TEAM FLY FISHING

23rd World Fly Fishing Championship and Conservation Symposium (WFFCCS) will be held from June 11 to June 18 in Spain. WFFJ member have a right to join this trip as a guest of Team Japan or a competitor. WFFCCS will be held in the central Pyrenees in Jaca, Spain. Here is a Team Japan Official Page. We will introduce member of Team Japan. They are qualified people to attend of WFFCCS. Please go to the TJOP and support for them. Thank You ! * About WFFCCS... from the website............. "President of WFFJ, Misako Ishimura is a captain of Team Japan for the World Fly Fishing Championship and Conservation Symposium (WFFCCS).
WFFCCS is an international forum, a sort of Olympics dedicated to celebrating and promoting the sport of fly fishing and its conservation efforts. Every year more than 200 people (about 120 competition anglers, guests and volunteers) from all over the world gather for about one week. This event has been held in Europe, the United States and Australia for the past 21 years.

How does WFFCCS decide winners and what are their rewards? The number of fish caught are counted and measured by their length and released. Anglers are given points based on this information and ranked within the group. After five sessions, the individual and team winners (teams are made up of from five to eight anglers) are determined by their ranking in all sessions. The individual winner and the winning national team are given gold medals, with the second and third place winners receiving silver and bronze medals respectively. Currently, Team Japan is the only Asian team among the approximately 20-country participants.

Team Japan members are the members of World Fly Fishing of Japan, which is a part of Internationale de la Peche Sportive - Mouche (International Sport Fly-fishing Federation - FIPS). FIPS- Mouche is the fly-fishing arm of the Confederation Internationale de la Peche Sportive (International Confederation of Sport Fishing - CIPS), which was established in1952 in Rome and controls international world competition in all fishing disciplines. CIPS is now located in Luxemburg. Every country that wants to participate in WFFCCS must be a member of CIPS and FIPS-Mouche.

Misako Ishimura was the competitor in 1997 WFFCCS in Jackson Hole, Wyoming USA, and she was invited to be captain of Team Japan in February 2000 by Mr. Jurek Kowalski, the president of the FIPS-Mouche. Misako formed WFFJ, which is a not profit organization, and make it home of Team Japan. All Team Japan anglers are members of WFFJ. If you would like to know more, please vist the “Team Japan Official Page.”

Website reference
2002 WFFCCS in France

2001 WFFCS in Sweden