In 2018, the RRFF joined Fly Fishers International as an affiliate club to take advantage of group insurance that they offered, saving us over $600/year ~ 60% of what we paid previously.
As such, we are also automatically members of the FFI Northern California Council portion of FFI. The NCCFFI is a very active group with a Northern California focus. If you go to their website, you will see that over 25 clubs are listed.
RRFF members can also join FFI as individual members if they want to take advantage of what FFI or NCFFI has to offer and receive their monthly newsletters and periodic magazines. As of January 2023, we have 9 members who have done so.
As of 2024, we have also benefited from FFI by acquiring annual dinner Raffle/Auction items as well as monthly meeting raffle items from from FFI Industry Partners that allows us to purchase new items at half retail price (plus a small handling charge). The industry partners include Temple Fork, Adamsbuilt, Fenwick, Hardy, Orvis among others.
A note from Penelope in 2023:
After working with NCCFFI for the last year, there is a lot going on to amp up what NCCFFI is doing. I will be bringing updates regularly as a new member of the chapter board that I hope will bring even more depth for our club and to promote our club in the best way possible.