The Beginner’s Fly Tying will be held on Monday, June 18th. The featured flies for that session will be two flies developed by one of Pennsylvania’s legendary fly fishers and fly tiers, Ed Shenk. That evening we will be tying the “Letort (or Shenk’s) Cricket” and “Letort (or Shenk’s) Hopper”. As such, they are considered…

Mike Saylor will be our guest tier for our Wednesday, June 20th session. Mike will be tying the “Dorato Hare’s Ear”, originally tied by Bill Dorato from Albany, New York. This fly is a great imitation of a newly emerged Caddis or a May fly. Mike has an interesting variation he plans to demonstrate so…

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Join us for a combined tying session on Monday, July 16th in room 207 at 7:00 PM at Trinity United Methodist Church, 703 West Patrick Street, Frederick. Details

The Club’s “One-Fly” Tournament has been rescheduled for Saturday, August 11th from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the Catoctin Nature Center. This will be a competition to see who can catch the most fish, of any species, on a single fly of their own choosing. You may not change flies during the contest, and…

Dan Neuland is again coordinating the Fly Fishing Merit Badge instruction at the Boy Scout summer Camp during the week of Monday 8/13 thru Friday 8/17. Dan needs help with casting instruction, fly tying instruction and entomology. Here are the details: - WHAT: Fly Fishing Merit Badge
 - WHERE: Camp Airy in Thurmont
 - WHEN:…

f members are not already aware, PVFF combines the Beginners and Monthly Fly Tying Roundtable sessions in the months of July and August. Don Fine will lead the combined tying session that evening. August is a great time to fish grass hopper patterns either single or with a nymph dropper. So the pattern chosen for…

While the International Coastal Cleanup is a worldwide event, the PVFF will focus on cleaning up our homewaters of Catoctin Creek. Details: https://catoctincreek.blogspot.com

We will be back at Tuscarora High School on September 11th and will welcome Michael Klimkos. Mike will talk about fly-fishing the LeTort. If you are not familiar with the Letort, it is famous a famous limestone stream in southcentral Pennsylvania were much of our “trout fishing history in America” was made by fly fishing…

The Beginner’s fly tying class will be held on Monday, September 17th. Either Ray Ouellette or Don Fine will lead the tying that evening. The pattern chosen for the Beginner’s tying event will be the fly used by Ray to win the recently held PVFF “One-Fly” Contest on Catoctin Creek. Call it a terrestrial, call…