Jim Hund, MCI, THCI JimHund@texascouncilffi.com
Jim Hund is a FFI Certified Master and Two-Hand Casting Instructor who lives in Lubbock, Texas. He is an At Large member of the FFI Texas Council board as the Texas director of casting instruction education. He began fly fishing in the mid-1980s. He also actively fishes two-handed rods swinging flies for steelhead and pacific salmon.
Ron Ridgeway, CI RonRidgeway@texascouncilffi.com
Since picking up a fly rod at seventeen, fly fishing and casting have become a part of who I am. I cast poorly for years, with no mentors, no YouTube, and no instructional DVDs. When I began to attend fly fishing shows and get-togethers, in the eighties, things began to develop in a positive direction. You just don’t know what you don’t know…
Even today, as I work with a student struggling to get timing and coordination all together, I like to assure them that all of us “casters” were right where you are at one point in our casting career. No one is born knowing how to cast. It’s a skill we all have to learn.
I have been fortunate to fly fish in a lot of great destinations around the world. But I find I’m just as happy casting to bream in a stock tank as I am standing on a flat in the tropics casting to bonefish and permit.
I guided the Kootenai and Bull Rivers in Montana for thirteen seasons. I rowed a drift boat around seven hundred miles per season and made new friends with clients from all over the world. While I was working with anglers in Montana, I developed my enthusiasm for teaching fly casting.
I am a Fly Fishers International Certified Casting Instructor and regularly teach casting and guide for Redfish, Speckled Trout, and Flounder through my guiding business, Matagorda Loops, in Matagorda, Texas. I spend about two hundred-twenty days a year in my skiff or wading the Matagorda Bays. I live full-time in Matagorda with my wife Sharon.
Be the communication link between Clubs and Council Members and the FFI Casting Board of Governors
Help organize casting events and schedule CI’s at large fly fishing events across the state as requested
Support clubs seeking to expand their casting education program
Facilitate the exchange of ideas and overall networking between CI’s across the state
Connect prospective CI candidates with willing CI mentors
Provide the means for a student to connect to a Texas Certified Instructor