Jack Bell has been fly fishing for fifty years and a part- time guide for 25 years, with most of the guiding experience being for Evergreen Fly Shop out of Clarksburg, WV. Was the Co-director of the W.Va. State Council of Trout Unlimited's Fly Fishing School for 30 years(1981-2010). Have been doing fly fishing seminars/casting demonstrations for the past 25 years most notably at the annual National Hunting and Fishing Day celebration at Stonewall Jackson State Park , Prickett's Fort State Park, and Morgantown's Annual Outdoors Show. Was the former state Fly Casting Champion for distance and/or accuracy in 1975, 1976, and 1979(Annual Mountain State Forest Festival).Have been an freelance outdoor for the past 33 years. In addition, have also been guiding spring gobbler hunters for the past 23 years in W.Va., N. Carolina and Pa. Have fly fished all over W.Va., Pa., Maryland, Virginia, New York, Ohio, N Carolina, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado Oregon. I am the former president of the Morgantown Trout Unlimited chapter(P. Pendleton Kennedy Chapter) and current president of the Chestnut Ridge Long Beards Chapter of the NWTF.
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