FISHING -- Fly casting champion Tim Rajeff is coming to North Idaho this weekend and he’s only part of the celebrity action during the two-day Sandpoint Fly Fishing Film Festival.

The event features the eight films edited into the Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T) to be shown at the Panida Theater on Friday night followed by the four films in the Internatonal Fly Fishing Film Festival (IF4) on Saturday night.

Doors open both nights at 6 followed by the films at 7. Tickets are $12 in advance at Big R or Eichardt’s in Sandpoint or $15 at the door.

“We have tons of prizes, including guided steelheading trips and fishing trips on the Kootenai, Missouri and Bitterroot rivers,” said Calvin Fuller of Big R Fly Shop in Ponderay.

“It was a lot of fun to have both film festivals last year, so we’re doing it again.”

On Saturday, Rajeff, an expert affiliated with fly rod and line companies, will help anglers with casting demos 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at a 40-foot by 100-foot casting pool in the Big R parking lot.

A casting competition for distance and accuracy with prizes is set for all levels of casters at 2 p.m.

Info: 208-610-4151, panhandletu.org.

Read on for more details about Tim Rajeff:

Tim Rajeff

Known as the youngest of the flying Rajeff Brothers, Tim Rajeff was born and raised in San Francisco a few blocks from the famous Golden Gate Angling and Casting Club. Tim now resides in Vancouver Washington with his partner Katherine Hart.

It takes a certain crazy type of person pursuit a career in the sport of fly fishing. Early in his career Tim was a fishing guide in Alaska and Russia which gave him a chance to help people become successful anglers in extreme conditions. A lot of time on the water combined with a failed engineering education has left Tim with a twisted sense of reality which he finds useful in his career as a rod designer and fly casting instructor.

Tim dedicated many years to fly and spin casting competition trying to beat his older brother Steve, the long time national and world casting champion.  Before retiring from casting competition the mid 1980s Tim managed to give his brother a little trouble at the world distance fly casting championship held that year in Linz Austria. In 2001 Tim started Rajeff Sports and the ECHO Rod, Reel, and Line Company with his partner Katherine.