About NEFT
The NEFT meets every Monday evening at 7 PM from the Monday after Labor Day to the Monday before Memorial day. We meet at the American Legion Tatnuck Post 288, 570 Mill Street, Worcester, MA.
Directions to Meeting
Our mailing address is:
PO BOX 164
Worcester, MA 01613
Membership dues are $27.00 per year for adults and $14.00 a year for those under 16 years of age. The membership year begins on the first of the month in which dues are paid. The NEFT is one of the most active organizations of its kind.
Here is a summary of our activites:
- "Favorite Fly" Tying demonstrations by club members.
- Raffle at each meeting.
- Coffee at each meeting.
- Free Spaghetti Dinner, first meeting in December.
- Exhibiting at the Fly Fishing Show at the Royal Plaza in Marlboro in early January.
- Exhibiting at the Eastern Fishing & Outdoor Exposition at the Centrum in Worcester in early February.
- Annual Open House On the Monday after the closing of the show at the Centrum featuring tying demonstrations, free sample fly tying lesson, preview showing of one of the ten lessons of the The NEFT Video Manual of Fly Tying, Silent Auction and Special Raffles and more.
- Beginning of the ten lesson Fly Tying Course using both the printed NEFT Manual of Fly Tying and the NEFT Video Manual of Fly Tying starting the Monday following the Open House.
- NEFT assists Div.of Fish & Wildlife in early May, stocking trout in selected streams.
- The Paul Kukonen Memorial Family Outing at the Barre Falls Dam picnic area in mid May featuring a Fly Casting Clinic, a streamside entomology session and an all-you-can-eat hot dogs, hamburgers cookout and other goodies.
- Fishing Outing in June at the Deerfield River, featuring a Steak Dinner at noon at the Power Company picnic area.