass, crappie, bluegill, carp, and saugeyes are readily caught in the river, with an occasional muskie falling prey to some unexpecting fisherman. The stretch of the Clear Fork River above Pleasant Hill Lake is known by the club members as the “Upper Clear Fork.” The upper Clear Fork is one of the rivers in the state that is cool enough to maintain a trout population year around. This area is mostly private property, and the status of being a club member in good standing may help with access to some of these fishing locations. The Newville Bridge area toward the lake is public access, and when the white bass make their Spring run, there can be some hot fly fishing action using streamers. |
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Mohican Fly Fishers Club of Ohio's Disclaimer
Mohican Fly Fishers Club is a group of men and women from the Mid-Ohio area who enjoy the sport of fly fishing. We operate as a non-profit social club to promote and foster fly fishing, fly tying,
casting, and other related fly-fishing arts. The contents of this website, including but not limited to the text and images herein and their arrangement, are copyrighted © 2024 by the Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio. All rights reserved. The Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio tries to provide accurate information, however, there may be inadvertent technical or factual inaccuracies and typographical errors, for these we apologize. We reserve the right to make any changes and/or corrections on this website at any time, without prior notice.
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If you respond to the Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio with information, including but not limited to feedback, data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like, such information shall be deemed to be non-confidential. Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such information and shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute the information to others. Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such information as they judge worthwhile. The exceptions are for submitted contents that are made available for our usage and which already carry their own copyright protection.
Mohican Fly Fishers Club is a group of men and women from the Mid-Ohio area who enjoy the sport of fly fishing. We operate as a non-profit social club to promote and foster fly fishing, fly tying,
casting, and other related fly-fishing arts. The contents of this website, including but not limited to the text and images herein and their arrangement, are copyrighted © 2024 by the Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio. All rights reserved. The Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio tries to provide accurate information, however, there may be inadvertent technical or factual inaccuracies and typographical errors, for these we apologize. We reserve the right to make any changes and/or corrections on this website at any time, without prior notice.
The Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio’s website contains hypertext links to various other websites whose contents for which we are not responsible. If a linked website has any objections to our website containing a hypertext link to their website, please contact our webmaster and we will remove the link and apologize for your inconvenience. References on Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio's website to any products, services, processes, hypertext links, or other information, by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio's endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation.
If you respond to the Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio with information, including but not limited to feedback, data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like, such information shall be deemed to be non-confidential. Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such information and shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute the information to others. Mohican Fly Fishers of Ohio shall be free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such information as they judge worthwhile. The exceptions are for submitted contents that are made available for our usage and which already carry their own copyright protection.