SHEPHERDSTOWN -- The International Fly Fishing Film Festival (IF4) returned for its third year-in-a-row to the Byrd Auditorium at the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) on Aug. 28.

According to NCTC Outreach Coordinator Randy Robinson, this year's screening saw an even greater turnout than in the past.

"As far as I know, this is the only place in West Virginia that does a screening of IF4," Robinson said.

He attributed the growth, however, to an increasing local awareness of the festival, as well as to the timing of the screening. Previously, IF4's annual festival was featured at NCTC in November, when all but the most passionate fly fishers have put away their fishing gear until the spring. August, on the other hand, hits right at the beginning of the fall trout fishing seaso

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