Lie and Tie fly tying meetings to be held the first Monday of every month. This will be held at the Randolph Recreation Center, same place as our regular meetings. 6pm-7:30pm. We will take a period off during June, July and August for summer travel and put your flies to use.
Each meeting you’ll receive a packet of materials for that evening's flies, enough for about 3 flies each including proper hooks. You will also receive, at the beginning of this program, a notebook binder containing instruction on tying the fly and fishing the fly. Material packets and updates will come monthly at the meetings. At least that’s the plan now, lol. This article and updates will appear in this newsletter monthly.
Please bring your vise AND basic tools. OPTU will have vises and tools to borrow for beginners just getting started. If you are new to tying or a green beginner, please plan on getting there at least 15 minutes early for orientation.
Here is the tentative schedule, I’ll try and match flies seasonally:
January: Urban lakes flies with discussion
Egg, squirmy worm, mop fly, Pheasant tail wet
February: Wooly Bugger, Simi Seal Leech, Balanced Leech with discussion
March: Chironomids and midges and their life cycle with discussion
Red Chironomid, Zebra midge, emerging midge, midge cluster
April: Life cycle of Stonefly and discussion
Kaufman Stone, yellow Sally, Stimulator
May: Life cycle of Mayfy and discussion
Mayfly nymph, Comparadun, parachute dry( maybe Klinkhammer)
Summer off
September: Terrestrials and discussion
Foam flies- hopper, dragonfly, ant
October: Life cycle of Caddisfly and discussion
Larvae, emerger, deer hair Caddis
November: Scuds, Damsels nymph and Dragons nymph and discussion
December: Attractors and discussion.
Hares ear nymph, Adams, Prince
-Jeff Collins
Fly tying instructor Jeff, also Teaches Project Healing Waters
