PVTU to host fly casting clinic

Friday night the Platte Valley Trout Unlimited is hosting a fly casting clinic before a memorial service honoring Mike Smith.

It is only fitting for the fly fishing clinic to coincide with Smith’s memorial, because he loved to fish.

Smith was one of three certified casting instructors in the Platte Valley. The other two, Jeff Streeter and Bud Fackelman, are the instructors for Friday night.

Streeter and Fackelman, like Smith, were certified through the Federation of Fly Fishers, Streeter said.

“Mike was a very active board member in the Platte Valley Trout Unlimited,” Streeter said. �...