207-363-9269

Flytying Reports

03-27-10 - Joe Calcavecchia taught the last fly tying jamboree of the season today. He taught the class to tie Joe's Bunkabou and Joe's Clousceiver, two flies that have been proven to be successful for catching stripers. As always, Joe put on a great lesson and passed along some innovative tying techniques.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this winters seminars. All of us here at the shop would like to wish you all the best of luck fishing this coming season.

03-20-10 - Jeff tied up some of his favorite and most effective steelhead flies. Even though these flies were tied for steelhead they have proven to be very effective for trout and bass also. He showed the class some new materials and tying techniques that can be applied to tying streamers for all species.

03-13-10 - Being the enabler for capt. Dave Beattie's bunny strip fetish, we thought it was only right to let him teach a class this weekend on some of his favorite striper flies.  Dave has been guiding and fishing the waters off Mass, the Seacoast and So Me. for longer than he'd care to remember. These flies show the versatility rabbit strips offer in saltwater tying. Whether tied in as a tail to add a flick of action to a clouser style pattern, or palmered and used in conjunction with other soft materials like ostrich herl, rabbit strips offer the tyer with unlimited ideas for a new favorite fly.  Fish one and soon, you'll be as addicted to bunny as Capt. Dave!

03-06-10 - Local angler Travis Johnson taught today's class how to tie four of his favorite flies for catching trout and salmon in his favorite early season haunts.  We hear many reports of Travis' activities in the shop from other customers, which usually start off with, "This guy was hooking fish left and right…"  During the class, Travis gave away a box of flies to a lucky student whose name got drawn from a hat. Everyone agreed that the class was a lot of fun and that these flies were sure to get them some fish.  The patterns Travis tied were the merrymeeting midge, olive leech, yellow marabou and wood duck heron.

02-27-10 - Alan Lindberg taught today's class how to tie two versions of his infamous "Buffy" fly. Before you judge this fly too harshly, look at some of the striped bass Al and friends have caught over the last couple of years on www.maineflyfish.com with this pattern. When worked slowly along the bottom, it has proven nearly irresistible to big bass in shallow water.

02-20-10 - Today's tyer was Tom Gagnon, who taught his class to tie several variations on classic streamers.  After tying hundreds of traditional streamers for the shop, Tom can't help but create his own variations on established patterns.  In his class, Tom explained three basic ways you can alter an existing streamer. You can "zonkerize" it by replacing the wing with a rabbit strip, "muddlerize" it by adding a clipped deer hair head , or "clouserize" it by adding dumbell eyes.  These are three results of those alterations, though the "black ghost zonker spey", "wood's special muddler" and "magog clouser" are only a few of the spin offs you can create using those techniques.
 

02-13-10 - Today, CCANH President Jeff Barnum taught a full class how to tie four of his favorite striped bass patterns.  Over the last few years Jeff has racked up impressive numbers of fish on these simple, easy to cast flies that are made of completely synthetic materials and epoxy.

02-06-10 - Klinkhamer style dry flies for trout were tied today in our Feb 6th jamboree. A little of the history and design of this every effective type of dry fly emerger was discussed as we tied 3 different flies.The 1st fly was Hans van Klinken's original pattern that got its start on the River Glomma in Norway as a grayling pattern. It has a tan abdomen, peacock herl thorax and a dun dry fly hackle. We tied this fly on the Partridge Klinkhamer hook, size 18. The nice part of the "Klinkhamer Special" is that it imitates both emerging caddis and mayflies. All you have to do it vary the size and color combinations to match just about any hatch that is going on.

The 2nd fly was a variation using a brown biot abdomen, peacock herl thorax and a brown dry fly hackle. This fly was tied on a Daiichi 1150 size 12 hook.

The 3rd fly we tied added a little foam beneath the parachute hackle which makes the fly float even better, acts as a wing bud and is able to support a good sized nymph hung off the bend of the hook as a dropper. This fly was tied with tan hair's ear dubbing for a buggier body, peacock herl thorax, grizzly dry fly hackle and a small piece of 2mm tan foam tied in at the beginning of the thorax.

The Klinkhamer has been a very productive fly for me locally, as well as in Argentina, Slovenia, Alberta and BC, when tied in various sizes and colors. The students all seemed to enjoy the class and they all tied some very nice flies that will catch fish.

01-30-10 - Jeff Faulkner was the featured tying instructor for today's class. Jeff taught students to tie 3 striper flies that have proven to be very successful for catching striped bass. His vast knowledge of materials and fly tying and his easygoing manner makes Jeff's classes one of our most popular and enjoyable. He will be teaching another class on streamer patterns on March 20th.

01-23-10 - Peter Smith taught today's class to tie 3 deadly tarpon patterns, the Sand Devil, Foam Toad, and Coker Smoker. Peter is a production fly tier who ties thousands of dozens flies a year. His countless hours at the vise and need for efficiency and accuracy while tying have helped him create unique tricks for fly tying that he passed on to the students in today's class.

01-16-10 - Young Tom took several patterns from John Barr's great book, Barr Flies and taught the class how to tie them.  These flies have produced for Tom over the last several years from here in southern Maine to Montana.  Young Tom will be teaching another class February 20th on several classic streamer variations.

01-09-10 - Old Tom taught today's class how to tie a unique pattern devised by Bob Popovics called the bulkhead deceiver. This pattern creates the illusion of a large, bulky baitfish while still being light and easy to cast and having great action. Old Tom will be teaching another class on February 6th, covering the Klinkhamer style dry flies.

01-02-10 - Today Victor Trodella led a class in teaching some of his favorite and most productive bonefish fly patterns.  Victor has been bonefishing the Bahamas for years and these patterns have performed well for him.  These lightweight flies are perfect for large, spooky bones in the shallowest of flats.

Archives:
2009
2008
2007
2006

[Home] [About Us] [Services] [Products] [Seminars] [Guide Services] [Fishing Reports] [Photo Album]

Copyright 2000-2010 by Eldredge Bros. Fly Shop. All trademarks and/or product names contained herein are the property of their respective owners.