Rod blanks, guides, ferrules, reel seats ... a surprising number of components go into crafting a fly rod. Don Fine will present an overview of building fly rods at our February club meeting. Bring your curiosity and your questions!

The fly pattern chosen for February is the Prince Nymph, named after the designer of the fly, Doug Prince from California. When first introduced, the Prince nymph “was radical in design” because Doug used goose wing feather ‘biots’ to represent both the immature wings and tail of the nymph. Many freshwater fly fishers (across the…

After several months of talking about it and planning it, we had our first Advanced Fly Tying meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, January 20. Don Fine led the evening and did a great job sharing with everyone how to tie the modified X-Caddis.  The X-Caddis is a quick-tie fly pattern developed by Craig Matthews, a…

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