FlyAnglers.org

The Gathering of the Clan has its origins in the now-defunct Virtual Fly Shop Bulletin Boards. The Virtual Fly Shop (VFS) was the granddaddy of fly fishing bulletin boards and the give and take between its members is legendary. Over time, electronic friendships begin to develop on bulletin boards/internet forums and that certainly was the case on the old VFS board. Finally, after a couple of years of on-line banter, some of us all decided to meet up at the Charlotte Fly Fishing Show in January 2001 in Charlotte, North Carolina. I honestly don’t remember everyone who met there that day, but I do remember that I met Ed Laine, Gene Langston, Ronnie Howard, and some other guys that day. We all had a great time casting line inside the convention hall, trying to hit a pie plate at 40 to 50 feet (for the record, my son Brad nailed it on his second cast).

FlyAnglers.org - formerly The Gathering of the Clan or GOTC - is the internet home for a group of fly anglers looking for a place to share a fishing story, talk about fishing, politics, tell jokes...you name it. Our forums are the heartbeat of the site - the place where everyone gathers to exchange ideas, the latest news or whatever else is interesting. It's like the place in a small town where everyone goes to drink coffee and find out what the real news of the county is.

Our members are quite diverse - we have men and women, trout anglers, saltwater anglers, and bass anglers. We have conservatives & liberals. We have the founder of the Baghdad School of Fly Fishing, published authors and at least one self-proclaimed village idler. All are welcome here, so look around and jump in. The more the merrier!

For more information on how we started, please see our short history as written by Doug Gilmore.