Hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday and that these early winter days have given you an opportunity to relax with a favorite beverage, while you tie some flies for the coming colder months. For our January Beginner’s (virtual) Fly Tying session, I have chosen another streamer pattern, which I and several of our club…

Come join us as we celebrate the end of the year that we can’t say out loud! For our first 2021 meeting, we are going to talk about our home waters, Catoctin Creek. Rick Loose will provide an overview of one our most vital club activities — the trout pen. For those who have never…

This month, we will hold our first meeting for Advanced Fly Tying on Jan. 20th at 7 PM on Zoom. Here’s how meetings of the Advanced Fly Tying Group will work. Each participant will be responsible for leading a tying session for at least one monthly meeting during the year. The leader for any given…

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…