Category: Fly Tying

Our Beginner Fly Tying session this month will continue our theme for 2025: learning to tie a diversity of flies based on one pattern simply by substituting one or two…

As noted in the January issue of Streamlines, beginner fly tying sessions this year will focus on the use of alternative materials in tying similar, or variant, fly patterns. People who…

Over the past ten plus years the focus of our PVFF Beginner’s Fly Tying class has been to learn the basic procedural steps in constructing a specific fly pattern. Our…

In selecting the fly pattern for our November session, I chose Hogan’s Winter Leech. This pattern will further enhance the tying skills of our Beginner’s class as well as to…

In selecting a new fly pattern for our October Beginner Fly Tying session, I chose the “Thin Mint Bugger.” This pattern will help us learn new tying skills and provide…

At our September beginner fly tying class we will be tying an October Caddis. In his book “Caddisflies,” author Gary LaFontaine described the hatch of the October caddis as one…

Late summer is the time of the year when terrestrial insects (beetles, hoppers, ants, crickets, etc.) are prevalent virtually anywhere we might be fishing on freshwater streams, rivers, lakes, or…